Entisar Mohammad Ariabi is a pharmacist at the Yarmook Teaching Hospital in Baghdad who has documented the deteriorating health system. She is married with five children. She said in Arabic, with Khamas interpreting:
"Bush promised to keep civilian casualties as low as possible.
"I work in the second biggest hospital in Baghdad as director of the pharmacy department, and my office is across from the emergency department. From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. the bodies don't stop coming in, injured or killed, and the crying and the agony of the mothers and wives.
"I feel the sadness of these mothers, but I am also afraid that one day this will happen to me and my family. Iraqi families say goodbye in the morning to go to work or school, and pray to come home alive or if shot to die immediately, because if you are injured they will not find the medicines".
"To come here was not easy and not safe, but the most difficult part is that every minute we think of our families back home, and we are worried."
Entisar Ariabi with microphone.
Faiza Al-Araji is a civil engineer, a blogger (http://afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com ) and a religious Shia with a Sunni husband. She has three children. After one of her sons was recently held by the Ministry of the Interior, the family fled to Jordan. She said, very rapidly, very passionately:
"Please work on ending this occupation. You live in a beautiful country. We are human, like you. And we deserve to have a life, like you.
"This will destroy our country. People are dying day and night. And your media is telling you the lies. Baghdad was shining. It was very nice. Even under Saddam it was the shining Baghdad. Now it is full of garbage and tanks and barriers. People are dying. They are not normal people. You cannot see three years of dying and lack of security and lack of medicine, lack of everything.
"We see Mr. Bush on television lying that Iraqis are happy for their freedom. Oh, my God! Who will come to tell you the truth? We are come to tell you the truth. And what we have done? This is what we are always asking: What we have done?
"And where is the media? They will stay in the Green Zone and tell you the stories of the occupation leaders. Sixty reporters have been killed, because they do not want you to hear the stories of Iraqi people.
"They are provoking Iraqis against each other to make civil war to make justification to stay forever in Iraq. We are not stupid.
"Iraq for the Iraqis!"
Souad Al-Jazairy is an Iraqi now living in the United States, a writer, journalist and TV producer. She is active with the Iraqi Women's League. She said:
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