Iraqi goverment supports Mojahideen!
Good morning, afternoon and evening, wherever you are...
Its a beautiful shiny day here in Baghdad, its Saturday morning, and it hardly stopped raining since Thursday morning, or the night before, and till last night, the rain was very beautiful too: it brings hope, and it smells beautiful, and it cleans everything, including the sadness in my heart, I love rain! its one of the romantic things in life. I took two long walks under the rain, and went back totally wet, but happy, still, it would be great if they invent something to auto clean the glasses while raining, this is the only thing I missed during my walks;)
Today... The sun is strong and proud, its not hiding behind any clouds, I feel like it can't wait to enter every house and meet everyone to say good morning, with a big smile on the face, what a beautiful silly sun:)
Its important, to learn to get happiness, from the small things in life, I had to spend a lot of time with a friend that can't appreciate the beauty of what he sees, if we are in a beautiful garden, he would only notice the broken tree on the side and talk about it, if we see a beautiful house, he only notices the dirty window and talks about it, if we have a great meal, he only notices that all the spoons aren't alike, and that one of them belongs to another set. my friend, suspects everyone, and never trusts anyone, I know people that work with us, that have hearts of gold, that refuse to take money sometimes in return of their work cause they love us, that are willing to offer anything they have if we need it, but yet, he doesn't trust them, and thinks that they want to rob him somehow, one day.
I can't help not to feel sorry for him, he is lonely, and will always be, no matter how many people are around him.
Never mind! I am just mumbling in a loud voice:)
on one of the Iraqi TV channels, a governmental channel, there is a daily show that started recently, where police, interrogates real criminals that were arrested in Iraq, in front of the camera, we don't get to see the police faces, we only hear their voices, while the camera is focused on the criminals' faces, zooming in and out, all the time.
those criminals are "terrorists" that the Iraqi police and the un-national guard arrested, and they are the ones that are doing -supposedly- the beheading and the killing of the national guard and police operations, and also the kidnapping and stealing, rape and thefts, and every other thing that you might think of.
The police ask them: why do you do that?
For money, sir!
How much are you getting paid?
100$ for an operation, sir!
And what do you do with that money?
We buy alcohols and drugs, sir!
What is your advice for all the terrorists that are still fighting?
I advice them to surrender, sir, and to cooperate with the authorities, sir!
This is exactly what each and every one of them said, since the show started, and till today, showing many of them a day, and then you learn details about some of those criminals: they confess that they kidnapped girls and raped them, then slaughtered them. One of them, has a big beard, and then they tell us he is gay and was caught having sex with another man inside the mosque.
Another one, confessed that his mother is a pimp, and that his friends used to come to his house to "have fun" with his sisters.
And the story goes on..
And while these "confessions" are about to be over, this question should always come:
where does that money come from?
from the Syrian intelligence, sir!
and then the policeman voice, preaches them, telling them how low they are, and what kind of disgusting creatures they are, and how they stained the word "jihad" and how hypocrite they are, pretending to be mojahideen while they are hardly humans, and the policeman would also say: if you were real mojahideen we -police- would have been the first to follow you, you are thieves, rapists and thugs. Can you see dear audience? Those are the mojahideen that you hear about in your country, those are the ones that are fighting, those are the so-called resistance, low scum that worth nothing, real Iraqis should help capture them whenever you see them, they deserve more than just killing, they deserve to be killed a hundred times, if they attack only Americans, if they were honest, we would have been the first to follow them!
end of story, Khalid's turn to speak :)
people in the street talk about this show, and they have different opinions, a lot say that its all a theatre just to discredit resistance and to blame Syria, the Iraqi so called government is waging its tale to the Americans and trying to find more things against Syria to support the issue of their masters, other think that those people are real people and that all what is said is true.
I believe that it might be true, and it might be a theatre, but its obviously a "designed" show for a particular purpose, to discredit resistance and attack Syria, and that all those chosen to be on TV, are actually scum and deserve all punishment for everything they did, they are mercenaries that are paid to kill, and attack national guards and police more than Americans, and beside there acts, they kill civilians and rape women and kidnap people, so they deserve all the punishment that they will get, but:
what about the rest of the resistance, that aren't put on TV? The honest people? The ones that are dedicating their lives to fight the occupation? The ones that volunteer all their money and time, and risk their lives without getting paid? does that mean that, if someone, was fighting the Americans while he isn't gay or a rapist, and wasn't paid by the Syrians, and doesn't kidnap people, and fights the Americans cause he have faith in his cause, if someone fights for moral reasons, and kills so many American solders every day, would he get the full support of the Iraqi government? :*)
Another question: if the police would follow any real mojahideen at once, then why don't they start their own mojahideen squad and fight the Americans, to be a good example for the rest of the Iraqis? :*)
man this is funny! Such a naive propaganda, with bad broadcasting quality and horrible shooting too, I could have done much better work myself, with the small experience I have in the film making world! Man they can't do anything right even the propaganda!but what is even more funny, is the position that the Iraqi "government" finds itself in:
they want to make a show that effects people, I mean, real people, people in the street, so they cant just say the crap that they always say in the media cause they know that nobody would listen and nobody would watch, so they forgot that Americans are our liberators and all, and the modified their attitude to be acceptable in the street, and to do that, they adopted a totally anti American/occupation attitude, supporting attacking the Americans, in order to incriminate those who attack the national guard basing on that they are fighting the wrong enemy, and that national guard and police are Iraqis! And at the same time, they are honoring mojahideen by saying that jihad is a very honorable value and that those criminals couldn’t be mojahideen (which i agree with), which means that they support the others that they don’t show on TV, who are the real mojahideen!
The Iraqi government, through this show confessed without knowing, that the regular Iraqi person, is anti American and anti occupation, so they tried to look anti American to attract viewers.
And at the same time the government confessed that jihad is a very legitimate and honorable thing, as long as it's done right: by attacking the American soldiers only.
Thank you very much propaganda makers!
You know what else is funny?
A joke, I received by email that I would like to share with you, hope to draw a smile on your face:)
An old Arab lived close to New York City for more than 40 years. He would have loved to plant potatoes in his garden, but he is alone, old and weak. His son is in college in Paris, so the old man sends him an e-mail. He explains the problem:
"Beloved son, I am very sad, because I can't plant potatoes in my garden. I am sure, if only you were here, you would help and dig up the garden for me, I love you, Your Father"
The following day, the old man receives a response e-mail from his son:
"Beloved Father, Please don't touch the garden. It's there that I have hidden 'the THING'.I love you too, Ahmed"
At 4pm the US Army, The Marines, the FBI, the CIA and the Rangers visit the house of the old man, take the whole garden apart, search every inch, but can't find anything. Disappointed they leave the house. A day later, the old man receives another e-mail from his son.
"Beloved Father, I hope the garden is dug up by now and you can plant your potatoes. That's all I could do for you from here. I love you, Ahmed."
hehe:)))
Thank you Katie:)
Have a good day all of you :)
Khalid*
22 Comments
Let it rain! Could your friend be a realist? Could you be an idealist?
A realist sees things as they are and acts, seeking improvement. An idealist imagines things as they could be and acts, seeking change.
A realist and an idealist are caught in the rain. "I am wet" says the realist - and so he is. The realist goes inside and finds a towel. The idealist opens up his arms, turns his face to the clouds and imagines all the plants growing. When the idealist returns home he is refreshed and inspired to write for the betterment of humankind (and the realist has some dry clothes ready for him).
So long as the two have a shared goal in common, they can together build a strong structure - the idealist inventing new ways and the realist making refinements.
Julie Norem's book "The power of Negative Thinking" explores the "virtues of constructive pessimism".
What do I think moron99?
I think Bush is the boy with the stick, oil is the cow and that perhaps you can't appreciate the rain.
Insurgents? Never met one personally, I imagine one might draw an analogy with Girondists and the Jacobins. You have heard the story about the Girondists and the Jacobins, Moron99?
Welldone moron99
And here one imagines Bush's advisors trying to tell him exactly the same thing - but you know how he is with numbers.
LOL. You and I know how silly oil-digging is and can calculate the costly environmental impact, but our dear leaders just have no clue and as you say are not very good at the math.
Seeing as you seem interested in that kind of thing, you might like to visit this link (great article).
Ah, but enough with flippancy and entertaining ourselves in these fermentous times.
So back to old reality eh, where 28 years is a drop in the ocean - and aptly highlights why the Bush dynasty lines up genetic successors to democracies throne.
moron99, you're wasting your time with emigre. she is a 9 year old muslim, so that means she is immature and bias in favor of terrorism and beheadings. she believes terrorism is ok if it is to please her god allah. what kind of god would approve of this? im a christian and the god i worship is nothing like that maniac allah that muslims love. my god doesnt approve of beheadings. emigre wouldnt understand that.
moron99, you're wasting your time with emigre. she is a 9 year old muslim, so that means she is immature and bias in favor of terrorism and beheadings. she believes terrorism is ok if it is to please her god allah. what kind of god would approve of this? im a christian and the god i worship is nothing like that maniac allah that muslims love. my god doesnt approve of beheadings. emigre wouldnt understand that.
i think emigre, like khalid, supports the terrorists. it wouldn't surprise mf if emigre had something to do with the nightclub bombings in bali years ago. she needs to be dragged out into the street with her family and shot in the face too, just like khalid and his terrorist loving family
Hey I came here looking to judge the reaction to Khalids new article where as I see it he tries to bail water out of a sinking ship with a spoon. But no one is talking about it.
Where are all the usual suspects that defend and side with the resistance? Could it really be this bleak in the camps of the insurgents. Have they finally come to the end of their hit list. Maybe they will start to target livestock next.
moron99, i dont remember many beheadings and carbombings happening after the american civil war. someone once coined the phrase "kill them all and let god sort 'em out". whoever said that was a wise man. sometimes two wrongs make a right and violence can only be stopped with more violence. if the muslims were all put on trains and shipped to concentration camps and killed, then the world would be a much better place. nothing good has ever come from a muslim country. they dont invent anything useful, they dont make good movies or music, they dont make strides in the world of medicine and science, they are only poor savage animals that prey upon the rest of the world like wild dogs. they are cockroaches that need to be exterminated quickly for the good of the world.
Anonymous
As far as I am aware both Islam and Christianity value life.
Not belonging to any religion myself. My spirituality, is one of analogy and weather. And so it is that I share Khalid's joy in meteorology's small pleasures - in the sleet and the dew, in the rain and the shine.
Give to me a hail of ice, I would choose it over bullets any day.
So. How to end war and ease totalitarian disorder - send to Khalid an army of poets, for apart from moron99's creative accounting the pro-war cavalry have proven a joyless lot (and apart from the occasional swimming pool, all Halliburton's subsidiaries seem to be building are oil refineries).
Anon
On America, carbombings and beheadings. Interesting parallels. At a stretch we can keep this on track with the threads titled post.
America's current ruling party, the Republicans, are politically related to the Republican movement in France. In fact, so close were they at one time that the Franch Republicans made a huge bronze statue and gave it to the American Republicans, who set it up in one of their harbours.
The French Republicans were, how can I break this gently to you anonymous. Well, they were revolutionists. They were a fractious bunch, a mash of various opinions united under one cause who later broke off into two branchs. The Girondists and the Jacobins. The Girondists were only slightly mellower and for a while held the balance of power in something of a makeshift government, the Jacobins held more extremist views and overthrew the Girondists. The Jacobins were responsible for declaring France's reign of terror and putting to work the guillotine and as we all know, countless heads rolled.
They didn't have cars back then, so no car-bombings as such. I imagine the streets were lined with horsecarts full of prisoners and headless bodies. An equally appalling mess.
So anonymous, your insurgents have more in common with George Bush then one might think. Not to be presumptious, but very interesting reading here. As double posting is to blogging, so is history to the almanac.
Hopefully, with each repetition humanity will eventually get the hang of making changes - harming itself less at each turn.
Personally, I'd rather head for the mountains and herd goats.
emigre, you wanted so hard to tell people your little story you read somewhere about the jacobins and girondists, which i think is nice and all, but sadly its all garbage. the first president considered to be a republican as we know them to be today is lincoln and the first "modern" republican president was reagan. he was the person that today's republicans have modeled their politics from. so your idea that bush has a lot in common with a bunch of crazy french people from the 1790s is insane at best, and a flat out lie at worst. i suggest you do more research instead of watching michael moore movies all night and believing everything he tells you about the world. movies like that are for small-minded fools. maybe you actually know something about history and politics, i dont know, but when it comes to US foreign policy and american history, dont make a fool of yourself by posting ignorant comments about things you know nothing about. now go eat cookie little girl. its almost bed time for you.
Moron99
While the Klu Klux Klan were/are terrible, they were/are not revolutionists. They were lead by land owners and clergymen. Their mandate was not social change, but of protecting their assets. An unfortunate analogy to chose, moron99, in the wake of asset motivated war and Abu Ghraib.
The keys to successful democracy are active minds. A social order based only on trust runs the risk of becoming an order that forfeits autonomy under false pretense. Such an order is hardly worth living.
Anon ~ next comment laced with insult and straying off topic from you gets deleted. The only reazon you're sore is because someone beat you to the punchline. Now go and brush up on your history, if you're going to behave like a Jacobin you might as well do some role play research.
" The point of Em's story is that western (and Eastern) transition away from totalitarian rule has always left a trail of blood and death"
Well, if Em actually agrees with this.... then what exactly is it she is always complaining about. I mean if we are all agreed that every time that you move a society away from a totalitarian system, violence follows, then there is nothing about our introduction, as opposed to home grown, that would add or subtract from the necessary violence. That's if we are all in agreement with the point.
Anyway that's not why I came by. Where's Khalid?
On a blog note, Em have you looked into the new pop up comment page thingy, I think it responds faster.
Em, I do like your flower, I also wanted to find an abstract image to put up as my picture, But can not think of anything to use :(
Any suggestion
Moron99 - re question
When logged in under your user name, you should be able to see a little grey rectangular trash can looking thing beneath each of your comments (you may need to use imagination - otherwise it'll just look like a grey shape). Click it, and you'll be prompted with another screen that asks if you want to remove the comment.
Left your q for you try it on.
(Observation - democracy displaying grave disparities in the equality stakes when women are still showing men how to pick up after themselves - in these areas we could do with much change. The progressive amoung us must watch for these things, let us not lapse as the republicans have).
The Klan have more in common with South Africa under Aparthied, a system also eventually overthrown by insurgencies.
America's republicans fear the Mujahideen because America's republican roots lie in insurgency also. Speaking as we have been, in terms of French dissent and American civil war, America's current role in Iraq might be compared to foreign rule in America during it's independence wars. Cross border insurgency assistance could perhaps be compared to instances where America's indigenous population fought at times alongside the French.
We can be informed by history, but in the end this is not America, or France. It is a blog about Iraq.
So, enough of indulging you all with talk about yourselves. I have other fish to fry.
Oh alright then, one more. Then bedtime for all you boys.
The point of my story, madtom, was to encourage understanding by explaining things in terms moron99 and anon might get.
Moron99 analogously proposed democracy was a cow (LOL) that the Mojahideen had a big stick and that America was a little old lady with a sugar cube.
Then he proposed that if the Mojahideen laid down their stick the little old lady would leave.
Later on anon said to moron99 that he didn't remember any beheadings in the late 1700's, which surprised me because I thought anon sounded much younger then 200.
So I sought to clear things up a bit and cast the Mojahideen in a role republicans might understand -to cast the Mojahideen as Iraq's republicans. And perhaps, who knows, perhaps they are a little.
Personally, I don't think war solves anything and Bush is in over his head now.
Wow Em. You missed the heck out of the old lady and the cow parable.
The insurgency is the young man trying to make the cow move. The US army is the cow that everyone wants to move out of Iraq. The little old lady is the people of Iraq and the sugar cube is a peaceful government by majority consent.
Never have I seen so many commenters so neatly hooked!
Richsanter ~ On overstepping the mark in comparing the Mojahideen to George Bush. Oh yes, it had occured to me the Mojahideen would agree with you there. I am sure many would find their dignity compromised, as you do yours. Goodness, you have more in common with each passing hour! The road to peace is surveyed first through common ground.
Anon ~ Bravo! And this is the great thing about parable and analogy - it works on so many levels. Thank you for telling us what we all need to hear - the army is a cow.
And moron99 ~ Democracy works best when people speak. It is better to speak then to remain silent and find oneself herded onto a cattle cart.
As Khalid says, the wise find joy in life's small pleasures and words can be such when spoken without intent to maim.
Hi Bruno
Nice to see you, for a moment there I thought putting on a show for Khalid was all up to moron99 and me (and I was running out of things to keep him going). So far we have agreed that oil wars are bad, that the Mujahideen are people just like the Americans are people, and that blood and guts is all pretty atrocious really.
Well, now that you have turned up I'll go water my peace lily and let the two of you get on with talking to yourself.
in peace, as always.
Moron99
One day you are all unity and turning the other cheek, the next you are snidely comparing family members. Sounds like selectively dividing and splitting to me moron99, not to mention flipfloppy.
Khalid and Raed consistently level their criticism at one source - an occupying army. They do not stoop to the level you have, moron99, by comparing bloggers to prove personal bias.
Khalid keeps in contact with many people of differing opinion, many of whom who have been unfoundedly critical of him. This is an admirable quality, rare, and one deserving of respect, moron99.
Kurdistan Bloggers Union No Longer Use Comment Pages, To Discuss..
we have made a forum for discussions...
you may like to come and join us ..and like to us .
http://northerniraq.info/forums/
we have special place for iraq issues
Post a Comment
<< Home