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Amanpour
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The Secular Civil War in Iraq
When I was a child, during the Iran-Iraq war, I thought Saddam was a manifestation of God because I have seen nothing. And this is how we understood this Iraq and Saddam kind of portrayed himself as this manifestation of the glory of all these history stuff. Now it's a very sectarian narrative based on a system called Mahasasah in Arabic in which each sect will take a number of ministries. That sectarian rhetoric that came after the war, after the occupation, thanks to exile politicians who were in London and Tehran, that was the first step in the sectarian civil war that followed. Come 2003, Iraq is a broken nation. It's barely standing. It’s barely functioning
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