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Iraq: storytelling with links #media260 #ds106

An Iraqi friend sent me the following. It is very economical. The links tell the story, the quotation provides the commentary/punchline.

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world/in_iraq_us_special_forces_gearing_up_to_leave/2011/02/27/ABbGWYRB_story.html?wprss=rss_politics

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110325/NEWS02/103250335/1972

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/i-lost-my-moral-compass-how-a-young-us-soldier-triggered-an-abuse-scandal-in-afghanistan-2252475.html 

http://newamericamedia.org/2011/03/eight-years-of-occupation-in-iraq-eight-years-of-misery.php


“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.”
El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)