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The Iraq War - An Account in Quotes & Soundbites: Untidy Freedom

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Friday, February 11, 2005

Untidy Freedom

An old man said, after eleven members of his family - children and grandchildren - were killed when a tank blew up their minivan, "Our home is an empty place. We who are left are like wild animals. All we can do is cry out." As the riots and looting broke out, a man in the Baghdad market said,... Sign in to see full entry.

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As the Iraq war grinds on, and the death toll climbs daily, and the astronomical financial cost climbs by the minute, I'm noticing a trend towards the obfuscation of the events leading up to the 2004 invasion. People are starting to insist that the "Mission Accomplished" stunt wasn't really about that at all; that WMDs was not really a central reason for going to war; that the looting in Baghdad never really happened; and that Abu Ghraib was just a bunch of college kids having some fun. This is taking the old adage that history is written by the victors to an extreme. This blog, based on an essay by Eliot Weinberger (author of '9/12'), will take you past the media spin, and reveal many of the huge inconsistencies that spew forth from Washington. It will make extensive use of direct quotes. It will let you see a reality behind the smokescreen that is being desperately erected by war-mongers who knew from the start they were in the wrong.

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