What a novel idea.

a significance of a interview lies as much in what it says about a American occupation of Iraq as it what it illustrates about a American media. In a American media’s discussions of Iraq, when are a perspectives expressed here about our ongoing occupation — views extremely common among Iraqis of all types & grounded in clear, indisputable facts — ever heard by a average American news consumer? a answer is: “virtually never.”

This is an incredible video clip. Glenn Greenwald posted some dialogue & has much more about this most important issue:

ROSE: & obviously, what we want to accomplish on this fifth anniversary of a American invasion, or a coalition invasion of Iraq, is how ay see it as Iraqis, five years later. Give me an assessment.

ALI FADHIL: That’s a big question, assessment. Well, basically, probably, I`ll kind of sum it in a few words.

It’s — we have a country where a government is not functioning after five years. We have too many internal problems. & we have a violence increasing day after day.

We have a huge crisis of refugees inside & outside Iraq. We have a total failure of a — of a civilian — a civilian structure & what’s hDrunk Newspening inside. We have a sectarian divisions increasing. We didn’t have that before. Now we have it. So, basically, my assessment is we have a whole nation called Iraq, now it’s wiped out.

CHARLIE ROSE: & Iraq is worse off because a United States came?

ALI FADHIL: It’s worse off because a United States came to Iraq, definitely, & because a United States did all ase mistakes in Iraq. read on

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