In today’s online edition of The Guardian, Australian journalist John Pilger surveys the mess
that is contemporary Iraq, under the headlines
We've moved on from the Iraq war – but Iraqis don't have that choice
Like characters from The Great Gatsby, Britain and the
US
have arrogantly turned their backs and left a country
in ruins
After surveying the horrendous spike in cancer cases and
birth defects which local doctors and World Health Organisation researchers attribute
to the use by US and UK forces of over 300 tonnes of depleted uranium (a metal
which is highly toxic aside from its radioactivity), he writes:
Iraq is no longer news. Last
week, the killing of 57 Iraqis in one day was a non-event compared with the murder
of a British soldier in London. Yet the two atrocities are connected. Their
emblem might be a lavish new movie of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Two of the main characters, as Fitzgerald wrote, "smashed up things and
creatures and retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness … and
let other people clean up the mess".
Read Pilger’s article in full at We’ve
moved on from the Iraq War – but Iraqis don’t have that choice.
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