Blog: Baghdad Burning

If you were alive during the Vietnam era, this may have a familiar ring:

"The bombs being dropped on Fallujah don't contain
explosives, depleted uranium or anything harmful - they
contain laughing gas - that would, of course, explain
[Pentagon chief Donald] Rumsfeld's misplaced optimism
about not killing civilians in Fallujah. Also, being a
'civilian' is a relative thing in a country occupied by
Americans. You're only a civilian if you're on their
side. If you translate for them, or serve them food in
the Green Zone, or wipe their floors - you're an
innocent civilian. Just about everyone else is an
insurgent, unless they can get a job as a 'civilian'."

- Riverbend, an Iraqi civilian girl,
author of the blog Baghdad Burning
<http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/>