Today, the terrorists in Istanbul answered the “peace” demonstrators in London. Those who have eyes can see, and those who have ears can hear, but there are those whom “God has sealed their hearts for them with a mask, so that they are deaf, dumb and blind and thus can hardly comprehend anything” (Verses to this effect recur frequently in the Holly Quran ).

These London demonstrations, I know too well, Oh! Youth, and the Pint of Bitter later in the nearest Pub. All you peace lovers and humanitarians of trendy London town, spare a thought or two for the coalition soldier out there in the dark and wilderness guarding our hospitals, primary schools and orphanages from the bombers and assassins, and the Iraqi Police reporting everyday for duty under constant danger of death and mutilation with their poor equipment and meager $50 or so a month pay package. They number almost 100 000 by now and if enlistment is really opened up they would quadruple in number immediately. Why do you think they come? Saddamists pay anybody ten thousand dollars per explosion, and they are going around trying to recruit, and this is a fact that all people in Baghdad know. So why do they come, you think? But only those who have eyes can see, and ears can hear. Why do you think the crackle of celebratory gunfire ululated till dawn, on that sultry Baghdad summer night when the death of Uday and Qusay the monster brats of the tyrant was announced? This, the media did not dwell upon, although quite newsworthy and dramatic. That was the real Opinion Poll of the vast majority of the inhabitants of Baghdad. (P.S. I hope the word ululate exists in the English language, it means the sound that our women make in celebrations of marriages or when welcoming heroes and the like, if it doesn’t please add it to your dictionary)

But I see there were not as many of you as before. Yes, at that time, we all had our misgivings and fears about the surgery. Yes indeed, it was scary. But the surgeon had no doubt and he knew that he had to operate, and he did and it worked. So now what do you want? That he leaves the patient still in critical convalescence, to the mercy of the germs and microbes and goes home to watch TV and sleep in comfortable bed.

But enough of this and to cut a long story short. As long as America and her allies choose the side of the oppressed and downtrodden, as long as they remain on the side of the people, they will be invincible. When Might is coupled with Right, then expect great historical transformations...

Those militants don't understand any language except the language of force. Fuck human rights. Those aren't humans anyway. We desperately NEED to see some heads rolling. Believe it or not. Theres going to have to be some bloodshed for this to work. Bomb the hell out of Tikrit and Al-Awja. Massacre every last person of Saddam's tribe. Rape his women. Yeah. Let them taste some of what we have endured the last 30 years. I don't want to see my dreams ruined because of those trianglees. If the CPA doesn't want to do it, send in a force of IP and civil defense forces and turn your face the other way, they'll be more than glad to do it, believe me. [/rant]

When I read your e-mails and comments thoroughly (regarding the first article) I realized that many of you are eager to see the truth about what's happening in Iraq and you want to make sure whether things are going better or worse there. Some of you questioned the accuracy of news broadcasted by some media sources. To be honest, I won’t say that the media are lying but they are telling only one side of the truth. This side usually reflects the attitude of the funding source of that particular station or journal towards the events in Iraq. So I’ll try to show you the naked truth about daily life in Iraq. And I will try to show you the difference between pre. And post. Liberation Iraq. I will put it in some form of a series, discussing one aspect of life in each post. Let’s talk first about security and order in Iraq, as this is a major point of concern. Some TV channels try to show our streets like battlefields, actually they are not. the streets are relatively safe and one can walk in the streets with no fear greater than the one he feels if he was in any other country. People go to work regularly, stores and restaurants are open even to a late hour in the night. crime levels in Iraq according to IP reports are declining and they’re now much lower than they were In April or May this year. The main point that satisfies me is that I no longer fear the risk of death penalty because of something I said. Do you imagine that someone could get tortured and executed just because he laughed at a joke about Saddam or the Baath ? Statistics from the reports of the red-cross and the IP state that approximately 1570 Iraqis were killed in violent accidents in Baghdad during the first 5 months following the liberation. Some would say, well , this is sad. This is a large number of casualties. And this is true. But if you take any 5 months during the reign of Saddam you will find that the number will reach to an average of 30 000 kills in Baghdad alone , I don’t want to bother you with math.work but if someone thinks that I’m lying then I can show you the whole calculation steps...

Today, when I was going to the clinic, I’ve seen a guy, he is tall, with a black hair, cute face, but he has sad facial expressions. There was something that has attracted me……, It was his ear, his ear was cut from the upper portion.

At once I remembered Ali the man who was in our neighborhood, Ali had the same ear cut.

Also I remembered a mentally deranged man, he was hiking in Baghdad streets, he had the two ears cut and a burned forehead.

There are many others with those defects.

So, I’ve decided to write one of the heartrending stories in Iraq:
If my memory serves me right, that was in 1994, Saddam Hussien had given a command that said (( Any soldier who escapes from the conscription must be caught and his ear must be cut ))!!!

Then he had changed the command to be ((Any soldier who escapes from the conscription must be caught and his ear must be cut, and if he has escaped for the second time; the other ear must be cut. For the third time burn his forehead.))
!!!!!!

The burn should be a straight horizontal line in the middle of the forehead!!
I want to know if there is another monster in the world like the one that we had before 8 months !

Is there anyone who can give such an order? How can a man be punished by cutting parts from his body? Even if he was a murder, there is a jail.
What was the crime if they did not accept to serve Saddam Hussien?

Where are the human rights?

There are hundreds victims of that bestial command, some of them got insane, others died.

Do you know that there was another order said that anyone who would be heard says anything about Saddam or laugh on a joke about him or the government or complaining from anything related to Saddam , they would cut his tongue !!!

That order is applied to many people, some of them had died due to the brutish amputation WITHOUT anesthesia !Imagine the pain !

Many groups had their tongues cut because they laughed on a joke about Saddam when someone from his agents or Ba’athists had heard them and written a report that was reaching to the ministry of interior with a light speed !
Also any doctor who refused to apply the instruction would be imprisoned and banished from his job.

What was that bestiality? What was that tyranny?

How can we recompense those poor men ?

How can we make them forget those years?

If the medicine and surgery have succeeded to replace their lost parts , and treated them psychologically (for years), then how can we get them back their dignity and respect ??

Answer me.