Not Normal
John Hawkins with a tale of life under the psychopath who was removed by the 2003 invasion.
George Packer at World Affiars Journal, Iraq the Place vs. Iraq the Abstraction, an insightful ramble over the ground we’ve covered.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 6:59 am on Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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April 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Awww. I heard it was all butterflies and kittens and children flying kites in the cool Iraqi breeze.
It’s also worth keeping in mind that as unpleasant as the experience must have been for her, it was much, much worse for many others:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?d=080325170637.3e2d83du&show_article=1
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Also, interesting article by George Packer, but I have to wonder when he was last in Iraq. It reminds me of the differing impressions of the war between pre-surge and post-surge soldiers.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
If Zainab Salbi is writing about the atrocities committed by Saddam why the hell is she doing it on the HuffPo? They wanted Saddam to remain in power. Is this cognitive dissonance?
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
George Packer may attempt to (and in some ways succeed in) presenting the Iraq war and the polarization it caused in America with fairness, but he ends his article in typical New Yorker fashion: as a bumbling tragedy with no good end. I am sick to death of the inevitable nihilism of intellectuals.