Re: As an American, I am confused....

As a Russian, who happened to spend half a year in Baghdad two years ago (business trip), and who had seen it all! I am really pissed off!!!

What kind of threat are we talking about?! Iraq and its leader are really nothing for America to be afraid of!
And if it is just about the wrong leader why do the poor Iraqi civilians have to suffer? (To your information they adore their existing leader.)

It is easy to get convinced by the media who shows only bad things about Iraq.

I have been there and have seen all the pain and misery that poor civilians had to leave with during these terrible 10 years of sanctions. I was terrified hearing the reports about bombings in Baghdad happenig every week.

On February 19th, 2001 (quite a time before 9.11!) I was there when they (British and American forces)send about 27 airplanes to bomb Baghdad.

It was Friday evening 9 o'clock, for muslims it is like Saturday night for us, families went out for a walk and to do some shopping in one of the most popular street there called Al Mansour.

Me and my colleagues were having dinner in our appartment, only 15 minutes walk from that main street. And then it was that terrible alarm sound everywhere and a lot of shooting in the sky. We thought it was some training and did not pay too much attention to it. We just went on the roof of our building to see what was going on. (I would not do the same thing now). The sky was all enlighted by shooting from anti-aircraft units.

The next morning we watched the report on TV. In addition to "regular preventive" bombing on the north of Baghdad, they droped a couple of bombs right on the main Al Mansour street! It is VERY FAR from any military objects, by the way! They were casualties, several people died including small children!!!

How many of you Americans knew about this "little incident"?

What if the bomb, for example, hit our building and my mother in Russia would never hear from her beautiful 24 years old daughter again? (None of us is any more special then those who live there!)
What does it have to do with any weapons of mass distruction (which are not even proved to exist there at all)? In which way these actions suppose to prevent any possible threat of the United States? I don't understand.

All I understand is that Iraq is a very important strategical point and is a very reach peace of land that America would like to controll and posess.

Let's then not disturb air anymore calling aggression all these nice new names!
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