neurotic Iraqi wife
November 29, 2006
The Draculas of Iraq...
So Bush claimed that Iraq hasnt slipped into civil war...Hmmmm and a big Hmmm too. What does he call whats happening right now then??? A game of Hide and seek??? Or maybe its a practice tournament for a "real" civil war. Who is he kidding or trying to kid??? His own people??? The world??? Is he trying to insult my intelligence, or yours or the worlds??? When will he, the generals, the Iraqi govt come down from their high horses and admit that Iraq has become a state of choas eaten up by the sectarian plague. When?
Ask anyone here, anyone, and they will tell you this IS a civil war. Ask a 5 year old kid and he would know exactly what you mean by the word sectarian, something I only learnt when I was in my twenties. The bombings in Sadr city what do you call that??? The burning of sunni people, what do you call that??? The ethinc cleansing taking place in all parts of Baghdad, what do you call that??? The name killing, what do you call that??? Mr Bush, spare me the BS, and for once, once in your life say something truthful. Listen to what the real Iraqis are saying, what the ordinary average Iraqis are saying and not what the corrupt govt is claiming. How can you believe in people who came to power by using fatwas and religeon to their advantage??? How can you believe in people whose allegiance is with the countries that sustain these killings??? It will be interesting to see what will go on tomorrow in the summit held between Maliki and Bush. I wander what storytelling will come out of it.
Iraq is in Civil war, wanna believe it or not, it is happening. If Bush doesnt believe it, then how can he be practical in making decisions that affect the 26 million people living here??? He brought on the Iraqi Study Group, which does not include a single Iraqi person. How can you solve a problem without knowing its roots??? Take the example of a deaf elderly man, who can barely talk. Falls unconscious in the middle of the desert. Some bedoins gather around him and take him to the nearest tent. Wakes up and the guy has amnesia, how will the person looking after him give him medication without having anyone that knows him, knows of his medical history??? The people that bought him in would have no clue, they will be hopeless. They may come up with their own analysis, like oh he probably had a sun stroke, he may just need some rest, or he was too thirsty give him some water, or he walked too much and from exhaustion he fell. When in reality, the guy may have been diabetic and no one would know...End result without his proper medication he will just die.
I know its a lame example, but thats the best I can do after working for more than 14 hours today. But you get my point??? The 2003 war was painted a rosy picture before it took place by people who rarely lived in Iraq. By people who left Iraq under Saddam's regime and fled to neighbouring countries or to the US or UK. Look what happened then, instead of the roses that was promised to be thrown on the forces, stones were being hailed. And ofcourse death, death upon the Iraqis themselves and death upon the forces. Now you bring a study group that is made up of Americans, whats the point??? You willing to do the same mistakes AGAIN??? You gonna put the Iraqi blood in jeopardy AGAIN???
This is a war of misinformation, just like I described in a previous post. Bring on the good news, bring on the bad news, bring on the metrics. Same is happening for the umteenth time. I dunno why its so difficult to utter the words "civil war" and "its happening". Are they waiting for Iraq to disappear and then wake up one day from their la la land and say "oh what happened? where did all the Iraqis go???" Is that what theyre waiting for??? Cuz if thats the case then wave good bye to my country.
My country that has been eaten up by the plague. By the plague that has many masks. Militias claiming to protect their shrines, gangs claiming to protect their religeon, resistance claiming to fight for their beseiged leader, forces claiming to shoot the resistance, foreign fighters waging their "jihad" war. Masks upon masks, yet the end result is one. The end result is the obliteration of the innocent Iraqi human. The eradication of the innocent Iraqi blood. They all have become draculas, draculas feeding on the Iraqi blood.
Yes, my country, the greatest country Iraq, has been eaten up by the plague. Whereas mr Bush stands infront of hundreds, thousands and even millions denying to put a name to that plague, that plague that has swallowed thousands of lives already. Hundreds of thousands of lives gone, gone just like that and there remain only the draculas. The Draculas of Iraq...
Ask anyone here, anyone, and they will tell you this IS a civil war. Ask a 5 year old kid and he would know exactly what you mean by the word sectarian, something I only learnt when I was in my twenties. The bombings in Sadr city what do you call that??? The burning of sunni people, what do you call that??? The ethinc cleansing taking place in all parts of Baghdad, what do you call that??? The name killing, what do you call that??? Mr Bush, spare me the BS, and for once, once in your life say something truthful. Listen to what the real Iraqis are saying, what the ordinary average Iraqis are saying and not what the corrupt govt is claiming. How can you believe in people who came to power by using fatwas and religeon to their advantage??? How can you believe in people whose allegiance is with the countries that sustain these killings??? It will be interesting to see what will go on tomorrow in the summit held between Maliki and Bush. I wander what storytelling will come out of it.
Iraq is in Civil war, wanna believe it or not, it is happening. If Bush doesnt believe it, then how can he be practical in making decisions that affect the 26 million people living here??? He brought on the Iraqi Study Group, which does not include a single Iraqi person. How can you solve a problem without knowing its roots??? Take the example of a deaf elderly man, who can barely talk. Falls unconscious in the middle of the desert. Some bedoins gather around him and take him to the nearest tent. Wakes up and the guy has amnesia, how will the person looking after him give him medication without having anyone that knows him, knows of his medical history??? The people that bought him in would have no clue, they will be hopeless. They may come up with their own analysis, like oh he probably had a sun stroke, he may just need some rest, or he was too thirsty give him some water, or he walked too much and from exhaustion he fell. When in reality, the guy may have been diabetic and no one would know...End result without his proper medication he will just die.
I know its a lame example, but thats the best I can do after working for more than 14 hours today. But you get my point??? The 2003 war was painted a rosy picture before it took place by people who rarely lived in Iraq. By people who left Iraq under Saddam's regime and fled to neighbouring countries or to the US or UK. Look what happened then, instead of the roses that was promised to be thrown on the forces, stones were being hailed. And ofcourse death, death upon the Iraqis themselves and death upon the forces. Now you bring a study group that is made up of Americans, whats the point??? You willing to do the same mistakes AGAIN??? You gonna put the Iraqi blood in jeopardy AGAIN???
This is a war of misinformation, just like I described in a previous post. Bring on the good news, bring on the bad news, bring on the metrics. Same is happening for the umteenth time. I dunno why its so difficult to utter the words "civil war" and "its happening". Are they waiting for Iraq to disappear and then wake up one day from their la la land and say "oh what happened? where did all the Iraqis go???" Is that what theyre waiting for??? Cuz if thats the case then wave good bye to my country.
My country that has been eaten up by the plague. By the plague that has many masks. Militias claiming to protect their shrines, gangs claiming to protect their religeon, resistance claiming to fight for their beseiged leader, forces claiming to shoot the resistance, foreign fighters waging their "jihad" war. Masks upon masks, yet the end result is one. The end result is the obliteration of the innocent Iraqi human. The eradication of the innocent Iraqi blood. They all have become draculas, draculas feeding on the Iraqi blood.
Yes, my country, the greatest country Iraq, has been eaten up by the plague. Whereas mr Bush stands infront of hundreds, thousands and even millions denying to put a name to that plague, that plague that has swallowed thousands of lives already. Hundreds of thousands of lives gone, gone just like that and there remain only the draculas. The Draculas of Iraq...
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Reminds me of Kofi Annan that said Iraq was dangerously close to slipping into civil war. I am of the opinion that a civil war has been ranging for quite some time, yet politicians keep fooling themselves that it's not a civil war going on, but more of a sectarian violence a la Northern Ireland.
Before the war, millions of people took to the streets chanting "violence begets violence". Bush called us a "focus group", as if the lessons of war hadn't been learned time and again throughout history. But the truth is that Bush never cared about the people of Iraq, just like he didn't care about the young men and women he sent half way around the world to kill and be killed. It's just a ploy: the members of his administration are buisness men and the reason Iraq was invaded was for buisness purposes.
Everyone knows it's a civil war, even Bush. But he cares more about his reputation than truth, justice, and the lives of innocent people. Now that's evil! Under his calm mask lies a terrified man. He really is facing a war crimes trial, no wonder he bought land in Paraguay!
But above all that lies a country in ruins, millions of lives destroyed..... and no one in the world, no matter what their agenda, seems to have an answer. I'm so sorry NIW. What else can I say? I'm so sorry for what has been done to the people of your country. In this modern age humanity has so much to live for, and yet the bloodshed won't stop! If only we could resurrect Bob Marely and make him leader of Earth... Aside from the pipe dreams, though, us Americans need to HUMBLY go back to the UN, apologize profusely, and ask for help. I'm not sure who'd want to, but at least it's something!
Please stay safe and remember to take care of yourself and your mind.
NIW,
Do you think that an American can do anything to help the situation on any level? I am trying to think of some way I can involve my child's school. We can collect new toys or school supplies for Iraqi children. Please give me some of your thoughts on this.
I agree with everything you said. I live in the USA and all I have heard from Bush and his band of criminals is lies. This has been going on since he was elected. I think he is starting to believe it himself. What a idiot he is. He is a idiot who has cost many people there lives.
People here in the US also are referring to it as a civil war, in fact, even some of the news organizations here are saying such. For example, NBC, has come out and said it. The White House issued a strongly worded response disagreeing with that terminology. I think that it's unfortunate that the White House can't admit what is going on, and help.
NIW,
The reason they don't want to call it "civil war" is because the American public does not want to be involved in an Iraqi civil war. To call it that or not to has little effect other than to encourage Americans to leave. So why is it important to call the killing by that name and that name alone? The world will not care more about Iraq if they think they are in an internal war only, they will care less. Look at Africa. All wars are called "civil war" there even when they include many nations (like in the Congo, for example). That is the western medias way of telling people, "don't worry about it, its an internal matter". Thats why four million Afrians died and no one bat an eye. Is that what you want?
Bush doesn'r want to use the term 'civil war' because then he would be obliged to pull the troops out, and that would admit he was WRONG. He's got the wolf by the ears, as Thomas Jefferson famously said. I certainly have no answers, just a question of those who argue for keeping troops in Iraq. Why?
Great work sister, you never run out of words do you? I'm reprinting your post.
http://cyberray-rays.blogspot.com/2006/11/iraqui-wife-report-fron-front.html#links
This is not a civil war. If this is a civil war, you obviously wouldn't even be there. If this is a civil war, everything will stop. This is more of gang war between warlords and thugs, on a massive scale. Believe me, if this is a civil war, nobody will be walking on the streets but combatants. No amount of curfew would even work if this is a civil war. Forget about markets being open for anyone to buy food. That's the first thing that's going to be affected. The control for food.
Make up your damn mind. Hey we can still bring back Saddam. He hasn't hung yet. People really have very short memory. Take out a monster, then they easily forget what the monster did. You should be blaming Al Sadr, and the Baathists, and mostly, your new lame duck President Maliki. Obviously Maliki doesn't have the interest of all the Iraqi people. He dances to the tune of Al Sadr and Iran. The only mistake the US made was rushing to establish Iraq's government, when obviously Iraq is not ready. Another mistake is allowing all these "returnees" to run the country.
NIW ~ I have read that the borders of Iraq were created by British colonialists, not the Iraqi people.
What is your take on the partitioning of Iraq into seperate countries? Would it be so terrible in the long run to say hey if we can't live together, then we will live seperate. I lack understanding in these matters, and I apologize if I'm missing the bigger picture on this, I'm just wondering.
What I have always found so surprising, in the run up to war and everything after is how little the opinions of the people of Iraq matter. What do the people outside of the Green Zone want? What is their opinion? Why is it so very hard to find a video of an everyday Iraqi talking about the future of the country?
As a follow up to my last post:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=891513925297288257&q=iraq+women&hl=en
I saw this video and it really changed the way I viewed the situation. What is your take on this video NIW?
Howie,
are you sure that the US troops are up and active in restoring law and order in Iraq?
You said:
What would you have us do? Kill more? Of whom?
But the US is doing that: killing more innocent civilians! who are you fooling? The US now is no difference from those terrorists and militias who just randomly shooting here and there!
Leave and let y'all kill each other?
Y'all not doing anything to stop the killing, so why staying if y'all are not doing anything but to make the situation worse?
Leave and let the Iranian's come in and kill and then Syria further open the door to let the Sunni warriors flow in freely?
Last I heard that the US is begging the Iranians for help!!! What does Talabani there is doing? shopping in Tehran?
But your attack still leaves me with no clear answers, likely because there are no simple or clear answers. There is NO decision that will not be harmful.
True, thanks to the mess the US administration created with its decisions after the toppling of the butcher of Baghdad
And remember Papa Saddam? Would it have been better if we left him to do as he sadistically pleased.
oh yeah? but was the war about weapons of mass disctruction, no, sorry, it was about links with Al Qaeda, no wait a minute, it was about micky mouse...
What was the last lie? exporting democracy and freedom! Yeeeeah, right!!!
Why are you not a Bush fan?? because he is not admitting that what is happening in Iraq is really civil war, which means that the US has failed in Iraq?
Again, the same old rhetoric troweled out. Bush is an idiot (oh, you're a a major in international relations from Georgetown ? - you bore me, anonymous) Is/isn't a civil war. What difference does it make.
Again (10th request here??) provide
concrete, logical steps, explain based on intimate knowledge of Iraq what the CONSEQUENCES of those steps will be, stop the shrill crap, and then and only then is it suitable for discussion. NIW certainly has spelled out the situation on the ground very well tho.
If not then maybe mr. president can explain to us why he decided to meet Iraqi puppets in Amman instead of Baghdad!
Where are his sudden visits?
If the President of the United States declares that the conflict in Iraq fits the definition of a civil war, US troops will be gone within a few months. Perhaps a few bases will remain in Kurdistan from which Kurdish and select Iraqi forces will receive assistance. Then a real civil war will ensue with rival factions supported by Iran and Saudi Arabia completing the demolition of what remains of Iraq. From a democratically elected government, the voters get the government they deserve, and the 'great' nation of Iraq is getting what it deserves. The great Iraq experiment has delivered definitive data: Arabs can not exist in a democracy. Rival tribal cultures require brutal rule to coexist. Let them find that brutal ruler and if he is counter to US interests, blow the place up again, only do it more thouroughly and without remorse next time. Whatever happens to Iraq, it is time Iraqis be held responsible. We offerred too much already, and have accepted far too much of the blame for what was squandered.
To me, the violence in Iraq does not prove that Iraqis and Arabs can't handle democracy. It proves how much they need it. This sort of deep seeded self-hatred must have been there all a long and was only being held back by Saddam - hidden away from the media - even from Iraqis. It shows how powerful he must have truely been - hence all the more justified this "experiment" is! As long as democracy fails - there is violence, slavery and oppression in its place.
"Arabs can not exist in a democracy. Rival tribal cultures require brutal rule to coexist."
NIW, it seems your forum is being over run by ignorant racists. There's some insightful comments to be found here, yes, but this type of crap has soured your space. It's as if the freepers stumbled upon your blog and are now using it to proclaim their self-serving propoganda. Barf.
Hi NIW, it's dahling again. Last night I stumbled upon this article and was quite surprised that this hasn't been spoken of in the mainstream media. It relates to my first post, the partitioning of your country, kind of a reshape of the Middle East.
Here's an excerpt:
"Prime Minister Olmert and Secretary Rice had informed the international media that a project for a “New Middle East” was being launched from Lebanon.
This announcement was a confirmation of an Anglo-American-Israeli “military roadmap” in the Middle East. This project, which has been in the planning stages for several years, consists in creating an arc of instability, chaos, and violence extending from Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria to Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Iran, and the borders of NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan.
The “New Middle East” project was introduced publicly by Washington and Tel Aviv with the expectation that Lebanon would be the pressure point for realigning the whole Middle East and thereby unleashing the forces of “constructive chaos.” This “constructive chaos” --which generates conditions of violence and warfare throughout the region-- would in turn be used so that the United States, Britain, and Israel could redraw the map of the Middle East in accordance with their geo-strategic needs and objectives."
It does look nasty over there, and time is running out. I supported the war once, quite gung ho over it, in fact, but not anymore. It's not a war when you can sight the enemy but are restrained by lawyer politicians from killing him. Fully half of the US wants out of Iraq now. In 2008, if there is a Democrat president, I'm sure that number will go up to the 90 percentile. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be fighting a war with Dems in charge, and I will be one of the voices screaming for a pullout. We might have pulled the trigger and got the bad guy, but who the hell knew what sort of shit was going to hit the fan afterwards? The Iraqui religious factions can kill themselves into paradise en masse, for all I care, just no more US soldiers.
Good luck. I really mean that. I just don't think that the current US (and future) administration has the wits and fortitude to do what needs to be done.
What is the significance of calling what is happening a "civil war" or unrestrained "mahem"?
I think that there are two answers. One is legal. It is the same reason why people quibble over whether Darfur is "genocide" or "mahem." The term carries with it legal ramifications, and those ramifications are not helpful to the current situation in Iraq.
The second answer is one of degree. Ordinary folks hear "civil war" or "genocide" and they hear something worse than "mahem". At some point, the degree of "worseness" equals "hopelessness." At that point, how many "common" folks want to risk their finances, the lives of their friends and relatives, etc on what is a hopeless venture? In fact, the rational course of action is for them to cut their losses and blame those who lead them into the hopeless situation.
As I read your post, I read it as, "If people would be honest with us and themselves, admit or recognize the seriousness of the problems, they would work to fix it." I don't think that this is accurate. If people are convinced that its a huge, hopeless, blunder, the majority will wash their hands of it, blame Bush and everyone else, and extricate themselves from it. I hope I'm wrong about that, but I believe it to be true, and it is this belief which makes me want to avoid calling it a "civil war". I think that it makes matters worse, and I also hold that belief that, as bad as they are, they can get worse.
I have really enjoyed reading your blog over the years, and you and your husband have my respect, the sort of respect that one has for another who does what seems impossible and persists in doing it against all odds.
Iracula?
No not me!
I am X Y Z
? Road map for peace? Seems more like the "Hit the road map for peace" to me.
Is the chair very warm. Are we playing musical chairs yet?
Confiscate all the boom boom and the bang bang. Do not kill Sad Dam. House arrest him under the toilet seat and let him P.A. everyone to unify and stop the fighting. May be he will find religion. Unfolding? Unfolding onto Syria and Iran? Call Iraq North Kuwait and South Turkey?
And thanks Ronnie Ray-gun for American flaging Kuwaiti oil tankers all those years ago. ? Good move?He was head knocking the Vietnam war protesters then. We are unable to protest now. Realy.
Real reality.
N I W : Please keep your head down and play safe. Everything changes . Nothing exists without change, Change is the only constant constant.---
True suffering-- True origin of suffering--True cessation of suffering-- The true path on this basis.
Calm abiding.............
YES THANK YOU VERY MUCH, WE WERE BETTER OFF WITH SADDAM!
HE IS AN A**H*** BUT IN ALL THE YEARS HIS TYRANET REGIME WAS IN POWER, HE DID NOT MANAGE TO KILL AS MUCH IRAQIS AS YOU DID IN 3 YEARS!
I JUST LOATHE AMERICA I DESPISE THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND THAT HATRED IS FED EVERYDAY BY THE RISING NUMBERS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE KILLED FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR EVIL POLICIES!!
STOP PORTRAYING YOURSELF AS OUR SAVIOUR YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE YOU ARE SURVING YOUR OWN AGENDA, I LOATHE LOATHE LOATHE YOU...
NIW, I appreciate your blog, but I would enjoy it more if you included more specifics about your country, your neighborhood, your daily life, what people around you are saying, and less about cryptic references to dracula, and media words like metrics.
You live and work right there. So write something that a blogger from Michigan can't write.
To the blogger Dahling, I find the notion of dividing up the entire middle east far fetched. Especially details like Iran losing land when they are gaining in power. Dividing up Iraq I don't think is in the cards, either, although that's more doable. I listened to an interview on npr and someone explained that most don't understand how intertwined Iraqis are with each other, even though there is sectarian violence. Baghdad is a mix of all of them, so where do you put Baghdad? And who gets the good land with the oil? Everyone has a theory but no one explains how theirs would work.
First even the bastion of Brillance
has Jimmy Carter has stated on CNN
that using his definition of civil
war ... Iraq is not yet in a civil
war ...so why do not all you
people now bash Jimmy Carter
The fact is the overwhelming
majority of Iraqi want peaceful
coexistance ... and though certainly 100 of thousands have been displaced by ethnic cleansing and suffered they have
NOT yet joined and participated in the violence ... in addition
al-queda is in Iraq and so are Iranian agents which can spark violence at any time ... so
define your terms first ....
Have all the Shia engaged in violence against the Sunni ???
Do all Sunni now support
al-queda and the FRE ???
Are all the provinces engaged in this war ???
And do you know what ... had the US
not invaded Iraq we would all have
seen the Amnesty International
and Human Rights Watch
reports claiming how bad Saddam
was for the last 4 years.
And how does anyone know that
Bush does not care for the people of Iraq or the US Soldiers !!!
What an idiotic comment ...
Are you a mind reader ???
OK you can read minds ... well then
tell Bush where Bin-Laden is by reading Zwahiris Mind ???
"
The US now is no difference from those terrorists and militias who just randomly shooting here and there!
"
Oh really hoiw many innocent Iraqi
have died this past week at the hands of American soldiers by Random shooting you shithead
How many ... you mean in Anbar
where the Marines fight al-queda
everyday ... thats wandering around killing people at Random
you piece of Shit of I find out where you live I would smash your
fat wise ass face in ... The US Soldiers have taken losses trying
to preserve civilian life ...
and you make a stupid comment ...
200 people die in Car bombings
in one day last week and you claim the US
forces are behaving like these terrorists
Oh and Maliki is in on it too ...
thats why he approves of US Forces for at least another 6 months ...
you see Maliki loves seeing Iraqi
die ... well whats his agenda
ist it all business interests
for Maliki also ???
... I swear to God
if I find you I will smash your face in you bastard stating
that the American forces are just
like the suicide bombers that killed what over 1000 Iraqi police
recruits ... yes thats right
US soldiers are just like them ...
Gunning down people in Minibusses
too ... how many attacks on MiniBusses over 300 ??? Yes thats right American soldiers jump
out of there Humvees and riddle
MiniBusses with there machine guns !!! ....
OH and of course the US Soldiers
are blowing up Iraqi government officials and oil pipelines too
You are a shithead
There are opinions about whether the violence in Iraq can be called a civil war or not. From the Iraqi perspective on the street, it is moot. It is violence and death, pure and simple, that is happening on their streets and to people they know. From a geopolitical perspective, it is important to define whether it is truly civil war occurring in Iraq or not because if it is civil war, the USA will be pushed by the Democrats to assume the war is lost and a pullout will occur of US forces. If you are one of Al Quaida and its Shura council or Sadr's militias, this is what you want because it opens the greatest opportunity for you to take over Iraq not caring that all of you would turn Iraq into a smoldering cinder fighting among yourselves. For the bulk of the Iraqis, regardless of your sentiments about foreign occupation, this will be a change for the worse.
For comparison, the Lebanese Civil War, almost next door, can be used as a benchmark. In that war, about 150,000 people died, multiples of that injured, multiples of that displaced. Even without the ratio of less than 4 million compared to over 26 million in Iraq taken into account, the level of violence in Iraq still pales to what happens in a real civil war. You had Black Saturday in which 600 people died in a single day, and that wasn't the worst of the Lebanese War. You had two known massacres of 1,000 people each not to mention the 2,000 Palestinians dead when Syria decided to invade on the side of the Maronites. When civil war occurs in Iraq, you will have refugee displacement in the tens to hundreds of times of what is happening now. You will have armies fighting to take territory from each other with the USA being unable to stop them even in face-to-face combat. When a civil war truly occurs in Iraq, there will be no debate or doubt from anybody. So, from a geopolitical sense, there isn't a civil war yet in Iraq. The potential is there as Iran continues to supply Sadr's militias and Syria continues to supply Al Quaida and its Sunni allies of convenience. But in order to keep the far left seeking to dominate the Democrats at bay, we can't say that a civil war is truly occurring now.
I read this and other blogs often. I never see people asking what they can do on a personal level to help. Instead, I see people bickering over one point or another. Instead of insults and arguments, why can't people ask or suggest things we can do to help???
Nice post, NIW. I blogged about similar topic and I totally agree with you. Hope you don't mind me reprinting this post on my blog?
Keep up the good work.
You know what, I guess it doesnt make a difference whether Bush says its a civil war or not. The fact of the matter is, whether you agree with me or disagree it IS one, and people are dying innocently because of the sectarian hatred that was sprouted from within the political parties.
Some of my colleagues say that its an outside power that is doing all the killings, some point the finger at Iran and others at neighbouring countries, like Saudi. But who knows??? I sure dont. And to those who keep saying we are ungrateful and that Saddam should have stayed in power, I will say this to you. Dont be smug, my country is dying, literally and Iraqis need to vent. Yes I do agree that we forget easily the fear that was dominent in Saddam's time but at the same time, people were atleast able to go out of their homes, children were able to go to schools. I am not saying he was a good person, god forbid, all im saying is that now is definitely worse than before, and I believe many Iraqis who are living here and have no hidden agendas, do agree with me.
Why do you think Iraqis are leaving their country??? Do you think its so easy for someone to leave their country, their relatives, their homes??? I dont think so. But people are leaving cuz life here has become unbearable. Theres no point in the blame game. Now is the time to rectify situation. How, go read thoughts from Baghdad, she has a good plan. INfact many Iraqi bloggers have come up with good ideas. Asterism has a summary of some of that on his blog. Check it out. As for me, Im gonna take a break from political crap cuz it really is crap, youre doomed if you dont say something, and youre doomed if you do...
Renee, as for your question, there are many things one can do. Maybe you can email me and we can talk about it. I know of people sending books, backpacks to schools etc...Toys sound like a good idea. But I have to find out how to do it and where to deliver it to. You know what, better still, I will ask my colleagues and see what is needed for kids, and lets see what they come up with. Thanx for trying to help, I know you mean it.
moody crab, sure you can...
And to everyone else, thanx for your continious support, I really do appreciate it...
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وبعشق السخرية الفارغ
يحصدون نفوساً مغشوشة جنيت بمنجل الانتحار
مستحيل أن يكون الطريق إلى الفردوس مرصوفاً
بجثث الأبرياء - عبر نهرٍ من الدم
اعتنقوا مد الحق وجزره الرائع في قلوبكم
تقبّلوا الشك والعار أينما كانوا
لكي تدركوا أن النفس تسعد بالعطف وليس بالانتقام
سطع صوته كالضوء وقال:
ابحثوا بشجاعة في أعماق قلوبكم
بلا نفاق ولا خداع ولا إجحاف
وحين تلمسوا الايمان هناك
ستنزل الكلمات الالهيه دواءً للقلوب
مثل مطر أبدي يجذبه البحر دائماً
حتى يرتفع ليملأ حرم النفوس
بودٍ عميق هادىء ويغدو سلاماً
على شواطىء العزم الالهي.
[أرض الموتى في الأساطير الاغريقية*
أبريل 2006
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