Two things worth reading about Iraq

Two very different pieces about the Iraq war that are both a cut above. Eliot Weinberger is impassioned in What I Heard About Iraq from the London Review of Books.

In the Financial Times Carne Davis writes:

"I was, from 1998 to 2002, the British “expert” on Iraq for the UK delegation to the UN Security Council, responsible for policy on both weapons inspections and sanctions against Iraq. My experience in those years and what happened subsequently is in part why I recently resigned from the Foreign Office."

Now read on.