Inside Iraq: Living with the enemy. What we have caused in Iraq.

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/25/untold.stories.damon.iraq/index.html

"He was cut to pieces," he said. "His hands and feet were chopped off. And he was decapitated."

For a long time, Iraqis would say that it was "outsiders" that were carrying out such atrocities. The truth that is so hard to accept for many is that that often was not the case.

Iraqis turned on each other, neighbors slaughtered neighbors, friends betrayed one another. It was the sheer degradation of society on a shocking and utterly petrifying scale.

Now that there is a semblance of so-called stability, we can start to put a face and name to the victims and begin to try and understand and impart the horrors of what millions of Iraqis lived through and tens of thousands died from. It is only now that we can begin to comprehend the magnitude of what Iraqis went through.

The political and military leadership speak in positive overtones. We're watching U.S. troops fulfill a timeline to "end the war," so desperate is America for some sort of ending.

But it is not over. For Iraqis it's far from over. In many ways it is just beginning.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. "so desperate is America for some sort of ending." is BS.

I refer to the CNN BS, not reflecting on what you post.

The USA not only will not leave Iraq, it is expanding into Pakistan, building permanent bases and embassies in both Pakistan and Afghanistan,.......http://www.truthout.org/052809M
controlling the culture, ..........http://www.truthout.org/052709R

and will not leave until the last drop of oil is gone from the Middle East.

And we will be a 3rd world country by then.