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Trudy Rubin is the foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a member of the Inquirer's editorial board. Her column appears twice weekly in the Inquirer and runs regularly in many newspapers around the U.S. A foreign policy pundit who goes to the war zones she covers: Lebanon, Bosnia, Chechnya, the West Bank and Gaza, and now Iraq, Rubin is a former foreign correspondent who was one of the few women journalists to cover the Lebanon war in the early 80s. Willful Blindness vividly portrays how the administration misconceived the Iraq war and mishandled the postwar. The book draws on three of Rubin's trips to Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, and her close contacts with members of the new Iraqi government, Iraqi clerics, and a broad range of ordinary Iraqis. Appearing with Dave Lindorff.