In February 2003, Colin Powell appeared in the United Nations' Security Council, telling world delegates that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Weeks later, the US-led invasion of Iraq begins. Years later, Mr. Powell regrets that his UN Security Council speech was wrong.
A decade later, world delegates are once again back to the Security Council. This time they want to learn what Iraq has become after the long and costly war.
No chemical weapons found, of course. Then, war justifications had to change from accusations that Iraq had ties to al-Qaeda to liberating Iraqi people from an evil, Saddam Hussein, who had used chemical gas against his own people.
As all other justifications proved to be dubious, the US government still prefers to stick with the final argument, Saddam was evil and had to be removed. Many agreed.
In this video story, Rudaw's US correspondent, Namo Abdullla, visits the United Nations' Security Council, where Mr. Powell appeared a decade ago, to look back at how the war started and what has changed throughout all the years ever since.
Namo Abdulla is a U.S Correspondant living in New York.
