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Oops. Sorry We Destroyed Your Country in Error.





The event was billed as helping Iraq repair war damage caused by ISIS. In fact, most of the damage from that short-lived conflict was caused by US bombing and a few Russian air strikes. ISIS, as this column has long been crying in the wilderness, was largely a paper tiger confected by the US, Britain and France to justify their military re-entry into Syria.

Iraq's government says it needs at least $88 billion to rebuild war damage. What the US-imposed client regime in Baghdad won't or can't say is that the damage to Iraq is far greater than $88 billion and was largely inflicted by US air power in 1990-1991 and 2003.

Iraq was ravaged, as I saw myself while covering the wars. This small nation of 23-25 million souls, a third of whom were in permanent revolt against the Baghdad government, was pounded into rubble by US air power and cruise missiles.


Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/02/eric-margolis/oops-sorry-we-destroyed-your-country-in-error/.


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