iraq and the war it 'declared' on the empire is one of the larger tools 'our' government used to take us further into the hell they have as our eventual destination, and here some of that is laid out;

This week marks the 16th anniversary of the U.S. government’s invasion of Iraq. The anniversary helps to remind us of the important role that country has played in the destruction of American liberty.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq, which was ordered by President George W. Bush, was justified under the rubric of “weapons of mass destruction” or “WMDs.” The argument was twofold: that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs and, even worse, was about to deploy them against the United States. The invasion, the Bush people argued, was necessary to both “disarm” Saddam and prevent an imminent WMD attack on the United States.

Why were U.S. officials so certain that Saddam had WMDs? Because they had the receipts. It was the U.S. and other Western countries that furnished Saddam with the WMDs that they later used as the excuse to invade the country.

In the 1980s, the U.S. government was a partner and ally of Saddam. That was during the Reagan administration, when Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, was vice-president. During that time, U.S. officials loved Saddam. When he invaded Iran, U.S. officials were ecstatic, supporting him all the way. It was during that war that the U.S. furnished Saddam with those WMDs, so that he could use them to kill Iranians.

In 1989, the U.S. national-security establishment lost its official Cold War enemy, the Soviet Union. Suddenly, the Pentagon, CIA, and NSA, the three principal components of the national-security establishment, were in a desperate situation. They had no big official enemy to justify their existence. They needed a new official enemy. Their partner and ally, Saddam Hussein, filled the bill perfectly.........https://www.fff.org/2019/03/22/iraq-and-the-destruction-of-american-liberty/