Paradise lost ...

Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

Some months ago, I wrote a piece called "Stuck at a Red light". This piece was referring to the Green Zone/Red Zone divide in Baghdad. I urge you to read it because it is most accurate. Today, a friend forwarded me an article that appeared in the Guardian on exactly the same subject. Life inside the Green Zone : "Mission Imperial". The author, a fairly astute writer describes perfectly well, life inside the Green Zone. The import and juxtaposition of the rotten American way of life into the city of Baghdad. Reading it, I felt polluted... I felt polluted by those three meals a day swine eaters. I could smell the barbqued pork ribs,bacon and sausages (...) Whilst the Iraqis are begging for food and whilst Iraqi kids are dying of water borne diseases because there is no potable water and cholera is looming, these scums import their water from Kuwait even to rinse their veggies...

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