Invisible Blood: Willful Blindness and American War Crime
In The Nation (and at alternet.org), John Tirman provides some pertinent statistics on the now almost entirely ignored war in Iraq — a “victory” which Barack Obama is now being warned by his generals not to “squander” with his plans for pulling out some troops and leaving behind tens of thousands of others: The United Nations estimates that there are about 4.5 million displaced Iraqis — more than half of them refugees — or about one in every six citizens. Only 5 percent have chosen to return to their homes over the past year, a period of reduced violence from