Iraq: worse than ever

THREE years after the Bush/Blair-led invasion of Iraq, the country is in worse shape than ever, as violence escalates and the country hovers on the brink of civil war.

A snapshot of Iraq reveals a country that is miles from anything resembling a road to progress. It is time to declare that the horrors we have visited upon Iraq are not being done in our names, with our consent or our approval.

From a physician’s viewpoint, ‘liberation’ in Iraq means rising infant mortality, critical shortages of medicines, terrorised doctors and the return of diseases once under control.