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Blast From The Iraq Past

By The Daily Dish
Feb 27 2008, 11:23 AM ET

As part of a continuing series that looks at previous efforts of a Western government to run Iraq as a functional, non-despotic entity, here's a cartoon from the London Daily Express from December 1922. It's reprinted in The Mesopotamia Mess, a useful compilation of press reports from the 1920s and 1930s detailing almost exactly the same morass that the US is now in:

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