WAR CRIME

On nearly thirty visits to Iraq for the BBC from the end of the war in 2003 I met Iraqis in their homes, on the street, in their businesses, in cafés and shops, working on reconstruction projects, and after explosions and suicide-bomb attacks.

I also had several revealing embeds with British and American forces in Baghdad and Basra.

The victors after this war got rid of Saddam Hussein, but they didn't really win.

They failed to prepare for the aftermath -  the result of their negligence was years of violence, destruction, and personal misery and loss. It also enabled the creation and evolution of ISIS whose Caliphate was launched from Iraq's second city Mosul.

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