Riverbend logged today.

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Here we come to the end of 2006 and I am sad. Not simply sad for the state of the country, but for the state of our humanity, as Iraqis. We’ve all lost some of the compassion and civility that I felt made us special four years ago. I take myself as an example. Nearly four years ago, I cringed every time I heard about the death of an American soldier. They were occupiers, but they were humans also and the knowledge that they were being killed in my country gave me sleepless nights. Never mind they crossed oceans to attack the country, I actually felt for them…
Today, they simply represent numbers

simply represent numbers - is not that different to the American government and media, isn’t it? And THEY never cringed when they heard about the deaths of american soldiers, they even treat them as baggage