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Re: grair and honey bunch...
Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Sunday, July 17 2005, 7:38:45 (CEST)
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I remember the first day they bombed Baghdad in April 2003. I was at my parent's house and I was watching CNN and crying, screaming, in a total rage over these fascists destroying my homeland, killing my brothers and sisters and blasting everything in their way. There was a Persian Assyrian woman in the family room sitting with us. I was choking and trying to say the words, I can't take watching this bastard Bush bomb my beloved country. Why, for God's sake?

She said to me, Maggie just think how much better your country will be once Saddam is out, and the US mission is accomplished. My rage doubled in proportion at these outrageous words. How could an ignorant Persian Assyrian woman understand what I was going through? How could she understand the attachment I have to this land? A land that not only bore me, but all of civilization. (I'm balling my eyes out right now just thinking about that day.)

I was so angry that night, I kept asking myself could this woman seriously believe that my country is going to be better off dessimated by power-hungry Bush and his elite? What would it take for her to understand what this was all about from the beginning? There was such a lump in my throat I couldn't even speak to her. I left the house in tears, crying all the way home.

I hadn't brought myself to terms with this woman, not even to say hello when I run into her. Just the other day, she stopped me forcefully and apologized for her stupid remarks that night. She said, I watch this ugly thing on my television screen night after night and think of you, Maggie. I think how you must have felt about the land of your birth, about all the people suffering there, about all the children, and now I cry because I know it was all about oil.

If an ignorant woman, in her small and measly way can understand what this war is really about, imagine how Iraqis feel?



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