The date: October 7, 2001. The place: a landlocked country. The aims: to locate a man; to bring men to trial; to remove a regime.
Aerial bombardments followed. Then came the tanks and troops.
The date: July 13 , 2009. The website stated: ‘Estimates of the number of civilians killed vary widely and must be treated with caution. Systematic collection of civilian fatality data only began in 2007. The United Nations is creating a civilian casualty database, but it is not publicly accessible.’
Nobody was talking. Maybe there were no deaths. Maybe there was no war. Surely it couldn’t have happened.
MW Bewick 