The view from the ground...
"I saddens me to see that a once great nation, now looks as a dumpsite. I enjoyed very much to stroll the streets of baghdad, I could still sence that this was once a great city, but now..."
A young man carries food supplies through a muddy stretch of a market in Baghdad on Thursday Feb. 26. Though there is food in abundance in the markets, it is out of reach of most people with an average monthly salary of around 5,000 Iraqi dinar (approximately $3.50).
From: Jesper Walther-Larsen (jspwl@post9.tele.dk)
To: Richard Geib (cybrgbl@deltanet.com)
Subject: Iraq
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 23:13:05 +0100
Dear sir,
Allow me to reflect on your sites regarding Saddam Hussein and Iraq in general.
Fist of all, I do agree to all of your points, and i think that it is a splendid idea to make the internet users aware of this sick dictator.
I have recently returned from Iraq, I was working as a communications officer for the UN. My duty station was primarely in the northern part of Iraq (Erbil), but on several occasions, in fact once a month, i went on trips to Baghdad.
I saddens me to see that a once great nation, now looks as a dumpsite. I enjoyed very much to stroll the streets of baghdad, I could still sence that this was once a great city, but now...
I have made a lot of friends in Iraq, and allthough you can not get them to express their true meaning of their president in public, the general oppinion speeks for it self.
Iraqies are feed up with him and all of his sh..!
Yours sincerely,
Jesper Walther-Larsen
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dear Jesper,
Thank you for the nice words about my webpage. It is nice to see my point of view seconded by someone with extensive experience in the area. In the context of the latest yet one more crisis in that area, I have feelings of foreboding. I fear that Saddam Hussein may still be able to unleash some bit of serious nastiness in the world through use of chemical or biological weapons. I fear the United States and other countries may one day rue that George Bush did not depose Hussein while he had the chance. I reckon it is best to kill a snake like Hussein when you have it down at first, lest it come back and bite you on the shin.
I am sure that they are preparing a personal spot for him in hell right now as we speak. How he has earned it! Where is the courageous Iraqi who will rid that country of this scourge of a despot and bring about a new era for the Iraqi people? - a new era for the entire region! Who will send him to hell? My God!, I am even beginning to use Hussein-like hyperbole in my language!
It is all so depressing. And it shows no sign of immanent change at all.
Very Truly Yours,
Richard Geib
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