The unprovoked aggression launched by the US and Britain against Iraq five years ago has already gone down across the world as, in the words of President Roosevelt, “a day which will live in infamy”. These five years have seen the physical and social destruction of Iraq, mass killings, tens of thousands thrown into jail without trial, rampant torture, an epidemic of sectarian terror attacks, widespread poverty and the complete breakdown of basic services and supplies. Five years of occupation have destroyed Iraq as a country.