LEAVE IRAQ TO THE IRAQIS

"Leave Iraq to the Iraqis," was the topic of Faiza Al-Araji's speech March 21, in Davis, CA. I communicate with Faiza and her family, so here I shall call her Faiza. She is a civil engineer, a blogger (A Family in Baghdad), an activist for women (Women Say No to War), a religious Shia with a Sunni husband, and a mother of three sons. After her middle son Khalid (see July 2005 Archive link at right) was held as a political prisoner by the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior, the family fled to Jordan. Her oldest son Raed now lives in Northern California.

Read article about the speech. Also, a film was shown, a portion of which appeared in Michael Moore’s film “FAHRENHEIT 9-11.

You can read the son's blogs: Khalid, Majed, Raed.

APOLOGIES

Sorry. I have been busy following this year's Oscar race, and publishing on my "Mimi at the Movies" blog. However, yesterday I took at look at Riverbend's "Baghdad Burning" blog. That was the title she gave it when she started it at the time of the U. S. invasion of Iraq. Now, three years on, the title is still relevant. So sad. The current U. S. administration has accomplished nothing there except death and destruction. Whatever they themselves claim to have accomplished is being unraveled thread by thread every single day.

Riverbend's post "And the Oscar Goes to...," posted March 6 is very creative. I think you might find it interesting, if your brain isn't too stuffed with ideologically bad theology. Check it out. You will either not understand it, be upset by it, or shout, "Right on!" You will, however, be better informed about the situation in Iraq.