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You keep on hearing from the right-wing media, "Business is good in Baghdad," and so that plants a seed in your mind: Maybe things aren't as bad as they were. But after doing 150 miles an hour across the desert and watching the sun rise over Baghdad, I was just absolutely overwhelmed at how the city was just destroyed: the infrastructure, the water, the sewage, the bridges, the roads. And so the primary thing I think I bring back to Pittsburgh [is] something that can't be digitally recorded, whether audio or visual, and that's that people are just absolutely humiliated that they could not stop the destruction of their country.
I haven't been there for a year, but that's why I like the Internet: It's given me contact with people [I met] in Iraq. They have access to the Internet through satellite modems and Internet cafes. What I have heard from them is that people don't like the elections because they feel it's being guided by the U.S. But, they're hoping this will lead to their independence, so they can go about the business of forming a real coalition government that is not being directed by the United States of America.See the full content of this document
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Baghdad Sojourn
LAST MARCH, on the first anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Pittsburgh-based peace activist Vincent Scotti Eirene took a tape recorder and a camera on a two-week tour of Iraq as part of a fact-finding delegation organized by the g...
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