Blind to the facts

As acres of newsprint are devoted to whether or not Muslim women should wear the veil, and Britain's neo-cons http://www.stephenpollard.net/002955.html debate whether to refer to one another by their diminutive forms- Iraq burns.
Here's an on-the-spot dispatch from Patrick Cockburn, from today's First Post. Read it and you will understand why those so keen to start this wretched war are now so keen to talk about anything else.
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