"In the world which is upside down, the true is a moment of the false."
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Wednesday, March 05, 2003 i haven't posted in a bit. i've been way busy and the whole fasting thing tends to focus the mind on other things such as this: a friend, a school teacher, recently returned from baghdad where she visited an iraqi school. those students wrote letters to her students. here are some of those letters. i have to admit that when i read these for the first time i was really overwhelmed. i read them at work and a few made me cry right there in my office. all of them, to me, illustrate just how absolutely insane this whole predicament has become. this is madness and it needs to be labeled as such. these are letters from children who live in a city that is perhaps days away from something the pentagon calls "shock and awe" . this is what we have become. we have become a country that can and apparently will launch an unprovoked, pre-emptive war on a city of 5 million, half of which are children. and we wonder why the rest of the world thinks we are insane. here are some of the letters: The Bird of Peace [drawing of a bird with a flower in its beak] Al-Adamia Preparatory School for Girls Baghdad, Iraq March 3, 2003 Dear American Student, I am Sara ... I live in Baghdad and I want to live in peace here ... and I am 17 years old. So I don't know what I say. I am very sad and I am very confused. I like you to understand me what I want to say, and you have to forgive me because my English language is not good ... but I hope you understand my pain ... Just my tear could describe my pain ... I love you very very much because you want to help Iraqi children ... I want to be your friend ... I'm so sorry again for my English language is bad ... I'm so sorry. Yours, Sara Amer [drawing of a flower] This flower is for you Dear America Students, I send this message to any one of you to know us (Iraqi pupil) as it should be! I really glad to make a friendship with the U.S.A. student. My name is Sarab and I'm 17 years old and I have no mother because she died in cancer last year... So I think this friendship will help me to get out from this sadness that I'm gonna through... I hope I met someone of you face to face and to still friends forever... What I hope is our problems solve... In fact I really love American people from all my heart. I swear it's true... I wish I can visit America and see you and you have to promise me that we will be a friends forever and ever. I like dogs and I have one. It's german shepherd dog, his name is Bone... Tell me what you like, like I do... I love Backstreet Boys, specially (A.J.) I feel we'll contact with each other so in the second time tell me what you like to know you better. Yours, Sarab Friendship forever [inside a heart]. Keep in touch and don't forget me... your friend, Sarab Taha El-Anne Dear Friends in U.S., My name is Hiba Monther. I would like to tell you that I want to be like any people in the world. Well, I live with my family and from my house watch T.V. and read many books about the nature. Write to me and tell me about your feeling about this world. And I want to tell you that every night when I saw the moon and I feel that I am one of the stars in the sky. Best wishes to you and your family, Hiba Monther, 17 years old. Hello also from Hiba's friend Rokoya (who doesn't know English very well). Dear American Student, My name is Rasha. I'm 18 years old. I want to say that I love the world and I love peace. I don't want war. Why do you want to kill the smiles on our faces? We want to learn and live in peace. I want to be a dentist, so how could I make that if the war happened? We are a peaceful people. We love peace. We love American people, so why do you want to kill us? I pray for the God to avoid us the war, and I hope for whole the world the peace and love. I want to be friends and keep in touch with you. Let us spread love among us. With all the best, Rasha Ali Abdul-Raheem We are love the people U.S.A. We hope go to U.S.A to meet to people and explain my feeling to you. Our hobbies listening the music and swimming. We hope becoming engineers. We are 18 years old. Our names Mary and Daniah. Dear American Student, I am 17 years old. I want to tell you that everybody in Iraq love everybody in the world. Only my wish is to continue my studies. Yours, Meelad Dear pupils in U.S., I am Lubna Saad. I am seventeen years old. I am student in Al-Aadamya Secondary School for girls. I live near the school and I love watching TV, and specially the movies. I hope I will be a lawyer in the future and to travel to America and I want to told you something - when I get out my house in the night I saw the moon and I believe that all the people in the world would see it even in different times. So I wish that we all live in peace and visit each other. Thank you. Lubna Saad Dear American Student, My name is Duha. I'm 18 years old. I love people America. I don't want war. We want peace. I hope to live in peace. I'm very love pupil America and I want to see somebody and I want to say for somebody pupil America. I want to be in touch with you always. I hope to love for me so as you love me for love you. Duha Ali now, does anyone really feel that murdering tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of iraqis is going to make us safer? how safe do you feel now? thought so. this is a madness. posted by downtown | 3:41 AM |
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Cost of the War in Iraq
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