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The Iraqi Situation: An Unusual and Tragic Week |
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Monday, 04 July 2005 |
The week starting Monday the 27th of June 2005 was an unusual week in the current saga of Iraq and its people. I am not suggesting that the previous weeks were peaceful and enjoyable and the people were secure and well provided for, they were all painful and agonizing. Last week was unusually frustrating and extremely worrying. The week started with a really tragic incident, a student of mine a very nice young man recently married who had a few months old daughter was shot dead by the Americans near his house. The incident was doubly traumatizing to me because of its very tragic nature and the similarities it bore to our own 15 months nightmare myself and my family are living the result of the senseless shooting of my son Nazar by an American soldier on the 29th of March 2004. The 28th of the month was the first anniversary of the much publicized handing over by the Americans of the sovereignty of occupied Iraq to its people. The week also witnessed a very heated debate between two factions of the Bush's administration on the future role and the duration of the presence of the American forces in this country, a debate that is going against the Bush administration and is throwing it increasingly into a state of extreme hesitation and confusion.
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The Iraqi Situation: Six Months After the Elections |
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Monday, 27 June 2005 |
The Iraqi January 30, 2005 general elections were hailed by the Americans and their allies inside and outside this country as historical and very successful. Now, six months after the elections we have a National Assembly, a Presidential Council, a cabinet and a committee for drafting the permanent constitution. But we have no security, no essentials, no electricity or energy supplies and to chillingly cap the terrible mess we are in now, we have no drinkable water.
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The United States: The Long Short War |
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Sunday, 19 June 2005 |
The selection of the title to these weekly chatters is very often more difficult than the writing of the letter itself, because I always try to embody in the title as much as I actually put in the piece itself. Making up mind as to what to call this week’s was relatively easy, I have just finished reading a small book by a well known and a widely published writer, TV and radio commentator, Christopher Hitchins. The book’s title was A Long Short War, which was acclaimed as an essential reading to those who are interested in understanding the greatest global crisis of the last decade of the last century which has bitterly divided the American people and many others all over the world.
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Iraq: Life Under the Occupation |
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Sunday, 12 June 2005 |
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I am afraid that what I am talking about today or at least a fraction of it would be construed by some of our blog's visitors as an overstatement and unbelievable. This is acceptable, for the very simple reason is that a lot of what is happening in this country at present is stemming from the detrimental interferences in its affairs by invisible and very often not very invisible players who are interested in their greedy secret agendas only. What is happening to this land and its people is not of a great concern to them.
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