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How Bush and Blair’s choices have led to disaster in Iraq, culminating in a chaotic execution that is fuelling civil war …
Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. In 2014 he forecast the rise of Isis. He also did graduate work at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University Belfast and has written about the effects of the Troubles on Irish and British policy in light of his experience.
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The cautious words of the Baker-Hamilton report stand in sharp contrast to the savagery and terror that dominate everyday life in Baghdad.…
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By PATRICK COCKBURN “A mortar round exploded on the roof of my next-door neighbour’s house, frightening my whole family,” said Marwan, a…
Neither will admit that Iraq is a disaster. But while their state of denial may cost votes in Washington and London, on…
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Mosul. Across northern Iraq people are voting with their feet. In and around Mosul, the third-largest Iraqi city, some 70,000 Kurds…