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And the actions of the invaders. 

Most Americans ought to be aware by now of the horrible persecutions committed against the Christians in Iraq, ongoing since the Bush “liberation” - Iraqis now say they had greater freedom - and protection- under Saddam before the war.  That said, do we ever hear of what harm the liberators have perpetrated against the Christian population?  I haven’t.  But I came across the following piece as I was searching for an image of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.  (I’m sure it cannot be true…  The journalist who wrote it must be anti-American!  I’m being facetious.)

From the illegal occupation of palaces, schools, monasteries and destruction of much of the world’s wonders, across the country, the US, UK and their dwindling “allies” have committed cultural war crimes of near unprecedented enormity.

Now it transpires that America’s crusading Christian soldiers are evicting the monks from the monasteries to make quarters for occupation troops, according to Azzaman, Churches too are being evacuated. Patriarch Emanuel Deli, Head of the Chaldean Community in Iraq, is quoted as saying: “U.S. and Iraqi officials are responsible … They have insulted and humiliated our temples and churches”, he said, pleading with the international community to intervene.

U.S. troops, reports Azzaman, “have turned one of Baghdad’s largest monasteries, where the Chaldeans had a theology college and seminary, into a military barracks”.

From the illegal occupation of palaces, schools, monasteries and destruction of much of the world’s wonders, across the country, the US, UK and their dwindling “allies” have committed cultural war crimes of near unprecedented enormity. America’s and Britain’s finest can only be compared to the Vandals, a Teutonic race who ravaged Gaul, Spain and in 455, Rome itself and have forever become the by-word for ignorant and wilful destruction. - Felicity Arbuthnot