Riverbend is OK!! She posted to her blog yesterday

[Viva_La_Revolution]

snip>

So this is democracy. This is one of the great minds of Bush’s democratic Iraq.

Sadr’s militia control parts of Iraq now. Just a couple of days ago, his militia, with the help of Badr, were keeping women from visiting the market in the southern city of Karbala. Women weren’t allowed in the marketplace and shop owners were complaining that their businesses were suffering. Welcome to the new Iraq.

It’s darkly funny to see what we’ve turned into, and it is also anguishing. Muqtada Al-Sadr is a measure of how much we’ve regressed these last three years. Even during the Iran-Iraq war and the sanctions, people turned to sports to keep their mind off of day-to-day living. After the occupation, we won a football match against someone or another and we’d console ourselves with “Well we lose wars- but we win football!” From a country that once celebrated sports- football (soccer) especially- to a country that worries if the male football players are wearing long enough shorts or whether all sports fans will face eternal damnation… That’s what we’ve become.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

[Tempest]

1. I was worried for a while there

I wanted to believe it was because of the lack of electricity and not because some harm fell to her.

It was not easy to believe she was all right considering her recent posts on how more and more of those she knows are getting killed.

[acmavm]

2. Poor girl. al Sadr is going to be Iraq's Ayatollah Khomeni.

[watercolors]

3. I was happy to read her yesterday

worried that something was wrong with her. I feel so bad that things keep getting worse. How the Irag people have suffer because of this admisistration!Bush deserves every bad kama that he gets , I so want to see him tried for war crimes.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. Kicked and Recommended

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. kickin for the evening crew...