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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad’s Green Zone

Ignorance is no excuse

Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Bloomsbury, 368pp, £12.99,
Said K. Aburish
Thursday, 22nd March 2007

Imperial Life in the Emerald City is the best account I have read of why the American occupation of Iraq has gone so drastically wrong. It is an exceptional piece of work, well researched, well written and well judged. Having lived the Iraqi story for over 30 years, from advising Saddam’s government on Iraqi-American relations to resigning in protest against his use of chemical weapons, I cannot remember a book that does more to enhance our understanding of the country than this one.

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