Iraqi: "A human life is now worth nothing in this country"

[Evergreen Emerald]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003268541_iraqperson21.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq — On a recent Sunday, I was buying groceries in my beloved Amariya neighborhood in western Baghdad when I heard the sound of an AK-47 for about three seconds. It was close but not very close, so I continued shopping.
As I took a right turn on Munadhama Street, I saw a man lying in a small pool of blood. He wasn't dead.

The idea of stopping to help or to take him to a hospital crossed my mind, but I didn't dare. Cars passed without stopping. Pedestrians and shop owners kept doing what they were doing, pretending nothing had happened.

I was still looking at the wounded man and blaming myself for not stopping to help. Other shoppers peered at him from a distance, sorrowful and compassionate, but did nothing.

[louis-t]

1. How very, very sad.

More blood on Republican hands.

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. Yup. Nationbuilding, Bush style. n/t

[wicket]

3. We've turned the corner!

:sarcasm:

[Evergreen Emerald]

4. It was a middle class neighborhood

Much like my neighborhood. The mentality of "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here," contributed to this debauchery. Our government dehumanized the Iraqi people allowing the American citizens to condone using them as human shields.

[The2ndWheel]

5. Welcome to 2006!

It'll be worth even less tomorrow.

[flyarm]

6. BUT FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH!!..JUST ASK PISSY PANTS..N/T

[Evergreen Emerald]

7. These are the stories the media needs to present

This is information from a citizen like you and I. Their lives have been so significantly changed that their neighbors are dying in the streets and they don't/can't/are afraid to help. Can you imagine? And Americans caused this.