The U.S. was fighting a growing insurgency in Iraq after overthrowing strongman Saddam Hussein under the faulty pretext that Baghdad was developing weapons of mass destruction. ... The event includes a parade that commemorates the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War in which hundreds of..…

U.S government then failed to get U.N resolution, and launched the invasion anyway,  withdrawing the weapons inspectors and issuing unilateral demand that Saddam Hussein leave Iraq in 48 hours — and then saying the invasion would commence regardless.. ..…