Bridge Into Stillwater
Jane Stillwater, the hopelessly naive pacifist who was nevertheless determined enough to reach the American combat zones to try and figure out what’s going on over there, has returned from Iraq. Her success there was limited, but she plans on heading back soon enough.
And this time she is determined to get embedded and see some actual combat in Baghdad’s Red Zone, she said Thursday.
“When I was there I saw everything inside the Green Zone, but I never got to see combat. You can’t see Iraq like that,” said Stillwater, 64, of Berkeley. “It’s like going to the zoo and not seeing the elephants and lions.”
A longtime blogger and full-time, self-described peacemaker, Stillwater, who is not a professionally trained journalist but a keen observer and a colorful writer, was inspired to go to Baghdad because of her outrage over the war.
While there, she filed 17 reports on her blog, jpstillwater.blogspot.com, between March 28 and April 17 from a borrowed computer in the Combined Press Information Center in the U.S.-protected, fortified Green Zone.
Her entries dealt with everything from the variety of Meals Ready-to-Eat to flying in a helicopter to Diwaniyah, skimming over rice fields, adobe brick compounds, sheep and cows, on her way to a news conference about a cleanup action conducted there.
We took a spin through her blog, and it’s really interesting material, political bickering aside. We encourage you to take a look, especially the aforementioned Iraq stories between 3/28 and 4/17 to get a glimpse into life in the Emerald City through the eyes of a Berkeley resident. There’s also a post about her Afghanistan travels for her upcoming book idea to look at (unfortunately, because she doesn’t seem to be web savvy, you have to go month by month to find the relevant info). But who knows; her travels to Iraq might not yet be done, because we find at this point that President Bush caring what an anti-war blogger from Berkeley has to say from the front line highly dubious. Boy’s got enough troubles.
Jane Stillwater’s Web Log [Blogspot]
Berkeley blogger hoping to see combat in Iraq [Inside Bay Area]
(Image from Sacred Run)
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