This is a great example of imagery and propaganda.

Which is not to say that the entire morality and utility of the Iraq War isn't up for debate, but this is probably not the way to do it.

The most striking thing about the bottom picture is: there is a sandstorm. Or pollution. Or both. I am not the biggest expert on the meteorology of Iraq, but I think that sandstorms there are a fairly common experience. I don't know if the form of government changes that. So throwing in the entire sandstorm thing is a bit dishonest, since it isn't relevant.

As for the fact that  Iraq was otherwise made more haggard by the US invasion...well, that gets into the entire history of Iraq. In the 1970s, Iraq was rapidly developing, something that reversed course during the war with Iran, the first Gulf War, the period of sanctions, the second war, the civil war...
But the fact that there were neighborhoods that looked passably spiffy under Saddam Hussein is not really indicative of what life in Iraq was like overall.