Betrayed The Iraqis who trusted America the most.

[Warren Stupidity]

Betrayed
The Iraqis who trusted America the most.
by George Packer
March 26, 2007 New Yorker Magazine
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/26/070326fa_fact_packer

On a cold, wet night in January, I met two young Iraqi men in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel, in central Baghdad. A few Arabic television studios had rooms on the upper floors of the building, but the hotel was otherwise vacant. In the lobby, a bucket collected drips of rainwater; at the gift shop, which was closed, a shelf displayed film, batteries, and sheathed daggers covered in dust. A sign from another era read, “We have great pleasure in announcing the opening of the Internet café 24 hour a day. At the business center on the first floor. The management.” The management consisted of a desk clerk and a few men in black leather jackets slouched in armchairs and holding two-way radios.

This long essay about our treatment of the Iraqis who stepped up to try and make the best of our invasion of Iraq is well worth reading, although you might need your blood pressure medication increased.

[Fresh_Start]

1. great link, thank you

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