'Disaster:' Iraqi Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on U.S. Invasion, Sanctions, Occupation and What's Next

This clip is from the March 23, 2023 broadcast.

As "Democracy Now!" continues to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad joins the program, an award-winning Baghdad-born Iraqi journalist and author. Abdul-Ahad has received the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, the British Press Awards' Foreign Reporter of the Year and the Orwell Prize. His new book is "A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War." "I want the history to be told properly," says Abdul-Ahad about his hopes for the future of Iraqi society after decades of dictatorship, sanctions, war, occupation and corruption.