Riverbend was a young woman blogging the war in Iraq from Baghdad. Silent after her escape to Syria, she is back with one last update, which contains this line about the media: “We’re learning that the leaders don’t make history. Populations don’t make history. Historians don’t write history. News networks do. The Foxes, and CNNs, and BBCs, and Jazeeras of the world make history. They twist and turn things to fit their own private agendas.”
Baghdad Burning is a remarkable piece of work, one of the few truly sane and honest voices from the whole debacle of the Iraqi invasion. Now turned into a book, the whole story from last to first is here. Please, at least read the final few posts.
