"You can be sure and all those watching us can be sure that I am telling you the truth." "The Iraqi regime has weapons of mass destruction." "Citizens of the world!" "We make this appeal at a time when a US attack is days or hours away." "We are people from all over the world in solidarity with the Iraqi people." "We are demonstrating here for peace." "The governments that want to get us into this unjust and criminal war do not represent us." "We're not asking this only out of sympathy or to avoid starting a new millennium with an immense institutional crime." "We ask for this because our future coexistence is at stake in our homeland." "We believe it is possible to build a civilized society in this world." "We are citizens of Germany, Australia Canada, Korea, Brazil, Spain the United States..." "DECISIVE MEETING AT U.N." "...our great army and its brave command are ready to defend the great Iraq." "The U.N. would stop a new resolution." "The United States advises western citizens and journalists to leave Iraq." "I am from Mexico." "I decided that I should come that I had to come." "War is destruction." "It is death for some, in fact for many." "For others it means a boost to their economy the hegemony of their power in the world." "I prefer to side with those who suffer." "I prefer to share the same fate." "I believe one has to understand what is happening." "I am against this atmosphere of confusion." "I need to take a position to say:" "I am for this or against this." "That is why I am here, I am against this." "Mr. Blix, Chief Weapons Inspector for Iraq." "My name is Mohammed Abdulkareem." "I am fourteen years old." "I live in Baghdad." "I am Layth Abduljabar." "I was born in 89." "I live in Baghdad." "I am Ra'id Qasim Aljenabi." "I am fourteen years old and I do not want war, I hope nothing happens." "The first time we heard the siren, we were scared." "And when everything started, we were shaking." "We were sitting and shaking." "They struck the Ministry of Defense, next to my house." "Dust fell on our heads." "We locked ourselves in." "If you went out, you could get killed." "We stored water, bread, petrol and gas." "The planes would fly over and drop bombs." "We hid in a house, thinking it was solid." "They bombed, it began to shake all over and we were scared." "There were people on the bridge." "They had machine guns and the Americans killed them right there." "In my neighborhood they surrendered and threw the weapons away." "The war arrived we heard it really loud, really close..." "We couldn't sleep..." "War is misery, you know?" "People who had never stolen have begun to." "I dropped out of school." "I work to help my family." "Then I go straight home." "You can't go out." "I peddle petrol around here." "When they shoot their guns, what do they accomplish?" "They lose and they get nothing." "There are no jobs." "What was I to do?" "I used to go to school now I go to the Sheraton Hotel." "There are lots of foreigners there." "The American soldiers and the tanks have surrounded the area." "We were out of it lost because of the missiles and the deaths." "And now there are also deaths." "It's the same." "It's nothing new." "We see it with our eyes." "We see bombings and tanks." "There is chaos." "But in the boat it is quieter." "If something happens, an explosion people tell us when they cross." "Baghdad has been destroyed." "Wasn't the war over?" "Now there are more deaths." "I look for my customers." "I take my case and sit close to the Sheraton Hotel where the foreigners and journalists are." "If it rains, I go somewhere else." "If it doesn't, I stay." "I sit there, just passing time." "When I work here I hear explosions gunfights and shooting." "It always happens." "When there is a shootout, I hide." "I look for a good hiding place until it's over." "I am scared of the soldiers." "And they are also afraid." "They told me: "Go away!", they thought I had a bomb." "They see my case and think there are bombs." "Some days there are customers and other days none." "And if there aren't any, I leave." "I pack up and go." "I buy food for my family and go home." "When I was a girl, I lived the war between Iran and Iraq." "Then I lived the Kuwait war." "During the long years of the sanctions I raised my children." "The sanctions have been very tough for Iraqi women." "They suffered in many ways." "It was an enormous weight a huge burden, and now this other burden that is this war." "My son is a victim, Mustapha is one of its victims." "I have seen dead bodies, the bombing I have seen everything." "I remember fainting, and my father taking me they put me in an ambulance." "The bomb exploded and the shrapnel went in my leg." "I heard my brothers screaming." "I told them: "It's all right"." "Then I saw the leg beside me and then began to cry." "Destruction." "That is all I can say." "He saw his uncle die before his very eyes." "Mustapha was seriously wounded." "We still go from hospital to hospital from doctor to doctor." "What we saw is always in my head the injured, the burned." "Mustapha saw everything." "The burns unit shocked me the most." "I saw many children there." "I met a little girl who was four years old." "She was fleeing with her family in a car they bombed them and the entire family burned up." "She had no one to visit her at the hospital." "Don't worry Mustapha, everything will be ok." "When we open the wound his pressure drops and he feels dizzy." "It's starting to hurt..." "It's cold!" "... cold, cold, cold..." "Shall I bring you a heater?" "Yes..." "Take your hand out of the way!" " Son, your hand!" " Your hand out of the way!" "Under...?" "Mustapha, come on, son!" "A little bit more, Mustapha." "Don't open it!" "The wound is clean." "We've had a rough time..." "We've seen more than a person can handle." "This hospital harbours it all." "More than once I have walked crying more than once I ran to beg for help for Mustapha." "More than once..." "I can't explain it the horror, the worst I have seen in my life is what I have seen in this hospital." "They bombed our neighborhood." "I saw the neighbors digging the earth they would pull out a hand or a leg there were many dead they told me: "We have buried all our children together. "" "In the bombing, they wounded my daughter with shrapnel." "The doctors wanted to amputate her arm to free her from the pain she was suffering." "A terrible pain, only the skin on her arm remained." "Three months in the hospital..." "But she was brave, and she put up with it." "When was Baghdad built?" "The year one thousand and...?" "Nine hundred..." " One thousand." " Nine hundred..." "No!" "One hundred and forty-five." " This shape is..." " Round!" "When we hear bombings at school, we are scared." "We stay inside the classroom until it's over and we hide until it ends." "The entire neighborhood was bombed." "People were wounded, many children died." "We found out that my two friends from school had died." "We always went out together." "We were attacked at night, while we were sleeping." "I was covered in blood." "They took me to the hospital at seven." "Sometimes I dream about that helicopter machine-gunning us." "In the hospital I saw many people dying." "There were lots of people." "Most of the elderly died." "They died and everyone was crying." "The hospital brimmed with wails." "There I had operations and more operations, eleven of them..." "Before the war, 300 children attended my school now we have less than one hundred." "The playground filled with weeds and rubble." "I was afraid of letting the kids go outside because I feared they would stumble on unexploded ammunition." "The fear grows and grows." "There are clashes, there are bombings..." "Many parents don't bring their children because of the shootings, the insecurity and the constant explosions." "My soul is with the children." "At school, I forget." "I don't forget completely, but it's a change of scenery with the teachers, the children..." "It lessens my pain." "I try to see in them the eyes of my little Suha and Yasser, my grandson..." "I see them in the eyes of the children." "Everything brings back memories." "The kitchen, the bedrooms, the courtyard, they're with me..." "The nights are the hardest." "I am afraid of the night because even when I try to sleep a couple hours, the two hours I sleep my daughters are with me." "I wish that the night never came." "I sell gasoline on the street with my friend Raid." "If the Americans catch me, they will arrest me." "Although it is forbidden, I do it to help at home." "The conditions are difficult." "Petrol is expensive." "A gallon is four or five thousand." "I left school in order to survive." "I work as a ticket inspector until it gets dark." "School is useless." "There are quarrels and shootings everywhere." "People are scared when they get on." "This guy I know gives me the petrol." "Then I give him the money and he gives me more petrol." "I drove an ambulance in Baghdad during the bombings." "The dead lay in the middle of the street." "No one would bury them." "We picked up bodies took the wounded in for surgery and so on, day and night." "No one would come to ask about the dead." "No one paid attention to how many there were." "For those who didn't carry identification we would write "brown pants", "black sweater"." "I cried..." "I cried for so many reasons." "The words catastrophe and tragedy fall very short very short of describing what has happened to us." "You can't take it off your mind for a minute what you have seen, the images in your mind the dead and the wounded." "The tragedy is impossible to describe." "I have nothing to say to those who supported this war." "I am one of the people who stored bodies in the morgues." "They reached a terrible number." "The morgues were overflowing so we would bury them in the hospital's garden." "Some would cry to relieve their pain others ran away." "Some of us in my hospital were affected by a sort of hysteria." "Seeing all those wounded, so many of them... blood, death it is something I will never forget." " How many exercises must you do?" " Twenty." "You have to increase them:" "In the morning at midday and at night." "Let's try to write." "We have lived through many wars I lived the war with Iran..." "I lived in the battle front for five years away from my home, my family." "I lost my friends in the war." "This last war is no different from others." "Nevertheless the majority of the wounded are civilians." "After the war we moved into some buildings to live there in a destroyed building that used to be Saddam's." "There are many families here, their houses were destroyed or they couldn't pay the rent." "They build tin houses, where can we go?" "I collect bricks to build a house for my brothers and sisters." "I am the oldest, I'm building a house where we can live." "We used to live next to the river, we had nothing." "Things were bad with Saddam." "Saddam left but nothing changed." "It would be better if they didn't put a president and let us live in peace." "We are exhausted because of Bush and his airplanes." "A missile might fall and kill us." "We used to rent a place." "The owners threw all the tenants out and we were forced to come here." "Before it was the era of Saddam and now it's the Americans'" "We don't know what might or might not happen." "They have not brought any aid for the Iraqi people." "Nothing." "The place where we lived was bombed." "We had to take refuge here." "It affected many people." "Children, teenagers, old people..." "The electricity was off." "The nearby hospital was bombed so were the houses;" "my daughter was there." "Suddenly she came running with her face and clothing on fire." "I tried to help her but I couldn't;" "I took her to the hospital but nothing." "They told me:" "..." come back when the war is over. "" "When I hear the sound of the planes, I get scared." "I am afraid of the bombings so I stay home." "I stick close to my mother and we just hug." "Another kid from my neighborhood was also injured." "Now they live next door." "Rawi was playing soccer." "The American invasion came and he was outside, I had no idea." "The bomb fell behind our street." "The houses were shaking." "We all ran outside and I did not see my son." "A group of us kids were playing." "We heard the noise of the airplanes they dropped something, we did not know what it was." "Suddenly, just as I wanted to play I knew no more." "I was told that a young person had taken Rawi, who was injured." "We rushed to the hospital and I found him unconscious." "I have dreams that scare me." "Dogs and giants appear." "I am scared." "My life is my children's." "Rawi used to speak fluently then he started to be afraid." "We live in Baghdad." "When night falls, there is war." "We don't sleep." "The winter came with electrical blackouts and with the water trickling out." "When the war began I had gone out to play." "They started shooting and they told me it had begun." "My mother brought food, we couldn't go outside." "What did we do?" "We closed the door and the bombing started over us." "That's how it happened." "So many have died..." "I always played with my friends but now they can't come to see me." "One day I was washing myself and suddenly there was a gunfight I tried to hide and I fell." "I am scared for my friends and also for people." "Mustapha has lost his excitement for school." "His soul is tired, and my soul is tired." "I also feel the fear fear of the house fear of the street fear is something that cannot be described." "You have to live it." "I was against the former régime." "Before, and under the current régime there are innocent victims, civilians die." "We suffer more each day." "Even the most basic things;" "we have no oil for our heaters so the children can be warm." "Who knows what season it is?" "Winter!" "What do we wear?" "Light or warm clothing?" "Warm!" "So we are not cold." "I have spent my professional life with the children." "The war has caused changes in their psychology." "That is what we are seeing." "Children are afraid, they fear what may happen." "They tell us: "Teacher, yesterday they killed our neighbor. "" ""Why did they kill him?" "A bullet killed him at his doorstep"." "Another says:" ""Yesterday my sister went out and she was kidnapped"." "The children live in a state of panic." "All our harvest has been death impotence, disease, sorrow." "Is this what the countries of the world wanted?" "The war that great countries applauded?" "The people became the victims." "The people will always be the victims." "We still hear attacks." "In nearby neighborhoods those who die are children, women, old people those who can't escape." "The crisis worsens day after day." "They attack homes, they arrest anyone on the street they shoot at cars and kill." "What is their democracy and their human rights?" "Is it to detain citizens and put them in jail?" "Where are the human rights they were going to bring?" "We still do not know." "There is not a single home in our neighborhood that has not been affected by the tragedy of this war." "Sometimes you don't know if the planes are bombing the bases of the resistance or if the resistance is shooting at them." "The situation is terrible." "Everything has turned to dust!" "Ashes... everything..." "The American forces have destroyed our home." "Everything has disappeared we were just able to get out ourselves." "The Americans came and said:" ""It's a fact of war"." "What democracy does America believe in when it does this to us?" "Who knows when..." "when this will end when it will end." "Suddenly the Americans bombed." "I ran into the schoolyard." "There, three mortar rounds fell by my side." "Why am I blind?" "Why can't I walk?" "Why?" "Come, come here..." "Do you have fish?" "When will you have some?" "Since the fall of Baghdad we have no water or electricity." "Since the river is close mom washes the clothes and the dishes there." "We still hear the voices of war the soldiers come and bring police dogs." "They came to search our home we were very scared, they even broke our bed!" "Two days ago they bombed the other side of the island." "In Baghdad I used to like the river and the island but when the Americans occupied it I started to like the river more because the Americans cannot occupy it." "The henna is for the bride, before her wedding." "We will try it on Mauyita." "I don't want to get married." "May her hand heal and may she become a princess." "These are Iraqi and Arab customs." "I am not going to get married." "I will teach you how to cook." "I am not going to cook, he can take care of that." "Your husband?" "That cannot be, Mauyita." "I will wait sitting while he brings me the food." "From the restaurant?" "That food is not good." "You must know your boyfriend well before you get married." "My mother drives us crazy!" "I like Baghdad, it is my beloved land but now they have occupied it." "Some say:" ""they will leave next year" some say that in two years, others say in three..." "They say what they want." "I wish we did not have oil." "I love the river." "When you awake at dawn you do not feel pain." "You open your eyes, see the river and you don't feel sad." "When I was young in Baghdad..." "What memories!" "We had fun..." "We would leave the boats on the shore." "We drunk, we went to bars and every time we went out, we dined on fish." "Such is youth!" "We had fun on the river." "Baghdad was pretty." "Baghdad is the land where I was born where I married and gave birth to my children." "Whoever walks the streets of Baghdad feels its sadness feels Baghdad crying for help." "Seeing what I love so much where each atom of the land brings me memories I don't want to go outside I don't want to walk through Baghdad." "I feel it crying out to me for help and I cannot save it." "Baghdad is sad." "I can't look I would like to be blind so I wouldn't have to see them." "I don't want to see them in front of my eyes." "It's as if they were walking over me, over my feelings." "I hope that no woman and mother in the world experiences what the Iraqis and their children have experienced." "That they never feel the pain that we feel." "Baghdad is sad, very sad." "British Army troops are moving from Basora to reinforce the city of Baghdad." "The bombing of Fallujah continues and the American troops have surrounded the city..." "Under the old régime, human rights did not exist." "When I opposed it, I was imprisoned and savagely tortured." "It was a terrible situation and I doubt that anyone who lives through it can ever erase it from his memory." "I fought against the old régime and now I fight against the occupation." "Now the crimes committed by the occupation forces are countless." "It is not known how many civilians died in Fallujah..." "Life is not good these days." "I ask some for 1000 and they say no, that 750 I fill their tank and they only give me 500." "That's how it is." "The soldiers take the streets." "Every day there is still war." "Even I despair!" "One guy was hit in the gut with shrapnel." "What can you do?" "He died." "Did anyone help him?" "No one helped him." "Did you hear the explosion this morning?" "Yes, many people died." "Were you close by?" "When I was going to work..." "I sat down and boom!" "Where were you?" "At the Sheraton Hotel." "And where was the explosion?" "Over there, in the Palace." "The Republic's Palace." "They took out the dead bodies." "They probably did it with a remote control." "No, with a mortar." "The streets were jammed and we came walking." "Did you take your medicine?" "Yes I did." " How is the leg?" " Fine." " I hope it doesn't hurt." " No, no..." " Do you feel better?" " A little better..." "Hey, Mustapha!" "How is everything?" "Fine, thank God." "I cannot imagine that some day in my life whether I am happy or sad, I will be able to forget what I have seen." "Perhaps we will laugh perhaps in the distant future we'll enjoy ourselves because even happiness is a dream." "But we will not be able to forget we will not." "You're going to school next week, right?" "Yes." "Sometimes in my dreams I dream that I am walking and my friends are with me." "My mother sees me walk and she is happy." "In one dream I stood up and I laughed a lot." "For Iraqis, peace is a distant dream a distant dream." "Nothing is guaranteed but I carry on." "This will not stop him from continuing with his studies and prepare his future to the end with my last breath." " What is this?" " These are my poems." "I have filled two books." " What hand do you write with?" " With the left." "With the left?" "The doctor said you should try with the right..." "Now you do it, slowly close them, look how I close my hand, slowly however you can, but slowly, never quickly." "Good, my dear." "Mauy is alive, she is here..." "But all those who died..." "Mauy is my life." "I would like her to continue with her studies to become an engineer, a doctor whatever she likes the most." "All we see now is a dark future." "Beloved Tigris I knew nothing of war I thought that missiles were like machine guns." "That is how I imagined them, but now I know what war is." "War is death." "Two daughters, my grandson, my nephew..." "The seven of them were in the prime of life." "The bombs fell on them and no one survived to tell." "No one." "War has taken from me what I loved most the light of my life." "Now I am blind." "I have eyes but believe me, I am blind." "When we were little, if someone mentioned war our hearts would ache." "We became used to it as we grew up." "Our future... who cares about it?" "At first we were afraid now this is normal." "We are not afraid." "We don't want wars because we suffer wars." "If people were all right, I would be happy." "I would be happy if one day my country really became my country." "TO THE VICTIMS" "Subs ripped from DVD by Haller"