Scott Horton Interviews Patrick Cockburn

Scott Horton, June 24, 2009

Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the emphatically relative phrase “Baghdad is better,” imminent U.S. withdraw from Iraqi cities, former Sunni insurgents – gone mainstream – that can’t go back again, the status of Kurdish post-invasion land grabs and the awarding of Iraqi oil contracts to foreign corporations.

MP3 here. (28:22)

Patrick Cockburn was awarded the 2009 Orwell Prize for political writing in British journalism. He is the Middle East correspondent for The Independent and a frequent contributor to CounterPunch.org. Cockburn is the author of The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq and Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq.

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One Response to “Patrick Cockburn”

  1. missinterpret
    June 24th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

    A very sober review of the war in Iraq,thankyou Scott and Patrick.Only Mogadishu is more violent…..a damning indictment of the`work `done to free a country of a dictator.[or take its oil,or create mayhem in the middle east,or keep the price of oil way high,whatever the reason]

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