In five days I have seen the palace of King Nebuchadnezzar , the ancient Mosques in Kerbala and Najef and the fascist-like modern government buildings in Baghdad . George W. Bush, who probably can�t count the number of days since he last visited a library, prepares to authorize bombing of a place where libraries existed while western Europeans were throwing rocks at each other. Does our semi-literate President realize that another war here could destroy the cradle of civilization? Doesn�t Armageddon refer to such an event?

The last day in Baghdad . A woman with dyed blond hair and tight pants runs a shop. She tells me she has just returned from a vacation with her Algerian live-in boyfriend to Barbados and Martinique and �I could hardly wait to return home. I love it here.�

I ask her how she will respond if war comes. She shrugs. �I am Christian,� she declares, �and I love my president because he is strong and protects us. Without a strong president like him, we would be persecuted. All of Iraq would be chaos, disorder. I stand with him against Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Bin-Laden and George Bush.�


Saul Landau in radio progreso