Scott Horton Interviews Patrick Cockburn
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Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the failure of Iraqi elections to create a functional government, inadequate basic services in Iraq after seven years of occupation, the tendency of countries with oil-based economies to become dictatorships and why the Kurds are better served in the short term by continued autonomy rather than an independent state.
MP3 here. (26:57)
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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littlecherry
May 20th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Amazing what we did in Irak… destroy this country for the next century. I have a friend from there…and it's amazing listening talking, not about the war but after the war.
reabaya
May 20th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Iraq suffers from a 'Congolese-style of corruption'? How snooty! Yearning for the days of the Raj,
Cockburn is really describing a pure American-style corruption – completely destructive and grotesque – Pol Pot in cowboy boots…slaughtering or exiling all the educated and competent Iraqis with leadership experience. Look at every occupied colony of the US – Kosovo, Haiti, Nicaragua, Philippines, Afghanistan, as well as Iraq..and admire the most thuggish, ignorant, dysfunctional puppet elites in the world. Mega-unemployment, mega-misery, mega-death squads, mega-corruption… Cockburn whines about Iraqi politicians…'out to feather their own nests…' These are precisely the ones the US chose to put in power – in order the shred Iraqi society.
Rich
May 20th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Really all the Bush administration did to Iraq was to finish the destruction of the country. When Bush 1 came to power he invaded Iraq – after Iraq invaded Kuwait (because Kuwait was illegally drilling on an angle to siphon off Iraq oil) Bush 1 bombed it's infrastructure and left sanctions (that Clinton enforced) -that completely impoverished the country. The sanctions were so bad women were having still born babies because the water was not chlorinated ( a dual use technology) and bacteria were present causing infections). When asked about the over 500,000+ killed by the sanctions Madeleine Albright said (ignominiously) that it was 'worth it.' So Iraq is a tragedy of epic proportions.
lesterness
May 21st, 2010 at 11:10 am
You know, Scott, after the first Iraq war, Saddam Hussein had the electric plants up and running in THREE MONTHS.
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May 21st, 2010 at 4:29 am
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Hacklheber
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Possibly because he would have engineers tortured and killed if they DIDN'T succeed whereas nowadays engineers are tortured and killed if they DO succeed.
TonyJoseph
May 23rd, 2010 at 2:25 am
We totally destroyed Iraq and that was the Zionist-Neo Con-Israeli plan all the while – mission accomplished!
China
May 6th, 2011 at 12:11 am
Now they "found" the bad guy. I guess they made a movie and they had to end it.