In equal measures: hope and despair
This March marks the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and the start of the long-term military and economic occupation.
Tens of thousands of civilians and more than 3,000 coalition soldiers have been killed; thousands more have been horrifically wounded. Over the past four years people have lost their homes, their livelihoods, their families and their minds. Iraqi society is in ruins and the occupiers' political stability is on a…