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Following on her previous work in Iraq, Saywell returned on the eve of the most recent U.S. invasion threat to document the effects of 12 years of UN sanctions, and the U.S. betrayal of the 1991 uprising, on the Iraqi people. Talking to young kids and university students, she discovers an ever-deepening hatred for America. The education system has collapsed, children work in sweatshops to support their families, there is no medicine for the ill, and residential neighbourhoods are regularly bombed by American and British planes. Some children live with bomb shrapnel in their heads. As if this weren't enough, Saddam Hussein's lega
Following on her previous work in Iraq, Saywell returned on the eve of the most recent U.S. invasion threat to document the effects of 12 years of UN sanctions, and the U.S. betrayal of the 1991 uprising, on the Iraqi people. Talking to young kids and university students, she discovers an ever-deepening hatred for America. The education system has collapsed, children work in sweatshops to support their families, there is no medicine for the ill, and residential neighbourhoods are regularly bombed by American and British planes. Some children live with bomb shrapnel in their heads. As if this weren't enough, Saddam Hussein's legacy of chemical and biological weapons attacks on his own people, and the first Gulf War, have left a massive ecological disaster in their wakes. Saywell has constructed a welcome, truthful tonic to insistent propagandizing of the new war. (by David McIntosh)
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Release date: 1 January 1993
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