One cannot be sceptical about what "news" the US puts out about Iraq. You know, the "surge" has been successful, Iraqis are slowly taking over military duties, things are getting better there even if slowly, etc. etc.
truthdig.com has an interview [you can both read and hear it - here] with Iraqi journalist Huda Ahmed, now a refugee, as she looks back on more than five years of war and occupation from an Iraqi perspective.
Meanwhile, coincidentally, on the very same topic of how Iraq really is, VQR [Virginia Quarterly Review] has a piece "No Roads Out, No Roads Home" by a David Enders. Enders is a New York-based freelance journalist who has spent more than eighteen months in Iraq over the past four years and has written for Men's Journal, Mother Jones, and The Nation, as well as the (London) Sunday Times, Washington Times and other newspapers. His first book, Baghdad Bulletin (Michigan, 2005), is an account of the first year of the occupation and the English-language magazine Enders cofounded in Baghdad.
truthdig.com has an interview [you can both read and hear it - here] with Iraqi journalist Huda Ahmed, now a refugee, as she looks back on more than five years of war and occupation from an Iraqi perspective.
Meanwhile, coincidentally, on the very same topic of how Iraq really is, VQR [Virginia Quarterly Review] has a piece "No Roads Out, No Roads Home" by a David Enders. Enders is a New York-based freelance journalist who has spent more than eighteen months in Iraq over the past four years and has written for Men's Journal, Mother Jones, and The Nation, as well as the (London) Sunday Times, Washington Times and other newspapers. His first book, Baghdad Bulletin (Michigan, 2005), is an account of the first year of the occupation and the English-language magazine Enders cofounded in Baghdad.
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