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Living with No Future
Iraq, 10 Years Later
By Dahr Jamail
Source: TomDispatch.com
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Back then, everybody was writing about Iraq, but its surprising how few Americans, including reporters, paid much attention to the suffering of Iraqis. Today, Iraq is in the news again. The words, the memorials, the retrospectives are pouring out, and again the suffering of Iraqis isnt whats on anyones mind. This was why I returned to that country before the recent 10th anniversary of the Bush administrations invasion and why I feel compelled to write a few grim words about Iraqis today.
He takes me to interview refugees in his neighborhood of al-Adhamiyah. Most of them fled their homes in mixed Sunni-Shia neighborhoods and towns during the sectarian violence of 2006 and 2007. Inside his cobbled-together brick house with a roof of tin sheeting held down with old tires, one refugee echoes Isams words: There is no future for us Iraqis, he told me. Day by day our situation worsens, and now we expect a full sectarian war.
All Iraq has had these last 10 years is violence, chaos, and suffering. For 13 years before that we were starved and deprived by [U.N. and U.S.] sanctions. Before that, the Kuwait War, and before that, the Iran War. At least I experienced some of my childhood without knowing war. Ive achieved a job and have my family, but for my daughters, what will they have here in this country? Will they ever get to live without war? I dont think so.
For so many Iraqis like Ali, a decade after Washington invaded their country, this is the anniversary of nothing at all.
For so many Iraqis like Ali, a decade after Washington invaded their country, this is the anniversary of nothing at all.
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Living with No Future (Original Post)
polly7
Mar 2013
OP
santamargarita
(3,170 posts)1. And don't forget the lost decade in this country...
thanks to that goddamn election stealing Bush!!!
pscot
(21,024 posts)3. Let's not forget the Supremes
santamargarita
(3,170 posts)5. Yes! Even more damage by that goddamn Bush!!!
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)6. With corporate Democrats now carrying the baton... nt
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)2. That useless senseless war not only broke their country it broke ours too.
cbrer
(1,831 posts)4. Embracing Democracy, one bullet at a time.