Guardian Video: Looking back at the Iraq war: 'There was more stability before the US invasion'

Nearly nine years after the US invaded Iraq, 4,500 American lives, 32,000 wounded and more than $800bn is left in its wake. Here, the Guardian's diplomatic editor Julian Borger and the Observer's foreign editor Peter Beaumont look back at the years of conflict

guardian.co.uk, Friday 16 December 2011