The Wire

George W Bush wants the Iraq issue dead and buried before he goes up for re-election in November, so he wants Iraq out of his hands by July. However, neither the US or the Un are in favour of elections before then. So what kind of government does the US plan to leave behind and is Iraq governable at all right now? Jonathan Lucraft spoke to Tariq Ali, whose new book is entitled Bush to Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq.

Tariq Ali