By Mohamed Khairat, Founder, EgyptianStreets.com On the 19th of March 2003, four bombs accompanied by dozens of missiles were dropped onto Iraq, officially commencing an invasion that would leave at least 110,600 Iraqi men, women and children dead due to violence that continued to rock the country since 2003. The point of the invasion was to achieve regime change. Since coming to office in 1979, Saddam Hussein was often found responsible for the deaths of at least 250,000 Iraqis and fore widespread violations of human rights. Yet, foreign military intervention in Iraq was not given the green light because of Saddam Hussein’s involvement in the Al-Anfal campaign (also known as the Kurdish genocide) that lasted for three years, destroying thousands of villages and killing tens of thousands. The world did not advocate for regime change for the deluded leader who had commissioned the publication of the Qur’an to be written in his own blood. Nor did the international community react strongly when chemical gas was dropped on Halajba in 1988 killing thousands. Instead, it was claims that Saddam Hussein’s government had been developing weapons of mass destruction that finally pushed…
