Iraq Reviews > Thoughts of Nigel: Cockburn looks back at the Iraq war

[Thoughts of Nigel] But George Bush and Tony Blair were able to maintain that the war was confined to only four out of 18 provinces of Iraq and the extent of the violence was being exaggerated by the media. This was quite untrue, but journalists could not disprove it because if we ventured into these supposedly pacific provinces we stood a good chance of being kidnapped or decapitated.

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