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Thirteen years ago, US occupation forces entered Baghdad, proud of their victory over a country that has been under an unjust and deadly blockade for more than a decade, and boasting about a sneaky victory over a country that was forced to destroy its weapons in compliance with resolutions that appeared to come from the UN but in reality were US-based, and the country did so in order to obtain milk for its children and medicine for the sick.

America came into Iraq and occupied it, ignoring international law, alleging that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction and supports Al-Qaeda which later turned out to be false allegations that aimed at giving a cover to the occupation and its goals of destroying Iraq on the humanitarian and structural levels, bringing it to pieces and robbing it of its wealth.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160420-on-the-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-baghdad-so-we-wont-forget/

Post-war Iraq: 'Everybody is corrupt, from top to bottom. Including me'

A corrupt political class has led a 13-year pillage on public money in the pursuit of power. As oil prices fall, further jeopardising the country’s revenues, there is little hope that governance will improve
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/19/post-war-iraq-corruption-oil-prices-revenues?CMP=share_btn_tw

Endless corruption is leaving Iraq a failed state

Property prices in central Baghdad are as high as London’s, even though Iraq’s national income is down by 70 percent since the collapse of oil prices. Islamic State bombings regularly devastate parts of the capital and still the real estate market booms. Why?

Because there is so much “dirty money” in Iraq that needs to be laundered. If you lack the political clout to get your stolen money out of the country, then the safest course is to put it into residential property. But then that’s not a very safe bet either when the entire pseudo-democratic system bequeathed to Iraq by the U.S. invasion is on the brink of collapse.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/05/10/commentary/world-commentary/endless-corruption-leaving-iraq-failed-state/#.VzYHkKAoq5n