A picture is worth 1,000 words: Before & after in Iraq

It's been 10 years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the beginning of the end for Saddam Hussain.  To commemorate this milestone, Buzzfeed has compiled a nifty collection of 11 before & after photos which show how drastically things in Iraq have changed over the last decade.

Here's one of the best:

Another photo of the museum. Despite international efforts to track items down, fewer than half of the artifacts have so far been retrieved.

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