Today's withdrawal of the last U.S. troops in Iraq, after 23 years of destruction, takes me back to April 9, 2003, when Marines toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. I was there, here's what I wrote after years of reflection and reporting. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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The Toppling
How the media inflated a minor moment in a long war.