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How the Iraq war was sold

The US invasion of Iraq 20 years ago was sold to the world as one thing, but then the story had to be changed when the facts didn’t fit the script.

How to sell a war — [Yousef Abdel Nabi and Midjourney AI]

By Danylo Hawaleshka

History Illustrated is a weekly series of insightful perspectives that puts news events and current affairs into an historical context using graphics generated with artificial intelligence.

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