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unusualmusic_lj_archiveFrom Juan Cole whose blog is called Informed Comment, I get this link:
The Guardian's Ghaith Abdul-Ahad went back to Baghdad to see the effects of last year's troop escalation ("surge"). He argues that the US military's blast walls and forcible division of the city into isolated micro-neighborhoods are the cause of the reduction in deaths, not extra troops.
Baghdad, 5 years on (part 1): City of walls
The Iraqi journalist visited his country to assess its condition five years after rteh war had started. The rest of his videos are below:
Baghdad, 5 years on (part 2): killing fields
Baghdad 5 years on (part 3): Iraq's lost generation
Funny how in 1994, Cheney commented that invading iraq would create a quagmire.
Listening to this interview after watching the above videos? I...no words. Just...now words. How many additional dead Americans was Saddam worth, says Cheney in 1994. Good question. I wish that he had also asked, "how many dead Iraqis" as well.
The Guardian's Ghaith Abdul-Ahad went back to Baghdad to see the effects of last year's troop escalation ("surge"). He argues that the US military's blast walls and forcible division of the city into isolated micro-neighborhoods are the cause of the reduction in deaths, not extra troops.
Baghdad, 5 years on (part 1): City of walls
The Iraqi journalist visited his country to assess its condition five years after rteh war had started. The rest of his videos are below:
Baghdad, 5 years on (part 2): killing fields
Baghdad 5 years on (part 3): Iraq's lost generation
Funny how in 1994, Cheney commented that invading iraq would create a quagmire.
Listening to this interview after watching the above videos? I...no words. Just...now words. How many additional dead Americans was Saddam worth, says Cheney in 1994. Good question. I wish that he had also asked, "how many dead Iraqis" as well.
