HW 25: War, War and More War

In the foreward of the novel Baghdad Burning: Girl blog from Iraq written by Riverbend, the author whom is also the narrarator discusses her blog in which she writes about her adventures in Iraq. "I wish" "every person who e-mails me supporting the war,safe behind their computer, secure in their narrow mind and fixed views, could actually come and experience the war live" (Riverbend, vii). Riverbend is basically stating that although people may agree with the war, they really should experience the type of situations people in the war are placed into before that agree for it and send people out to fight. Her point of the foreward is to tell the audience that throughout the novel she is going to be telling her point of view on the war as it is experienced in her eyes. In the introduction, Riverbend describes her own characteristics and information about her blog. "And to many of her readers, these entries have become perhaps the most important source of news from Iraq" (Riverbend, xi). Riverbend does say that her blogs are important to others but this quote reaffirms that her blogs are so in depth and captivating that her readers use it as a news source. I think it is amazing that her blog is so interesting to other people that they are encouraged to learn and want to find out what is going on with the war instead of just agreeing or disagreeing with it. Riverbend also goes on to describe the Gulf War which occured during her teen years. She also discusses the war during 2003 which is still going on. Basically by the end of the introduction, Riverbend has discussed many important wars that have gone out throughout her life which she writes about in her blog on how it affected her life and why she now is in Iraq.

I support Soueif and Ridgeway when they say that after the war of 2003, the US never regained control to try and win or even stop the war, everything just got out of control and turned into and even bigger disaster then needed. With all the tragedies that had happened throughout the war, none of the money was spent on healthcare or sanitation in Iraq to try and help any of the people that got hurt within the disaster, all the money was spent on more weapons of mass destruction.