In their destruction of the city of Fallujah in 2004, the United States used chemical weapons that have left a horrific legacy for an Iraqi hospital visited by Robert Fisk.

The phosphorus shells that devastated this city were fired in 2004. But are the victims of America's dirty war still being born?

Didn't the mission end without finding the mythical weapons, without forcing the Iraqis to accept US domination, and with the country essentially destroyed?

Should foreigners have any role in building Iraq’s culture of peace? No, says ex-US marine Ross Caputi, Iraqis are quite capable of doing that without the help of Americans.

What's the difference between US soldiers who slaughtered 24 civilians, including women and children and a man in a wheelchair, and the US soldier who helped expose such atrocities?

No victory in Iraq but the US remains the world's biggest military power and, even in the depths of economic crisis, a superpower threatened with losing its status remains dangerous.

Obama says the Iraq war was an "extraordinary" achievement showing what makes "us special as Americans". Try telling that to the women of Iraq.

US Marine Ross Caputi reflects on Fallujah in Iraq, where he was deployed in the 2004 attack that killed thousands, displaced hundreds of thousands more and poisoned the city with chemical weapons.

Are the attacks sectarian in motive and a reflection of sectarian hatred on the streets, or are they designed to create sectarian entrenchment and animosity, and ignite street conflict.

Jeremy Corbyn MP 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.

What shapes Americans' opinions about any war is not that it is wrong and an independent country has been invaded, flattened, millions murdered and thousands tortured: it was wrong because the US lost.

Obama spoke of suffering, sacrifice, loss and pain -- but only for Americans and their families. He did not say a single word -- not one -- about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed by this "extraordinary achievement", this "success".

Iraqi dissident and exile Sami Ramadani says Obama, who opposed initially the Iraq war, today enthusiastically continues the policies of the two war criminals, Bush and Blair.

George Galloway told Tony Blair in 2003 the fall of Baghdad would be not the beginning of the end but merely the end of the beginning and the invasion of Iraq would be the Mother of All Blunders.

There is a huge gap between rhetoric and reality surrounding the US departure from Iraq. For the short term at least the US is definitely remaining in the country.

Summing up nearly a decade of butchery, Obama hides behind the worn-out "support the troops" smokescreen with no mention of nine years of mass slaughter and $800 billion.