Writes Bill Blum:

We should never forget that Iraqi society has been destroyed. The people of that unhappy land have lost everything — their homes, their schools, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their health care, their legal system, their women's rights, their religious tolerance, their security, their friends, their families, their past, their present, their future, their lives. But they do have their surge.

UPDATE from Tim Harrington:

Don't forget their churches. The ancient Chaldean community has been substantially uprooted from their native land, most of their churches destroyed and some of their priests murdered.