The mighty, mighty Chris Hayes covered the end of the Iraq War in a recent episode of his Up (With Chris Hayes) show. It was the only US show not to have its head up (no pun) its ass with respect to the war on Iraq. They even talked to an actual Iraqi, in Iraq! Not to be tokenistic, but: Wow!

Note, especially, the 26th minute, when Iraqi author Zainab Salbi is speaking, and the 28th minute, with Phyllis Bennis’s historical perspective. Salbi steps out of any coconut shell the audience are accustomed to, and says:

Iraq is destroyed. Every aspect of Iraq is destroyed. And there is a lack of acknowledgement from America to say, ‘We’re sorry!’ And, you know what, from an Iraqi perspective, it doesn’t matter whether you’re Republican or Democrat. It doesn’t matter whether you are Bush or Obama. As far as Iraqis are concerned, or people outside of America, this is America!

Americans don’t know that Iraq, before the US assaults, had First World levels of education, and First World levels of healthcare. Saddam was a bastard, but he was also a nationalist.

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Lest there be any illusions to the contrary: Considering how the war has been ignored in the US, their veterans are sure to populate hot-air grids, in urban centres, in the not too distant future.