Category Archives: Other Voices

It is a great relief to read Healing Iraq after a year of listening to the hysterical blather from CNN and other news channels as they relay news clips from Arab news media.

It didn’t take too much intelligence to see the inconsistencies in the news we were given, but we could only guess at what had actually happened. Now that there are a number of weblogs by Iraqi citizens, we can get a better picture of daily life in today’s Iraq if we wish. It is grim, but more encouaging than I expected

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I was savoring my daily dose of inspired invective from Emperor Misha I when I saw this picture and almost snorted coffee all over my keyboard. My immediate thought was, “Where is competence on their list?”

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During the Depression years of 1939-1941, I remember seeing an unusual group of shacks on the bank of the Connecticut River north of Springfield, Mass. I was as curious then as I am now and I wanted to know what this was. Dad told me it was Shanty Town, while Mother called it Hooverville.

It was built by desperate and resourceful people who had lost their homes and jobs and had no place to live.

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