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A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal

Åsne Seierstad

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Apr 20, 2016 Jim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: iraq, middle-east, memoir, true_adventure, non-fiction

This is a dated book as the armed American incursion into Iraq is long over, but it retains validity as an account of an impartial witness to the events leading up to the actual arrival of coalition troops on scene. As such, it is a welcome relief from the accounts of those American apologists who justify coalition excesses as "payback" for a non-existent Iraqi involvement in 9/11.

I pity the poor Iraqi people; under Saddam they were oppressed, kidnapped, murdered, raped and submitted to every im ...more

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