LET FREEDOM RING!
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Commentary: Hoping Americans stay forever
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Wanting to make sure I was not simply getting the feelings of a long oppressed minority - the Assyrians - I spoke to dozens of people. What I was not prepared for was the sheer terror they felt at speaking out. Over and over again I would be told `We would be killed for speaking like this` and finding out that they would only speak in a private home or where they were absolutely sure through the introduction of another Iraqi that I was not being attended by a minder. |
From a former member of the Army to a person working with the police to taxi drivers to store owners to mothers to government officials without exception when allowed to speak freely the message was the same - `Please bring on the war. We are ready. We have suffered long enough. We may lose our lives but some of us will survive and for our children's sake please, please end our misery.
On the final day for the first time I saw the signs of war. For the first time sandbags began appearing at various government buildings but the solders putting them up and then later standing within the small circle they created gave a clear message they could not dare speak.
They hated it. They despised it. It was their job and they made clear in the way they worked to the common people watching that they were on their side and would not fight.
Near the end of my time a family member brought the word that guns had just been provided to the members of the Baath Party and for the first time we saw the small but growing signs of war.
Conservative voices rule much of the AM radio band, but that's a relatively small corner of the media-and-popular-arts universe. Anyway, if conservatives have made inroads, it's because their ideas have gained a larger following. Instead of protesting on the street, maybe these activists should develop some ideas capable of drawing a larger audience --
Conservative voices rule much of the AM radio band, but that's a relatively small corner of the media-and-popular-arts universe. Anyway, if conservatives have made inroads, it's because their ideas have gained a larger following. Instead of protesting on the street, maybe these activists should develop some ideas capable of drawing a larger audience --