As Iraq prepares to hold its sixth parliamentary elections since 2005 – and under the guise of the US intervention that threw out Saddam Hussein and installed a new so-called political “democratic” system – different scenarios are conjuring up about Baghdad today and how it was in yesteryear. Harking back to the 1970s and early 1980s and before its long-war with its arch-enemy and nemesis Iran, Iraq was a strong ...