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Invasion Of Iraq By Khulood Al-Zaidi
Khulood al-Zaidi provides the most rational and structural perspective in her understanding of how the U.S. invasion of Iraq led to the displacement of Iraqi citizens. She describes the best cultural perspective through her experience working with Iraqi refugees, and understanding how their hardships resulted from the war. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, the region’s government operated on an elaborate patronage system in which most every employee, from senior staff down to the steward who brought refreshments to visitors, owed their jobs to the head man; as might be expected, that man- almost invariably a Baath Party member. What the firing of as many as 85,000 Baathists actually meant, then, was the cashiering of countless more people and

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