Another Letter From An Iraqi Woman
March 30th, 2007 at 04:30am Post Staff 43
Dear friends:
I pass very difficult time and till now I don't have any solution for me or my children. The situation becomes more and more serious and I don't know what can I do. In Baghdad, the U.S. or Iraqis army closed the streets and the people, especially the young men, run away from them because they arrest most men as suspicious persons. If taken, the men will be in prison for a long time and they must pay the police to get out. When families see any US or Iraqi tanks, they get their sons, between the ages of 18-30 years, out of the place. It's awful to watch the army or the terrorist.
I saw young men taken away without their shoes on. I asked the policeman why they take them. He said nothing just suspicious person and God knows when they will get out and what they face there. This is not life. I can't bear it anymore and Idon't have enough money to spend on my children. I can't live on relatives, they don't have funds for themselves.
I'm waiting but is there any hope? Till now no one gives me any good answer
Love and peace
[Former Iraqi teacher now living in Baghdad.]
Entry Filed under: Foreign Policy, Women
2 Comments Add your own
1. alpha6 | March 31st, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Give me a break....how can you honestly print this crap Con man?? I got a solution for you lady, pass the word to all the 18-30 year olds to stop being terrorists ....then everything will quiet down, you can get your job back, and our boys can come home. I bet she is wondering about the good old days of mass graves and gassing under Saddam....boy...nothing ever stays the same does it?
2. B Jon Traylor | March 31st, 2007 at 9:24 pm
We should have done what I was trained as an intel officer in combat training to do.... we should have formulated a plan to drive straight into Baghdad, topple it, secure it, rope Saddamm, take him to a war crimes tribunal immediately, secured the city completely, etc. At the same time we shoud have previously built and compiled a very real "Coalition of the Willing" of several hundred thousand allies, (not a propanda/ghost force) and secured the entire border, to keep anyone from leaving, and anyone from enterintg.
'Thats where we failed. Sure, we drove relatively unscathed straight to Baghdad, took it over, but then we sat there quaqmired in a cesspool that got more and more stagnant and infectious. In the meantime, Al Queda and all its factions seized the opportunity to rush the border to the new battleground, a battleground we created stupidly.
Alpha, you'll disagree for your own reasons, but the truth is... you identify your target, you create a plan to take him out (and you first take out his command structure so as to create chaos when you do hit him -- hence Ranger Spec. Ops...); you take out the target. All the while, you secure your perimeter (which is what we didn't do), and you have an exit strategy,,, two fold, the first... how we get out when we did what we were sent to do, and secondly, but hopefully not necessary,,,, if the mission got fucked up and we need to get out. Just some thoughts -- Jon
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