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...Khateeb is a humanitarian worker based in Baghdad, where she works for the non-profit group Iraqi AlAmal Association. A former program coordinator for the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), she rallied women to participate in Iraq's first elections and now uses her twelve years of technology experience helping local women learn e-business software...
...incredibly high opinion of what America can do. The same people - I've interviewed these kinds of people over and over again - the same people who say "Death to America! Death to George Bush!" - want to know why within three weeks, why the electricity wasn't completely restored to Baghdad because after all it was America. If America couldn't fix everybody's problems in the first 5 months of the end of the war, it really doesn't matter that 5 years later many of those problems remain unsolved. By this point, people have stopped marking their calendars...
...mood in Congress has changed a great deal, as is always the case when our sons and daughters are deployed in harm's way. The only thing for certain about combat and conflict is the uncertainty of that process. We certainly went through a difficult time after Baghdad fell, or particularly I guess after Saddam Hussein was captured, when the insurgency rose and the violence rose and, in fact, we lost some control for a period of time...
...measure the mood: The mood was high when we went into Baghdad, even higher when we captured Hussein. It fell precipitously during the time in which the insurgency rose. And then, after the great debate on whether to stay and do the job and implement Petraeus' plan, or come home, when the surge won, we in fact have...
...broke relations with the U.S. It was the U.S. who broke relations with us. But we believe that now that we want to reestablish relations we have to do it in a clear and reasonable framework. We sat down at one table and talked about Iraq [in Baghdad in March 2007]. This shows that we can sit down at other tables too and talk with the U.S. about other matters. The important thing is that we don't set any preconditions. And this comes back to the first point I made, I truly believe that the West must change...