Outlaw Administration - by Chalmers Johnson and Tom Engelhardt

In the 5 year lookback at the invasion of Iraq, part of the horror of it wasn't talked about. Here is Chalmers Johnston writing just after the invasion and some reflections on the event, written recently.

"Words disappeared instantly. They simply blinked off the screen of Iraqi history, many of them forever. First, there was the looting of the National Museum. That took care of some of the earliest words on clay, including, possibly, cuneiform tablets with missing parts of the epic of Gilgamesh. Soon after, the great libraries and archives of the capital went up in flames and books, letters, government documents, ancient Korans, religious manuscripts, stretching back centuries – all those things not pressed into clay, or etched on stone, or engraved on metal, just words on that most precious and perishable of all commonplaces, paper – vanished forever.
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Outlaw Administration - by Chalmers Johnson and Tom Engelhardt