In my ignorance I have to admit I didn’t think of the Iraqi’s the way I do now. I imagined them as peasants, workers or just Arabs… silly really. I have since found them to be quite educated, smartly turned out and actually quite wise.

If we in the UK had been more informed as to the state of the Iraqi’s, more aware of their plight under Saddam and the exiled Iraqi’s given more of a voice maybe the opposition in the world would have been drastically reduced.

I also think the first Gulf War was a shadow and a type of this war. Is now the time for a new world order? Certainly the state of the UN would precipitate a new way of governing. I have found that in the past we tend to swing from total liberalism to the jackboot.

The Arab world has said that this war is on a par with ’48 and ’67 (Israeli history guys,…) It is definitly not. Those coalition troops will be out faster than you can say knife… they have homes to go to you know =)

Rosie.