Search and Destroy: The rape of Iraq

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-200313.html

First thing we do, let's kill all mythographers (lawyerly or not): the rape of Iraq is the biggest, man-made humanitarian disaster of our times. It's essential to keep in mind this was a direct consequence of Washington smashing international law to pieces; after Iraq, any freak anywhere can unleash preemptive war, and quote Bush/Cheney 2003 as precedent.

And yet, 10 years after Shock and Awe, even so-called "liberals" have been trying to legitimize something, anything, out of the "Iraq project". There was never a "project"; only a dizzying maze of lies - including a posteriori justifications of bombing the Greater Middle East into "democracy".

I've been thinking about The Catalyst lately. The Catalyst was the
tank I had to negotiate every time in and out of my cramped digs on the way to the red zone, in the first weeks of the US occupation of Baghdad. The marines were mainly from Texas and New Mexico. We used to talk. They were convinced they hit Baghdad because "the terrorists attacked us on 9/11".

Years later, most Americans still believed The Outstanding Lie. Which proves that the cosmically arrogant and ignorant neo-cons at least got one thing right. The Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda connection may not have been the prime piece of the puzzle in their "project" of invading and remaking Iraq from Year Zero (there were also the non-existing WMDs); but it was immensely effective as a brainwashing technique for rallying the galleries.

[The Straight Story]

1. k&r(nt)

[idwiyo]

2. K&R

[stevenleser]

3. The article is good except for this screwup: "And yet, 10 years after Shock and Awe, even so-called

"liberals" have been trying to legitimize something, anything, out of the "Iraq project".

No, "liberals" are not. If anything, things are going in the other direction. I was part of the minority along with other DUers who opposed the war from the start. Somehow, 70% of the country now agrees with us. No one is trying to make it seem better at any part of the left spectrum.

[malaise]

4. Two questions remain for us

Who got the loot from the museum following the invasion and occupation and who bombed the Shiite shrine in 2006.
Truth will out.