Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog
from Iraq (Women Writing the Middle
East) by Riverbend
Americans Need To Wake Up
Riverbend, the Iraqi woman whose articulate,
even poetic prose packs an emotional punch (The New York Times),
continues her dispatches from her native Baghdad.
Interweaving commentary on major events since October
2004, with compelling stories about her own life as well as her familys daily
struggles, this is journalism from ground zero recording both occupation
and insurgency.
Personal Review: Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq
(Women Writing the Middle East) by Riverbend

That anyone could read this woman's sensitive, heartfelt assessment of
what is happening to her country and not be touched by it, is just another
example of how this country is continuing to digress instead of make
positive progress. How many people have to die in this mindless,
spindless war before we all wake up and demand that our government pull
our soldiers out and make some attempt to salvage the damage we have
done to our reputation and the state of this country.
We have not improved the conditions in Iraq, Riverbend's blog is evidence
of that. We have not found the "supposed" Weapons of Mass Destruction.
And we have not made Iraq a safer Iraq by killing Saddam. For all of the
atrocities Saddam did in his lifetime, we have sadly, put our men and
women of the Arms Services in a no-win position so that they too are being
forced by their government to cause more chaos than peace.
They should never have been sent over there in the first place, and the fact
that we as citizens have buried our heads in the sand and allowed
ourselves to easily become sidetracked by stupid, ignorant "news" stories
(who cares if Brittany, Nicole or Paris self-distruct?!?)instead of asking,
"Why won't our government allow us to see the Baghdad that Riverbend
discusses in her blog?" Or "Why is the war being sanitized to the point
that our dead are reduced to numbers instead of names?" Or bigger why,
"Why is Bush and his cronies being allowed full reign to do whatever they
want and no one is investigating them or demanding some type of
hearings?"
I mean, we were forced to sit through hours after hours of hearings about
Clinton's sexual behavior in the White House. One would think that
thousands dead on Bush's watch would be worth some type of
investigation. I am so tired of people acting as if what is going on in Iraq is
for anything other than the personal gain of Bush and those who are in his
inner circle. Let's call a spade a spade. When all of the lines and dots are
connected, it will become abundantly clear who came out on top in this
war, and it wasn't the Iraqi citizens, or the American Armed Forces or the
American people. Could it be U.S. Defense contractors? Could it be Oil
Contractors?
America has a long-time habit of glossing over or simply rewriting history
so that we can sleep easy at night. I say, bring on the nightmares. We
need to experience restless sleep or no sleep until this horrendous mission
of Bush's is done. We shouldn't find peace in our dreams until the killing
has ceased. Maybe if we toss and turn a few nights like Riverbend has
had to,we will begin to make some thoughtful and unselfish demands of
our government and the self-appointed leader of the world, Bush. We will
demand that Bush (I refuse to call him president) bring our soldiers home,
help in whatever way the Iraqis need us to rebuild their country, and fully
acknowledge his wrongdoing in all of this craziness. For good measure,
he would admit he is incapable of running this country even one more day

and will step down...followed by his band of idiots (Condi, Chaney and the
gang).
My one hope for Riverbend and her family, now that they have hopefully
left Baghdad,is that they are all finding a peaceful place to lay their heads
and are finally getting some much deserved rest.
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