Three days before Ramdan, about 500 Iraqis were killed and injured in Baghdad today. The casualties are the biggest since February 2008 and instead of shopping and preparing for Ramadan hundreds today will take their beloved to grave or to hospital. Instead of receiving the holy month of Muslims by forgiveness the killers decided to receive it with blood.
    How much more difficult can life be for the people  when they have to face an enemy that enjoys killing innocents on one side, and on the other, have a government that never makes enough effort to help or  to admit its failure.
    I dare any Iraqi minister to resign; I dare the minister of interior, the minister of defense, the commander of Baghdad operations and the prime minister. If not you, Mr. Minister, then any one of the spokesmen who are not doing their jobs properly. 
    Baghdad’s streets started to get empty. The devastation that these bombings left behind reminded me of how it was two years ago. And to make it worse, some satellite TV channels that belong to Iraqi political parties found their chances to promote sectarianism to win the upcoming parliamentary elections. 
    One thing was not the same:  there were no American troops on the ground but helicopters that flew on hi levels.
    Al Qaeda and other groups will do their best to make the American troops stay in Iraq and not to concentrate on Afghanistan, or at least to keep the American military fighting on more than one front. That’s why the reason behind anything happening here can relate to American military.
    But the list of reasons can be long. Some will benefit from the deteriorating security situation to win elections by raising fear among the people among sects and ethnicities. These bombings also show the persistence of these criminals to undermine any effort to pacify Iraq. 
    The Iraqi government problem is not capabilities or anything else. I believe their problem is that their will to win is weaker than the determination of the terrorists. It’s a matter of loyalty.
    Today’s bombings are not the actions of a weak and scattered organization. It is not the work of someone who is afraid. It is the work of someone who is in control and free to move in Baghdad, these words came from Al Baghdadiyah satellite channel, which had to broadcast news from its Cairo office because of damage in their Baghdad studio due to a bombing in eastern Baghdad.
    Here in Baghdad fear can be seen in faces and can be heard in voices it is not the fear from the explosions; it is the fear of going back to the years before 2008.
    We know al Qaeda is returning because the military and police officers have told us so. That doesn’t make it easier to see the victims and the destruction of these bombings. It makes your heart ache. Seeing Baghdad, the city that we love more than anything, bleeding for all these years make us wonder will be there someone care enough to be with the people and leave their post, will be there someone in the government will be fired or resign for not accomplishing his duties properly?!