With the benefit of hindsight, should Anerica have invaded Iraq in 2003?

No, That is clearly not. As it was obvious that engaging in war with Iraq for both US and UK was a detrimental mistake that had never happened before.

➡CAUSES:

Sixteen years ago, a United States-led ‘Coalition of the Willing’ invaded Iraq on the basis of 9/11 attack, misinformation from the top intellegence agencies like CIA,MI5 etc. Toppling the Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein who was accused of storing “weapons of mass destruction” that could create causalities like 9/11.

Analyst found many reasons behind the war hppened. As Bush's and Blair's administrations were used to accuse Saddam Hussein having Chemical and Biological weapons that could cause serious detrimental consequences to the Whole world.

Another causes were also invalid if it comes to invade a country with changing it's regime. World used to believe US and UK caused that powerful Coalition war focusing on the Oil of Iraq.

First time, when former president J. Bush officially declared war against Iraq, many civilians took to the streets of New york, Washington to balk the decision but when they were convinced to believe that Saddam would have Biological and Chemical weapons, then the protests balks were started to be melted.

Finally, Supports from US, Uk civilian to invade Iraq were not surprisingly remarkable. In march, 2003, when it came to war supports, the opinions from Americans was 76% (although that was a good figure) where UK got 54% supports from the high table.

▶COST & CONSEQUENCES : War ends always with unimaginable costs and consequences. No countries get the expected gains by provocating itself towars war.

1. Iraqis have paid a staggering human cost for Operation Iraqi Freedom, a reality perhaps foreshadowed by the infamous remark by retired United States General Tommy Franks, “We don’t do body counts.” A conservative, independent assessment by Iraq Body Count estimates that between 180,807 and 202,757 civilian deaths from violence have occurred since 2003. By 2006, however, the medical journal Lancet had already stablized fatalities at more than 600,000, with subsequent studies validating and expanding this number to well over one million.
2. Humanitarian Crisis was at the pick of that time. Children were suffered from a lot of diseases. They were also reported to be suffring from psychological problems.
3. Human rights had been abused on all sides of the war. Approximately, 6000 prisoners with uncounted civilian were tortured in the Abu Ghraib cell that was operated by US ARMY personnels.
4. As Iraq war has been addressing as “War on terror” based on 9/11, however it had finally proved as wrong and misleading statement and surprisingly, This war caused the powerful terrorist group like ISIS.
5. Targetting industrial and millitary sites such as arnaments factories and oil refineries are likely to lead to acute chemical pollution. US-UK Coalition troops jointly focused on that sites and aftermat, they made it bad to worse.
6. Costs for Iraq war were damaging all the engaging countries either by a small or big bites. Estimation of the costs of the US discosed that the ultimate cost was nearly $ 2.4 trillion. In contrast, the cost of the UK was $ 8.4 billion.

While the Iraq War has done little to fuel the profits of American and British oil companies, it has fuelled the conspiracy that Bush and Blair told lies, and hundreds of thousands died, in a vulture capitalist venture. This interpretation of events, which still enjoys widespread currency, has polluted public discourse and damaging our democracies. Defenders and detractors of the 2003 decision alike should acknowledge that the “blood for oil” narrative is a selective and speculative account.

And that should never be happened.