Leaving Home: Riverbend (Baghdad Burning) flees to Syria...

[shrdlu]

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

"...refugees all look the same- there’s a unique expression you’ll find on their faces- relief, mixed with sorrow, tinged with apprehension. The faces almost all look the same.

"The first minutes after passing the border were overwhelming. Overwhelming relief and overwhelming sadness… How is it that only a stretch of several kilometers and maybe twenty minutes, so firmly segregates life from death?

"How is it that a border no one can see or touch stands between car bombs, militias, death squads and… peace, safety? It’s difficult to believe- even now. I sit here and write this and wonder why I can’t hear the explosions.

"I wonder at how the windows don’t rattle as the planes pass overhead. I’m trying to rid myself of the expectation that armed people in black will break through the door and into our lives. I’m trying to let my eyes grow accustomed to streets free of road blocks, hummers and pictures of Muqtada and the rest…

"How is it that all of this lies a short car ride away?"

[MADem]

1. Good. Unfortunate, but good. For now, anyway. It's getting too dangerous to stay. NT

[blogslut]

2. I am so glad she's okay

I hope she continues to blog and I pray that someday she can return, if that is her desire.

[givemebackmycountry]

3. That may be one of the saddest things I have ever read...

And may I add...

EFF U GWB you rat bastard murderous son of a bitch.
I hope you burn in hell forever you prick.

[Extend a Hand]

4. I wish there was a way to send money

to help Riverbend and her family.

K&R for the sad, sad post.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. she's written 2 books

you can find them on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-8406844-0790214?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=riverbend