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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsOnce Upon a Time in Iraq
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ar as an institution
is pure evil,” Nate
Sassaman said in
Once Upon a Time
in Iraq, and by
God he should know. The retired
former US army officer led a battalion
during the 2003 occupation of Iraq,
once caged an entire village in barbed
wire and grew to be such a feared
bogeyman that Iraqi women would
tell their children that they should
be good or Colonel Sassaman would
come and get them.Sitting in the interview chair, the
charismatic former soldier, who 16
years ago resembled George Clooney,
seemed haunted and traumatised,
the tormentor tormented. “I’m still
trapped commanding my battalion in
Iraq and I can’t get out of it,” he said.
He was here, he said, to urge
lawmakers not to rush into war like
America did in Iraq, with the backing
of Tony Blair. Because this was a
disaster — it was, as the war journalist
Dexter Filkins said, “hell on Earth”. I
felt soiled hearing some of that audio
of US soldiers kicking down Iraqi
civilians’ doors, babies screaming
and soldiers voices saying, if I heard
correctly: “Morning, dickheads, wake
up.” Or: “You f***ing speak English,
don’t you, you little prick?” The
beleaguered soldiers were looking for
insurgents who were bombing them
daily, but here were innocent families
whom they humiliated, radicalising
even more people against them.
James Bluemel’s jaw-dropping series
gets better and better, and should be
required viewing for every head of
state. This is largely because of the
contribution from Waleed Nesyif, who
eloquently linked past with present.
Aged 18, he acted as an interpreter for
the army and filmed what he saw on
his phone. We saw a little girl, Alaa
Adel, in 2003, her face shredded with
shrapnel and an eye ripped out from
an attack on a Hummer by insurgents.Several children died. Then here was
Alaa in front of us today, a pleasant
young woman with a glass eye and a
scar on her cheek, weeping. “I hope
what happened to Iraq happens to
America,” she said. “I’ve never wished
harm on anyone, but I wish it on
them.” What a grotesque mess.
The “dancing plague” of 1518, an
outbreak of apparent mass psychosis
in which people danced themselves
to exhaustion and possibly death in
Strasbourg, does not, to me, invite
obvious comparison with the present
pandemic. Rather than dancing in the
streets, people are more likely to be
running to fat alone on their sofas
while hiding from a virus.
Yet the director Jonathan Glazer
drew resonant parallels immediately
in Strasbourg 1518, a short film in
which people danced not together, but
alone, fitfully and feverishly, in empty
rooms, as if driven mad by solitude.
One woman kept touching the walls
and washing her hands in a bucket,
while another man danced and danced
convulsively as day turned to night
repeatedly. Well, we’ve all had those
lockdown groundhog days.
I found the jarring, discordant score
by Mica Levi to be “triggering” to a
grating degree. I see that it was
entirely appropriate to the subject, but
— feel free to call me a philistine, and
plenty have — I preferred watching it
Alaa Adel, who, as a little girl, lost an eye during the Iraq invasion with the sound off.Every head of state should watch this and learn
GUS PALMER/BBC; REX/SHUTTERSTOCKCarol
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