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Lanny_MacDonald · 03-19-2008, 07:09 PM

I recently saw a play called 9 Parts of Desire, written and acted by an American woman of Iraqi heritage. It was about the stories of 9 Iraqi women since the original Gulf War and is the most powerful stage performance I have ever seen. People were openly weeping during the one woman performance. It was astounding. Afterwards, the playwrite took time to sit with the audience and take questions. She still has over 50 family members in Iraq and regularly talks with them. She relayed stories about their lives and how Iraq is now. She says it is complete chaos and the story we are getting from the media is completely opposite to the truth (she is ironically married to a BBC journalist). All hopes of peace are gone. All hopes of the Americans come out of this with any credibility in the Middle East are gone. The longer they stay, the more hatred develops. She is NOT a political person and had to be cajoled into sharing her personal views, so it was extremely sad to hear someone speak of the issues there and explain openly how all hope is lost. Five years later and it continues to grow into a bigger mistake each day. This will be Bush's legacy, and it will impact Americans financially for generations to come, but the most depressing factor is that those alive in Iraq know that order may never be restored in their life times or that of their grand children. Imagine waking up knowing that not a single thing in your life was safe? That is the greatest crime of all.

03-19-2008, 07:09 PM	#13
Lanny_MacDonald Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Oct 2001 Exp:	I recently saw a play called 9 Parts of Desire, written and acted by an American woman of Iraqi heritage. It was about the stories of 9 Iraqi women since the original Gulf War and is the most powerful stage performance I have ever seen. People were openly weeping during the one woman performance. It was astounding. Afterwards, the playwrite took time to sit with the audience and take questions. She still has over 50 family members in Iraq and regularly talks with them. She relayed stories about their lives and how Iraq is now. She says it is complete chaos and the story we are getting from the media is completely opposite to the truth (she is ironically married to a BBC journalist). All hopes of peace are gone. All hopes of the Americans come out of this with any credibility in the Middle East are gone. The longer they stay, the more hatred develops. She is NOT a political person and had to be cajoled into sharing her personal views, so it was extremely sad to hear someone speak of the issues there and explain openly how all hope is lost. Five years later and it continues to grow into a bigger mistake each day. This will be Bush's legacy, and it will impact Americans financially for generations to come, but the most depressing factor is that those alive in Iraq know that order may never be restored in their life times or that of their grand children. Imagine waking up knowing that not a single thing in your life was safe? That is the greatest crime of all.