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Richard D

(8,693 posts)
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 07:00 PM Apr 2013

After nearly 7 years . . . a new Riverbend blog post.

April 9, 2013 marks ten years since the fall of Baghdad. Ten years since the invasion. Since the lives of millions of Iraqis changed forever. It’s difficult to believe. It feels like only yesterday I was sharing day to day activities with the world. I feel obliged today to put my thoughts down on the blog once again, probably for the last time.

In 2003, we were counting our lives in days and weeks. Would we make it to next month? Would we make it through the summer? Some of us did and many of us didn't.

Back in 2003, one year seemed like a lifetime ahead. The idiots said, “Things will improve immediately.” The optimists were giving our occupiers a year, or two… The realists said, “Things won’t improve for at least five years.” And the pessimists? The pessimists said, “It will take ten years. It will take a decade.”

Looking back at the last ten years, what have our occupiers and their Iraqi governments given us in ten years? What have our puppets achieved in this last decade? What have we learned?

We learned a lot.

More:
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

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After nearly 7 years . . . a new Riverbend blog post. (Original Post) Richard D Apr 2013 OP
Heartbreaking. n/t haikugal Apr 2013 #1
Too late to change the past Generic Other Apr 2013 #2
Thank you!!!!! dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #3

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
2. Too late to change the past
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 08:21 PM
Apr 2013

Time for building on the future. I wish Iraqis the best. Let them have freedom from fear. That is the greatest gift.

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