It's a bit sad to be honest, but I like the effort
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I think it's that slightly 'archaic' feel they were aiming for, a bit like calling Belarus 'Belorussia' or similar. It's almost a surprise it doesn't say Tintin in Mesopotamia.Comment
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No, it's the French spelling of Iraq, the author of this parody was probably a francophone.
As far as Tintin parody covers, it's not that clever though, this one does a better job of flipping around the colonial heritage embodied in Hergé's work:
And as far as the British perspective and Iraq for the OP, I'd recommend Geoff Simons "Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam", not as colorful as a Tintin or a Tintin parody but more informative about the modern history of Iraq:
" Today in 1993 there are still Iraqis and Kurds who remember being bombed and machine-gunned by the RAF in the 1920s. A Kurd from the Korak mountains commented, seventy years after the event: They were bombing here in the Kaniya Khoran...Sometimes they raided three times a day. Wing Commander Lewis, then of 30 Squadron (RAF), Iraq, recalls how quite often "one would get a signal that a certain Kurdish village would have to be bombed...", the RAF pilots being ordered to bomb any Kurd who looked hostile. In the same vein, Squadron-Leader Kendal of 30 Squadron recalls that if the tribespeople were doing something they ought not be doing then you shot them.
Similarly, Wing-Commander Gale, also of 30 Squadron: If the Kurds hadn't learned by our example to behave themselves in a civilised way then we had to spank their bottoms. This was done by bombs and guns.
Wing-Commander Sir Arthur Harris (later Bomber Harris, head of wartime Bomber Command) was happy to emphasise that "The Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means in casualties and damage. Within forty-five minutes a full-size village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured." It was an easy matter to bomb and machine-gun the tribespeople, because they had no means of defence or retalitation. Iraq and Kurdistan were also useful laboratories for new weapons; devices specifically developed by the Air Ministry for use against tribal villages. The ministry drew up a list of possible weapons, some of them the forerunners of napalm and air-to-ground missiles:
Phosphorus bombs, war rockets, metal crowsfeet [to maim livestock] man-killing shrapnel, liquid fire, delay-action bombs. Many of these weapons were first used in Kurdistan."Comment
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