April 11, 2003
Celebrating the "liberation."
Maybe this latest dispatch by Essam Al-Ghalib will provide a somewhat different view of things: ArabNews: 'We Came, Saw & Conquered'.
Looks like he's seeing a slightly different view of the "liberation" of Baghdad than the average US (or, for that matter, British) journalist reports. Maybe they really don't want us there? Maybe we really were wrong to invade?
All I can do is quote the story:
“Why are you here?” demanded a woman in her thirties. “Why are you killing our people. We do not want war. We do not want you to kill us. Today you have killed even more civilians.”
She repeated, time and time again as the crowd began to swell with other Iraqis, and both Japanese and French “human shields”: “You are 300,000 and we are only 300, but we will come here every day until there is peace.”
An Iraqi man shouted in classical Arabic: “You are here to rape our women and give drugs to our children."
Posted by Frank at April 11, 2003 5:46 PM