Digs - Iraq | Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/dig/category/iraq/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2007 2007-03-24T00:07:37+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/dig/category/iraq/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Scott Ritter: Calling Out Idiot America http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20070323_calling_out_idiot_america/ http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20070323_calling_out_idiot_america/ history, iran, mideast, religion, scott ritter, shiia, sunni, wahabi, Iraq Flags and Tanks

The former weapons inspector and military intelligence officer plumbs the depths of American ignorance and offers this history of Iraq, the Mideast and Islam. When so few of our politicians, and even fewer of the citizens who elect them,  understand the forces at work in Baghdad and beyond, is it any wonder the occupation has been a disaster?

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Truthdig contributor Nir Rosen, an American reporter who has lived for the last three years in Iraq and who can pass as Middle Eastern, describes what it’s like to live under the boot of a culturally callous—and sometimes criminal—occupying force in Iraq.

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Ron Kovic, veteran of the Vietnam War and author of the reissued classic “Born on the Fourth of July,” writes a compelling and empathetic piece on his personal experiences and concerns for a new generation of veterans returning from war.

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