The End of Saddam Hussein: History Through the Eyes of the Victims [Hardcover] [RARE BOOKS]

The End of Saddam Hussein's Iraq traces the destruction of a strongly secular state that had once been a bulwark against religious fundamentalism and had promised to become a catalyst in the transformation of the middle east from tradition of modernity. It traces the origins of the tragedy back to the sixties when Iraq, by virtue of its oil, first became a pawn in the Cold War, and carries the story forward through the first and second Gulf Wars and the long period of starvation by consensus during the Clinton years.