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Words From Iraqis on This Day

1 bq. Hail our true friends, the Great People of the United States of America; The Freedom giving Republic, the nation of Liberators. Never has the world known such a nation, willing to spill the blood of her children and spend the treasure of her land even for the sake of the freedom and well being of erstwhile enemies. The tree of friendship is going to grow and grow and bear fruit as sure as day follows night. And the people deep down at the bottom of their hearts, they appreciate. Make no mistake about that. The people have voted today, the pulse of the street is clear, without any hesitation I would give 90% of all Iraqis are hopeful and supportive of the new government, and this is a tacit indirect yes to the U.S. which has been the prime mover of all these events. This is what the foolish fail to understand. Why is this a different situation from that for example of a Vietnam? The answer is very simple: Because, the U.S. has achieved something very popular around here; which is the removal of the Saddam regime. Those who are really against the U.S. from amongst the Iraqis have been and remain a small minority; all other forms of resentment are simply disappointment and disgruntlement resulting from the discomfiture of the present situation and will simply disappear with progress and gradual improvement. -- Aala Read the rest. 2 bq. Our hope and our goal is to see the day when we can elect our representatives freely and more important is to be aware that the process is moving as we wish and there will be no room for those who dream of bringing back the past.
I can see only one bright road and I believe that going to the end is worth the sacrifice and we’ll never be discouraged by the dark pictures shown by the evil propaganda machines.
To me, we didn’t get rid of a military occupation today as I never considered the coalition’s presence as an occupation even if the whole world told me that I’m wrong.
Today we were freed for ever from the fear that a man and his family might once again control Iraq. -- Mohammed Read the rest. 3 bq. Thank you united state of America for your great Job you done here . Thank you coalitions forces for you brave work and supporting good. Thank you all Brave mans ,who lost there life here ,your bloods will be the river of hope for us.
Thank you all good friends out there ,thank you for being with us all the way , minute by minute ,day by day ,living our sadness and happiness ,standing beside us ,encouraging us Supporting us ,worry about us ,we always felt that you are there beside us ,with us .
Thank you all brave Iraqis who stand out there to fight for better future and freedom. I will go now to celebrate with all people for this happy moments ,it has been long time since we celebrate . -- Sarmad Read the rest. 4 bq. I hold high hopes in Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and his courageous team. Yes, you could say every negative thing about them. But, those people wake up every morning to go to work not knowing if they'll be alive be end of the day. Cowards don't do that.
Thank you to everyone who helped Iraq since the collapse of Saddam's regime. Thank you to everyone who encouraged the Iraqi bloggers to write their thoughts even when everyone felt down. No, I'm not going to stop blogging. I'm just thankful to the people who read these amateur Iraqi blogs, which represent the new Iraq and its newborn democracy. -- Fayrouz Read the rest. 5 bq. Today is new day and it is a great day for all Iraqis and for freedom lovers. I have been waiting for a day like today for the last twenty two years I have lived here in the states. I as well as so many Iraqis thought we would never see a day like today. However, the day the coalitions decide to proceed toward Baghdad, I thought that is the beginning to a new era. Anyway that is that and we have to look forward and toward the future of Iraq. There are so much potential for Iraq as a country not to mention the people of Iraq. Now they have tasted some freedom they will never let go of it, I am certain of that. I am extremely optimistic about the new government and the new Iraq -- Baghdadi Read the rest.

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Such good stuff.

Amazing. Wonderful.

My heartfelt prayers and thoughts to the Iraqi people who yearn for the freedom and liberty so long denied them. It won't be fast, it won't be easy, the birth of the USA was fragile and fraught with bickering and setbacks.

I just hope they will ignore all those naysayers from the racial bigots who don't be Iraqis are capable of representative government, to the political bigots who believe Saddam was the "sovereign government" and should be there still.

This July 4th, I'll light a few fireworks in their honor, too.

I didn't read all of them, but Alaa's brought me close to tears. The Love and the Gratefulness was effusive and overwhelming.

Will this mean terrorist stop attacking Americans? Will we be bringing all the troops out of Iraq now? Is the war on terror at an end?

Of course not IXLNXS. But don't rain on the Iraqis parade. They have their country back after Saddam Hussien and after U.S. control. Let them be happy. Let them rejoice. Let the praise. They have a long way to go but at least they got their country back.

Thanks for posting those, Michele.

IXLNXS, did we bring the troops out of Germany yet? Didn't the Germans surrender in 1945? WTF over!

Does this mean that the moonbats will finally STFU?Of course not,you silly goose.

Very cool for the good ones in Iraq.Thanks for posting these.

IXie, you're nothing if not predictable.

Doctor: IXie, great news! We caught your mother's cancer in time!

IXie: yeah, but I'll bet she dies someday anyway, right?

Who are these people? Hard to get excited when we don't know who these people are or even if they are real.

In any case, hope they can run their country better than the Americans can (did?!)

Who are they? They are Iraqis.

Are they real? What would make you think they are not?

Of course, anytime something goes against the grain of the left, they claim it's fake, so your comment is not unexpected.

You forgot one of the Iraqi bloggers.
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in a great, huge festival...
the handover of the authorities took place in a small shelter in one of the basements of the green zone.
bremer, the new ugly Iraqi "president", the cia agent "P.M.", another couple of losers were standing in a small circle at the sunrise, clapping their hands and trying to smile

some hours later, bremer ran away in a black military plane

god, dont you call this a historical carnival?
:*)

in arabic we say, "sharro el balyyati ma yodhek", the worst catastrophes make you laugh

haha?
Posted by: Raed Jarrar / 9:38 PM

Robert

Looks like Iraqis have their own Michael Moores.

Baghdadi, Fayrouz, Sarmad, Omar, Aala: "We are so happy today!"

Matt: "What a bunch of Uncle Tamirs."

http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/ Is another I enjoyed, Michele. One bit I really like was this:

"The good thing is Paul Bremer directed his letter of ending the occupation to the Head of the Justice in Iraq and not to the PM. The law is above every one! "

I didn't see that commented on in any U.S. newspaper account. At least one Iraqi "gets it" and this gives me hope.

Just asking a simple question. How do you know they are Iraqis. I think I have a little more nuanced understanding that to label every piece of good news as propaganda.

However, I take everything with a grain of salt, both right- and left-wing leaning.

Let's let them have their day...I wish them luck.

Congratulations, Iraq. According to my calculations, at least half of America is happy for you (but I suspect even more).

When you make a complaint against the American supported government here, the one that, though not wuite a democracy, is working on it and concerned for its people and their ideas...

You are comparing them to their alternative. Saddam. Millions of arabs dead, thousands raped and tortured, ethnic cleansing, Jews exiled or murdered, terrorism supported many times.

Any complaint you make against the current government should include great praise for how much better things are than once thought possible. Bush has at least one accomplishment worthy of great priase, regardless of his other missteps.

Consider your complaint in its context. Is it really the problem you should be talking about in the middle east? Are Iran's Pakistan's, Saudi Arabia's, Syria's, and Lybia's problems really not as important? Wouldnt it be a better world if the United States did to those countries exactly what it did to Iraq (even if iraq is not yet perfect?) Dont you see? If we could do such a thing, and remove the reason kids are raised in backwards schools... The war on Terror could end in one or two generations... the beneficiaries would number in the billions.

Complain all you want about Iraq today, but realize how stupid and petty and selfish you are if you do so for John Kerry while ignoring however many people were killed today by Arab Socialism and Islamofacism. While ignoring the Iraqis who would have died today under such things had Bush not made such a 'costly mistake.'

Is it yet a hundred thousand lives that the Iraq War has saved? What is so important that this is a mistake?

Just asking a simple question. How do you know they are Iraqis.

For one thing, USA Today wrote an article about a few of them.

Matt, we know they are iraqis for a variety of reasons.

There are things like IP addresses and dns origins. It is not difficult to determine that these are coming from Iraq. Further, such as scandal as the forgery you think possible would be blown open so quickly by any of the ever willing Bush Detractors. You know this or you are not very intelligent.

Such a conpiracy always results in a whistleblower. Our military is made up of normal volunteers of somewhat higher intelligence and education than the general population. They dont just sit quietly when laws are broken.

As many out there are thinking this may be fraud, it would have been discovered by now, considering how long such blogs have been in operation.

And it doesnt matter. This is a great thing without the hominems. Iraq is better off than it was, better off than its neighbors. I hope we can invade Iran.

Excellent stuff! Thank you for posting these. I would love to see the results of a poll of the Iraqi people once it becomes apparent that we really have handed over the reins (assuming that we really have).

When Iraq has realized its true potential and has overtaken half of Europe as one of our leading trading partners, will the current crop of whining leftists pause even an instant before re-focusing their stream of negativism on our trade deficit with them, and our newfound inability to recruit Arab physicians and other top technical professionals?

I'll have to wait and see.

The whole handover is a JOKE anyways - a sad PR stunt for a failed war started for profits and re-election. This the RUN in CUT & RUN, with some caked-on make-up...and poor soldiers are paying the price for this nightmare. See Farenheit 9/11, and be the judge.

Dustin:

"Matt, we know they are iraqis for a variety of reasons.

There are things like IP addresses and dns origins. It is not difficult to determine that these are coming from Iraq. Further, such as scandal as the forgery you think possible would be blown open so quickly by any of the ever willing Bush Detractors. You know this or you are not very intelligent."

Ok, fair enough.

"I hope we can invade Iran."

Wow, you don't really this, do you? I haven't heard this wish since before the Iraq war. Some people never learn.

I'll leave you in peace now to start fashioning a blogswell of public opinion demanding we take out Iran next.

I've often wondered myself how many of them are for real. But don't mind cynical old me.

I'll leave you in peace now to start fashioning a blogswell of public opinion demanding we take out Iran next.

Actually, that's up to the troops-massing-on-the-border, ships-and-sailors-seizing mullarchy they have over there. All they have to do is back down and behave themselves, but it's likely they'll try to go in and sabotage the Iraqi government.

Just like it was up to Saddam whether or not we were going to do anything about Iraq. All he had to do was comply with all those Security Council resolutions.

Just like it was up to the Taliban whether we were going to have to go into Afghanistan to try to get bin Laden. All they had to do was hand over bin Laden when we asked them to.

But no, we're imperialists because when we say, "Do this or..." and they don't do what we've asked, we do something about it.

Now that the Iraqis are in charge, and the UN and NATO are behind the effort, there is a lot of cleanup to do.

The terrorists from Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia will have some 'splainin to do to the Iraqi people.

McGehee:

"But no, we're imperialists because when we say, "Do this or..." and they don't do what we've asked, we do something about it."

If that was sarcasm I think I missed it. If it's not, I'm trying to figure out how that makes any sense at all.

Thank you for posting the roundup, it made my day :)

"IXie, you're nothing if not predictable.

Doctor: IXie, great news! We caught your mother's cancer in time!

IXie: yeah, but I'll bet she dies someday anyway, right?"

No more like.

"We are going to have to operate to remove what may or may not be a malignant lump on your grandmother's ovaries. She also looks to have suspicious lumps in her breast as well as her neck. While we're in there we might as well biopsy those. The other consulting surgeons advise we go ahead and do a full hystorectomy while we're in there and we'll plan for chemo after."

But Doc. My grandmother is like eighty five. Won't the operations kill her? I mean how long will she live if you don't do the surgey, and what will her state of living be like afterwards?

"Well it is true older people take longer to heal, and the chemo combined with the surgery might make her miserable for awhile."

Doc she's eighty five, she doesn't really have that much longer. Won't this make the last years of her life miserable?

"The law states that if we can help we should help."

But Doc we're broke. So's she.

"Oh. Hmmm. Yes her age is a consideration. The cancer is too metasized to really remove properly so it would just return after the chemo. If she survived it. Yes I believe we could forgo the surgery."

Good. Kinda didn't work for grand dad ya know. Hate ta see the same thing happen to grandma.

It is good to be appreciated. Let freedom ring.

They have their country back after Saddam Hussien and after U.S. control.

Let's see - the CPA appears to have "lost" $2 billion that belonged to Iraq, the new "Iraqi government" cannot disavow any law written by the CPA prior to the return of "sovereignty", the "government" has no power over the coalition troops OR contractors in its territory - how exactly do they have their country back again?

Are the posts Iraqi? Well, if you have been paying attention to the blogosphere the last 6 - 8 months you would have been READING these guys in Iraq already and know who they are.

They are real people struggling and sharing their hopes and fears as some of their "brother" Arab Muslims are trying to blow their country (and any families who happen to be in the neighborhood of their non-discriminatory bombs) up along with any hope for a real future for themselves and their children.

May a free Iraq prosper and grow!

IXie

So Iraq is an 85 y/o grandma about to die anyway?

Matt:

It really wasn't all that difficult.

He mixed sarcasm with the FACTS.

the new "Iraqi government" cannot disavow any law written by the CPA prior to the return of "sovereignty", the "government"
"Phoeniocian" you are an "idiot." Your points are so "sinister" with all those "quotes" around them.

I am sure no one expect a "utopia" but at least "Americans" will eventually be "gone" and, corruption or not their lot will be "better."

Today is a day to rejoice. And I am very happy for the Iraqi people.

The West Germans were given this control over their (new) nation in 1955.

This must be a sham. Happened too soon.

Thank you for rounding these up, Michelle. I enjoy reading the Iraqis, but am usually too lazy to make the rounds myself.

Matt,

Perhaps you are gone already, but I just wanted to say that I am not sure that the US could go to war with Iran. It's a rougher terrain with better technology. Also, they have a far more interested student movement than Iraq. The US isnt capable of fixing every problem in the world, and that's too bad. I do mean it though, when I say that if we could, I hope we do to Iran what we've done to Iraq. You say that some never learn. I agree. The women in Iran do not have the opportunity to learn much at all. The women in Iraq do. We're talking about the liberty of millions upon millions of people.

You and I cannot fathom such numbers.

Seriously, I'm no chickenhawk here, I want liberty to spread for many reasons, some selfish and some humanist.

What lesson have I not learned? 1000 of our wonderful soldiers dead? I know some of them, its horrible to talk about them in terms of numbers. If you mean that you cant stomach the loss of such people, then I understand and thank you for your kindness, but it is missplaced.

Let the soldiers choose to risk their lives for bigger things like liberty for millions. It isnt up to you.

As soon as there is a draft I will reconsider the war, untill then, its the most amazing volunteer action and contribution in the history of the world. Iraq was liberated by volunteers, some of whom perished. A lesson I hope you can learn from too.

It is now 8 pm PST, which would make it 11 pm EST.

Howard Stern has a "Sep. 11th widow" on his E! cable tv show.

She looks really hot.

She's wearing a sort of lace-up porn queen kind of top.

And sitting still for typical Howard Stern banter.

I don't know, maybe the Islamists have a point.

There has been a number of American servicemembers, as well as civilians of varying capacities, who have met their deaths as a result of Sep. 11th.

I like sluts as much as the next man, but not this skank.

This isn't a setback, like Abu Ghraib.

This is a damned slap in the face.

Oh, goody.

Now she's stripped down to a way-bitchin' leatherette kind of bikini.

Hot, hot, hot.

Howard Stern bears an eentsy-teentsy bit of responsibility for this.

But I just have to sit there and change the channel if I don't like it.

Fair enough, this is America, after all.

Who cares what the men and women lying in the cold, cold ground think?

Sorry for appropriating your bandwidth, Michele.

"So Iraq is an 85 y/o grandma about to die anyway?"

No the cancer thing set me off with the jibe about doctors finding something in the nick of time. The storys real. They were all set to do operations that wouldn't have saved anyones life, and would have made what was left of it miserable until they realized the goose had laid it's last golden egg. Then they decided maybe it was in the patients best interest to not go cutting her open and start ripping out parts at random.

Still kicking. Still has it. Isn't spending her last days vomiting from chemo, or worrying about hair that falls out and will never grow back.

Was that predicatble enough?

Via the professor from Captain's Quarters:

After the surprise handover of sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government took place today two days ahead of schedule, a move some Americans stretched into an expression of desperation, Iraqis would not countenance such cynicism. The AP reports that callers flooded the first independent talk-radio station in Iraq with expressions of joy and pride in their first opportunity for legitimate self-government in 35 years:

The callers clogged Radio Dijla's telephone lines to congratulate interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, urging him to be strong, while warning insurgents against continued violence.
"I send my congratulations to all Iraqis and every Iraqi home," a woman who identified herself as Um Yassin gushed, her voice choked with emotion. "I want to tell Dr. Allawi to be bold, to be strong. We need him to build up the army because we need them at a time like this."

Her message was echoed by dozens on the day Prime Minister Allawi was given a letter transferring sovereignty back to the citizens of Iraq after about 14 months of coalition administration.

But in the midst of adulation for the new government, callers urged that all must be vigilant for insurgents seeking to sow more chaos in a country plagued by violence since Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime was toppled.

"I send all the Iraqi people my blessings," said Ali, a caller from Baghdad. "But I warn these terrorists, all the Iraqis will rise up and strike them with steel."

Wow ... that doesn't sound like a nation that doesn't want to be free, that wants to be one with al-Qaeda and live in an Islamofascist theocracy. It sounds like a people who want to be free and who want to be rid of the Saddam remnants and foreign thugs who keep slaughtering their fellow citizens. In short, it sounds like a country that's ready to fight for its liberty.

Sounds like we handed over sovereignty right on time.

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They've got the MVRWC radio.

It's over, we've won. It's just going to be a bloody, decades-long cleanup.

hi michele,

great compilation, thank you :)

one minor thing: the contribution from IRAQ THE MODEL was by Mohammed (Omar just posted it)

After reading the bleatings of IXDUMBASS and Bobby the Rube all i can say is the next time a "progressive" tells me he cares about democracy and human rights, i plan on belting them right in the face.

Fifty years ago America "liberated" Japan from a groups of mad leaders, but suprise suprise, there are still tens of thousands of US troops parading around Japan like it is still 1945.

Write to your senators and your presidential candidates, tell then to get US soldiers out of Japan, and when you've done that tell them to get out of South Korea.

Americ only liberates people from dictators, it doesn't liberate them from the Pentagon.

Aren't you a mentally unbalanced hyper-angry Republican-cocksucking agoraphobe that promised not to make political posts any more?

Sigh. If only dreams came true.....

PS: all of you midwestern assholes, that "wish the Iraqi people the best" don't, by definition, know shit. God, if only the midwest would get carpet-bombed one day. Not that they deserve it, only that they would truly understand what they've (the Iraqis, you know the Muslims ((Towel Heads))) gone through other than consoling themselves through empty phrases like "Let Freedom Ring". Baaaaarf. Meaningless pap. Patriotism is almost as bad as religion. Almost. When combined, they make a deadly toxin. Like the Taliban. Or the Bush Administration.

there are some real tards here. That sucks. I hope the Iraqis make this their July 4th.

Sigh. If only dreams came true.....

If dreams came true, you might show a little class. Obviously, that's far too much to ask for. It's Michele's blog, and she can talk about whatever she wants. No one forces you to read it, Tristy. And if you don't like it, tough shit.

I can't understand why Tristram and Phoney insist on hanging out here? It must be they are trying to convince themselves that we have the wrong idea. Let freedom ring, one nation under God, liberty and justice for all, and May God Bless America and all our troops that are serving all over this world. Military Mom

Well, gee, Tristram, since there's not a power on the horizon which looks likely to be able to do so and not end up glowing brighter than the Las Vegas strip for the next 5,000 years, us "Midwestern assholes" were sort of expecting you Leftists to start some of that Fedayeen-type action--you know, bombing school busses, or back-shooting unsuspecting citizens and the like.

That would certainly fit quite a lot of that tough talk we've been hearing from your set for the past three-odd years, although it's probably for the best that you all confine yourselves to your traditional impotent rhetoric.

And just so's ya know, one (1) wrinkled old B-52 carries something like 50 750-lb. bombs. You have not yet seen "carpet bombing". We've gone to some lengths to keep casualties to a minimum, to include the efforts we went to in order to get Iraqi Army units to desert, when we could have destroyed them in place. This has subsequently meant that people we tried not to kill were left alive to bury IED's and attack civilians after the Saddam regime was removed from power. We've sent dismounted infantry to deal with terrorists holing up in mosques, when using supporting fire or Tac air would be less expensive in terms of American lives. It's cheaper to spend iron than blood, and we've been spending blood.

Do you Leftists just plain not want to get along with the rest of us?

Your blanket statement about Leftists there Mike has convinced me to abandon my center to left view and to begin to follow to doctrine according to Mike James.

I was especially moved by the talk of how Leftists are equivilant to terrorist.

Drew, are you talking about my response to Tristram? A casual reading would reveal that I was responding to Tristram's "blanket statements", like:

"...all of you midwestern assholes", or

"...don't, by definition, know shit." or

"God, if only the midwest would get carpet-bombed one day." (my favorite) or

"...they would truly understand what they've (the Iraqis, you know the Muslims ((Towel Heads))) gone through other than consoling themselves through empty phrases like "Let Freedom Ring". or

"Meaningless pap." or

"Patriotism is almost as bad as religion." (Interesting. Begins with the assumption that patriotism and religion alike are "bad".) or

"When combined, they make a deadly toxin." or

"Like the Taliban. Or the Bush Administration."

You know, those blanket statements.

Tristram himself equated the Left to terrorists, not I, when he expressed a wish that Americans get carpet bombed.

The only doctrine I recall advocating was massive retalition, and although I'd like to claim credit for it, that's the doctrine of Curtis LeMay (one of the greatest Americans ever).

You and I and some others have all done enough to change the direction of what ought to be a pleasant thread. Maybe we ought to agree to give it a rest.

When you have a self proclaimed leftist like Tristram hoping that the midwest gets carpet bombed, I don't think the terrorist comparison is inappropriate.

Dear Lefties: Please pick and choose your battles wisely. I have seen you all over the place and you look like fools.

**Iraq is sovereign, no more Saddam. Left's response: MISERY! MISERY! MISERY! It's not real! It's a VRWC! This won't stop the terrorists! They are identical to my hypothetic 85 year old grandmother suffering from cancer that she can't afford! On one hand I bitch about her getting treatment cause she's so old but then when the doc allegedly does not wish to operate on her because she has no money, I get bent out of shape, smug and self righteous that granny won't be going under the knife afterall! See how much sense I make? Grandma is a terrorist is a grandma!

**Iraqi bloggers rejoice. Left's response: I, Super Sleuth Spy ask, with narrowed, suspicious eyes, how do you know they are Iraqis? How do you know they are real? How do you know any of us are real? Maybe none of us truly exist! Hmmmm?!?!!?!

**Michele, who pays for this site and has the freedom to change her mind, decided to blog about Iraq. Lefty response: How DARE YOU blog about anything besides DJ's little league games and your new house! You LIED TO US! OH THAT'S IT! I can never trust anyone on the Right ever again! (Psst, Michele isn't exactly what I would consider a hard Right winger...) OH yes she is! If she agrees with them on anything she's one of them! And she betrayed me by blogging about politics! (Psst: again, it's her blog, her dime and she has can change her mind whenever the hell she wishes.) No, only Lefties get to change their minds!

I have never seen a sorrier bunch of pukes in my entire life. It's almost funny to read the conspiracy theories and whining and moaning that Iraq has found freedom and will be building themselves up to be a great country, from the Left. Almost. Unfortunately it's too f-en pathetic to warrant a laugh. Don't you fools have a movie to go watch?

This is indeed a great day for the Iraqis.

I don't believe that Tristram and IXLNXS are terrorists. Progress in Iraq after the war would have been much greater if there were no terrorists and their sabotage. The UN would have been more involved instead of getting chased out. What makes Tristram and IXLNXS detestable is that THEY ARE IGNORING TERRORISTS AS A CAUSE FOR LESS PROGRESS IN IRAQ. They blame the US for the consequences of problems created, not by US action, but terrorist actions. Even Abu Ghraib would not have occurred if terrorist actions had not forced an urgency upon the guards to get actionable intelligence. Farfetched? About as far fetched as liberal excuses for black crime.

I think it's psychological: they want to cause trouble and be excused as being the cause, and thus support others who cause trouble that is convenient for them. Knowing that consumer confidence is a big factor in a successful economic recovery, they talk down and lie about it to bring about THEIR predictions of a bad economy. They know that success in Iraq would be a big boost to President Bush, so they encourage the belief that failures and troubles caused by terrorists are REALLY the fault of the United states.

Bug off. The jig is up and we know the sort of miserable creatures you are.

HA! This is the funniest blog I've read in months. Of course Iraqis are happy! Who wouldn't want the occupation to be over? Problem is the troops are still there to keep those pipelines working, immune from international prosecution for any knuckleheaded stuff they do (which is a tendency some of our boys in the military do have in them), free from any oversight by the Iraqi government, and running around mistreating Iraqis and generally pissing the hell out of people who want them out of their country. Will the installed figureheads prove efficient and just? That remains to be seen. But let's not fool ourselves into believing things have magically gotten better for the people of Iraq because Bush & Co. throw in the towel and let Bremer leave when billions that belong to Iraq are missing. Yesterday was as fudgy as those facts in Michael Moore's movie.

oh, good grief. This is good news people. No yes buts.

pizza can be good without meatstuffs - sometimes it's good with just pineapple.

IP Addresses?

I post through typepad, yet I work as a contractor in Iraq.

I host my pictures on another domain, via hosting matters, yet I've been just outside Baghdad every day (except for three weeks two months ago) for the past 9 months.

I post through my employer's dedicated VSat system, so my IP addresses probably look like they come from Houston, Nashville, or London.

Can't always tell where someone is by the IP address. It's an arbitrary number that can be manipulated by circumstance.

I may not be Iraqi, but my IP addresses would prove me a liar even if I were - according to the digital court.

I just read aloud part of Alaa's post to a friend. She's not a native english speaker, her unconscious use of words match Arab use.

The US has been a noble liberator in Iraq.
Arabs, I am ashamed to say, need some outside help to achieve democracy.
The leftists in the western world want to see arabs rot under autocratic governments, such as Saddam's.
Arabs, with help, can grasp the hand of friendship the US has offered, and climb out of the grave.

And then there is Baghdad Burning.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

A real Iraqi speaking in her real voice. Not some rhetoric spewing neo-Baghdad Bob wannabe.

"A real Iraqi speaking in her real voice."

So, you're also making the claim that the bloggers I quoted aren't real? Or that they are just doing the work of Bush?

Only the people you agree with are real, right?

The leftists in the western world want to see arabs rot under autocratic governments, such as Saddam's.

It's worse than that, Samir.

They just don't care. It's all about politics to them; if liberating Iraq means points for the Bush administration, then that can not be allowed.

Tristram dribbled:
Aren't you a mentally unbalanced hyper-angry Republican-cocksucking agoraphobe that promised not to make political posts any more?

Child, if you're going to troll, try to come up with original material once in awhile instead of using variants of the same old same old, okay? This is just a rehash of a remark a few days ago with more vulgarity. What's the matter, didn't get enough shocked and angry replies?

Of course, going away is another alternative, but you're too sick in the head to deal with the lack of attention that would entail.

Cathy asks:
I can't understand why Tristram and Phoney insist on hanging out here?

Because they can be social misfits without suffering the consequences of trying the same in the real world.

from the "against the war but still support the troops" files:

"Problem is the troops are still there to keep those pipelines working, immune from international prosecution for any knuckleheaded stuff they do (which is a tendency some of our boys in the military do have in them), free from any oversight by the Iraqi government, and running around mistreating Iraqis and generally pissing the hell out of people who want them out of their country."

or anit could be an old fashioned military-hating type, i don't really know, but i think this ignorant, hateful screed is rather representitive of the left.

no facts, thanks, none of that goodwill either, i'd rather just sit here being filled with hate.

Bush's greatest success was having the fortitude to go into Iraq, having the guts to get the whole thing started. That was the hardest part politically (as an aside, it always makes me laugh when I see a liberal say Bush did this for political and monetary profit. Mr Objectivity has to smile at such temerity!). Now, no matter who is president we will have to stay the course. The alternative would be politically inviable for either party (if you doubt this, ask yourself if you can see any significant difference between Bush's and Kerry's proposed Iraq policies). This is why the loonier members of the Left have become so shrill. Once the tanks started rolling towards Baghdad, their message was de facto irrelevant. If nobody is listening, just talk louder. They have been marginalized on this issue, and I am sure it doesn't feel good. At least they have cinema!

Nice to see so many of my supporters here. :) Four more years!! That's what I like to hear!

I hope you haven't got any wrong ideas about us Bushes from those folks over in the International War Crimes Tribunal. Shhhh...

http://deoxy.org/wc/warcrim2.htm

We're LIBERATING Iraq, remember? L I B E R A T I N G !

You know, that might not be the real George W. Bush.

BB: Gee, ya think? :)

No matter how hard doom and gloom festers and rots, I will always have faith in the greater good of humanity.

I am an American optimist.

I am a believer in the Bush Doctrine.

A'ash Al-Iraq!

"IXie

So Iraq is an 85 y/o grandma about to die anyway?"

Yeah, it seems like this moonbat is saying that Iraq is a hopeless case and should be just left to die? Usually most lefties and moonbats try and pretend they are just worried about the "poor iraqi's" (not the millions of "poor iaqi's" killed by Saddam and the 70,000 or so who are now alive because of the regime change, but only about the thousands killed by the Coalition) this guy just comes straight out and says it - 'fuck the Iraqi's'

Someone in this thread said not to rain on the Iraqi's parade, well I think this sort of news from Iraq is like a torrential downpour on the parade of the anti-war crew, one by one their dire predictions are being proved wrong, and as we've seen over the last few years, these are people who do NOT like being proved wrong.

This is unabashed good news from Iraq, and going by the comments in here from people still trying desperately to find something negative in the news, there are many more people like IXLNXS
who seem to have little interest in the well-being of Iraqi's.

I read Raed (more popularly know as Salam Pax, the darling of the British coffee house crowd) and I imagine what he looks like. Sort of an Arab version of Marilyn Manson. A ghoul. A freak of nature. Much like people must have viewed the survivors of the Donner Party.
I get the same feeling about those people in Faluja, who pine for a return to the days of a strong man thugocracy.
How out of step with reality. How queer.

WOW! GWB posts here? I'm visiting more often.

oh, good grief. This is good news people. No yes buts.

Nope. It's PR spin.

I bet you're the sort of people that keep spammers in business by buying their products. You know - gullible.

Meanwhile, Juan Cole had this comment to make:

This entire exercise is a publicity stunt and has almost no substance to it. Gwen Ifill said on US television on Sunday that she had talked to Condaleeza Rice, and that her hope was that when something went wrong in Iraq, the journalists would now grill Allawi about it rather than the Bush administration. (Or words to that effect). Ifill seems to me to have given away the whole Bush show. That's what this whole thing is about. It is Public Relations and manipulation of journalists. Let's see if they fall for it.

There are things like IP addresses and dns origins. It is not difficult to determine that these are coming from Iraq. Further, such as scandal as the forgery you think possible would be blown open so quickly by any of the ever willing Bush Detractors. You know this or you are not very intelligent.

Such a conpiracy always results in a whistleblower. Our military is made up of normal volunteers of somewhat higher intelligence and education than the general population. They dont just sit quietly when laws are broken.

As a soldier, I agree with you that most of us wouldn't sit around and watch false stuff get passed off as the truth. However, we do know that Doug Feith filled the CPA with conservative true believers. Those folks have clearly drunk the Kool-Aid and, as one CPA official put it, "Everything is seen in the context of the election, and how they will screw the Democrats."

So, while it's a little unbelievable that this is a planned method on the part of the Bush Administration, it's not unlikely at all that this could be the handiwork of the same silly little girl who wrote: "In other news, winter has officially arrived here. The rain has started and all the sand and dust has turned to mud. My pants are perpetually dirty- splattered with mud- and my boots are looking very rough indeed! War is hell."

That was written in November of last year. 82 Americans died that month.

It's funny how someone could complain about the supposed provincialism of midwesterners in one breath and in the next demonstrate complete and utter indifference to the freeing of a nation of tens of millions from a generation of brutal tyranny. Well, maybe not funny, sad perhaps.

Tristram

Are you naturally dense or do you have special glasses that filter out reality.

I can name you half a dozen countries that the US has troops decades after the countries either fought their particular wars or instaled peacful democratic governmnet.

Yankies go home has been cried in ever country from Germans to Britain and from Japan to the Philipines.

The US has a habit of staying long after wars end.

THIS WEBSITE BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE U.S. DEPT. OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF DISINFORMATION.

Here is a collumn from the other front on the WOT.
Good News from Afghanistan , not good enough to bump the constant barrage of Michigan fat's movie reviews off CBS, but good enough to make you proud to be an American.

Angry Chinaman: And while we are in these country, we spend big bucks, and if we would leave, could Germany take the economic hit? My opinion is, get our troops out of Germany, and send them to Iraq. That would solve the troop shortage problem. I don't think Germany is in any danger of getting invaded. They also have their good buddies, France and Russia to help them out, you know the way they did 60 years ago.

Angry China Guy,

Question - what happened to Subic Bay and Clark Airfield in the Phillipines? Or how about US troops stationed in France post WWII?

If the Japanese Diets asks us to take a hike, we'll do so. Ditto for Korea. But we're not going to pull troops out of a country we're pledged to defend just because some folks organize a protest. To do so would be to totally circumvent the legitimate government of the host country.

Thank you Michele for all your efforts, you are highly regarded in the B-sphere.

Hey "Papertiger"! Wrong, and wrong. But I suppose you're trying. Raed Jarrar is not Salam Pax under another name. They are (or were) boyfriends and joint blogged together. The entire Jarrar family is anti-American (4 of them blog), which can't be said of Pax. Pax has been on US TV (we know what he looks like) and is now quite famous and may give up blogging. For many months before and during the big shoot-em-up Pax was charged with being a fake Iraqi (Secret Police, CIA, etc.). Like many bloggers above, the suspicious now know better. Three Iraqi bloggers are subbing for Tim Blair, writing for today's Aussie "Bulletin" (their photos in the print addition, not online). Know of no fake Iraqi bloggers (but possible).

Oh yeh "Phoenician", Juan Cole is knowledgeable about the ME, but he is, after all, a Marxist.

All's I know is. Bush better have a master plan to nuke those raqi's once we gain their trust. or I aint votin for hima second time!

Liberals hope the Iraqi's are not happy. they wish these letters to be untrue because that would undermine their agenda. Ya see liberals are only happy when there is nothing but dispair and chaos because then they will have something to cry about and protest about making it look as if they care. Don't be fooled though, they don't care. All they care about is getting out their liberal propogand that the USA is evil and the only way to excorsise this country is to vote democrat. They are truly a miserable, disgusting group of people

I just came across this site. The posts from "Angry Chinese Blogger" complaining about American troops staying in countries, including Germany, long after wars end, is a riot. Those countries are not complaining. In fact, now that we are proposing to remove troops from Germany, there is an article on CNN about how Germany is BEGGING us not to move them.