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November 5, 2015

Remembering Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq’s Controversial Would-Be Leader

He was “remarkably comfortable with American Jews.”

When Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who hoped to play a leading role in the post-Saddam Hussein order, died earlier this week. Some took the occasion to blame him once more for the failures of the Iraq war, which he had enthusiastically advocated. Sharing personal reflections, Ira Stoll argues that these accusations are, at the very least, overblown:

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