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virus: tragic beauty
« on: 2003-03-19 12:20:10 » |
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I'm not really one for posting frequently, much less about wartime stuff.,
but I found an article which was really touching.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49516-2003Mar18.html
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Karim Khalil interrupted him. A sculptor born here, he said Baghdad was its
painters and singers in the 1960s. It was the Tigris River that weaves
through the city. It was the palm trees that lie like a blanket across
gardens and farms on its riverbanks.
"Baghdad is me," he said.
"Bush is not coming because he loves Baghdad," Khalil went on. "Americans
don't care about Baghdad because it is not their city. They don't care if
they destroy or demolish it. Baghdad is our city."
His friend, Salman Radi, joined the conversation. "We all expect war is
coming," he said.
Radi said he feared it would be like 1991, when bridges, buildings and, most
painfully, a civilian shelter were destroyed. He remembered the stench of
rotting bodies. "And now," he said, "they come again."
Radi lit a cigarette. He said he had quit for two years, but started again
three days ago.
"We don't know the truth, we don't know what will happen," he said, after
taking a long drag. "There's fear inside me, for a long time. What will
happen? All I can say is that I don't know. Tragedies, I'm sure. But I don't
know."
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