. The real misery and bewilderment of the people could never be captured and translated into words. Journalists themselves were regularly getting killed—I woke one morning in Beirut to read about the kidnapping of an American journalist. The translator was shot and killed; there was a picture of his feet sticking out of the back of a pickup truck, an image that will haunt me for the rest of my life. He was a childhood friend, a father, who loved Western music.
Later, when the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq climbed to 1,000, there was a flurry of coverage in the Western media. A critical benchmark had been reached, they declared, but what was the critical benchmark for the number of Iraqi civilians killed? How many had died by then? To this day there is no accurate number, of those killed through the sanctions, in the war, and in the violence that followed.by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Copyright © 2023 by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
Thank you Bush Jr Tony Blair and those who decided to wage war on this country on the pretext of WMD but destroyed the country and its people just to plunder the oil. Karma will come biting you and your people hard .