Photos: Tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

Ten years since the invasion of Iraq over a lie represented in photographs. Some of which are disturbing. I have selected a few below to see below, but there are plenty more on the link to look at.

The American-lead invasion of Iraq to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein began on March 19, 2003. The United States completed withdrawing its military personnel from Iraq in December 2011. These images chronicle the stories of U.S. Armed Forces, the insurgency and Iraqi civilians over the better part of a decade.

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United States Marines from the 1st Marine Division run laps around their camp early in the morning February 17, 2003 near the Iraqi border in Kuwait. The Marines were preparing for a possible military strike against Iraq. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Anti-war protesters gather in London at the start of a demonstration against war on Iraq, February 15, 2003. Millions of people were expected to take to the streets of towns and cities across the globe to demonstrate against the looming U.S.-led war on Iraq in the biggest protests since the Vietnam war. REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmi

A Baptist chaplain baptizes U.S. marine Albert Martinez from Sunnyvalle, CA after a protestant Sunday service in a base in northern Kuwait close to the Iraqi border on March 16, 2003. A chaplain baptized infantrymen in the early morning sunlight, pushing their heads under the water of a field pool built from sandbags and plastic sheeting. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Smoke covers the presidential palace compound in Baghdad on March 21, 2003 during a massive US-led air raid on the Iraqi capital. Smoke billowed from a number of targeted sites, including one of President Saddam Hussein's palaces, an AFP correspondent said. AFP Photo/Ramzi Haidar



Bullet holes riddle the windshield of a U.S. Marine humvee from Task Force Tarawa March 23, 2003 in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. The Marines suffered a number of deaths and casualties during gun battles throughout the city



While U.S. and British troops stand guard in the Ar Rumaylah oilfields of southern Iraq, Kuwaiti and Texan civilian crews tried to control fires at oil wells set ablaze by Iraqi forces. U.S. Marines invading Iraq made seizure of these oilfields their first priority. Iraq's Southern Producing Region is approximately 5,600 square miles in size - roughly the size of New Jersey - and has a daily output of 1.6 million barrels

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds an Iraqi child in central Iraq on March 29, 2003. Confused front line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards positions held by U.S. Marines. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

A British paratrooper, left, talks with an Iraqi girl while holding his position near the main street in Basra as coalition forces took control of much of Iraq's second city. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)

Marines detain a car at a checkpoint April 8, 2003 near Mahra, Iraq. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit took over the airport near Mahra in an attempt to defeat the remains of an Iraqi division that was in the area

An Iraqi T72 tank erupts in flames after 2nd Tanks Battalion Bravo Company blew it up on their way to a blocking position near the Tigris River on the outskirts of Saddam City, near the Tigris River. The tank had no personnel but was full of fuel and ammunition. The combat train took fire from an ambush with the enemy firing AK-47's from both sides of the narrow road while driving through a small city. The Marines from the 1st, 5th and 7th Regimental Combat Teams, headed for Saddam City for their objective. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post)

Family members mourn the death of three male relatives, in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, April 10, 2003. The three - a father, his teenage son, and another male relative - were shot and killed by U.S. Marines Wednesday night, April 9, after the car they were driving allegedly did not stop while passing a building occupied by U.S. Marines. The victims' relatives were waiting for their return, and did not know about the incident until relatives towed the car, containing the three bodies, to the family's home on Thursday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times)

Three Iraqi soldiers sit bound and hooded, waiting to be interrogated by Marines of the Force Recon attachment to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit April 12, 2003 in central Iraq north of Nasiriyah. The prisoner and two others were picked up fleeing from the Marines and trying to discard military uniforms and IDs. Force Recon is the Marines equivalent of Special Forces, Marines tasked with recon and other sensitive missions in small groups. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

U.S. Marines from Task Force Tarawa 1/2 Charlie Company take a makeshift shower April 14, 2003 near Al Kut, Iraq. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

An Iraqi child jumps over a line of remains in a school where bodies had been brought from a mass grave discovered in the desert in the outskirts of Al Musayyib, 50 km south of Baghdad, May 27, 2003 in Iraq. People had been searching for days for identity cards or other clues among the skeletons to try to find the remains of family members, including children, from the grave that locals say contained the remains of hundreds of Shi'ite Muslims executed by Saddam Hussein's regime after their uprising following the 1991 Gulf War. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

An Iraqi prisoner of war comforts his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POWs of the 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf, March 31, 2003. The man was seized in An Najaf with his son, and the U.S. military did not want to separate them. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju

U.S. Marines pray over a fallen comrade at a first aid point after he died from wounds suffered in fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, Thursday, April 8, 2004. Hundreds of U.S. Marines had been fighting insurgents in several neighborhoods in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah in order to regain control of the city. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

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I am not going to get into the politics of the war in Iraq here, but I suggest people to go and view the pictures. It is humanity at its worst and humanity at its best. All emotions are covered, from anger to sorrow to jubilation. If only the past 10 years could be wholly captured in a few snapshots of time, the world would be a much better place.

speechless

I remember we felt like we had actually accomplished something during the initial invasion. Then their 1st vote. But after the 3rd and 4th deployment that feeling was long gone. And it was never even there in Afghanistan.

Thanks for posting this.

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I agree you see the very best of humanity and the very worst all mixed together. People say a picture can speak a thousand words. In this instance I agree.

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Me has a sad when I see pictures like this. It just makes me want to slap humanity in the face and say wake up.. And for all the children born from the start of the war this is their reality day in and day out with no sign of a let up.. My heart goes out to the people of Iraq. I never thought that in the 21st century we would still be allowing our brothers and sisters to suffer so..