[Ragtime Cowgirl]

As the guard slowly laid out the precious video tape on the desk we all waited in silent terror for the word to be taken back to Baghdad and the beginning of the nightmare.
 
Suddenly he laid the last videotape down and looked up.  His face is frozen in my memory but it was to me the look of sadness, anger and then a final look of quiet satisfaction as he clinically shook his head and quietly without a word handed all the precious videotape - the cry of those without a voice - to me.
 
He didn’t have to say a word.  I had learned the language of the imprisoned Iraqi.  Forbidden to speak by sheer terror they used the one language they had left - human kindness.

Townhall posted this April essay by Ken Joseph, Assyrian Christian and former human shield, again today. For those who still don't know how the Iraqi people suffered under Saddam Hussein, and why we're in Iraq.

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[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Good morning, and SNIFF! Why do you start with the ones that make me cry, before I have finished my first cup of coffee? :)

[DustyMoment]

'Townhall posted this April essay by Ken Joseph, Assyrian Christian and former human shield, again today. For those who still don't know how the Iraqi people suffered under Saddam Hussein, and why we're in Iraq.'

Thanks for clarifying this, I was wondering why it was being posted now.

This is a great reminder of why we had to go into Iraq, WMD or no WMD. I don't understand how people can live like this. Ken Joseph is not the only one who actually went to pre-war Iraq and discovered for himself the truth of life under Hussein.

It truly makes one wonder why those such as the CNN reporters who covered all this up so they could maintain an office in Baghdad would not be as forthcoming?

Perhaps it still doesn't fit with their political agenda.

[radu]

This is EXCELLENT ammo, RC! I know exactly what to do with it. LOL!! Thank you!

[PhilDragoo]

Great post bump.

[windchime]

Bump!