Bush jr (may he burn in hell eternally for all the fallback of his reign) being super eager to find any excuse to attack Iraq was super-obvious to anybody outside US during those times. That&#x27;s why France &amp; Germany didn&#x27;t join Iraq effort, it was just too ridiculous without any good reason, when another dictatorship just across the border was more than OK (saudis), and let&#x27;s not forget most attackers including Osama were from there. UK joining them no matter what on the other hand showed how morally low the politicians at that time were (Blair if I recall correctly).<p>About that time, US on international scale went from &quot;good guys&quot; to... well nothing that could be written here, let&#x27;s say &quot;necessary evil&quot;. It&#x27;s still there and will remain for quite some time.<p>I wonder, if all direct and indirect deaths and misery caused by US politics from 50s would be accounted, if Hitler &amp; Stalin regimes would still be such badasses. But real numbers are probably unreachable. (uncomparable datasets, i know, just out of curiosity... deaths in millions become statistics as we know).