After
coalition forces captured Saddam Hussein in December 2003, John
Nixon, a senior leadership analyst with the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) from 1998 to 2011, interrogated the former Iraqi
dictator. The detailed account of this interrogation is now available
to the public in the form of a book, 'Debriefing the President: The
Interrogation of Saddam Hussein'.
In the
publication, Nixon explains that Hussein was out of touch with the
military reality of his own country in his final years. “When I
interrogated Saddam,” Nixon told Time magazine, “he told
me: ‘You are going to fail. You are going to find that it is not so
easy to govern Iraq.’”
As Nixon
pressed Saddam to explain why, the captured dictator said Americans
would soon learn they “are going to fail in Iraq because
[Americans] do not know the language, the history, and [they] do not
understand the Arab mind.” To the former CIA agent, Saddam’s
warning had a point.
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