The ghosts of the Iraq War still haunt me, and our foreign policy

The ghosts of the Iraq War still haunt me, and our foreign policy

On St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2003, President Bush issued his final ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. Two nights later, my Iraq War started inauspiciously. I was a college student tending bar in New York City. Someone pointed to the television behind me and said: “It’s begun. They’re bombing Baghdad!” In Iraq it was already early morning of March 20.I arrived home a few hours later to find the half-expected voice message on my answering machine: “Y…