Iraqi Women Arrive in New York City!

Today I arrived at sunrise in the concrete jungle of Manhattan to meet with three Iraqi women who have come to the United States through CODEPINK to share the realities of the Iraq War and push for peace. These women, Faiza, Entesar, and Eman, carry with them compassion that is beyond familiarity, tenderness, surprising humor, ferocious grace and determination, and a pain that is not imaginable, a hope that cannot be based in their rational daily experiences of bloodshed, but must instead derive from the fierce optimism of the human spirit, the relentless desire for freedom that is beyond the false term "democracy."

We will spend two days in New York, a week in DC, and then each woman will be on tour in a different part of the United States. For more informaiton, please see www.womensaynotowar.org.

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