April 9, 2003

Bye bye Baghdad

When the Red cross decides to suspend the operations in Baghdad, it makes me wonder how terrible must be the situation there if an organisation like that considers it " too dangerous to continue". But I also wonder how many other NGOs will keep staying there, doing an incredible work that we won't know about...

Comments

I trust all you people at Greenpeace at the sight of Iraqi residends dancing on the streets celebrating the removal of Saddam . If not then why not ?

Billy, personally I'm always happy when a dictatorship ends. I've been in Romania when Chaucescu was there and, believe me, it was terrible. However, as it happened in Romania and other eastern European countries, I always wish that the people of a country find the strength to change the situation by themselves.

Now Saddam is gone, good. But why wasn't this possible through actions of western intelligence (as it happened in eastern European countries)? Why so many civilians (and soldiers) had to die to establish a democracy?

You know what I didn't like of this war? This was supposed to "disarm" Iraq from its weapon of mass destruction, none was found. So what? Saddam is gone. True, then the purpose of the war was to overthrown the dictatorship, but what about all the other dictators around the world?

I'm celebrating the fact that, hopefully, the Iraqi people will find a way to establish a democracy. I'm not celebrating for the unneeded deaths, the unneeded wars, the missing weapons of mass destruction and the choice of using weapons instead intelligence.

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