Burried IDs

"My friend Nawal has two very nice daughters, and had three very nice sons. She is a housewife and her husband an electrician. One day their world blew apart.

A little more than a year ago a roadside bomb took both her husband and her youngest son. They were out shopping.

And that was the beginning.

Her husband was Shiite – she is Sunni. And the link was broken. The powers that be in their neighbourhood intimidated her into leaving her home in the Shiite controlled Amil neighbourhood to seek refuge wherever she may. Her fate took her to a small village in Abu Ghraib.

She has been living there since."
Inside Iraq

Well I unlike the others here think that what we have done is the best thing to happen to the Iraqis in their entire history. We did not cause these divisions between sects. All we did was release them from the chains they were to afraid to loosen. Before the sects were kept apart only by sheer brutality and deception. A deception they themselves were participating in.

Now for the first time in their lives they have to look eachother in the face, and see eachother. For the first time they are dealing with these ancient hatred that they had lied to themselves for so long, they they had actually started to believe the lies. They no longer knew themselves, lost in a strange land, without ever having left their own house. Today they must deal with the ancient hatreds and come to real solution.

I for one have learned to trust in the good nature and good will of the Iraqi people and have no doubts they will work it out. This time though, it will be for real. True reconciliation and the end of the Iraqi apartheid state.
This will only make them stronger, and tie them together as a people and a true state.