Despite the passage of 20 years, the scene that is still fresh in the memory of the world, especially Iraq , to this day, is the one in which Colin Powell , then US Secretary of State, claimed on February 5, 2003, in a session of the UN Security Council, that Iraq possessed chemical weapons with a tube in his hand. Test filled with white powder.

On March 20, 2003, the United States launched a special military operation in Iraq without the approval of the United Nations. Since that time, the picture has changed completely in Iraq as a result of the bloody war that lasted about 8 years, which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands and caused the displacement of millions of other Iraqis.

Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at former US President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad in December 2008 to protest America's invasion of Iraq, wrote on his account on the micro-blogging site ((Twitter)) "I mourned the death of Colin Powell without saying He is being tried for his crimes in Iraq, but I am sure that God's court will await him," according to Al-Jazeera Net in an article published in 2021.

Al-Zaidi believed that Powell did not acknowledge the mistake he made before the UN Security Council, but rather saw it as an "inaccurate" and "painful" talk and a "black point" in his professional history.

For the United States, the issue of weapons of mass destruction was secondary to its desire to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. BBC Arabic quoted Luis Rueda, head of the Iraq Operations Group at the CIA, as saying in an article published on March 14, "We would have invaded Iraq, even if Saddam Hussein had only a rubber band." And a paperclip...we were going to say he was going to use these things to goug out your eye."

Former Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmoud Kasuri recalled, in statements to Sputnik news agency, his experience as a representative of Pakistan in that session to discuss Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, stressing that Washington adopted a policy of unilateral measures to invade Iraq, which caused it harm.

Regarding the positions of the member states of the UN Security Council, Kasuri stated that it was clear to the US administration at the time that it was unable to obtain the Council's support in the Iraqi file. The former diplomat stated that "there was a massive backlash, and I think America's reputation suffered greatly from that; first there was Afghanistan, then there was Iraq, and it actually had a very negative effect on the United States."

On the 20th anniversary of America's invasion of Iraq, many netizens expressed their anger on social media, and "Lawyer .. Zaid Al-Tikriti" said on his account on the website ((Twitter)) that "the arguments and allegations invoked by America regarding weapons of mass destruction, It was nothing but a cover for the occupation of Iraq and the destruction of its infrastructure and foreign affairs, in addition to wreaking havoc and destruction on the whole of Iraq."

And "Hanan Abdullatif" indicated in her tweet that "the most heinous crime in the modern era is the crime of America and the coalition countries' invasion and occupation of Iraq under the pretext of weapons of mass destruction, the repercussions of which are still standing in terms of crimes and violations committed against the Iraqi people without punishing the real perpetrators."

Murtada al-Misani published a series of pictures showing American soldiers transporting and destroying Iraqi cultural monuments, and wrote, "The twentieth anniversary of America's occupation of Iraq under the pretext of the existence of weapons of mass destruction and their danger to humanity. These are some pictures of the weapons of destruction that America took from Iraq in order to save humanity," where the words formed The images are ironic and a bitter contrast.

The experience of the Iraqis has proven that this American lie cost Iraq a heavy price that it is still paying to this day. The invasion of Iraq led to the loss of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives and the destruction of their present and future, and this was repeated in Syria, Yemen and Libya.

The actions of the United States have greatly damaged its reputation throughout the Middle East. In January of this year, the Center for Arab Studies in Doha, Qatar, published its “2022 Arab Opinion Index,” which indicated that 78 percent of Arabs believe that the United States “poses a destabilizing threat to the region.”

Razzaq Hameed, 30, a shop owner in Iraq, said, "The war is a lie based on their belief that there are weapons of mass destruction, but the war is not because of weapons of mass destruction, but because of the invasion of Iraq," adding, "They never brought democracy. They killed innocent people. They are the ones who fought democracy and brought us war and destruction."

Between 2003 and 2021, about 209,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in wars and violent conflicts, and about 9.2 million Iraqis became refugees or were forced to leave their homeland, according to Statista, a global statistical database. Many believe that the disaster began with a test tube filled with white powder.

With many US officials acknowledging that Iraq did not possess chemical weapons or weapons of mass destruction, one of the netizens asked on Twitter, "What is the use of regret? ... The war was absurd and hundreds of thousands were killed for no reason..."