Letters to the Editor
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Can Salon verify who exactly "Riverbend" is?
Who is "Riverbend?" Can Salon answer that question with any authority? "She" has been publishing a blog for well over 3 years now, all while remaining safely and completely anonymous. She, or he, or they never a have a bad word to say about Saddam Hussein, or the despicable "insurgents" who murder her fellow iraqis every day. We have no idea whether she is a she, or a he, or a they, whether she even lives in Iraq, what her past relationship was with the regime of Saddam Hussein and his Baathist thugs. In the meantime, other Iraqi bloggers, like the men writing for Iraq the Model, actually sign their real names to their pieces and risk their lives by doing so. Salon and others who have embraced the anonymous "Riverbend," risk any credibility they have by publishing a writer whose background remains entirely obscure.