River Bend
October 15, 2007
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I have read a lot of the writing the girl has done and I have to say it is interesting to read from her perspective. I have to start by saying I am a Bush supporter and that may not set well with many other people but I feel that it is not his fault and all things have lead up to this and he just happens to be the one that is having to take care of this horrible mess. Had we not have been attacked by the terrorists then Bush wouldn’t be the bad guy! And is he really the bad guy, how did this all happen? I think his predecessors helped this all occur.
Anyhow, her writing is interesting and sad ad she lives in Iraq and has seen first hand the horror of a life there. Like she has stated that before the war in Baghdad people could live anywhere and never think twice about wh or what their neighbors were, and not a care about someone else’s religion. Now her family has to leave their country, their home that they have known and have been comfortable with. Now they have to decide what they can take with them, what personal items will be able to go. Can they take the things they can’t replace; the photos, toys books or CD’s and what kind of clothes can they take–winter or summer–and the big question for this family is–Will we ever come back?
The press never helps any situation! They take whatever sells and they run with it–they take whatever a witness may say they saw as a whole truth or not but either way the truth is more than likely misconstrued in some way!
I am sorry for this girl and her family and I know she has very ill feelings for President Bush and the war. She feels that Iraq is a country at the hands of the American government. She feels the government is blind to what the Iraqi’s need or want and that they just don’t care and why is there all of this senseless death and dying? I think she needs to first ask why are the military there and why are they risking their young lives for another country? I think it is contrary to what she believes—I think that the only reason we are there is because the American government does care and want to make the world safer and show the terrorists that this is not going to happen to us again!
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Laura Knudson | December 7, 2007 at 8:21 pm
As to being a Bush supporter, I really hope that you apply some critical thinking skills to this standpoint. I agree that past issues added to the ultimate problem that brought us into the war, but the fact of the matter is that Bush lied us into a war – not his handlers, not the previous presidents, but Bush himself. If the war in Iraq really was just about terrorism, things might be a little different, but there are so many “reasons” for us having invaded another country, and all of them have been false, untrue, and really, not worth the lives that have been lost. Ugh.
Riverbend’s point of view might or might not be one you agree with, but I thought that it was an important read for students…it’s so rare that we get any insight into the lives and beliefs of those remaining in the country we occupy.