
Watching the West Wing in Baghdad Green Zone w/ Yousef Baker
The East is a Podcast
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The West Wing in the Green Zone
"I was into random soliloquies for no reason about American democracy but the guy who sold me those DVDs like this the first time I met him he was like he he was um uh he had lost an arm there was something wrong with his eyes," she says. "He showed me all these pictures of of his car being completely demolished and he told me the story of like he got hit by a tank and the tank went over his car" She describes how people were shot, killed or maimed when they tried to drive next to U.S.-backed tanks during occupation. 'Every single person there had a story and you know what are you supposed to do'
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