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Bruno Stevens: Baghdad

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The title for this book could've easily been "Shock and Awe: The New Barbarians".

Be warned this is no coffee table book. From a Belgian photographer, it shows dramatic photos of Baghdad before the American annexation, and later, of dozens of civilians wounded or killed by American cluster bombs and American "intelligent" missiles at the time of air raids on Baghdad.

But for the difference in intensity due to weapons technical development, there's substantially no difference between the London bombings by the German Luftwaffe in WWII and the American destruction of large parts of Baghdad on occasion of "Shock And Awe" in 2003 as it is clearly depicted in this book.

After all this, Americans ought to substitute the stars in their national flag with swastikas. After all, the German people elected Hitler to power, and the American people did the same with George W. Bush. Twice. Will he end the same way Hitler did? This is an excellent, first class book. After reading it, you'll have your own answer to the above question.