Erasing Iraq

The Human Costs of Carnage

By (author) Michael Otterman, Richard Hil, Paul Wilson

Ebook (VitalSource) - £90.00

Publication date:

03 March 2010

Length of book:

264 pages

Publisher

Pluto Press

ISBN-13: 9781849644457

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 comprehensiveoverview of both the situation in Iraq today, and the decades ofUS-backed policy it took to create this nightmare scenario,Erasing Iraq is it'