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[dotinthesky]

Saddam Hussein must have shed a few tears this weekend for the death of his old friend Reagan.

It was Reagan, after all, who helped him secure power in Iraq.

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[wardytron.livejournal.com]

The only book I've read at all on the subject of Iraq is Regime Change by Christopher Hitchens, but like everything written about Iraq recently it's very one-sided; it's a series of essays arguing the case for the war. Oh, I also read Allies by William Shawcross, which was mostly dull apart from some interesting stuff about Saddam's personal closeness to Jacques Chirac. But other than that I am pig-ignorant.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I think a couple of books came out when the war was 1 month old... but, like you said, they seemed to be mostly one-sided. Perhaps it's just like everything else in history - we have to be slightly removed in years before we can look back objectively.