Horrors rampant in city 'full of sorrow' (BBC) {Baghdad, of course}

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By Arwa Damon
CNN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Shaima, a 29-year-old artist, proudly displays her latest work in progress. White streaks stand out against a bright, burnt orange background -- an abstract painting that she says signifies the reality of life in Baghdad for the last five years.

"I am trying to show scattered body parts flying around," she says.

Dressed in a sleek gray shirt and spiked heels, Shaima looks like she belongs at an art gallery in Paris, not a run-down studio with no power in Baghdad.

Her art used to be as lively as her persona, but since the U.S.-led war began, she only expresses tragedy. It's the reality inside her, the death and destruction she has witnessed firsthand.

"Ruins of a city, a memory of a city only," the artist says as she describes what she sees when she looks at the streets of Baghdad. "I only see it full of sorrow -- the city that had such a busy past -- but now it's just a memory."
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.reallife/index.html

So now America has done to Baghdad what the PLO did to Beirut ... and Bu**sh** claims the moral high ground?

[IndyOp]

1. Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone it is healed.

This is an ancient and eternal law.

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matthew 19:24)

American might want to contemplate Matthew 19:24 - it is one of the gems in the Bible (which has, as Thomas Jefferson said, a lot of dung, and some diamonds, too.)

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2. remember when he was talking about Saddam's 'rape rooms'?

I guess his biggest beef is that they weren't his.