20 years after the War- how is Iraq doing today?

[CumbrianLefty]

Not well enough to justify the 2003 war.

(amongst other things, there is a high chance Iraq would end up in a similar place today without it)

[CumbrianLefty]

Assuming that Iraq would simply have stayed as it was for another 20 years but for the war, is in fact far more implausible than *some* sort of fundamental change occurring. Even if Saddam *had* been succeeded by his son(s), they would never have had the same power or authority.