Thursday, September 23, 2004

Pain and Sadness

The last few days were really horrible... the number of car bombs in the street is more than the number of the regular cars :*( so many explosions everywhere...So many kills everyday, a very small percentage of them ( the killed people) are American or from the occupation forces, and the rest are Iraqi people. Quran states that whoever kills an innocent soul is like he killed every soul on earth, i cant imagine that anyone can consider himself a Muslim would do that. so many theories about the party behind all that, you just open the discussion and hear every funny theory in the world.
today a taxi driver told me that he *knows* who is putting car bombs in front of the army employing offices, he said: they are Iran and Syria
and i was like "huh?" and i said: "why the heck would they do that?!"
he said "its all an American plan! The Americans are planning to make an Iraqi army that is strong enough to invade Iran, that's the plan they will invade Iran using the Iraqi army! And Iran and Syria want to make sure that doesn't happen!"
i pretended that i didn't hear that, and i didn't say a word:)
the other day i was sleeping, and then a really strong explosion happened, although i found out later that the car bomb was few kilometers away from my place, but yet it was strong enough o slap the doors inside the house, so of course i woke up, i panicked for a small part of a second before my brain realized it was only an explosion and got back to sleep, the thing that happened for the rest of the second that i panicked in, is that i was telling myself: what's up big guy, are you getting soft? Now an explosion wakes you up in panic?
well, it was only a small part of a second, but yet, it wasn't normal!
many people ask me, why don't you leave, you have a place in jordan, go live there, day after day, Baghdad is becoming intolerable, this evening i drove by some metal junk on the airport street, which are what's left of a car that exploded yesterday, and the cars that were around it, it just doesnt look real to me, all this, i deal with it like its a movie, i don't think that it could be me in any of these cars, i just continued my way, and thought that some trees beside the street were beautiful. (did i mention that i was in my way to the dentist? Isn't it just horrible this drill he uses to torture people who don't brush their teeth long enough?)
i had to do some paper work, in Karrada, it takes few hours to go there and come back, although its a few kilometers trip only, the traffic is just unbelievable, you would never expect to see that number of cars in one place in your life, over 1 000 000 cars entered Iraq since the invasion, and the number of streets is decreasing day by day, the occupation closes more streets to insure their safety.
is this ever gonna end?
the airport street used to be a small part of the heavens, so beautiful, trees and flowers, green grass and palm trees, now its ugly sand, with tanks hiding between what's left of the trees, after the occupation cut and burned every tree to make sure no one hides there.
the street itself used to be one of the finest and smoothest, i remember driving over 200km/hr when i wanted to test our car, the one that was hijacked, now its more like Swiss cheese, filled with holes coming form so many explosions happens on daily bases, increasing sometimes and disappearing other times.
Baghdad, the city of peace and love, the city of science and literature, doesn't exist anymore. Baghdad, where everybody is proud, where everybody can smile, is no longer there!
an ugly occupation, millions of unemployed people, economic crises, looong lines o get fuel for your car, suffocating traffic jam, killing, looting, hijacking and explosions, that is what Baghdad is all about today.
when one walks in the street, you look behind your shoulder, you are afraid to be kidnapped, or killed by thieves, or by the occupation army, by mistake, as usual, or get a bullet from no where, but still when i walk i remember the words of our National anthem:

My homeland...My homeland..
your youngesters shall not get tired, of wanting independency, and dying in their way to have it.
we would rather drink from the glass of death, but we wont be slaves for the enemies...
we shall not accept, an everlasting humiliation and a miserable life...
we shall not accept that..And we will restore your great glory...
My homeland....my homeland...

and i let my tears flow down....
me*(

11 Comments

#9/23/2004 12:29:00 am Assalam Aleikom Anonymous Anonymous

That's your "national anthem"?? Let's hope the new Iraqi government changes it.

Julia

 
#9/23/2004 09:50:00 am Assalam Aleikom Blogger liminal

I just saw that video Raed put a link to on his latest post. It's terrible. If those are civilians, which they seem to be because they are not hesitating or running away...this is a gross misconduct. I don't believe this video has surfaced. Can we be sure it is in Fallujah. How can we be sure? Let's find out. Seriously.
lim

 
#9/23/2004 12:24:00 pm Assalam Aleikom Anonymous Anonymous

they were walking in the middle of the road not ducking and tacking cover next to the walls as all armed militants do, they weren't expecting any danger around when they get hit!!!!????

 
#9/23/2004 12:43:00 pm Assalam Aleikom Blogger A. Damluji

Yeah thats the new anthem, however, the good parts were left off and we were presented with the darker side of things.. anyways, cars and people will continue blowing up untill someone decides once and for all to NUKE us all out of existence, and then, ONLY THEN, will peace be achieved in Iraq.. Oh...
Islam? what has Islam got to do with bombings? Islam is DERIVED FROM THE ARABIC "SALAM" meaning PEACE, not explosives, not death and CERTAINLY NOT bombs..
Jihad you say? Jihad in origin means to WORK HARD. WORK does NOT mean KILL. work hard in school, in offices, in your home, WORK HARD to please Allah and everyone around you.
thanx but really, anybody who thinks this killing and maiming is what Islam is about, raise your hands so we can see you.
13out.

 
#9/23/2004 11:14:00 pm Assalam Aleikom Blogger madtom

Khalid,

You are right about one thing, those terrorist don't give a shit about Iraq or the Iraqi people, as they are only fighting to reinstate the dictatorship and to prevent any true Iraqi democracy from growing.
That taxi driver had it almost right, we are going to use Iraq to invade Iran, just not with any army. We are going to invade the whole area with freedom. those terrorist will try to burn Iraq to the ground to prevent it, the more Iraqis die the better for the terrorist.
Think about it, the taxi driver has a better grasp of the situation than the 3/4 engineer. khalid you have not passed the driving test yet.

Madtom

 
#9/24/2004 01:17:00 am Assalam Aleikom Blogger Alvaro Frota

To Madton:

Your concept of "freedom" is as mad as you name...

AF

 
#9/24/2004 10:52:00 pm Assalam Aleikom Anonymous Anonymous

There are hurricanes in Florida during which people don't have electricity or clean water for an extended period of time. But they don't react by going out on the street and rioting, blowing up their neighbors or committing a widespread crime spree. And censoring out my comments doesn't demonstrate that YOU have made much progress in learning basic civility.--button -- *http://eclectchap.blogspot.com*

 
#9/30/2004 12:34:00 pm Assalam Aleikom Anonymous Anonymous

- Sonia -
i wonder if there are any sights i could go visit to listen to the anthem.

and where can i see that video clip?

 
#11/08/2004 09:22:00 pm Assalam Aleikom Anonymous Anonymous

U know thrs no comparison of a hurricane in Florida to an unjust war in Iraq...A hurricane is something no one has control on, its just something that makes man helpless...in front of God's Power ...but an unjust war....unjust killings of thousands of people at the hands of people who call themselves 'peace lovers' ...thrs just NO comparion!

 
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