"Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs me that we're going to war with somebody we know absolutely nothing about. Name one Iraqi poet, one Iraqi woman activist, one Iraqi singer. Name one Iraqi novelist. You can't. And how can you go kill someone you don't know anything about?"

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Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

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