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Abstract
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 of the war in Iraq.
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. From Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan and the West, to civilians left behind, and other witnesses, this the story of the war told by those who experienced it firsthand.
'If I could only recommend one book that provides a comprehensive
overview of both the situation in Iraq today, and the decades of
US-backed policy it took to create this nightmare scenario,
Erasing Iraq is it'
Dahr Jamail, independent journalist
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Untitled | cover | ||
Erasing Iraq | cover | ||
Contents | 5 | ||
Foreword | 9 | ||
Acknowledgments | 15 | ||
Introduction: Hearts of Stone | 17 | ||
1. Iraqis Under Siege | 30 | ||
Everything is Destroyed | 30 | ||
Interests Inimical to our own | 35 | ||
Mouths Open Swallowing Bombs | 40 | ||
The Price of Sanctions | 44 | ||
Fear and Flight | 50 | ||
Online Witnesses | 53 | ||
2. Refugee Voices | 70 | ||
Exodus | 71 | ||
Three Waves of Suffering | 78 | ||
In Jordan | 83 | ||
In Syria | 91 | ||
In Transit | 95 | ||
In Australia | 99 | ||
3. Censoring Civilians | 104 | ||
Favorable Objectivity | 104 | ||
Managing Grenada, Panama, and Gulf War I | 107 | ||
A Double-Edged Sword | 111 | ||
Embedded Perspectives | 120 | ||
Collective Self-Censorship | 123 | ||
Carry Our Water | 128 | ||
Shaping Falluja | 134 | ||
4. Dead Bodies Don’t Count | 146 | ||
Neither Time Nor Inclination | 147 | ||
We May Never Know | 149 | ||
Conflicting Counts | 155 | ||
The Six-Figure Fight | 161 | ||
The Lesser of Two Evils? | 166 | ||
Still Counting | 168 | ||
Opening the Vault | 173 | ||
5. Iraqi Sociocide | 178 | ||
Childhood Lost | 179 | ||
Women at Risk | 184 | ||
Gay Life and Death | 189 | ||
End of Faith | 195 | ||
Pushed Out | 197 | ||
Looting is Liberating | 199 | ||
Year Zero | 204 | ||
Lost Antiquity | 212 | ||
Iraqi Sociocide | 220 | ||
Postscript: People of No Moment | 222 | ||
Notes | 230 | ||
Index | 254 |