'Voices of Iraq' -- Oct. 17, 2004

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Three filmmakers distributed 150 digital video cameras to people throughout Iraq and asked them to describe life after Saddam. The result is a documentary called "Voices of Iraq."

Voice 1: "Like the world, we want democracy, computers, Internet, not what we are dealing with now."

Voice 2: "Was it better under Saddam?"

Voice 1: "No, now is better -- much, much better."

Voice 3: "I hope to travel outside of Iraq."

Voice 4: "I hope the world will see our smiles."

Voice 5: "I hope Iraq will be the greatest country in the world."

Voice 6: "I know Americans. When you get into conversations with someone they say, 'I did not come here to change your religion; I came here to get you freedom.' If I knew this was going to be freedom, I wish to get back to the situation before the war."

Voice 7: "Under Saddam, we had security but worked for nothing. Now there's no security, but I earn a living."

Voice 8: "After 35 years, now we can travel, we can see everything. So now I have my passport. We have our passports."

Voice 9: "So Iraq was [a] big prison … and now I think it's open."

Voice 2: "Our situation is terrible. We have been through everything you could imagine. We're not even safe in our own homes."

Voice 6: "Just one message to the president, George Bush, and the next president and the American people: I want every soldier to leave and to pull the troops here from Iraq because you do not know what both are suffering."

In this week's "Funnies," more mileage from the debates. …

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno:

Leno: "The candidates were asked if they thought homosexuality was a choice. And John Kerry said it wasn't a choice. Good thing for him it's not. If it were a choice, he'd still be going, 'I don't know, maybe I could, I could not.'"