Jeremy Corbyn, UK member of parliament and national chair of Stop the War Coalition, says the chaos and violence in Iraq are a direct result of an illegal war and the eight-year occupation which even after the withdrawal of US troops is not over.
Russia Today
23 December 2011
What's been achieved by the war in Iraq?
A large amount of deaths, a huge amount of profits for arms companies, a lot of oil contracts signed by western oil companies, a lot of chaos on the streets, a huge level of private security forces and the biggest US embassy the world has ever seen, with 13,000 pesonnel housed within it.
It doesn't look like there's been a complete withdrawal of US forces, it looks like a security presence has been left behind to protect the Iraqi government which is so happy to do business with the west.
