Has anyone watched any of the films and documentaries that have been shown on Channel 4 regarding the 5th anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq.

The film on 4 last night 'The fight for Haditha' was heart-wrenching! it was a true story of how the US marines went on a rampage after one of their men was killed by a roadside bomb. They shot a taxi driver and four teenage passengers, then entered houses nearby shooting men, women and children.

24 innocent killed because they couldn't handle a death ( makes you wonder why they were in the job )

Made me sick to the stomach watching it.

Battle for Haditha was a great film. I love the way Nick Broomfield works.

It's sad that Iraq and Afghanistan have drifted out of the public domain really. Nobody seems that interested anymore, and the news reports tend to focus on British troops being killed. There seems to be little or no mention of the 1,000,000+ missing and dead Iraqis....

i also watched Battle for Haditha, does anyone know what happened to the soldiers? Were they punished?

i also watched Battle for Haditha, does anyone know what happened to the soldiers? Were they punished?

All 8 were taken to trial, and eventually all charges were lowered and the soldiers were granted immunity from the original murder charges.

There were a few interesting points in last nights documentary. One of them is that The Americans now feel that we have virtually handed over Southern Iraq to Iran, now that the army has left Basra and handed control over to the militias. The militia that now controls Basra is backed by Iran.

The second point is that America are now heavily arming the Sunni militias in and around Bagdad to successfully combat Al-Qaeda.

The Third point was compared to the rest of Iraq how well the Kurdish controlled part was doing. The presenter of the documentary was sat having a relaxing drink in a cafe dressed in western clothing, something he said would be instant suicide in the rest of Iraq. He said that since the end of the Iraq war the city he was in had less bombs detonate than London. The Kurdish part of Iraq is sitting on multi-trillion dollar oil reservers and have already signed multi-billion dollar oil contracts independent of Iraq.

One things for sure with a prosperous Northern Kurdish Iraq, an American heavily armed Sunni middle part of Iraq and an Iran controlled Shia southern part of Iraq the future for Iraq as a country certainly looks bleak.

For further reading on the oil and other contracts handed out in Iraq (to American companies, obviously), get hold of Naomi Klein's savage book, 'The Shock Doctrine' (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0713998997).