Author: Bradley L Garrett

“The Middle East expert, Professor Fouad Ajami, predicts that after liberation, the streets in Basra and Baghdad are sure to erupt in joy.” -Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence, 2002 400 fake adverts were put up in tube trains across London Underground lines by a team from ‘subvertising agency’ Agitartworks today. The false adverts were stuck over the existing ads which line the carriages. They depict British and American soldiers posing with dead bodies in scenes which became famous during the height of the Iraq war. Today marks the tenth anniversary of the British-American invasion of Iraq. No arrests were made as a result of the action. The campaign is entitled ‘More than just a job’ – mimicking recent army recruitment posters. One of the false ads depicts two American soldiers standing over a pile of bodies with bags over their heads, while a speech bubble quotes: ‘I wanted a job doing more than just stacking shelves’. The picture was taken in the American controlled Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad in 2003. One Agitartworks member said: “‘More than just a job’ is a commemoration of the biggest injustice to democracy that the UK has ever seen. Despite millions of people protesting in London, Tony Blair used a dossier to justify invasion of Iraq which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of violent deaths and horrific destruction. This is not...