The real US legacy in Iraq

Asia Times Online :: The real US legacy in Iraq:

"Keeping first to Fallujah, we can observe that Washington's assaults in April and November 2004 reduced a city of more than 435,000 residents (in the UN's conservative, pre-occupation count) to rubble: a UN Emergency Working Group estimated that "40% of buildings and homes" there were "significantly damaged" in the end, "while another 20% sustained 'major damage'", and "the remainder were 'completely destroyed'", political scientist Neta Crawford writes. Crawford, quoting Bing West's No True Glory, relates how a top US general, arriving in Fallujah after the November 2004 attack, "looked up and down the streets, at the drooping telephone poles, gutted storefronts, heaps of concrete, twisted skeletons of burnt-out cars, demolished roofs, and sagging walls. 'Holy shit,' he said." "