Author(s): Christopher Hitchens

Politics

Watching events unfold in the US and writing directly from Iraq, Christopher Hitchens cuts through the spin and slogans shaping popular thought and tackles the fundamental questions. What was the true nature of Saddam?s regime? Was this really Bush?s war for oil? Was Blair principled or a poodle? Will our military action spark more terrorist attacks? Hitchens reports on the current crisis while at the same time emphasizing the historical perspective ? that this war began when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, only a few months after the Fall of the Berlin wall. In this polemical, incendiary account, Hitchens offers hindsight on the rights and wrongs of an epochal war.