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Apr 9 2009 Iraq’s War Widows: Help, NOW!

 Baghdad Widows: Almost everywhere you go in Baghdad, you see them begging at traffic lights, outside mosques, dressed from head to toe in black. Oxfam has discovered that less than a quarter or the 720,000 get government support.  [Oxfam's report] The innocent Iraqi civilians bear the tragic consequences of our decision to occupy their country. Help: make a check out to Bruce Wallace and send your gift to:                121Contact, 523 72nd Street, Brooklyn NY 11209
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Nov 11, 2009 Blackwater bribery? A mother's pain? Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan?

The linkages are clear enough.

When a nation steps outside the law, people lose their foundation of trust. Yeah, I think about getting swept up one day; cut off from communication; lost to the 'free' world...and sometimes it really happens and some families are caught in the maelstrom of unknowing, perhaps forever.

One cannot value the word of a nation that lies its way into occupation, bribes its way past mercenary atrocities, hides it ways of rendition, torture, and assassination. One cannot value the judgment of a nation that pours over 10 billion dollars a month into occupation efforts while 45 million Americans are unable to adequately feed themselves.

It is time to stop the lying--to other and to ourselves.

It is time to end the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is time to end the lawlessness of the U.S. government.

 

Indefinitely Detained

 

By Talat Hamdani

 

 

 “Harsh tactics” or torture, the threat of indefinite detention, whisking people to other countries without recourse, actions that our government has adopted, have left many Americans in a state of acute apprehension and often in outright fear. What happened to Salman Hamdani is still a question in the mind of his mother. Until we can say these actions are completely rejected by our government, the fears will remain.  We must reject extra-Constitutional activities once and for all.

 

 

It’s almost too painful to remember everything; the chaos, my first-born being ripped away from me was too much to bear.  When we couldn’t reach him and he didn’t come home on September 11, we knew that he had gone to the Trade Center to help.

 

He was still fresh at his research job at Rockefeller University in Manhattan . At age 23 he had just graduated from Queens College , was applying for medical school and was in the final throes of an NYPD police cadet training program.   Gentle and caring, he worked as an ambulance driver while studying and, as a certified paramedic, we were certain he went where he could use his skills to aid others.

 

Many calls came from the victim’s family center in the following days; the callers said they were investigators.  They kept asking the same questions over and again, calling sometime late into the night.  ”Where was Salman going?” “Who was he going to meet that day?” “When did he leave the house?”

 

Two weeks later someone came into my husband’s store in Queens and said he had seen our son’s picture on an MTA wanted poster from the “Terrorist Task Force”.  We were stunned.  Salman came here with us as an infant from Pakistan ; his two younger brothers were born here our chosen country.   He was deemed suspect, it seems, because he was a chemistry major in college, was born in Pakistan , and was Muslim.

 

We were overrun by reporters.  For the most part, they were fair and refrained from wild conjecture in their reporting, except for the NY Post, whose sensational headline blared “Missing or Hiding?” under Salman’s picture, and claimed someone saw him later that day uptown.  Then people came from the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and searched our house.

 

In early October, exhausted and depressed, our family made the pilgrimage to Mecca to pray.  Returning later that month, we were questioned by our Congressman. Rep. Ackerman, who suggested that Salman might have been detained by the immigration service, giving us hope that he might still be alive and only detained.  Maybe the poster was meant to mislead?  Maybe the government agencies weren’t coordinated?

 

We contacted the White House and the FBI, but only received form letters in return. Only then we learned that Salman’s name was included in an heroic context in Section 102 of the Patriot Act, which was passed on October 26, 2001 .

 

Six months after the event, on March 20, 2002, at 11:30 PM, two police officers came to our house and told us that his remains were identified through DNA testing at about the same time that the Patriot Act was passed, and almost the same day that we had returned from Mecca,… three months earlier.

 

We picked up his remains the next day.  When I asked for proof that this was actually Salman’s remains, the Medical Examiner told us, “Go get yourself a lawyer.” We had two choices: to take the remains and the death certificate, accepting what they told us, or to leave them there and have nothing.  We had been through too much and we chose the former. 

 

The months of stress were too much for my husband, who succumbed to a heart attack a few months later.  Without his good counsel, a terrible thought has crept in to my mind since then.  Was Salman detained and tortured?  Where did he really die?  Why was he lauded in the Patriot Act while he was being investigated as a suspected terrorist? Why did the authorities wait six months to tell us his remains were found?  I will live with these doubts and questions until I die.

 

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Nov 3 2009 USS New York: Commemorating US Crimes in Iraq

Just as we burrow deeper into the maelstrom of Afghanistan we are gifted with one of the ugliest warships ever built by any nation.

It is hard to think of a less fitting way to send "a message of America becoming stronger as a result" of 9/11 [Naval Cmdr. Quentin King]. Secretary of the Navy Gordon England announced the naming as to "honor the victims of Sept. 11."                                          

Tragically neither the U.S. Navy nor President Obama evidently understand the enormity of the insult this warship delivers to those innocent civilians lost on September 11, 2001.

America weakened significantly after 9/11. The response to invade and occupy Iraq was a criminal act based on deliberate deceit. The punitive crushing of the Iraqi populace was nothing to be proud of. Our moral standing in the world was greatly diminished. Our civil liberties at home suffered setbacks that may never be recovered.

President Obama will come to New York to commission the USS New York on Saturday. We wish he would stay in Washington and decommission our failed effort in Iraq, and put an end to the inevitable failure of our mission in Afghanistan. We can no more force cultures to adopt the mythical Democratic model than we can forge peaceful tomorrows from weapons of destruction.

We also wish President Obama would stop the lies. We already have more mercenaries in Afghanistan that we have troops, but that fact is never added to official tallies of troop numbers.

Let us honor the innocent civilians who died on 9/11 by stopping the slaughter of innocent civilians by our own hands. This would be a true tribute to the fallen.

Oct 29 2009 Iraq-Afghanistan: U.S. Troops dying in a wasted effort

Whether in Iraq or Afghanistan, American troops are dying and suffering for a false assumption. Social revolution cannot be imposed by external force. When the will of the people rises to the challenge then, and only then, will great change occur. To assume otherwise is to ignore the facts on the ground.

What we actually accomplish is this: we continue to inspire more and more young people to become our enemies, join violent radical groups, and plan revenge against us.

It is time for Americans to wake from the dream of an all mighty USA whose bullets and bombs can transform the world into a unified Eden of Democracy. Our violent efforts push the world away from more peaceful tomorrows.

Obama recently decided to reduce humanitarian/social/infrastructure aid to Iraq while increasing our military presence, and costs, in Afghanistan. He's got a bit of waking up to do himself. And the price we pay for his sleepwalking is the blood of our soldiers, of innocent Iraqis, of innocent Afghanis, and a growing army of people who hate us enough to use violence against us. 

Call your representatives in government today. Let them know you support rapid and complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The Afghan activist and author Malalai Joya said it plainly:

"Democracy will never come to Afghanistan through the barrel of a gun,
or from the cluster bombs dropped by foreign forces. The struggle will be
long and difficult, but the values of real democracy, human rights and
women's rights will only be won by the Afghan people themselves. So do not
be fooled by this façade of democracy."

--

September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows member Terry Greene was also clear as quoted in  Brian MacQuarrie's Boston Globe piece of October 29, 2009:

Terry Greene of Cambridge had just dropped her son at school when she heard on the radio that a second tower at the World Trade Center had been hit by an airliner. At that moment, on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Greene knew that the tragedy in New York was no accident.

(Suzanne Kreiter for the Boston Globe)

TERRY GREENE, whose brother died in the Pennsylvania crash of United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001

A short time later, Greene heard that United Flight 93 had crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pa. “My first reaction was, ‘Good, it didn’t hit another target,’ ’’ Greene recalled.

But Greene’s world soon began to dissolve when a brother called with the news that another sibling, Donald Freeman Greene, was on that plane. “I can’t really describe how dark and horrible that was,’’ Greene said.

Eight years later, as a roiling debate unfolds about US strategy in Afghanistan, Greene said she feels no need to sacrifice more American troops in a country where the 9/11 attacks were hatched.

“There has to be a way to build more bridges rather than destroy them,’’ Greene said. “I think the media assume that the families want revenge, like that’s respecting the family and the family member’s memory.’’

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Call your representatives in government today. Let them know you support rapid and complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Oct 26 2009 Baghdad erupts; Fear returns; Life struggles on

Here is a letter from a young man who should be thinking only of his studies, his metal music, and his social life. Instead he wakes each day to fear.

Hi, My name is Zeki, I'm okay with using my name, This is my first year in college and it seems to be so hard after the situation in baghdad gone really bad, i hope that things will be better in the next months but its just seems not to. I'm afraid of going to college ! afraid of getting killed!, many explosions are going on in baghdad these days and my college is far away from the place i live in!, that's what's going on, wish you all the best of luck, thanks.

The people who write to us from Baghdad tell us stories that have taken a serious plunge in the direction of hopelessness. 

The roller coaster of hope and despair is a hard one to ride without becoming numbed by the constant fear that pervades life, even in these 'better times'.

Some of the signs that can be read as progress are merely indicators of a depth of need hard to fathom from so far away. Our sister B has taken a job. Good news, for sure, except that she is not being paid as yet. In fact she contributes to the new orphanage that opened in her neighborhood. Run by several women who hope that funding will come from the government. Certainly the small amounts of cash we can send are not enough to keep it going.

Brother B has lost his job in Syria. He fled there when he was threatened two years ago. Threatened because he is an artist. Remember when 'they' were killing artists? It was right after they went after the bakers, then the liberal professors, then anyone who had anything to do with Americans. He wants to return to Baghdad but his family is trying to talk him out of it, thinking that he is still in danger and that his return would put them all in danger.

C's family is falling apart. His neighborhood was thoroughly mixed before the occupation. Now it is 'Sunni-Only', and pretty much run by the local militia. C's wife is a Shi'a, and she left in fear, to return to her family in a Shi'a neighborhood. She took the kids with her. Now C is left alone in his house. He is afraid to join her in her neighborhood since he's a Sunni. 'How can I live like this?'

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Aug 27 2009 Iraq: from bad to worse? What is the US legacy?

Natalia Antelava BBC News, Baghdad, wrote: More than 100 people died in bombings across Iraq over the past three days. The attacks, which hit Baghdad and areas outside Mosul in the north on Friday and on Monday, are the biggest and the most serious since the withdrawal of US troops from Iraqi cities at the end of June. Iraqis complain that widespread corruption prevents security services from protecting ordinary people Along with other, smaller incidents - which often fail to make international headlines - a total of 157 people were killed in Iraq in the first 10 days of August - more than half of all those killed in July. And from what we are hearing from friends in Baghdad the situation has gotten worse in many neighborhoods. We poured billions upon billions of dollars in Iraq in killing, maiming, and destroying the infrastructure. Now it is time to pour a little into the restoration of what we have destroyed. Let you representatives in government know how you feel about the US responsibility toward the innocent civilians of Iraq. We warred on them in a cloud of lies, but the truth is clearer now. We disgraced ourselves in the eyes of the world and only restorative actions, not words, will help us regain our dignity. Reported Security incidents today [Iraq Today]: Baghdad: #1: Separately, two explosive charges planted in two civilian cars detonated late on Wednesday on a thoroughfare in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Adhamiyah, wounding a total of 12 people and damaging several nearby shops, the source added. #2: Another official says three car bombs exploded in northern Baghdad, wounding four police officers and two civilians. #3: Another car bomb also struck a police patrol in eastern Baghdad, wounding seven people. Four people were wounded on Thursday in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Baghdad, a police source said. “A roadside bomb, planted on the public road, near Sahet Beirut in Palestine street, eastern Baghdad, exploded while a police vehicle patrol was passing, injuring two civilians and two policemen and damaging one of the patrol’s vehicles,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. #4: A jeweler on Wednesday was wounded during an exchange of gunfire with a group of gunmen who broke into his shop in Baghdad, according to a police source. “Three gunmen driving a black civilian car attempted to burgle a jeweler’s shop on Falastine St., eastern Baghdad,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.The owner of the shop engaged in a shootout with the gunmen, which left him, along with one of his workers, wounded, the source noted. #5: A roadside bomb wounded two civilians when it blew up in west Baghdad's upscale district of Mansour on Wednesday, police said. #6: One U.S. vehicle was devastated when it was hit by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad, a source from the Iraq police said on Thursday. “The incident took place on Thursday in al-Ghazaliya neighborhood,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The source was unable to report any casualties as U.S. forces cordoned off the area. Taji: #1: A car bomb which parked near a parking lot at the entrance of Baghdad's northern suburb of Taji detonated on Thursday morning, killing a civilian and wounding five others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Kirkuk: #1: Gunmen in a speeding car attacked a police foot patrol in central Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding another, late on Wednesday, police said. #2: A roadside bomb wounded two civilians when it exploded in central Kirkuk on Wednesday, police said Mosul: #1: A sticky improvised explosive device (IED) on Wednesday went off in front of the house of an employee working for Baiji refinery, a security source in Ninewa said. “The explosion caused damage to the house, located in al-Qayara district (60 km south of Mosul), but no casualties have been reported,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Aug 27 2009 Iraq, Brooklyn: a return to the stories of Baghdad under occupation.

Well, the truth is we have been on vacation, and we love it!

It is sad to say that not much has changed in Iraq these past few months. N's neighborhood has, in fact, gotten more dangerous, and has less electricity and fuel than before.

We are starting the fall round of lectures and look forward to speaking with American students about the realities of life under occupation in Iraq.

If you know of any venues that might be interested in hearing us speak please let us know.
Peace to you and yours,
b and n

Aug 10 2009 21 Bombs, 21 Dead, and Felafal in Baghdad, Iraq

It was reported that in the last 24 hours bombs killed 21 people,and wounded anther 82. 

In Ahmed's neighborhood the police were attacked by a bicycle bomb and 3 died. Ahmed's brother is a policeman so we were naturally afraid to ask about him, but of course we did anyway. He is fine. He was at home when it happened. Two of the officers were under his supervision, and he had warned them just days before not to congregate at the same spot each day.

A bicycle rider detonated himself near a bakery in the neighborhood. The man went to the policemen and asked them to hold his bicycle while he went to the bakery. They said, "OK."  They died soon after when the bomb, hidden in the pipes of the bicycle, exploded.

The entire neighborhood was shut down, closed tight. Later the police stopped Ahmed when he tried to make a delivery of his home-made goods to a restaurant. "We know you very well, Ahmed, and we eat your food and we like you, but you are not allowed to ride the bicycle. They are all banned.

"But the curfew is over now?"

"Yes. But still...no bicycles are allowed."

...

"Now my family is in great trouble. I have no fuel for the car because the station in the neighborhood no longer opens. I have been delivering my baked goods to the restaurants by car until the station is closed. Then I did this by bicycle, but now I cannot do even that. The rumors on the street say these are Iranian plans to kill more people. But you don't know. We think the Iranians use bicycles this way. But you don't know."

"Each ten hours we have electricity only for one hour. I don't know what to do for money now. We are again afraid in the neighborhood. I tried again with the bicycle and the police stopped me again and told me that if I used it again he would take it and break it on my body. They are afraid...even of me."

Aug 8 2009 Things are fine in Iraq--NOT!

The short of it is contained in the myriad changes that have fallen on Iraqis as a direct result of our invasion and occupation of their country. While our media is quick to tell us about 'two new Masguf restaurants are open', and gains of this sort they rarely spell out the pain we have inflicted on individuals.

We do see, increasingly, lists of violent acts that take the lives and limbs of innocent Iraqis, but we rarely glimpse the smaller devastating differences in everyday Iraqi life.

Today we got this note:

So , I went to a church yesterday ... Wanted to light a candle for Marriam (pbuh) .. Yet I wasnt able to get in .. It seems that they r too afraid to let ppl inside anymore .. It felt really sad cos thats not how it used to be ...

Even under Sadaam one could go to pray to one's own god, whatever god that was.

[Seventh Day Adventist Church-Baghdad]

And when I asked Sameer what he had heard from his sister today he said, "Still you ask and still there is little electricity. No fuel, little food. And no work. Nothing changes."

And from another: "Today six pilgrims were killed and 24 were injured in three explosions in Baghdad aimed at pilgrims returning from Karbala.

I offer a prayer to the almighty to spare their lives – and to spare this fatigued country more woes."

It is time for the U.S. to muster its might and intelligence to deliver what the Iraqis need most: a great deal of help in areas like reconciliation, political management of internal conflict, basic services delivery, and training of civilian government workers. We poured billions into violent solutions. We could be putting money into things that will actually help the Iraqi people.

We have the expertise. We can afford the effort. We owe it to the Iraqis. Have you asked your government representative about this? Why not send them a note supporting real aid to the Iraqis, in a form that will provide them more peaceful tomorrows.
 
The long of it is reported daily on the internet, but rarely fully in most U.S. media:
Reported Security incidents: [Iraq Today]
Baghdad:
#1: A parked car bomb targeted a police patrol in al Jemiyah open air market in Khadhraa neighbourhood, western Baghdad at 8.30 p.m. Friday killing three policemen, three civilians and injured at least 30 civilians. The explosion also caused material damages to the shops and houses nearby.
 #2: A roadside bomb wounded two civilians in Amil district in southwestern Baghdad, police said.
 #3: A bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed six people and wounded 35 in a market in the mostly Sunni Muslim district of al-Khadhraa in west Baghdad on Friday, police said.

Diyala Prv:
#1: A sahwa (awakening) tribal fighter was killed and four others wounded in an attack by gunmen on their checkpoint in the district of Baaquba on Friday, a security source in Diala said. “Gunmen suspected members of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) network attacked a sahwa checkpoint in the area of al-Othmaniya, Baaquba, and opened a volley of fire at the guards on duty there, leaving one killed and four others wounded,” the source, who asked not to be named, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#2: Unidentified gunmen killed an owner of a money exchange store and wounded two others in central Baaquba district on Friday, a security source in Diala province said. “The gunmen later stole large sums of money from the store and escaped to an unknown place,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Thi Qar Prv:
#1: Seven Katyusha rockets on Saturday were found in Thi-Qar province, according to a local police statement. “In cooperation with the 8 th Emergency Regiment, a force from the Souk al-Shoyookh Police Department seized seven Katyusha rockets of 155mm caliber in al-Nawashi village of Souk al-Shoyookh district (30 km southeast of Nassiriya City),” read the statement that was received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Sulaimaniyah Prv:
#1: Insurgents attacked a checkpoint in Darbendikhan district, near Darbendikhan dam at 1.30 a.m. Friday killing one traffic policeman and injuring two others.

Hawija:
#1: An attacker threw a grenade on a U.S. patrol. Three civilians were wounded in the attack in Hawija, 210 km (130 miles) north of Baghdad on Friday, police said.

Kirkuk:
#1: A police patrol found the burnt body of a man believed to be an Iranian at a graveyard in northern Kirkuk on Friday, a senior police official said. “A patrol of the Azadi police station found on Friday evening the burnt body of a man with an Iranian passport at the Abu Alluk graveyard in the northern Kirkuk area of al-Musalla,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department (KDPD), told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: One cop has been wounded in an armed attack in Kirkuk City, according to a source from the Joint Coordination Center. “During a late hour on Friday evening, unknown gunmen opened fire on a bomb squad policeman in Baroud Khana area, northern Kirkuk,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Mosul:
#1: policeman was killed by gunmen fire in a crowded marketplace in central Mosul city on Friday, a security source in Ninewa said. “Gunmen opened fire at a policeman on a leave in the pedestrian-crammed area of Bab el-Toub, central Mosul, killing him instantly,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: Two policemen were killed in an attack by gunmen on a checkpoint southeast of Mosul city on Friday, a security source in Ninewa province said. “Gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint in the district of al-Nimrod district, southeast of Mosul, leaving two policemen killed,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Aug 5 2009 Iraqi AlQaida: Resistance Turns to Terrorism

It's only one story of two young men, but it says a lot. The similarity of their testimonies makes one wonder how many others found themselves on this path. When confronted with Iraqi-on Iraqi violence we often ask "Why?" and rarely have an answer. You can easily see how these stories serve to explain how so many young Iraqis came to make war on their own people.

They were college graduates of the College of Education when the U.S. invaded Iraq. No one was hiring teachers and professors were being assassinated. They found themselves with no jobs, and little hope for the future. They, like most Iraqis, witnessed innumerable horrors as the invasion morphed into a prolonged occupation. To fight against the invader seemed a noble act; a testament to love of country; a patriotic path.

Separately they joined different AlQaida groups. One was Sunni and the other Shi'a. There was a group of Arabs who gave them their orders; the Amirs. They took pride in their brave fight against the occupiers. They refer to the Arab leaders as AlQaida and state that they came from many different Arab countries. Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lybia were mentioned "among others".

They didn't realize that the nightmare of their situation would seem tame compared to the reality which awaited them.

Their testimony [Yaseen and Uday] was revealed in interviews by  رفاه السعد, Rafah AlAsaad, in one of the Faces and Stories segments of Dubai's El Aan TV. It is striking to hear them speak as educated men, not naive primitive people, but rather those who made rational decisions to take up arms. 

Feeling as outsiders, useless without jobs or future hopes, they wanted to 'do something.'  They became part of the Al Qaida in Iraq, with the initial intent of attacking the invaders. In addition to orders they received money and food. This was the only source of sustenance for them and their families.

[NOTE: AlQaida is not to be confused with Moqawama (مقاومة), the Arabic word for resistance. Moqawama was created with the Iraqi resistance to the American occupation in mind, but it could apply equally to any of the multitude of resistance movements being fought across the world today—in Palestine, in Chechnya, in the Basque Country, in Ireland, in Jammu and Kashmir, in Atjeh, and so on. The Moqawama are not foreign-led.]     

[NOTE: Moqawama is the M in the Palestinian group HAMAS.]

How do you turn a resistance fighter into a terrorist who kills his own people?

One effective way is to take videos of his actions against American troops, and these can then be used in threats against his life. Imagine the coercive power in a suggestion that he and the video would be turned over the the occupying forces with the promise of torture and death at the hands of those who fought alongside those he killed.

"They convinced us that if we joined and killed the occupiers this is the path to Jenna (heaven)."

By the time they were  commanded to kill certain Iraqis there were already ample examples of the torture and murder of those who refused such orders.

AlQaida was not on one sectarian side or the other. The Shi'a man in the interview killed Sunni; the Sunni killed Shi'a. These were orders that must be obeyed in the threat of death.In one instance a policeman was murdered when they were told that he was "a chief in the Mahdi Army [the Shi'a militia who killed many Sunni]. The orders came and we killed him."

"I wish Allah would protect the Iraqi law; to be alive and protect the old people in this country, and I hope the law will put extensive punishment on my life. This is my penalty. I deserve that."

When challenged that he killed Iraqis and now asks the government to take care of his parents he had little to say. "It was fear and regret. This is my feeling. I have nothing more to say."

They chose to live, and to kill.

Oday said, "I deserve extensive punishment and I wish the law in Iraq continues to be powerful and save this country."

Both, now sitting in an Iraqi prison, have had time to think, time to grasp the enormous evil in their actions, and express deep regret. 

[Of course I don't know what I would do in such circumstances. I hope I would choose death rather than murdering my own people, but it is easy to be brave while sitting at a desk in New York City looking out at the flowers in my garden.]

b

Aug 2 2009 Tell Me Why-Declan Galbraith

I don't know why this moves me so. Just click and watch the video: Tell Me Why-Declan Galbraith

He said,
“I like to record songs that are meaningful to me and the audience. I have recorded many different types of songs, such as “Tears in Heaven”, “Love of my Life”, “Nights In White Satin” and  “An Angel”, songs that demand vocal performance and interpretation. I love that kind of music " [more]