Did the views Iraqi President Saddam Hussein espoused regarding the United States in private meetings with subordinates align with his public statements? A new book has the answer. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, published in February, is the latest critically acclaimed work by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Steve Coll.
Coll’s book examines the history of U.S.-Iraqi relations leading up to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that overthrew Saddam. At the center of the book’s research and highlighted in many reviews of it are the some of theThe post On the Record with Saddam appeared first on War on the Rocks.