In light of the Torture (Redacted) reports - what Riverbend wrote:

[truedelphi]

For those of us who during the long and painful years of George The Younger's reign, turned to the young Iraqi woman's insightful weekly and sometimes daily reports on conditions inside her neighborhood, I post this here.

I recently discovered this last post of hers, and it answered a question about what she is thinking and doing and where she is living.

I feel very bad as I read her questions about WHEN will Dick and George and Condi and Rummy get their legal come uppance. Very bad indeed.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2013_04_01_archive.html

[Live and Learn]

1. Wow, thank you for posting this.

I use to read her posts on a daily basis.

Her descriptive depictions of trying to retain a normal life while we invaded were captivating and heartbreaking.

I saved the link to catch up from where I left off (when she quit posting frequently).

Thanks again so much. I feel equally bad regarding her questions and wish she knew we have been asking the same.

[truedelphi]

2. There is a link to let her get email, up at top right hand of her front website page

although I have no idea if she still uses that link. So later today, I think I will send her links of the discussions we have going on about wanting to put the rat bastards on trial and then into the orange prison jump suits. Be great if you also offered her a link or two.

I believe someone here at DU made it possible on occassion for her to have the bits of money she needed to keep her internet account up and running (If my memory serves.)

I sent her an email some time ago, and we did correspond for a week or so.

I think that was on the occassion of it being leaked that the people attacking some UK service people's building were actual British agents, although they were dressed up to look like some type of desert-style terrorists. The fact tht she answered my email thrilled me.

[Live and Learn]

4. That is a great idea.

I will send her an email letting her know what she meant to us here and how we have never forgotten her.

I don't remember the link for sending her money or I surely would have. I always felt so terrible for what we were putting her through.

Thanks again for the email idea and the post.

[Journeyman]

3. Thanks for posting . . .

Always nice to be reminded of kind hearted people with clear eyes and lucid thought.

[Frustratedlady]

5. I was just asking about her a couple weeks ago.

I loved her blog and wondered if she was still alive and well. I read all her entries until she disappeared. Her concept of what was going on was far above ours, as she looked at the situation with a clear mind and expressed herself beautifully.

I am SO happy to hear she is still with us and safe...relatively so. I would love to hear more from her.

[katmondoo]

6. Reading her blog has brought tears to my eyes

I with many others protested the Iraqi War and George Bush here in Florida and all we got were people who spit on us and called us traitors. Every week I put up a sign on my property with the death toll of our soldiers, starting at 400 ending with over 5000. Every week it was torn down and stomped on. There was a huge propaganda machine then and still now that promoted this war and demonized those who opposed it. Most of my family are still Bush lovers and love the GOP and the tea party. I see no way to convince them and others like them to see the how wrong and how un-American their views are. There will be no prosecutions of the Bush-Cheney group.

[truedelphi]

7. Yes Jan to March 2003, ten million people turned out world wide to protest the

Bat shit crazy notion that we needed to atack Iraq, a nation that was our ally during WWII, and that was our ally in the 1980's, when we arranged for them to fight against Iran on our behalf.

Yet so many Americans were blinded by "patriotism" so they even let their kids go off and fight against the people of Iraq.

Now their children are back from various tours of duty and wounded by PTSD as well as by actual physical injuries.

And you have to wonder why people wouldn't and didn't listen to us - us the majority, who were labelled as terribly awfully "uninformed" peaceniks. The parents now have blog after blog telling how terribly their family members are treated by the VA... Well, maybe they should have listened to people from the 1960's and 1970's who had patiently tried to explain that war is not ever about patriotism - it is about Corporate Profits, that simply NEVER translate into dollars for care of wounded vets.