Rose Has the Flu Again

That would be Rose, the author of Diary from Baghdad. Sadly, her husband now seems to have the flu as well. For those who don't follow her blog, Rose is a civil engineer (or was, anyway) and mother living in Baghdad. She has tried to be supportive of the American invasion, and mostly just seems to be trying to get along. This sounds like a bad week, however. She understands the attacks on Fallujah and thinks it needed to be done, but was rather down about the methods used and the results.

When I review the sequence of actions that the US army follows in solving problems, I found it similar to Saddam�s. Destroying all that come in front of them, act strongly without mercy, like killing that wounded person in the mosque!, random arrests, destroying houses if they suspect that there are some fighters in them. Maybe Saddam�s policy was right, and this is the only way that works with us. In the end only the innocent people pay and suffer hard. My prayers to those innocent people who had been killed or became homeless, my heart and mind with them. It is so hard when you don�t know if you will be back and if you do, you might find yourself and your family without home to live in or a place to stay. I know the government promised to compromise them, but they did not say how much they will pay them and when? Money doesn�t replace the losses of the memories you had in that place or that corner nor replace the losses of your beloved ones.

I wish we were avoided this violence from the beginning, and again I blame the Americans for the mistakes they have made after Baghdad�s fall. They could have simply minimized this blood shed from the beginning if they had acted wisely.