The war in Iraq - now twenty-years old - was not a mistake or an error - it was a deliberate lie, a corrupt act of biblical proportions that dominated the first decade of this century. Why is the real reason we went still so opaque - barely ever mentioned? We know they had no weapons of mass destruction, because a decade of UN weapons inspectors told us so. We already knew Saddam was a chemical weapons using dictator for decades. But when he threatened the US dollar hegemony in oil sales - he was deposed and dead within three years.