Read my latest flash, Venison, at 52|250.

George Bernard Shaw held that “[i]t is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics”, but I don’t think it takes particular wisdom to see that over a million Iraqi dead is far from a sign of liberation.

Women bear a disproportionate amount of the suffering, as is typical of war zones. An especially horrific case is that of Leila Hussein. This brave woman left her husband after he and her sons murdered her daughter for talking to a British soldier, and she told her story to the world. She was murdered as she tried to leave Iraq.

The husband was congratulated on the “honor killing” of their daughter by local policemen. This is what US and British forces have created in Iraq, which before had been a largely secular nation, and since these forces are working with and supporting such police officers, staying in Iraq will not improve the situation.

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