Tuesday - July 13, 2004
Quagmire?
I've decided to add a new blog site to our blogroll. It's a site I've been watching for quite a few months and the folks there are finally starting to publish regularly with some very interesting stories. It's called Iraq The Model. You may have already heard of it and may have visited it. If not, I urge you to add it to your list of favorite sites to regularly visit. It's run by Iraqis and it's for Iraq. They tell you the stories that the major news media don't tell you. While AP and Reuters are reporting on prison abuses at Abu Ghraib and the "quagmire" the US is in over there, the folks at this blog site give you the other side of the story from the people in Iraq themselves.The bloggers at the site include: Mohammed (a 34-year-old dentist in Samawa City), Ali (a 33-year-old doctor in Baghdad) and Omar (a 23-year-old dentist in Baghdad).
Recently, Omar posted a really nice article after he took a drive around his neighborhood entitled "One Square Kilometer". There are several great pictures and a commentary that you really should read. As a teaser, here is a picture of a recently opened internet gambling casino with a very appropriate name ....
Other articles, posted recently include today's about the IP (Iraq Police) arresting hundreds of "gangsters" in certain bad sections of Baghdad last night after arresting over 150 earlier this month. The descriptions of the thugs arrested detail the neighborhoods and the criminals who inhabit them, as well as their activities. These are not "freedom fighters" as some in the media would have you believe but I'll let Mohammed, Ali and Omar tell you what these people really are. They know better than any of us here in the US what the Iraqi people are up against.
Isn't it about time the UN, NATO, the EU and the Dummycraps in the US got on board and started trying to help these good people? It's time to put the war behind us, forget about WMD's (let the military continue to clean up what's left), stop the finger-pointing and help these people get back on their feet and start to enjoy their Allah-given inalienable rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. After all, isn't that why we're there .... and it's the absolute least they deserve after 35 years of a brutal, monstrous dictatorship. They don't want a "handout". They just want a "hand up".
Posted by The Skipper
on 07/13/2004 at 06:48 PM
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