This has already been a shitty week. In a few weeks/months/years time, when the severe cuts made by George Osborne start to hit home, this will no doubt look like an even more shitty week, a retrospective D-Day, or whatever headline style tag you wish to put on it. However, as shit as things are undoubtedly going to be, we have had a constant reminder of perspective staring us in the face since 2003.
The Guardian, along with a few other left leaning publications have been posting and updating the Iraq War Logs leaked by whistleblowing website Wikileaks, another 400,000 odd files of which have been released today, and analysed by the paper. The full extent of the deception by both the US and UK government on matters such as civilian casualties,US authorised tortures and murders by the Iraq police cannot be truly understood without personally assessing these files, and nothing I can say could properly convey how horrifying and truly saddening they are.
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