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It has been strangely quiet in the news about Iraq. It takes a significant event, as CBC reports, to make headlines about the shattered country.
“At least 136 people died Sunday after two car bombs detonated in Baghdad. With casualty figures still rising, officials said that nearly 600 people had been injured and taken to six area hospitals.
So many people were wounded that even civilian cars were pressed into service to take the casualties to area hospitals, said a Baghdad hospital official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
The two vehicles were packed with explosives and detonated less than a minute apart in the centre of the Iraqi capital, officials said.”
Are we purging our collective memories of Iraq and the atrocities we have committed there? Do we think that not bringing Bush and Cheney in for war crimes will not incense the rest of the world?
Iraq is still being torn asunder. The coverage has moved on to Afghanistan and so has our consciousness. Our actions leave us accountable for so much destruction and chaos. We owe the people of Iraq and Afghanistan more than just bullets and bomb craters.
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