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Post by Mondiaux on Mar 26, 2003 0:25:06 GMT -5
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Post by Mondiaux on Mar 26, 2003 0:25:52 GMT -5
I'll start this off...This is what I wrote in my original (bounced) email to Salam.
Dear Salam,
I've been reading your blog for about 2 weeks. I was worried about you when you didn't post for a few days, but I'm glad to hear you're okay. I care about what happens to you and to the people of Iraq. I have protested the war through marches and vigils.
Please keep writing. It is great to hear your perspective and experiences.
(Writing from Waterloo, Canada)
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Post by Alethia on Mar 26, 2003 18:13:13 GMT -5
Dear Salam Pax, Here's something else for your Blog. Robert Fisk, The Independent (UK), is writing and being interviewed from Baghdad, as is The New York Times' John Burns. Burns' interviews on PBS's The NewsHour are available in audio form and also with some transcripts. Thanks you for all you're doing. You have many readers here in the US. Stay safe! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.democracynow.org/fisk.htm Live From Iraq, an Un-Embedded Journalist: Robert Fisk on Washington’s ‘Quagmire’ in Iraq, Civilian Deaths and the Fallacy of Bush’s ‘War of Liberation’ By Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill NOTE: THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT DEMOCRACY NOW! MARCH 25, 2003 Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Host: Set the scene for us in Baghdad right now. Robert Fisk, The Independent: Well, it’s been a relatively—relatively being the word—quiet night, there’s been quite a lot of explosions about an hour ago. There have obviously been an awful lot of missiles arriving on some target, but I would say it was about 4 or 5 miles away. You can hear the change in air pressure and you can hear this long, low rumble like drums or like someone banging on a drum deep beneath the ground, but quite a ways away. There have only been 2 or 3 explosions near the center of the city, which is where I am, in the last 12 hours. So, I suppose you could say that, comparatively, to anyone living in central Baghdad, it’s been a quiet night. < snipped for length > www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june03/burns_3-23.htmlMarch 23, 2003 New York Times reporter John Burns provides an update from Baghdad. TERENCE SMITH: John Burns, welcome once again. JOHN BURNS: Thank you, Terry. TERENCE SMITH: Tell me about the day in Baghdad. JOHN BURNS: Well, it's been a very interesting day. I think many Americans will have seen this curious incident that developed beside the Tigris River in the center of Baghdad this afternoon with the missing pilot, the pilot who was supposed to have bailed out from high altitude from his stricken aircraft, British or American, who parachuted-- so the people in central Baghdad were saying-- straight into the Tigris River, straight into the river, the size of the area that was absolutely obliterated by American bombing and Cruise missiles on Friday night through Saturday morning and this astonishing air raid of which we've spoken on previous nights. Whether there ever was any stricken plane or any pilot we never learned, although tonight, late tonight, Sunday night, soldiers were still shooting into the river, still setting the bulrushes alight. But the really intriguing thing to me was the whole thing turned into a Sunday afternoon entertainment. And the factors about that that were revealing were these: First of all, amongst the crowd were several thousand people who gathered on the bridge at a time when B-52s were crossing overhead and dropping sticks of bombs on targets not a few miles' distance, where it seemed absolutely certain that they weren't going to be hit, and they were standing on a bridge. So the people of Baghdad have learned quickly from this war that unlike 1991, there is going to be no destruction of infrastructure, or there hasn't been yet. No bridges have gone down, no power stations have gone down that we're aware of. The telephone exchange still runs. The water still runs. This is very encouraging to ordinary people. The bombs and the Cruise missiles are, as far as we can see, overwhelmingly hitting military and political targets. That's the first thing. < snipped for length > |
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Post by Arturo E Garca Mndez on Mar 29, 2003 11:38:19 GMT -5
 In 1914 my grand father was 16 years old. As a fellow citicen of the brit empire he volontary joined the canadian expeditionary force (yes, he scratched his papers to lie a couple of years older) and then he fought four awfull years on the muddy hills of Flandres. I am then, luckly descendant of a survivor of the [glow=red,2,300]WWI[/glow]. Then in the [glow=red,2,300]WWII[/glow] his siter based in Madagascar work for alied troops till the end of the war. During all my life -with the exception of the Viet nam times- supported US action, fullfiled of admiration for [shadow=red,left,300]Washington,Ben Franklin, Lincoln, Roosvelt, Kennedy[/shadow]. The constitution of my homeland (Argentina) was copied from US, and many of own senior citizens (as Sarmiento) were US. admirors. I cried the 11-09. In the last 10 days, with the deadly rush over Irak and the treathens to all region (siria an iran) Bush has shown wich is gona be the destin of all small nation: slaves of the American Empire. Next will be Colombia. then Venezuela. Then Brasil or Argentina. Oil, water, soya, corn, meat, external debt. what ever US needs will came and rape with the excuse of liberation. Wich was a proud nation enlighted by democracy will become in a brutal nazi regime. How will be pacified Irak? killing every man over 14 years old with the excuse of that they are militia. Amerika will discover very fast that ocupation troops are hated and feared. Brits knows. Fast will become far away the times of marines recived as liberators. Soon americans will see their sons and doughters become . We, the citicens of small countries whom once trusted US word now must fear death from above. God Bless us. |
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