A reporter in Baghdad
The best account I've read from inside Baghdad since the bombing started in earnest: a letter by Melinda Liu of Newsweek. Baghdad, in the last days of Saddam, is like Ceausescu's Bucharest: shabby 1970s buildings, greedy and cynical bureaucrats fleecing the journalists while they still can, a system which persecutes the moral and rewards the venal and violent, and the occasional brave soul who blurts the truth: "I’m very happy about this bombing. Nobody will fight to defend him. Everybody feels the same way, believe me." I defy anyone who's experienced life under a communist dictatorship to come out against this war.
Live From Baghdad [Newsweek] #

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