Iraqi Children tell of their hopes and fears

[sabra]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1469636.ece

Children tell of their hopes and fears

Muhammad Sabba, 8, from Toubchi

What is your favourite thing? I love football
What is your least favourite thing? Car bombs
What do you want to be when you grow up? A doctor
Why? Because I want to help people and cure the sick. Iraq needs doctors
What are your thoughts about the future? I am hoping there will be peace and security. If there is peace, I’ll be happy and enjoy life. A life without car bombs

Ayah Ali Abderadha, 11, from Toubchi

Favourite thing? My family and my neighbours. Also I like the Arabic language
Least favourite thing? The awful situation, because we’re afraid of going out
What do you want to do when you grow up? I want to be an Arabic teacher
Thoughts about the future? That the crisis we are experiencing will disappear and that I can educate the children and the students

Rawan Muhammad Fawzi, 5, from al-Adhamiaya

Favourite thing? Playing a computer game called Foulleh
Least favourite thing? When they’re shooting
Why? The Americans came into our house and looked through our house. Then they interrogated my mum. Then some others came
What do you want to be? I want to be a doctor because then I can heal the sick. If there is peace I’ll go out and play with my friends

Ahmed Issam, 11, Hadithiya

Favourite thing? I love the ballet, playing and studying
Least favourite thing? All the war and destruction because many people die
What do you want to do when you grow up? I want to be a famous ballet dancer
Thoughts about the future? I want there to be peace in Iraq and in the entire world

Ahlam Muhammad Feleyah, 9, from al-Adhamiya

Favourite thing? Playing with my friends and my teddy bear
Least favourite thing? I don’t like the Americans because they attacked Iraq
What do you want to do when you grow up? I want to work as a doctor. It’s the best thing you can do. It’s what I want to do
The future? If there is peace I want to go out and play with my friends on the street

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I guarantee you RWers will say this is lefty propaganda, and that this wasn't

even written by real Iraqi kids.

[sabra]

2. Indeed, though Murdoch's Sunday Times is hardly a lefty rag