Shocked and awed into `freedom'

by Pepe Escobar Saturday, Mar. 26, 2005 at 3:07 PM
mbatko@lycos.com

Two years after being shocked and awed into `freedom', freedom on the ground is a meaningless concept for large swathes of the Iraqi population. Sunnis and Shiites alike tell Asia Times Online of a brutalization of everyday life.

Pepe Escobar is a journalist writing about Iraq for Asia Times.

For his article, click on

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GC22Ak06.html

Original: Shocked and awed into `freedom'