War jaw

Denis MacShane, MP for Rotherham and a former minister for Europe, writes a review of two new books on Iraq in Progress and concludes that the new book by Patrick Cockburn is the most excoriating exposé of the almost unbelievable catalogue of errors the Americans made in the running of Iraq after the fall of Saddam but all the more powerful because he acknowledges that the fall of Saddam was a liberation for the Iraqis.