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Today, Makiya’s vision of Iraqi democracy has darkened. He compares Saddam-era Iraq to a concentration camp, and the question of invasion becomes the question of whether liberating the camps was necessary...
Daniel S. Senor arrived in Iraq on April 20, 2003—eleven days after U.S. Marines assisted locals in toppling an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein—the day of the regime’s official fall...
...addition to repairing an infrastructure in shambles, the Coalition also needed to jump-start the Saddam-era Iraqi economy...
...what of the Iraqis themselves? Perhaps if Secretary Rumsfeld’s plan for an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein, install a government of exiled politicians, and quickly withdraw had not been superseded by dreams of whole-scale political reconstruction, some of the damage might have been averted. True, there were not enough American troops to have prevented much of the looting of ministries and other offices. True too that there would have been considerable popular opposition to an American-backed administration, especially from the al-Qaida militants who were already beginning to infiltrate the country. Yet it is easy...
...skipped the last two months of school in London, he said, to witness the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime. He said it was a moment he had been waiting for “my whole life...