by Sarah Meyer Index Research

I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude, and I believe most Iraqis express that. I mean, the people understand that we’ve endured great sacrifice to help them. That’s the problem here in America. They wonder whether or not there is a gratitude level that’s significant enough in Iraq." George Bush

Photo AP/ Mohammed Uraibi

 ABU GHRAIB 

Omar Ahmed - tortured then killed
Read the story here.
 

FALLUJAH 

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Fallujah Siege November 2005: Photo Reuters

Iraq War Photography: The Fallujah Offensive,...

Casualties of Fallujah 

SAMARRA 

Askariya Shrine in Samarra
Read the stories here and here. (12.02.03)
 

Photo: Anti-war.com

Baghdad Morgue took 16,000 bodies in 2006
(17.01.07. Kuwait Times) 

 

Photo AFP / Qassem Zein

30.08.06 US Attack HILLA 

HADITHA 

Photo: AP

See The Haditha Doctor and Media Dissemblers (continuously updated)
ASSASSINATIONS

Iraq: The Assassination of Academics : The Jalili Report
15.1.6. S. Meyer, Index Research

OTHER TRAGEDIES FOR WHICH TO BE ‘GRATEFUL’

Baghdad: sewage system collapses
16.1.7.Irin / uruknet

Iraq: The Women's Story
Video, Zeena Ahmed, Dispatches

Iraq refugee crisis exploding
15.01.06. C. Lockhead, uruknet/SanFrancisco Chronicle..

 

Photo Channel 4 / Guardian films

Iraq's Missing Billions

WHO IS BENEFITING?

Blood and Oil: How the West will Profit from Iraq's most precious commodity
07.01.07. Independent.

Video. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. Greenwald, 1r. 15 min.

Video. Exposed: The Carlyle Group. 54 min.

Video. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. Greenwald, 1r. 15 min.

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Video. No Bravery.
Music, James Blunt

There are children standing here,
Arms outstretched into the sky,
Tears drying on their face.
He has been here.
Brothers lie in shallow graves.
Fathers lost without a trace.
A nation blind to their disgrace,
Since he's been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

Houses burnt beyond repair.
The smell of death is in the air.
A woman weeping in despair says,
He has been here.
Tracer lighting up the sky.
It's another families' turn to die.
A child afraid to even cry out says,
He has been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

There are children standing here,
Arms outstretched into the sky,
But no one asks the question why,
He has been here.
Old men kneel and accept their fate.
Wives and daughters cut and raped.
A generation drenched in hate.
Yes, he has been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

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This article first published by the BRussels Tribunal

The url to Iraq: The ‘Grateful Dead’ is: http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2007/01/iraq-grateful-dead.html

With apologies for very short synopsis; the story is much worse and far too long.

Sarah Meyer is a researcher living in the UK. 

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