'Only those with the wounds feel the pain'
Martin Chulov in Baghdad
Tuesday 5 July 2016 13.33 EDT
... Across the Iraqi capital, there is little sense that the long-delayed Chilcot report into Britain’s decision to go to war will change anything. Thirteen years after the invasion, the country is still reeling from the upheaval unleashed by the war ...
“Nothing Britain could say or do can address this, or make up for it,” said Safa Gilbert, a Christian who returned to her home city on Monday from exile in Lebanon. “Even if they wanted to help, they did not. And all they needed to do is understand the society first” ...
“It didn’t have to be this way,” said Fr Miyassar, a priest at al-Ghadir Church in central Baghdad. “In Saddam’s time, it was better for the external observers, but from the inside it was worse. After 2003, what was worse on the inside became more obvious on the outside. There was more killing and more targeting of innocent people. Society cannot survive like that” ...
“Never hope for an occupation to rebuild your army, or reconstruct your country,” said Abu Ahmed. “But we did not expect things to reach this level of destruction, economically and socially. When we remember the former regime we know what we have become. Now each ethnicity is a nation to itself ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/05/the-view-of-chilcot-from-iraq-only-those-with-the-wounds-feel-the-pain
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