I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

 
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Jon Lee Anderson (born January 15 1957) is a biographer author international investigative reporter and staff writer for The New Yorker reporting from warzone locales such as Afghanistan Iraq Uganda Israel El Salvador Ireland Lebanon Iran and throughout the Middle East. Anderson is renowned for his numerous profiles of political leaders including Hugo Chavez Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet. Anderson has also written for The New York Times Harper's Life and The Nation.