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Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Holiday from History |
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Saturday, 18 March 2006 |
I was at home in Baghdad listening to President Bush addressing the nation that “Operation Iraqi Freedom” was underway. The operation started at 5:33 AM local time, Mr. Bush was telling the Americans and the world, that Saddam Hussein had to go, he has become a very serious threat to international peace and security and an intolerable menace to his people and his neighbors. Diplomacy has failed and that the only option left to him was to remove the dictator but now that conflict has come, the only way to limit its duration is to apply decisive force. Many Iraqis like myself have been anticipating the war and hoping that its end would herald a new era after the terrible years under Saddam. We believed that the regime change would be followed as president Bush had on several occasions publicly promised that when he would be finished with Saddam he would immediately initiate with the Iraqis a major program of reconstruction of their dilapidated country and to build a new political structure in its place which would guarantee a democratic, secure and a prosperous Iraq. We were to be let down and disappointed, the Americans failed to honor their promises and their mistakes and blunders which followed the invasion had contributed to the current chaotic and very messy situation. This mess is also and to very large extent is the responsibility of our new political leadership who with the Americans seem to have taken a holiday from history.
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The Iraqi Situation: Very Serious Threats of Civil War |
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
During all the months of watching the pain and agony our country has been going through after its occupation by the Americans in April 2003, and in spite of the great deterioration of the situation in all its aspects I have never imagined that things might drift so terribly into what looks now like a very likely civil war. I have always imagined that my country and people are unfortunate enough to face such a calamity but one deliberate very brutal and deadly atrocity is threatening to do just that. During the early hours of Wednesday February 22nd the Al-Askary Shrine in Samara one of the four most important religious shrines to all Muslims and the Shiites in particular was targeted by a small gang of criminals disguised as policemen and driving police who were able to gain access to the shrine immobilized its guards, laid down high explosives beneath its sky high golden dome which dominates the skylines and fled. The dome was in addition to its religious significance a piece of a most fascinating beauty, a first class piece of art, when the explosives were detonated a bit later the dome collapsed and the 72,000 pieces of gold which adorned it were left in the ruins of the damaged mosque that’s when all hell broke loose.
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The Iraqi Situation: A Bitterly Divided Society |
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Thursday, 16 February 2006 |
At last, on Friday February 10, 2005, the Iraqi independent electoral commission released what it called the final and official results of the last election. The British Foreign Secretary said immediately that this was a great leap in the democratization of Iraq. The results were accepted by the international committee which was looking into the dozens of complaints and grievances and after a very critical judicial process. The committee decided that all of the complaints should be disregarded and that everybody should accept the result of the elections and that the Iraqi politicians should start immediately to form a government that includes all sections of Iraqi society to start the process of building the new democratic prosperous Iraq!
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The Hanoudi Tragedy: Nazar's PayPal Account |
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Monday, 13 February 2006 |
A very kind couple suggested and in-fact has already contributed to a PayPal account to help us in the care of our son Nazar. Nazar is still in a very serious condition as a result of the injuries he has sustained for almost two years now following his indiscriminate and absolutely senseless shooting by an American soldier an incident we are still waiting for the American authorities to explain. Most of the web site readers know a good knowledge about the nightmare with which we have been living for all these months (Nazar's Story). In addition to its physical and psychological strains a truly unbearable financial burden, because of my son's condition require a 24 hour a day job. Nazar is on a very complicated medicinal regime, he needs very specialized nursing with consumables most of which are not available locally. We have to get the medicine from abroad plus a special food formula since he is fed and hydrated through a special naso-gastric tube a food which is again impossible to get locally. All this with the costs of his nursing care and his physiotherapeutic regime are costing a fortune, we are not rich and I have not been doing any work during the long months of the tragedy. The only support we have been getting was from a small number of relatives and friends and waiting and hoping for a miracle to happen.
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