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Originally posted by nfotiu@Aug 19 2004, 02:08 PM
All we get is headlines and highlights, we don't know the life of an average Iraqi. Maybe this war had a further reaching effect into every city and town than Saddam did. Maybe Saddam's grip on the country was starting to fade anyway, and they were able to live tolerable lives, and now their lives are fear and chaos.
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And maybe it wasn't. Maybe they were all cowering in their houses for fear of looking at someone the wrong way and being shot on the spot.
You're right... we don't know the life of an average Iraqi. We don't know all of the atrocities they've gotten used to. We don't know the constant daily fears that they had to put up with. We don't know the constant anti-Western world propoganda they had to endure.
You can believe that they were all living their own cozy little lives in harmony. Some of them probably were. Others, like those that have fled the country, know differently.. and their actions speak volumes.