by Tess Ellis, Unknown News
April 9, 2004
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Well, Saddam has been out of power for over a year, and the WMDs are nowhere to be found. Iraqis still don't have reliable electrical service. There are more people in prison now in Iraq than there were when Saddam was running things. There is no longer a legal system, and women who could once go to school and hold jobs can no longer do so. American soldiers kick people's doors in and arrest them at will.
American contractors bring in foreign nationals instead of hiring Iraqis. When Iraqis are hired, it's at less than the foreigners. Their nation's resources are being sold off to other countries.
Even Iraqis who welcomed us a year ago have changed their minds.
A recent article in the Washington Post about the fighting in the Sadr City area of Baghdad quoted a woman at a hospital with her husband who was shot by our troops:
"When the Americans came, we applauded. We were giving the thumbs-up. We were jumping and shouting. I took a picture of Saddam Hussein and stomped on it," said Iqbal Jabbar, 38.
She lifted a foot to demonstrate on the dirty tile floor beside the hospital bed of her husband, a burly man who lay groaning, with bullet wounds in the stomach, arm, legs and feet. The fire that Americans returned into the suddenly mean streets of Sadr City caught Sabri Sharrati Badr behind the wheel of the family car; it caught 10-year-old Weaam Abdulatif Walhan in the doorway of her house; and it caught Ali Sagheer Kherallah walking home from work.
"Why do they do like this to us?" Jabbar asked.
Good question. Why?
When did the Iraqis, ALL Iraqis, become the enemy?
Why are our soldiers risking their lives when the people they are there to help are the same people they are killing?
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