Sunday marks 20 years since American and coalition forces invaded Iraq on a mission to topple Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship and find weapons of mass destruction. By the U.S.’s withdrawal in 2011, the costs of the war stood high. At least 4,480 U.S. deaths and more than 32,000 wounded. At least 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead. At least $806 billion spent on the war. Thousands of troops with illnesses believed to be caused by exposure to burn pits.  Former President George W. Bush and his administration wagered to the American public and the international community that Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. The coalition found no such weapons, and two years later the WMD Commission, established by Bush, acknowledged in a report that the "WMD" fiasco was “one of the most public – and most damaging – intelligence failures in recent American history.”   Bush and supporters of the war would go on to admit the failuru, but maintain the world would've been "a lot worse off" had Hussein remained in power.  Visit the link in bio to read more.