« Because They Have Guns | Main | Autumn »
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451c64169e201053591d1cc970b
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference We were Iraqis once… and have a country:
This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
"Inside Iraq" is a blog updated by Iraqi journalists working for McClatchy Newspapers. They are based in Baghdad and outlying provinces. These are firsthand accounts of their experiences. Their complete names are withheld for security purposes.
"Once upon time we were the cradle of civilizations. For many ages we were the rulers of empires"
Why does the 'parent' who rocked that "cradle" not recognize its 'children'?
Isn't it the identification with labels and associations with concepts that has led to the divisions that keep us from recognizing our true selves, our Oneness?
Isn't it interesting that we've come to killing one another over religious notions, political affiliations or ethnic identities?
We need to carefully investigate this idea of separation that so bedevils us.
Posted by: Michael | November 15, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Stan - this is a blog of one Iraqi's opinion, which happens to be widely shared inside Iraq. It is not propaganda - that is what the US military puts out.
And, Stan, you remind me of Ms. Rice - she thinks that "Iraq, far from being destroyed, was fully integrated into the Arab world...." while last weekend hundreds of thousands of Iraqi were burning her in effigy.
A report on what Rice said here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7681000.stm
Pictures of the massive protest, where bush & rice were burned in effigy, and where Iraqis indicated that they want US troops OUT of their country here:
http://facesofgrief.blogspot.com
Scroll down to the many pictures.
Posted by: Susan | October 23, 2008 at 01:58 AM
Typical McClatchy propaganda. Instead of the news on reductions in violence, or the Iraqi army taking the lead in operations as US troops lower their visability, we get this confusing "... and have a country" plea.
Iraq HAD a brutal dictator. Iraqis NOW have a country.
Posted by: Stan | October 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM
I think this was very well written.... and very sad.
I saw more pictures of an anti-occupation demonstration in Iraq - large numbers of people - but not as many as I have seen in the past (April 2004 had a very large protest). I wonder if having a protest right at the US bases would be effective, and if maybe it should go on 24 hours a day for months.... MAYBE that will get through??
Actually, the Iraqis put us to shame in anti-occupation demonstrations..... we don't get nearly that many people out.
Posted by: Susan | October 21, 2008 at 02:52 AM
When the americans were in Viet-Nam, there was only one thing made them feel bad.
The peopel screaming:
YANKEE GO HOME
YANKEE GO HOME
YANKEE GO HOME
And that, needs to be screamed in all the streest of this ancient civilization of Marduk, and Horuous, and Nimrod,
Marcus Aurelius;
Posted by: Marcus Aurelius | October 20, 2008 at 12:49 PM