Saddam Hussein

The long history of confusions, misconceptions, and miscalculations in the relationship between the US and Iraq, from 1979 to 2003.

‘The Achilles Trap’ reexamines the relationship between Hussein and four U.S. administrations.

A fatal combination of fear, power, and hubris.

Its agents are often depicted as malevolent puppet masters—or as bumbling idiots. The truth is even less comforting.

The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was no turning point. It was a slow-burning tale of how Britain and the US armed a nation, and then betrayed it.

Melvyn Leffler’s book on the roots of the Iraq invasion demonstrates the pitfalls of excessive trust in one’s sources, especially when they're top policymakers.

The lesson of the first Gulf War and its aftermath for handling Russia.

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.

George W. Bush committed an international crime that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

The selling of the Iraq war.

A conversation with the creators of a podcast series on the feedback loop of American empire.

Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day.

Like his predecessor, the president is decrying anti-Arab and Muslim hatred while helping fuel it. People are refusing to let him get away with this hypocrisy.

The invasion is still the most important foreign policy decision by a 21st century U.S. president, so the surfeit of analysis should surprise no one.

Two former CIA officials weigh in: "It's time to call him what he is: 'A liar.'"

Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.

The flawed logic that produced the war is alive and well.

The right—and wrong—lessons of the Iraq War.

If we’re never going to hold U.S. war criminals accountable, what moral credibility do we have when we condemn Russia and others?