How Bush Created a Theocracy in Iraq
My article, “How Bush Created a Theocracy in Iraq, is now up at TruthDig.com. It begins, “The Bush administration naively believed that Iraq was a blank slate on which it could inscribe its vision for a remake of the Arab world. Iraq, however, was a witches’ brew of dynamic social and religious movements, a veritable pressure cooker. When George W. Bush invaded, he blew off the lid.”