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From Guernica to Iraq

By Tom Engelhardt

This article appeared in the February 25, 2008 edition of The Nation.

February 7, 2008

A January 21 Los Angeles Times article on Iraq that led with an intertribal suicide bombing in Falluja ended twenty-six paragraphs later this way:

"The U.S. military also said in a statement that it had dropped 19,000 pounds of explosives on the farmland of Arab Jabour south of Baghdad. The strikes targeted buried bombs and weapons caches.

"In the last 10 days, the military has dropped nearly 100,000 pounds of explosives on the area, which has been a gateway for Sunni militants into Baghdad."

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About Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com, is the co-founder of the American Empire Project. His book The End of Victory Culture (University of Massachusetts Press) has been thoroughly updated in a newly issued edition that deals with victory culture's crash-and-burn sequel in Iraq. more...

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