Iraq: "A War Crime, Pure and Simple"

By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report

People inspect the scene of an earlier explosion in Baghdad, December 22, 2011. (Michael Kamber/The New York Times)

A dozen years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, that country, now effectively another Middle East failed state, remains a bloody, chaotic symbol of the failed US imperial project.

Margaret Griffis, a journalist who has been covering casualty numbers in Iraq since 2006 for Antiwar.com, has published these recent headlines that give one an idea of how life is in today's Iraq:

"Mass Executions Terrorize Mosul; 141 Killed in Iraq"

"132 Killed across Iraq as Airstrikes Continue"

"At Least 4,693 Killed across Iraq in July"

"154 Killed in Iraq, including Dozens of Displaced Children"

"Mass Grave Unearthed in Mosul; 194 Killed across Iraq"

Those are only the articles published by Griffis since July 30. The casualties are acute and ongoing, yet most people in the US, the very country that generated this hellish situation, are willfully ignorant of the situation caused by their government.

Truthout reached out to three expert analysts who provided their perspective on why the war was waged, what the goal of the occupation has been, and which proposed solutions are the most promising.

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