TomDispatch - Tomgram: Michael Schwartz on Dismantling Iraqi Life

TomDispatch - Tomgram: Michael Schwartz on Dismantling Iraqi Life: "The image of the Bush administration in Iraq as a bumbling giant, overwhelmed by the destructive forces within Iraqi society, is a pernicious misrepresentation. A close look at the facts on the ground demonstrates that the American occupation itself has been the primary destructive force in Iraq as well as the direct or ultimate source of the bulk of the violence; that the American military, in its zealous pursuit of the resistance, still generates much destruction; and that American reconstruction efforts have -- through greed, corruption, and incompetence -- only deepened the infrastructural crisis.

The American presence in Iraq continues to be a force for deconstruction."