Riverbend

Riverbend's blog paints Iraq in a different light than traditional media outlets. I must admit that I never really thought about the possibility of Iraq as having a thriving, advanced culture prior to the war. I basically assumed that most people lived in poverty under the reign of Sadam Hussein, and that  cities like Baghdad consisted mainly of crumbling stucco buildings and dirt roads. While I am well aware at how naive this sounds, I was none the less surprised to read Riverbend's accounts of pre-war Iraq, which she said had "clubs, universities, fast cars, [and] motor boats. She mentioned that Iraq had a large number of engineers who had studied in countries such as "Germany, Japan, America, [and] Britain". I was surprised to learn that Iraqi people traveled abroad to study. To be blunt, Riverbend speaks to the positive attributes of Iraq, something which I never heard from the mainstream US media, who was focused on reporting on the tragedies of war.