As the U.S. prepares for a full drawdown of troops in Iraq, we check in with Lubna Naji, a recent graduate of Baghdad Medical School. She says she is less concerned with the withdrawal of troops from her country than the restoration of services like electricity and water supplies. Life there is "barely tolerable," she says.
Although the security situation used to be worse before, every other aspect of life is has worsened. Lubna Naji shares her first-hand perspective as a young student in Baghdad.
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I shake with embarrassment when I listen to what Ms Naji has to say. The US invaded her country under false pretenses--to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction--that now even the Bush administration officials admit never existed.
The US military under the command of the Bush administration then proceeded to destroy the most highly modernized and developed Arab country including it's excellent medical system and educational system and public sanitation system along with its electrical grid. For no reason.
Then the US military went on to kill, maim and misplace over a million Iraqis.
All this for lies and untruths. A destroyed nation by the United States of America that had never done the United States of America any harm. I am an American through and through, 5th generation but I know that we have committed the most evil of acts and that the diktat of karma is heading our way.
When I hear Ms Naji speak, I hear the grace of Iraqis in her voice and wonder how much more visciousness I would hear in the voices of Americans if say China had invaded the US and they were interviewed 7 years later. For no good reason.
What a tragedy. What a loss of innocence and reputation of bare bone decency for this nation of America. Gone, it's over.
We have committed an atrocity.
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