Words From Iraq
I received an email a few days ago about a conversation had with a 22 year old woman living in Baghdad. The story is absolutely heart-wrenching and the situations in which this woman speak of happen every single day.
“All the stores are closed and we don’t have much food left. We can’t go to get food because the Al-Mahdi Army is killing everyone! They are even killing innocent people in their homes…….familys with children!”
“Mahdi Army is shouting in the streets. “You haven’t seen anything yet. This is just the beginning. We will take the government of Iraq.”
“Our street is a war zone. Our houses have bullets coming in the windows and sometimes even penetrating the walls. We can’t go into our gardens within our walls because the rockets, mortars…and road bombs that the Mahdi Army is filling the streets with are coming into our gardens too.”
Iraq is clearly back at square one in terms of terrorism. There were so many people being killed during Sadam’s terror over the country, which is what Bush had used as collateral for invasion, but now, years later and still at war, Iraq is no safer, no matter which way you spin it.
The saddest part of the story is when the woman says this:
“We’re tired here, I don’t even care if a bullet comes to take my life. This isn’t life here, and it hasn’t been. As a matter-of-fact, I think I would welcome it.”
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Very sad story! It cracks my heart while reading the story… Hope they will have mercy to their people especially with women.
wow. that’s nuts. i can’t imagine living there, but seeing it on tv everyday i can get a pretty good idea. i feel sorry for some of the people there.
This explains what is happening there better then all those journalists stationed in Baghdad. And it really shows you how much human life worths there actually. You can’t plan what will happen in the evening, imagine working for something that needs month or a year. No wonder she is in despair.
When peace will come to Iraq….God only knows. Its a heart broking story…
so many innocent lives lost to a war that should have never been authorized. Peace will not come to Iraq for a very long time!