Iraqi Thoughts On The Last Two Years.

Under most circumstances bloggers like me quote paragraphs and bit's and pieces of other items in the news or on the web. But this time I'm going to do something different, I'm posting the entire lede from Democracy In Iraq (Is Here!) After you read below, come back here click on the link and read the whole thing, read all of the comments too and the next time you hear one of the Nay-Sayers, send them Here

"Sunday, March 20, 2005 2 Years It has been now two years since the United States, UK and other countries invaded our nation. It has been two years since Iraqis have had to live with daily violent attacks and rampant terrorism. It has been two years since our nation began being turned upside down. It has been two years since the road to democracy began.

It has been a very hard two years. So many people have died, so much has been destroyed, so many drops of tears and blood have been shed, so many have been robbed of loved ones, and so many words have been spoken about Iraq, it's future, and this war.

Two years...seems like yesterday that I was awoken by bombs going off in Baghdad, and the realisation that my life and that of my country was going to change. That very day I remember being scared that my house might be destroyed by a bomb, or that my relatives who were forcibly put into the Iraqi army might be killed.

Two years since Saddam came on TV, and pledged that Iraq would never fall. Little did he know, he surrendered like a rat in a whole only months later. Two years since my father had a heart."

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