In the latest IQ Supplement, Scott Greer reviews Steve Coll’s The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, how Saddam Hussein came to power, his complicated relationship with America, why he pursued a nuclear bomb, why he gave it up, and why America decided he was the number one threat in the Middle East.
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