Iraq Is a Reminder: US Crimes Against Humanity Predate Trump

This month marks 15 years since the US-led invasion of Iraq. With all the talk of ‘totalitarianism’ in the Trump era, let’s not forget what came before

Mar 30, 2018 · 4 min read

‘This was not the failure of the rule-of-law: this is the rule-of-law.’ Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

By Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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