HW 25 Baghdad Burning

After reading the foreword and introduction to “Baghdad Burning” by Riverbend it allowed me to get a better understanding of what Iraq and the its people are going through with the war. The foreword talks a lot about what is going to happen in the book and what its main points are going to be. It describes Riverbend and her family and how she posts blog not about the causalities or the American soldiers but what its like to be a normal Iraqi living through these terrible times. While the introduction talks about all the events leading up to the war in Iraq today. For example, the introduction talks about how all the following wars such as the Gulf war have effected the war that is going on today. Many say that Iraq had never fully recovered from the Gulf War and that is one of the main problems why Iraq is without electricity, food, and jobs today. Without electricity doctors are not able to perform the proper surgeries and don’t have enough medicines to cure everyone. Without enough food many children are dying because they are not malnourished and without jobs people are not getting enough money to support themselves and their families.