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Luturb
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 Posted: 05/13/04 - 14:43 Post subject: Iraq Blogs...interesting perspectives
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Saw this posted on another board and it's a very good read.
http://iraqataglance.blogspot.com/
Blogs by soldiers, Iraqis, parents, etc. Lots of perspectives on the war from people who are involved.
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Ikkan
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Posted: 05/13/04 - 14:47 Post subject:
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Ooh awesome 
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Pankrat
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Posted: 05/13/04 - 15:04 Post subject:
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Wow, this is some really good stuff. Thank you!!
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Hi Friends,
Regarding the horrible act of beheading the poor hostage Nicolas Berg, there is no use in expressions of horror and condemnation, but it is necessary to express sincere condolence and sympathy with the family of the victim.
But I would like to inform the American friends that beheading was known to be one of the techniques of the Fedayeen Saddam. The late Uday, the son of Saddam commanded that particular outfit. I think it was the summer of 1999 when we woke up some morning to be shocked by some horrible news. Before we tell you about that it is necessary to recount something that has some bearing on the subject. You might have heard that an assassination attempt against Uday had taken place in 1996, which left him with injuries that caused impotency. This made him even more cruel and sadistic than his usual self. It has been revealed after the fall of the regime that he shot the doctor who broke the news to him (c.f. interview with one of the close bodyguards of Uday at Al Arabia last year). This added one more complex to his extensive repertoire of psychological problems. He started to hate anything to do with other people having any kind of **** pleasure.
Well, that horrible day we learnt that the night before the Fedayeen had attacked scores of houses and dragged women and young girls to streets and beheaded many with swords leaving the heads at the doorsteps of the victims houses. Some of these heads were left in place for more than twenty-four hours. The atrocities lasted for several weeks. The pretext for this behavior was a campaign against prostitution. The women who were beheaded were alleged to be prostitution madams and some of their young girls. I remember that my young boys came home suffering from shock as one of these houses was in our area and they knew the occupants quite well. The victims were taken by surprised and there was nothing to arouse their fears before that night. This was typical of the Baathists when they planned some atrocity to attack suddenly at some predetermined moment without any previous warning. Throughout the reign of the Baath party and particularly the Saddam era, it was customary to suffer periodic atrocities carefully planned and imaginatively variable to keep the people terrified all the time. It was considered necessary not to leave the people too long without some thing awful to keep them intimidated properly. The Baathists were masters of the “Terreur”, and it was the essential means of their hold on power. In fact what we see now is something rather similar. It is a similar technique; they are trying to intimidate both the Iraqi people first but mainly the western people. They will stop at nothing. You must understand that this is their only expertise; their sole training and method and way of thinking. They think they can inspire fear and terror into the Coalition forces and their people and leadership exactly in the same way that they did with the Iraqis. They think that they can intimidate the whole world exactly in the same way that they did with us.
So I just wanted to say the above to help people understand why these horrible things are happening: You are just being treated to a small sample of what we suffered for more than three decades.
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Posted: 05/13/04 - 15:20 Post subject:
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What the f**k is a "blog"?
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Pankrat
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Posted: 05/13/04 - 15:25 Post subject:
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It's a website where people keep a log our journal and talk about whatever. This is a link to an Iraqi dentist's website, his thoughts on current events in Iraq etc. there are links to other Iraqi blogs and soldier blogs on there as well...
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Posted: 05/13/04 - 15:35 Post subject:
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Thanks:)
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Luturb
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Posted: 05/13/04 - 16:23 Post subject:
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I believe it's short for "weblog"
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Confused
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Posted: 05/13/04 - 16:25 Post subject:
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| Kbarr wrote: | | What the f**k is a "blog"? |
I learned what a blog is when Akronn claimed that I got all my arguments from blogs. I had to look it up to figure out what the hell he was talking about.
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Luturb
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Posted: 05/13/04 - 16:32 Post subject:
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| Quote: | Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Tomorrow !!
Tomorrow is a great day, yes.. A great day, we have to celebrate, we MUST celebrate, I MUST be happy, all the schools and colleges MUST prepare for this day otherwise......., come on, all Ministries, all the institutes MUST make parties, all the streets MUST be adorned with ornaments and flowers, all the B.....ts MUST hold meetings discussing what they are going to do tomorrow, come on B....ts you MUST get ready to buy tons of cake for the party.
BUT... wait a minute, I don’t see any preparations!! where are the flatters? where are the presents? What’s going on? The people aren’t afraid ?!! impossible! We used to be ready for this anniversary many weeks ago, Hmmm.. I’m sure there’s something abnormal...
Hahaha.. Tomorrow is Saddam’s blessed birthday April 28 !!!!!!!! but he’s not here, so come on Iraqis, don’t be rude, let’s get there at his new house and throw a piece of cake in his jail !!
Thank God, we don’t have to pretend anymore, we are not afraid, tomorrow is an ordinary day, we have many channels to watch, we won’t be watching at Saddam’s channel anymore, we are not afraid from that decree that Saddam used to state on his birthday after he finishes many bottles of Whisky : ‘Let all the prisoners get out, this is a noble deed from the president, but don’t steal and kill.. OK.. ? come on ..feel free to roam in your country’ ! That’s why the criminals love him.!
Thank God, Saddam has gone forever, I hope someday we Iraqis, Americans, British and all the brave people who liberated us make parties and celebrate, cooperate and live in peace and build a prosperous world for our children and for us...
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lauren000
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Posted: 05/13/04 - 17:05 Post subject:
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they should setup a news station in Iraq designed to report to the Iraqi people and allow us to see the broadcasts in the USA. That way all the other news stations will stop airing their biased-outsider-opinion-garbage, and we can actually get objective news from people that know what they are talking about. Documentries on Saddam's former regime and the scandles, persecution, etc would make it easier for the American populace to understand the necessity of invading Iraq.
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Pankrat
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Nuldaan
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Posted: 05/13/04 - 20:55 Post subject:
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Thanks for posting this, Brutul. I spent a good portion of the last few hours reading through the various Iraqi blogs. Very interesting reading. Very encouraging actually.
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Luturb
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Posted: 05/14/04 - 00:50 Post subject:
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I felt the same way. It really made me feel better about the whole situation.
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Nuldaan
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Posted: 05/14/04 - 04:07 Post subject:
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I was surprised to be honest. I expected to read a bunch of rants about how the U.S. is ruining their country. Instead I found a nearly unanimous opinion that blamed the current problems on the various militias and fundamentalist clerics.
Overall, it gives me a lot of confidence in their ability and will to straighten out their country.
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