Not a pretty picture
This is a clip from the Al Jazeera English program, "Witness." It brings us what most Americans do not have any sense of at all--what the U.S. invasion has wrought--countless dead, two or three million internal refugees now living in deplorable conditions out of sight behind U.S.-built barriers.
From the YouTube description:
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, a Baghdad-born award-winning photographer and journalist, returns to the streets of a Baghdad now divided by security walls separating Sunni and Shia. Ghaith's ability to move around the city despite the dangers, gives us a unique insight into this Baghdad and to a story so far untold.I wonder if keyboard warriors like Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe ever have noticed the type of wreckage upon wreckage that the U.S. has brought since 2003. Jacoby after all used to write things like the "US-led war in Iraq was a great blessing."
I couldn't find a good quote quickly, but I seem to recall that people like former Vice President Cheney often remarked about how bad Saddam left conditions in Iraq. Hard to argue they're better now even after a lull in overt violence.
There are a total of four Witness- Baghdad City of Walls segments referenced HERE.
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