A friend of mine brought this article from The New Republic to my attention a few days ago. I had intended to mention it earlier and got distracted. Now I see that James Taranto mentioned it back on Friday.
Zainab al-Suwaij lived in the holy Shiite city of Karbaba (in southwestern Iraq) during the Gulf War. Her story is a tale of betrayal by the United States, and it's uncomfortable to read. But it's a valuable insight into the experience of the Iraqi population under Saddam's rule of terror -- an insight that those opposing the impending war ought to find even more uncomfortable.
Ms. Al-Suwiaj is now the executive director of the American Islamic Congress, "a social organization dedicated to building interfaith and interethnic understanding." If you visit their website, you'll see that this does, in fact, appear to be what this organization is all about. A very far cry from the likes of CAIR, MPAC and AMC (webite currently down). Contrast and compare.
