COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
Iraq’s lost
generation: ‘I have forgotten what happiness is’
"... then Isis
destroyed Mosul. Three years on, can they start over?"
Please, this was a terrible set of events, but it does not
compare to the George Bush-Tony Blair invasion of Iraq.
Perhaps a million people killed. Millions made refugees.
Children lacerated to pieces by American cluster bombs, and the brave
photographers of Al-Jazeera actually gave us some unforgettable images of them.
Years of poor electricity service. Years of poor water
service. National and world treasures looted, never to be replaced.
Torture, civilian bombing, the use of white phosphorus.
No jobs in what had been the Mideast's most advanced
society, one where women and religious minorities were treated better than in
Saudi Arabia.
And of course, years of chaos with attacks by rival groups,
groups the former government kept in their place.
And all that chaos led eventually to ISIS itself, an ugly
monstrosity pretending to a be jihadi group but actually a collection paid
mercenaries supported by the US, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and others including
Britain and France.
Their job was to get rid of the previous Iraqi government,
topple the government of Syria, and generally to create chaos, keeping the
region in tatters.
And when the US actually decided to attack in Mosul the ISIS
they'd helped create, for various reasons, they bombed in the most terrible and
careless fashion. Thousands of the dead died from American bombing.
