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ob1quixote

Five Years On

Mar 28, 2008 13:37

Reuters: Bearing Witness
Through half a decade of war, a team of 100 Reuters correspondents, photographers, cameramen and support staff have strived to bring the world news from the most dangerous country for the press.

By way of a warning, no punches are pulled. Those with delicate sensibilities should think twice about watching this.

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Re: ... ob1quixote March 31 2008, 20:17:03 UTC

I see what you mean about the uniforms. One of the scenes shows two people in the old "pebble" pattern standing next to a guy in the new "digital" pattern. The next frame is two guys in digital frisking a local while being watched by a third guy in pebble. Maybe we gave the Iraqis or another of our allies the old uniforms?

As far as simple opinions, what I took away from the Reuters piece is a reminder that, regardless of necessity or justification, war is neither glorious or romantic, and occupation of conquered territory even less so. Simple enough, I suppose.

Putting Iraq in a larger context is where it gets complicated. We asked for and received a UN resolution allowing us to legally invade Iraq. It is now clear that the evidence supporting our call for this resolution was dubious at best. If you take away this shaky evidence, I do not believe we had a sufficent casus belli for our invasion of Iraq. Regardless, our invasion went forward and we systematically dismantled the vast majority of the Iraqi civilian and military ( ... )