Americans Stopped Caring About Iraq in 2011, But the Horrors Continued

This story is a collaboration between Truthout and TomDispatch.com and first appeared on their respective websites. For Americans, it was like the news from nowhere. Years had passed since reporters bothered to head for the country we invaded and blew a hole through back in 2003, the country once known as Iraq that our occupation drove into a never-ending sectarian nightmare. In 2011, the last US combat troops slipped out of the country, their heads "held high," as President Obama proclaimed at ...