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My reaction to the December 1998 bombing of Iraq by the Clinton administration was sent out over the Internet, although I was not aware of this until I received an e-mail from an Iraqi physician living in London. It cut through the abstraction of "bombing" to see what happened to a single family. After my article appeared, a number of Americans began a correspondence with Dr. Al-Obaidi. I wrote this for The Progressive.
As Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were bombing Iraq on December 20, I received an e-mail message from England: