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Ukraine war: Did Putin learn from Bush’s Iraq horrors?

From Wagner’s crimes to the UN’s role, the Iraq invasion offered a preview of the Ukraine war. But not all is the same.

Al Jazeera

Abu Ghraib survivor: Taking the hood off 20 years after Iraq war

A former detainee at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq recounts the horror and pain of his incarceration.

Al Jazeera

Bremer Acknowledges 'Mistakes’ in Disbanding Baath Party, Iraqi Army

When I was about to have this conversation with Ambassador Paul Bremer, an Iraqi-American friend whispered in my ear: “This is not just an ambassador. He is a president, who ruled Iraq for more than a year!” In his capacity as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority after the war…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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3 takeaways 20 years after the invasion of Iraq

Two decades ago, then-President George W. Bush announced the start of combat operations in Iraq. The bloody occupation that followed lasted longer and cost more in lives and money than anyone guessed.

WEKU

Inside Abu Ghraib prison where US tortured Iraqi detainees in horrendous war crimes

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people

Daily Mirror

Blair’s rush to make friends with Bush revealed in newly released files

Aides to the then PM warned at the time that the new US president would not be as helpful as his predecessor Bill Clinton.

The Independent UK

Editorial: Defense personnel should be covered by the 9/11 health program

The 9/11 hijackers and Osama bin Laden, all deservedly dead, planned a coordinated attack with multiple strikes, killing thousands. They made no distinction between victims at the World Trade Center or at the Pentagon or at the likely target of the Capitol, which was saved when heroic passengers brought down…

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Seven children dead: Who's to blame?

Who killed those kids as the U.S. left Afghanistan? Donald Rumsfeld? George Custer and Barack Obama? You and me?

Salon

Sir Christopher Meyer obituary

British ambassador to the US in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq who later served as chair of the Press Complaints Commission

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson steps up war of words with Archbishop of Canterbury

Last week, a war of words between the Conservative Prime Minister and the Archbishop of Canterbury was not on my bingo card. But this is 2022, and as Donald Rumsfeld almost said, you open your newsletter with the headlines you have, not the headlines you might wish to have.

Evening Standard

How can America talk about "war crimes"?

America's massive hypocrisy makes a mockery of international law, and threatens to lead our planet to apocalypse

Salon

John Cornyn digs in on claim that Judge Jackson called Bush and Rumsfeld ‘war criminals’

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) defended his assertion that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson called then-President George W. Bush and his Pentagon chief “war criminals,” rejecting Democrats’ contention Wednesday that he distorted her petitions on behalf of militants detained at Guantánamo Bay.

Tribune News Service

Judge Jackson grilled on Guantanamo detainee representation

Four men once held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were central to some of the questions Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson fielded during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing

The Independent UK

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