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Four years on in Iraq, will I live or die? »

Posted by: springflower 2 years, 9 months ago

Most Iraqis have been touched in some way by violence of past four years; bombs, death squads, fear. When US forces invaded Iraq four years ago, I never expected to find myself three weeks later standing guard outside my house with an AK-47 assault rifle to ward off looters. It was April 9, 2003, the same day a statue of Saddam Hussein was pul

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  • Avg rating: (+4/-6 -2)disraeli
    disraeli
    March 13, 2007, 3:13 a.m.

    It's time to declare victory and go home. Baghdad has been remade in the image of New Orleans, just after Katrina.

    • Avg rating: (+6/-0 6)Locky12
      Locky12
      March 13, 2007, 2:30 p.m.

      NO, It's time to declare victory, when it's time to declare victory. Shortsighted people like Disraeli have no idea of the power vacuum that will be left behind if we pull out early and the violence that will follow.

      The author of this article will start envying the dead.

      • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)mrguppy
        mrguppy
        March 13, 2007, 7:11 p.m.

        "it's time to declare victory and go home." disraeli

        Perhaps it's time to declare defeat and go home.

        • Avg rating: (+7/-4 3)SultanME
          SultanME
          March 14, 2007, 1:23 a.m.

          Wha is the author complaining about ? Doesn't he recognize freedom ? This is freedom - Zionist Freedom.

          I dedicate this article to all mislead Arabs/Muslims who think that Zionists (Israel, American or other) are any form of an ally or can be depended upon to cause anything but death, destruction and mischief.

          • Avg rating: (+12/-1 11)hiscity
            hiscity
            March 17, 2007, 11:03 p.m.

            "MOST Iraqis believe life is better for them now than it was under Saddam Hussein, according to a British opinion poll published today."

            http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/a

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