The nutters have smashed up what was left after Britain and the USA carpet bombed the place. How very dare they!
Half a million dead Iraqui civilians. Enormous areas of the country covered in depleted Uranium and White Phosphorous. Whole regions have been left with countless plastic mines and other lovely concealed ordnance for which we claimed back costs and expenses for our "services" to Iraq. You're welcome!
To take just one tiny isolated example... the US Military carpeted Fallujah with MK77's which are a delightfully potent mix of Napalm and White Phosphorous. The first battle of Fallujah was a overwhelming US Military strike on the small town in retaliation for the killing of four Blackwater mercenaries who had been killed and their bodies hung from a bridge over the Euphrates. You might have watched the Blackwater Guys "fun day out"footage on Liveleak, where they drive down the main street in Fallujah just shooting civilians and drivers while playing Elvis songs really loudly over their PA. The US referred to the subsequent military action as a "pacification" of Fallujah. Over 600 unarmed civilians were killed by the US military in this "pacification" process.
The ISIL (now ISIS) nutters whom the UK and US used to try and destabilise Syria have been fed, watered, paid, clothed, armed and trained by us. They've witnessed how to do things. Abu Ghraib? That's nothin we're gonna burn a guy in a cage!
The Cradle of Civilisation and those wonders of Archaeology? Those bits that the coalition deemed unfit to bomb, loot or plunder in the last two Iraq wars? There wasn't a whole lot left really... The UK and USA bombed that country back to the Stone Age and sent a clear message. I think some people were listening and heard it loud and clear.
Let us not confuse Time Team watched over Roast Beef, gravy and potatoes on a Sunday Afternoon in rural Oxfordshire, with the daily horror of life and death in Iraq and Syria. Wholesale slaughter and carnage which the West unleashed, fed and created. Remember in Apocalypse Now, the story that Kurtz tells Willard about the village innoculations and the subsequent pile of little severed arms that met the doctors on their return to the village.
Pity about the old statues though. I really liked the winged lion, man thing.
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