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Erasing Iraq : the human costs of carnage / Michael Otterman and Richard Hil with Paul Wilson ; Dahr Jamail.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Pluto : in association with the Plumbing Trades Employee Union of Australia (PTEU), 2010Distributor: New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan Description: xvi, 248 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780745328973 (pbk.)
  • 0745328970 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 956.70443 OTT 22
Summary: For nearly two decades, the US and its allies have prosecuted war and aggression in Iraq. Erasing Iraq shows in unparalleled detail the devastating human cost.Western governments and the mainstream media continue to ignore or play down the human costs of the war on Iraqi citizens This has allowed them to present their role as the benign guardians of Iraqi interests. The authors deconstruct this narrative by presenting a portrait of the total carnage in Iraq today as told by Iraqis and other witnesses who experienced it firsthand.Featuring in-depth interviews with Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan and Western countries, Erasing Iraq is a comprehensive and moving account of the Iraqi people's tragedy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

For nearly two decades, the US and its allies have prosecuted war and aggression in Iraq. Erasing Iraq shows in unparalleled detail the devastating human cost.Western governments and the mainstream media continue to ignore or play down the human costs of the war on Iraqi citizens This has allowed them to present their role as the benign guardians of Iraqi interests. The authors deconstruct this narrative by presenting a portrait of the total carnage in Iraq today as told by Iraqis and other witnesses who experienced it firsthand.Featuring in-depth interviews with Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan and Western countries, Erasing Iraq is a comprehensive and moving account of the Iraqi people's tragedy.

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