Something Good?!?!?!
This is going to be a bit of a shocker, coming from a raving liberal. To add to the shock, it's also coming from an odd source. First off, a little background.
I don't know how many of you have gone to conservative sites like Free Republic, where you find out such things as how liberals want failure in Iraq, or that we all follow and believe every word that comes out of Michael Moores mouth. Both being false, as not only do I want to be wrong on Iraq, I also can't stand Michael Moore. Today, I actually found something good going on in Iraq. I also found it on everyone's favorite Arab news site, Aljazeera.
Women have formed a softball league there. Softball was banned by Saddam Hussein because he felt it was a tool of American Imperialism. Now, there is a league. In a culture where women are told to cover themselves, there are now softball players wearing typical softball uniforms. Their hair is covered by baseball caps, and some wear veils with thier uniforms.
The sad part of things, is that they still have fear for their safety, as the daily trip to practice or play games is dangerous. Due to heat they must practice early or late, which are dangerous times to travel, where they could be kidnapped or killed. They still go though.
I'm still not saying I'm wrong about Iraq. Way too much violence going on to cloud the future of the country. Today I read an article that did give a ray of light poking through those clouds.
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I don't know how many of you have gone to conservative sites like Free Republic, where you find out such things as how liberals want failure in Iraq, or that we all follow and believe every word that comes out of Michael Moores mouth. Both being false, as not only do I want to be wrong on Iraq, I also can't stand Michael Moore. Today, I actually found something good going on in Iraq. I also found it on everyone's favorite Arab news site, Aljazeera.
Women have formed a softball league there. Softball was banned by Saddam Hussein because he felt it was a tool of American Imperialism. Now, there is a league. In a culture where women are told to cover themselves, there are now softball players wearing typical softball uniforms. Their hair is covered by baseball caps, and some wear veils with thier uniforms.
The sad part of things, is that they still have fear for their safety, as the daily trip to practice or play games is dangerous. Due to heat they must practice early or late, which are dangerous times to travel, where they could be kidnapped or killed. They still go though.
I'm still not saying I'm wrong about Iraq. Way too much violence going on to cloud the future of the country. Today I read an article that did give a ray of light poking through those clouds.
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posted by Michael at 5/12/2005 03:51:00 PM
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3 Comments:
a soldier told me once that the best thing that could happen over there is to turn it into one huge glass parking lot!?! i think its asanine that our troops go over there and blow the shit outta the country so we can spend millions of dollars fixing what we just blew up. duh.
two things on that tasha...
One-we should have never dragged our asses over there. The money we spent over there could have fixed half the problems we have in our own country.
two-not millions fixing up. BILLIONS fixing up.
i concur. (i think that word sounds funny, hehehe, im easily amused.) i still cant figure out how we went from searchin for bin laden to all of a sudden gunnin for sadam. i realize they were both considered a threat, even a terrorist threat, but i felt like we left a mission unfinished to start another. i have always said its no wonder other countries treat americans like shit when we r there---whether its for vacation or business---b/c as a country we have our nose in EVERYBODYS shit. we should b takin care of "home" first then worry about everyone else. dont get me wrong...im an x military wife, i know what soldiers go thru for us and i support the troops. i just have a problem with the commander in chief. ;) when i watched farenheit 9/11 it was sooo sad to c soldiers bitchin about how ridiculous it was for them to b there. it really says alot when the troops rnt supporting w.
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