Into the political tinderbox, the Bush-era Pentagon, the CIA, and their proxies among the brutal Shia militias, threw the lighted match of systematic torture.

News reports list "failures", "setbacks" and "lessons" for "the West", but there's never a line of background saying the people who started the war are now criminally liable.

The pattern in Iraq provides an eerie parallel to the well-documented human rights abuses committed by US-advised and funded paramilitary squads in Central America in the 1980s.

The real decadence is found amongst lazy and credulous journalists who endlessly recycle the lies and delusions of more powerful people than themselves.

BBC Newsnight ignored the hi-jacking of British democratic institutions for a self-serving geopolitical strategy invented by a tiny group of American neoconservative politicians.

Human rights are a litmus test for democracy, but contrary to what Iraqis had hoped for – the "liberators" have actually set the conditions for the continuity of injustice.

The deadly duo should be sharing a cell in The Hague awaiting trial for war crimes, but as we see time and time again, victors' justice translates to no justice at all.

Not only did the march have the traditional left but also, for example, there was the Muslim community, sections of the Jewish community, Liberal Democrats, even some Tories.

The 2 million of us who marched against the Iraq invasion 10 years ago created a force that is still shaping politics and society.

The greatest weapon of mass destruction was the invasion itself: over the past ten years, Iraqis have seen the physical, social and economic destruction of their country.

The hawks were wrong on every count. Wrong about the weapons; wrong about being greeted with flowers; wrong about the human cost; wrong about Iraq becoming a flourishing democracy.

There are hundreds of shocking testimonies documenting sexual abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners and their families by British armed forces between 2003 and 2008.

This compensation leaves a sour taste: it is certainly not justice done, the full truth of what happened is yet to emerge, and those responsible have not been held to account.

Human rights groups say that the abuse was systemic, and carried out by military interrogators and guards in accordance with both their training in the UK and orders issued in Iraq.

The medical recommendation of the gynaecologists to the women of Fallujah is simple: just stop. Stop falling pregnant because it is likely you will not give birth to a healthy baby.

Obama and Romney agreed on sanctions against Iran which, they claimed, posed a nuclear threat to the Middle East, evoking the lies told about Iraq, as if that catastrophic war never happened.