Karl Sharro
It's possible to oppose the Iraq War without romanticising pre-03 Iraq & it's the invaders who ignored Iraqi agencyhttps://twitter.com/Hayder_alKhoei/status/750711032939765762 …
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Saddam made life hell for my family, I have no sympathy for him but it was the Iraqis' job to remove him, not a task for the West.
people think that Iraqis, after decades of sanctions and wars (backed by the West and its allies), should have become democrats overnight.
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The arrogance and hubris of it! 'Here we invaded and destroyed your country for you, why aren't you becoming a liberal democracy, why?'
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I can't even begin to describe the impact of the economic sanctions on destroying Iraqi society, paving the way for what was to come next.
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@KarlreMarks I remember in late 90s an Iraqi doctor telling me abt people needing very basic surgeries dying due to anesthesia shortage -
@RawyaRageh they didn't let pencils in. A cruel punishment that hurt the Iraqi people and benefited Saddam -
@KarlreMarks Ya Allah. Sanctions = collective punishment inflicted on the country's weakest. And they don't even deter those in power. -
@RawyaRageh I was really shocked the first time I returned during the sanctions. Not only the deprivation but what it did to people's spirit -
@KarlreMarks Can't imagine. To break people like that, crush one's will to live. Saw some of it in Egypt as a child with visiting Libyans..
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@KarlreMarks “I was told by Apple Care that democracy is set up in a day.” -
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@KarlreMarks first the Iraqis were suffering under the west's blind eye to Saddam's atrocities, then under saddam and the West's sanctions… -
@KarlreMarks and Clinton's Air Strikes, the Iraq war was the biggest blow and one of it's consequences was the Malki and current gov't
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@KarlreMarks And grateful! -
@KarlreMarks this one article by@Hayder_alKhoei silences what you others like@zalali@AlOraibi@mehdirhasan have been preaching for years
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