John Simpson on the Iraq war: ‘The statues falling always seemed too good to be true’

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Twenty years ago today, Coalition forces began airstrikes in Iraq, marking the beginning of the second Iraq war. Waiting on the border, astonished troops of the US 7th Cavalry learned the war had begun not from their superiors, but from CNN’s Walter Rodgers. “CNN viewers in the United States and around the world,” Rodgers proudly told his viewers, “actually knew about the attack on Baghdad… before any of the soldiers here in the field.”