Waseem Salih :
am an Iraqi civilian. I do not hate Americans.
I have American friends I love like family.
No one leaves their homeland unless staying becomes hell.
We do not flee because we want to.
We flee from war, fear, poverty, corruption, and hopelessness.
They call it “freedom.”
We live the reality: bombs, dead children, destroyed schools, and collapsing hospitals.
We do not need more war.
We need safety, medicine, justice, and dignity.
“War is a place where young people who don’t know each other, and don’t hate each other, kill each other, by the decision of old people who know each other, and hate each other, but don’t kill each other.”
We are not asking for pity.
We are asking you to see our humanity.
We are not your enemies. We are people trying to survive.
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