On march 20th 2003. The most powerful military in the world announced that will go into Iraq to get rid of a bad guy and this would be the beginning of a new new  world order. The Bush administration made it abundantly clear that this was the idea. Ofc the invasion fell to shambles and the war in Iraq became the biggest stain on Bush’s legacy at least until he left. It became the 21st century Vietnam. Pulling human lives, neighboring countries and trillions upon trillions of dollars into this black hole changing the trajectory of not only both countries but also the Middle east and the entire world forever On today’s episode of A Conversation Before The World ends the first of a series where we will be venturing to Iraq and not just talk about the war on Iraq but the events that took place in Iraq in the last century. From the post-ottoman-to the rise of Saddam-to the first and Second Gulf war and try to understand how and why did this war take place and could it have been avoided.Notes:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1958/12/the-lesson-of-iraq/306494/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/iraqs-unruly-century-82706606/?utm_source=pocket_saveshttps://countrystudies.us/iraq/18.htm?utm_source=pocket_savesUnholy Babylon : the secret history of Saddam's war by Darwish, Adel; Alexander, Gregory “Our last occupation,” Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian, 2003.Insta: @convo_btweTwitter: convo_btweFacebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe