Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq.

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[mrsteve]

1. Wow - this paragraph got me.

"You really can't appreciate light until you look down upon a blackened city and your eyes are automatically drawn to the pinpoints of brightness provided by generators… it looks like the heavens have fallen and the stars are wandering the streets of Baghdad, lost and alone."

Very poetic - got me pretty damn verklempt too.

[Spazito]

2. Thanks for posting this, it is sad to read....

but it is what I have believed for a while. I remember when the news broke that the power was off and there never was another item to say it was back on.

I very much fear for the Iraqi people, winter is setting in and, in January, the UN Food for Oil program ends and the US takes over I believe. This is a major humanitarian disaster in the making, imo.

[Fleshdancer]

3. I came across this blog a few months ago

I emailed the link to my entire address list. This is truly one of the best, saddest blogs I've ever read. She's so...well, human. The human factor is so incredibly absent from the conversations and debates concerning the Oil war.

This administration is doing too good of a job of making this war into nothing more than a made for tv movie or some ridiculous video game in the minds of average Americans. We don't see the caskets, we don't hear from the soldiers (unless they're willing to get in trouble to tell their tale). The local and national news coverage shows the happy stories of soldiers returning home alive to their loved ones, but not much else. Somehow, a tv journalist standing by himself with a goofy vest on in the dark holding a microphone is not the face of war. But that's all we see.