-Replying to 2 posts in this one- > Damon Agretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To add more fuel to the fire, anyone see this?: > > http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/ > Daily news and comments on the situation in post > Saddam Iraq by an Iraqi dentist > > "Monday, April 05, 2004 > A coup d'etat is taking place in Iraq a the moment. > Al-Shu'la, Al-Hurria, Thawra (Sadr city), and > Kadhimiya (all Shi'ite neighbourhoods in Baghdad) > have been declared liberated from occupation...
I hadn't seen this blog before, but "Riverbend," which he links to - "girl blog from Iraq" - I had. Today's does not read well: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ "Now it seems we are almost literally reliving the first few days of occupation� I woke up to the sound of explosions and gunfire last night and for one terrible moment I thought someone had warped me back a whole year....Over the last three days, over 150 Iraqis have been killed by troops all over Iraq and it's maddening. At times I feel like a caged animal- there's so much frustration and anger. The only people still raving about 'liberation' are the Iraqis affiliated with the Governing Council and the Puppets, and even they are getting impatient with the mess..." [prior entry states: "Let me make it very clear right now that I am *not* a supporter of Al-Sadr. I do not like clerics who want to turn Iraq into the next Iran or Saudi Arabia or Kuwait�"] An informal poll of local Denver residents on one TV station last night seemed to show support for pulling out of Iraq -- that would be a dreadful mistake, I think. Even though I was against the war - and _still_ don't see the justification for it from a national security POV - to leave will only turn Iraq into another base for those sympathetic to al-Quaida. Gautam wrote: "While the actual extent of American support for Saddam is very small (the belief that we did a great deal is one of those wonderful fictions of the America-hating left), even if it were so, does that not _increase_ our responsibility to get rid of him?" Yes - although the way this war was prosecuted was not the best way to do that, IMO. In the matter of at least his biological WOMD, though, the US govt. _is_ responsible for training Iraqi scientist(s) at the CDC, providing pathogenic bacteria, and phages (vectors for use in gengineering bacteria). I posted this data, with Library of Congress source material, last year. Debbi __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
