Comments | eudaimonia_nz: I have finished another article on Iraq

eudaimonia_nz

I have finished another article on Iraq

May 21, 2004 15:24

I have been busy over the last few weeks finishing another article - I got asked to write something about Iraq for another NZ magazine, "Peace Researcher". Finished it on Tuesday ( Read more... )

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clownfishdesign May 23 2004, 15:02:10 UTC

Is there any chance of reading the article online or something? I'd be quite interested to read about the 1920 uprising. My knowledge of modern history in that region is a bit lacking, being mostly derived from a love of Lawrence of Arabia

Personally I suspect that the current situation in Iraq is something of a grab-bag of causes.

I think, insofar as it is possible to generalise, that the general Iraqi position is something like Yes, thank you for deposing Saddam, the Ba'ath and the Mukhbarat - although it might have helped if you didn't support them for all those years in the first place - but no thanks for killing so many of us in the process. In any case, we'd very much like our country back now, so will you kindly fuck off?A gross simplification, perhaps, but you get the gist of what I mean ( ... )