Conspiracy theories can be irritating or plain daft, but when peddled by governments they can lead to the slaughter of thousands, as did the biggest of modern times.

Behind Obama's announcement that the US is withdrawing from Iraq is the continuing war and an occupation in which Iraqi society is very much under American control.

Sami Ramadani says US strategy is being dressed up as leaving Iraq to its people, amidst fanfare and propaganda as devious as the pack of lies that preceded the 2003 invasion.

Why are US combat soldiers, who according to Obama aren't supposed to be in Iraq anymore, still getting killed in a war that is supposed to be over?

After twelve years of sanctions and seven years of occupation, the facts of daily life in Iraq give the lie to the claim that the war has been a "success".

New Internationalist co-editor Hadani Ditmars describes the reality behind the "success" of the 2003 Iraq invasion, which the US says is enabling it to withdraw its combat forces.

Don't be taken in by claims that the last US "combat" troops left Iraq two weeks ahead of schedule and the occupation is over, says Robert Fisk.

Barack Obama and everyone else in his spin machine should go to Iraq and look a child in the eyes and tell that child that seven years of war in Iraq has been a success.

The Iraq war has been a historic political and strategic failure for the US, writes Seumas Milne, so its rebranding the occupation with a form of outsourced semi-colonial regime.

Barack Obama says he's ending US combat operations in Iraq. It's not true. He's just replacing uniformed soldiers with private paramilitaries.

Politicians with guilty consciences now throw their weight behind justice and morality, too late for the Iraqi people whose country has been destroyed, says Sami Ramadani.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said in the House of Commons what is common knowledge in every living room across the land – that the Iraq war was illegal. So now bring those responsible, Tony Blair above all, to justice.

Why US attack on Fallujah in November 2004 has resulted in higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations, than those recorded among survivors of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Seven years after the illegal and unjustified US/UK invasion, US combat troops leaving a devastated Iraq, with at least one million Iraqis killed and four million refugees.

Ross Williams, shared a cell in army prison with Joe Glenton, both soldiers imprisoned for going absent without leave from an unjustified war. Like Joe, Ross has decided to speak out against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Labour leaders say British people have "punished us enough" for Iraq war. Not so, says, Gary Younge. They haven't been punished nearly enough. They should be in jail.