Where is Raed? - Iraq blog

[TacticalPeek]

For a while he seemed to be posting sporadically, but I see he's back in form.


Monday, January 19, 2004 ::

Actually, the explosion in front of the Presidential palace two days ago happened in
the 13th anniversary of the 1991 war, the war that destroyed everything, but left the
rest of Iraq and his neighbors to be milked slowly.

There was a boring 80s American movie about rodeo and bulls on mbc/channel 2 (my
favorite movie channel). That clown who saves the hero every time reminded me of
the UN in Iraq, every time Americans either need someone to justify some plan they
attend to do, or someone to hand over a catastrophe they cannot handle, everyone
will see the clown rushing to offer his services.

Today’s demonstrations in Baghdad were a bit huge, and people were shouting “Yes
for elections, Yes for democracy”, “No for those who came from outside to rule us”

When the situation was building up slowly in the south, no one even noticed them. All
the focus was on some attacks happening in the middle region of Iraq.

Me: Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the most irresponsible of them all?
Me: I mean .. why didn’t anyone notice what was happening in the south?
Myself: Because of the extremely pragmatic method of solving problems, the
no-vision-plan is based on solving the everyday troubles and forgetting anything else
happening without noise.

Me: Will the Americans give Shiaa their democratic elections in the south?
Myself: NO.

Me: What do u expect to happen now?
Myself, bush and bremer: WE DO NOT KNOW

Welcome back to Iraq, Mr. cloUN.


:: raed 7:53 PM <+> ::

http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/

[bobbieinok]

1. interesting quote on left

"the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
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Samuel P. Huntington

[TacticalPeek]

2. Also interesting, the British occupation of Iraq.

Our last occupation

Gas, chemicals, bombs: Britain has used them all
before in Iraq

Jonathan Glancey
Saturday April 19, 2003
The Guardian

snjp

The British responded with gas attacks by the army in the
south, bombing by the fledgling RAF in both north and south.
When Iraqi tribes stood up for themselves, we unleashed the
flying dogs of war to "police" them. Terror bombing, night
bombing, heavy bombers, delayed action bombs (particularly
lethal against children) were all developed during raids on mud,
stone and reed villages during Britain's League of Nations'
mandate. The mandate ended in 1932; the semi-colonial
monarchy in 1958. But during the period of direct British rule,
Iraq proved a useful testing ground for newly forged weapons of
both limited and mass destruction, as well as new techniques
for controlling imperial outposts and vassal states.

The RAF was first ordered to Iraq to quell Arab and Kurdish and
Arab uprisings, to protect recently discovered oil reserves, to
guard Jewish settlers in Palestine and to keep Turkey at bay.
Some mission, yet it had already proved itself an effective
imperial police force in both Afghanistan and Somaliland (today's
Somalia) in 1919-20. British and US forces have been back
regularly to bomb these hubs of recalcitrance ever since

snip

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939608,00.html