Operation Iraqi Freedom

I've made no bones about how I feel about the war in Iraq. Clearly, it had nothing to do with 9/11 and now nearly 8 years after 9/11 we've spent billions upon billions in Iraq, lost more lives than were lost on 9/11, and still no one knows where Osama bin Laden even is, or if he's dead or alive . . . or if he really even did it!
I realize we have made a puppet government in Iraq and called it freedom, but an article I read at CNN just turned my stomach.
The headline was about a woman that is on death row, fearing the death penalty. Oh, I know, here in compassionate America, the majority still believe in the death penalty, but a word in the caption really caused me great angst. This woman is on death row for accessory to murder, which indicates she is not the murderer, but the person that she was supposedly the accessory to, is still free and apparently has moved on in life. So, for those that still embrace capital punishment as part of a civilized nation, consider the fact that a murderer is walking loose, and the government knows it, both Iraq's government and America's government.
>•Samar Saed Abdullah, 27, was convicted as accessory to murder of 3 relatives
•She says police coerced and tortured her into confessing
•Ministry of Justice maintains that judicial system is "fair and just">

>>Amnesty International issued a report Tuesday saying that at least 1,000 prisoners sit on Iraq's death row and that Iraq now has one of the highest execution rates in the world. The report says Iraq's court system does not meet international standards and that authorities "provide very little information on executions, and some have been carried out secretly."<<
I thought excessive executions was the charge against Saddam Hussein after, long after, George W. Bush convinced his neo-cons that Saddam Hussein must be killed. How does all this killing figure into Operation Iraqi Freedom?
And G~D said unto Abraham . . . also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.