Patrick Cockburn · Thriving on Chaos: After al-Baghdadi · LRB 21 November 2019

Patrick Cockburn · Thriving on Chaos: After al-Baghdadi · LRB 21 November 2019: America’s first act in the war on Iraq was an attempt to kill Saddam Hussein. In the early hours of the morning of 20 March 2003, forty cruise missiles were launched and bunker-buster bombs dropped on a compound on the outskirts of Baghdad where US intelligence wrongly believed him to be . . .