[lit-ideas] Re: extremism & civil war

I'm trying to keep silent and it just isn't working.  The blogger quoted in 
my original post is a young woman who calls herself "Riverbend".  She is a 
sunni Muslim, and a computer wonk.  She had a good job doing computer 
programming 
and as a sunni had little to fear living in Baghdad.  Since the war, her 
office has been bombed & closed, she is out of a job, she is fearful of going 
out 
without multiple male protectors, she does not have regular electricity, 
running water is scarce, she knows people who have been killed in bombings, she 
is 
fairly confined to her home, and very afraid of Shi'ite rule and harsh 
restrictions on women.  How an Iraqi feels about the before & after situation 
is 
largely a matter of sunni or shi'ite, I would imagine.  All of this and much 
more 
you can learn if you go back and read from the beginning of the blog.  I find 
her perspective fascinating because she tells the quotidian minutiae of life in 
Baghdad in a way no news media could.  It was merely this that I wished to 
pass along.  Not every time that I post something that is related to politics 
is 
it the case that I am wishing to persuade people to embrace a political 
opinion or even that I embrace the political opinion I quote.  
Julie Krueger
duct-taping her fingers.


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Subj:[lit-ideas] Re: extremism & civil war
Date:3/28/2004 5:05:53 PM Central Standard Time
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Dear Judith Evans,

I am sure they were all very brave anti-Hussein
workers, but neither you nor Michael Chase have
answered my question, which is what was this brave man
nostalgic for.

It is a simple question and it is perhaps not a
question for you so much as Mr. Chase. If you miss the
old days you must have thought that they were good. Or
else why would you miss them? You could think they
were good alright if you supported S. Hussein, but not
I think unless that. Mr. Chase does not argue. He just
villifies.

If Mr. Chase did not think S. Hussein was alright for
Iraq, why does he think that with him gone the Iraqis
are worse off (which he does not show) except for
their electricity?

It is a terrible, terrible war. There is terrible,
terrible suffering. But I think things will get better
for Iraq, even though I did **not** support Bush and
Rumsfeld. Mr. Chase implies better to have kept
Hussein. This is like Mussolini--trains run on time!

Sue
Northridge



Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >So, if Mr. Blog and Mr. Chase want to say how much
> >they miss the good old days in Iraq,
>  
> The man you call Mr Blog, whose name can easily be
> found (see Julie's post), was a strong and brave
> critic of Hussein's Iraq.
>  
> Not that Mike Chase supported it!
>  
> Judy Evans
> judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 

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