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.

The neocons' grand plan to use the 2003 invasion to turn the country into a secure pro-western democracy and a garrison for US bases that could put pressure on Syria and Iran lies in tatters.

America's military efforts in Iraq aren’t coming to an end, they are entering a new phase. The Obama administration hopes that you won’t be so rude as to call it "war."

"The last American soldier will cross the border out of Iraq with their head held high, proud over their success," says Obama, supposing you can call one million dead, 4 million refugees and a country in ruins a "success".

Lawyer Phil Shiner, who is representing over 150 Iraqis who were tortured by the British army in Iraq, says shocking and illegal interrogation took place in over 14 different military facilities.

Listening to David Cameron and the Ministry of Defence, you would think it's not Baha Mousa beaten to death who is the victim, but the British army's reputation besmirched by "a few bad apples".

We will no doubt see more children shot and killed by occupiers and their colonial proxies in the months and years to come, with more villages and neighborhoods invaded in the dead of night by armed men creeping up on their houses.

Why is the fate of people subjected to US invasion and occupation, and the scale of the slaughter inflicted, hidden from Americans?

Children are dying from malnutrition, diarrhoea, TB, meningitis, leishmaniasis, liver disease, pneumonia, anaemia and congenital heart disease, all of which are easily preventable outside of Iraq.

Previously secret evidence to the Iraq inquiry confirms what was clear at the time: Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell concocted a pack of lies to take Britain into an illegal war.

The theme running throughout Greg Muttit's book is that Iraq's grim fate has been bound up with the lake of oil that lies beneath.

Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by the UK government and the world's largest oil companies a year before Britain invaded Iraq.

If the US does not leave Iraq by the end of 2011, resistance leaders say they will escalate the military and peaceful opposition and turn Baghdad into a giant Tahrir Square.