Iraq Still in a Terrible Mess | The Progressive

Iraq Still in a Terrible Mess | The Progressive “After eight years of occupation and thirteen years of semi-daily attacks and economic sanctions, it’s laughable for Iraqis to look at the U.S. as the savior,” Iraqi-American blogger and activist Raeed Jarrar recently told Democracy Now. “The U.S. is definitely a part of the problem. And a complete U.S. withdrawal is seen as a very important, and maybe the only, first step towards putting the country back on the right track of reconstruction and reconciliation.”