I had a dream that could end the war.

[Gregorian]

It takes place in a house in Iraq. It's nighttime, and it's in a child's bedroom. Suddenly a burst of machinegun is heard. There's a bright flash . You can see the child's face for a moment, in terror. There's banging on the door downstairs. Another flash where you can see the terrorized child's face again. Yelling American troops break the door down and pull the father out of the house.

I don't remember the rest. But I woke up with a different definition of terror than the one we are being fed. Terror with respect to Iraqi children. Can you imagine? Only those with the coldest, dead hearts could resist feeling empathy, if they could relate to this the way my dream did. Have you ever been a child and felt terror? Can you imagine the terror they must be feeling when choppers, jets, trucks, guns, bombs, yelling, killing are going on around them all of the time?

I think this could have a greater impact than the girl holding the daisy while the atomic bomb countdown was shown during the Johnson years.

We need to show terror from their perspective. Then maybe people will see what we are doing, and demand that we leave.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. This would make a powerful

anti-war statement, that's for sure.

[Terran1212]

2. Incrediblly correct agree completely

I think the only way for people to really reject the war is to know what it is doing.

And I think everyone should try to find a way to do what I did and be a roleplayer for homeland security to see the incredible amount of surveillance and undercover agents the government is using in public places -- maybe then "civil liberties" would mean a bit more to them.

[Gregorian]

3. This would make a seriously interesting thread.

I'd love to know about your findings. You really ought to start a new thread on this. Maybe you already have, and I didn't see it.

[Terran1212]

4. I did about 2 months ago, also posted in homeland security forum

I reposted my experience on the homeland security forum (until recently didnt know that DU had one):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=223x343

I'd advise you to be aware that I overdramatized some things. I do that when I write. I don't want you to think they are the Gestapo or anything, but I do think you'll be surprised by exactly how prevalent secret agents and cameras are.

[patdem]

5. Yes...make it a dream of some innocent white child...dreaming they are

an iraqi child-or maybe 5 children in one mat on the floor...only don't let it be known it is a rich white kid dreaming...till the end....

The rich white kid wakes up in their bedroom surrounded by all the 'STUFF'-maybe a girl with two canopy beds in her room and toys galore...(as compared to the dream of herself as a little Iraqi girl and the squalor she lives in) and the parents rush in to comfort the poor teorrorized child...THAT WOULD BE POWERFUL..INDEED