The truth takes time to get out. I have no doubt that in fifty years time the truth about Iraq today will look a whole lot different from what we are given to understand, and a while lot astier.

This what holding down an empire involves, always - sustained brutality to hold down the inhabitants. Or else genocide and "ethnic cleansing", where the inhabitants are eliminated, or confined to reservations of one sort or another.

It's not a question of knocking the British or the Americans particularly - they just tend to be the ones in the limelight in an English speaking site. And of course the Americans are the biggest player, based in the most successful surviving empire.

The inmportant thing is that when the truth comes out about past atrocities, this should be a spur to hunting out the truth about what is happening today, and stopping the same kind of thing happening all over.