Erasing Iraq : The Human Costs of Carnage.

Untitled -- Erasing Iraq -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hearts of Stone -- 1. Iraqis Under Siege -- Everything is Destroyed -- Interests Inimical to our own -- Mouths Open Swallowing Bombs -- The Price of Sanctions -- Fear and Flight -- Online Witnesses -- 2. Refugee Voices -- Exodus -- Three Waves of Suffering -- In Jordan -- In Syria -- In Transit -- In Australia -- 3. Censoring Civilians -- Favorable Objectivity -- Managing Grenada, Panama, and Gulf War I -- A Double-Edged Sword -- Embedded Perspectives -- Collective Self-Censorship -- Carry Our Water -- Shaping Falluja -- 4. Dead Bodies Don't Count -- Neither Time Nor Inclination -- We May Never Know -- Conflicting Counts -- The Six-Figure Fight -- The Lesser of Two Evils? -- Still Counting -- Opening the Vault -- 5. Iraqi Sociocide -- Childhood Lost -- Women at Risk -- Gay Life and Death -- End of Faith -- Pushed Out -- Looting is Liberating -- Year Zero -- Lost Antiquity -- Iraqi Sociocide -- Postscript: People of No Moment -- Notes -- Index.

Reveals the true human costs of war in Iraq, an unfolding tragedy that has yielded millions of dead and displaced Iraqis since the first Gulf War.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.