For the next couple of weeks the posting to my blog will be sporadic if at all. Thank you for all the opinions that have been brought here. I will be back. In the meanwhile feel free to check out the ARCHIVES section on the right hand side.
Take care,
Zachary Scott-Singley
51 comments:
I did the same thing and it made me happy too.
Hurria???? Oh, It's coming I'm sure! Well since we know that Zach is going away for a while, we won't be here to read your mundane reply. Why don't you go on leave too - FOR GOOD!
Zach, have a safe trip home and enjoy all of your precious family moments. God Bless!
kristen and teh anonymous,
one positie action??????? you could invite hurria to visit you, wherever you are. (Make the sacrifice for an Enemy.) all her expenses paid, to experience the wonders and dreams of the usa experience.
honestly, how could she aspire to the wonders of usA¿ she's not been able to travel, like you all. and now, with all the bombs and rapes and electricity cuts, water borne diseases, waht can she do?¿ ............?
its nice, this softness of feminine observations, be it uSa, iraQi or other ladies. LISTEN LISTEN this wind-borne softness message.
http://www.drudgereport.com/
WHATS WITH TE MOUTH OPEN THANG? CATCHEN INSECTS OR OAGEN ORAHNGE?
Zach, I hope you have a safe trip home and a wonderful time with your family. Take care. You all are in my thoughts.
I can't tell if you're really going on leave Zach. But, feel free to email me (via my blog) if you'd like to visit Ontario, Canada. I might know some people that you, and the family can stay with. I can't make any promises, but I can try to line something up.
Zack,
Are you really going on leave!?!? I am so happy for you and for your family! I am so excited to hear your stories when you get back!
So much love to you and your family!
Words can not express the thanks for the sacrifices you all have made! Take care of yourself! And love every moment!
God Bless!
Zach, have a wonderful time!
Hurria, I never agreed with us invading your country, nor did many other Americans. I don't believe that war is EVER the answer and I believe that what Bush did was very very wrong. Almost everyone I know believes that Bush should have never started this war. My question is this, what do you suggest that we do? Yes, we live in a "democratic" nation, but when it comes down to stopping our government, we can't. I feel helpless. I hate that my vote AGAINST Bush didn't matter. I hate that my opinions will never be heard by anyone important because I don't hold a position in our government. What is the answer? More violence? I would love to hear what you think that we can do from over here, in the states. Unfortunately in the US, if you have money, you can do whatever you want, and as a teacher, I'm not getting anywhere with my small salary.
Hurria, we are sooooo sorry that your opinion differs from most of us that "personally" wish to support OUR troops. We did not make the call, nor did they. I don't know what form of society that you come from, but this is OURS, good or bad, but if you expect us to abandon OUR troops, you are dead wrong! If you expect OUR troops to abandon their pledge, good or bad, you again are dead wrong. So basically what I want to let you know right now is that WE THE PEOPLE don't give a FUCK what YOU think! We love and support OUR troops and we too want them home NOW! We love and support EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM, man and woman alike, and we do want them home NOW! Why would OUR troops want to voluntarily be in a country that was killing themselves to begin with? Duh! Now they work overtime to kill themselves and OUR troops too!
Bottom line - FUCK what you or anyone like you thinks! There, I said it! I hated to have to be sooooo ignorant in public, but you took me there and it needed to be said.
Now I feel better! You can't move US! We've got this! Sorry that you can't control it because guess what? Neither can we.
Much love and prayers to ALL OF OUR TROOPS OUT THERE. We support and love YOU! May you ALL come home safe to the families that await and love you too!
hey anonymous just above,
ask your stepmama for some phosphate free soap and wash out your mouth. if a soft spoken woman in an invaded country needs to "take you there....." to say naughty words, you must be a REAL he man. or she woman. your comments show strength of character which would be useful in iraq or afghanistan.
all these warm fuzzies directed to zach and the rest of the gi's are cute displays of affection. but not much more. lets call things as they are. an m16 is used to kill. zach and his buddies are pulling the trigger. pitiful, immoral, myopic behavior and now you're fishing for sympathy for them................
support huh? how will you support your KILLERS when they're back on the street in jersey or sioux falls? will you hire them, infected as they are with their ptsd? and depleted uranium? are you writing your congressmen daily to increase their VA benefits? i bet not.
you want to feel oh so good? take a spin up to the 7-11 in your suv, buy yourself a KING SIZE slurpy and sing god bless ameriKa. it 'll make you feel sooooooo usa slurpin good. stream it to us so hurria and the rest of us miscreants can sing along.
and maybe next time sign yourself out as toilet mouth
hey man your site and you have been showcased in our national paper..Congrats...I know the war is a terrible thing...but on the other hand i dont know what it brings with it. To me war has only been a menace portrayed in the pages of "all quite on the western front" by Erich maria Remarque. But those U.S and mostly Iraqi ppl who have lost their cartilage while upholding their own idealism might not agree to the bookish horror portrayed in Remarque's world. The war is such a terrible thing that brings with it spit,flesh,bones and blood..and lots of them. The wind becomes your enemy, whispers weird and unhealthy incantations in your air..thats what leads a homo sapiens to formulate acts of anarchy which rarely seem humane. You U.S ppl could have just abducted Saddam or done something with his minions...you were after all superior in espionage,missile weaponry,covert ops training etc...so why did you actually launch a fully fledged invasion? I guess you cant answer that...hell even G.Bush cant either...because he's not the puppet-master here...he has never been...he doesn't have the intellect,shrewdness and subtlety to formulate such an act of oppression and then make it look like it was done all in favour of freedom..where as freedom is a prime-number word(7) and oppression is not(9).Well nice to hear sort of "confessional" talks from the mouth of a U.S GI'joes...after all its you,comrades taken out of the general people of USA who are sacrificing your life for a cause that has become more perplexed than riemann's hypothesis....there's no Junior-George W Bush, or Junior Condolizza Rice in those garrisons you have..you dont see the intestine of Junior-Dick-chaney fly around when ever there is a blast...infact its the genral mothers of the genral masses who's anguish becomes vague with useless rumbling from the defence-administration.
Thats a great view you have on the whole war itself..if you dont die in stray bullet...or in an accident while eating dorritos in Boston...you and i can both enjoy the views of the whole war ending in one massive vat of voidness.
Arguing with Bush
http://www.juancole.com/
Bush's speech.
"The terrorists who attacked us and the terrorists we face murder in the name of a totalitarian ideology that hates freedom, rejects tolerance and despises all dissent.
"Terrorists" are not a cohesive ideological category like "Communists" as Bush suggests. Lots of groups use terror as a tactic. The Irgun Zionists in 1946 and 1947 did, as well. Also ETA in Spain, about the terrorist acts of which Americans seldom hear in their newspapers (they are ongoing). The Baath regime in Iraq engaged in so little international terrorism in the late 1990s and early zeroes that it was not even on the US State Department list of sponsors of terrorism. Bush could take the above rationale and use it to invade most countries in the world.
"To achieve these aims, they have continued to kill: in Madrid, Istanbul, Jakarta, Casablanca, Riyadh, Bali and elsewhere.
Yes, and these were al-Qaeda operations, and you haven't caught Bin Laden or al-Zawahiri.
"The commander in charge of coalition operations in Iraq, who is also senior commander at this base, General John Vines, put it well the other day. He said, We either deal with terrorism and this extremism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us."
This is monstrous and ridiculous at once. The people in Fallujah and Ramadi were not sitting around plotting terrorism three years ago. They had no plans to hit the United States. Terrorism isn't a fixed quantity. By unilaterally invading Iraq and then bollixing it up, Bush and Vines have created enormous amounts of terrorism, which they are now having trouble putting back in the bottle.
"Our military reports that we have killed or captured hundreds of foreign fighters in Iraq who have come from Saudi Arabia and Syria, Iran, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Libya and others."
Maybe 8 percent of the fighters in Iraq are foreign jihadis. Of the some 25,000 guerrillas, almost all are Iraqi Sunni Arabs who dislike foreign military occupation of their country. You could imagine what people in Alabama or Kentucky would do if foreign troops came in and tried to set up checkpoints in their neighborhoods.
Moreover, many of those jihadis fighting in Iraq wouldn't even be jihadis if they weren't outraged by Bush's invasion and occupation of a Muslim country.
The fact is that the US went in and convinced the Sunni Arabs of Iraq that we were going to screw them over royally, driving them into violent opposition. They aren't inherently terrorists and could have been won over.
There are no Iraqi military units that can and will fight independently against the Sunni guerrillas, so all those statistics he quoted are meaningless.
Almost all the coalition allies of the US have a short timetable for getting out of the quagmire before it goes really bad. Bush's quotation of all that international support sounds more hollow each time he voices it.
The political process in Iraq has not helped end the guerrilla war. It has excluded Sunnis or alienated them so that they excluded themselves. It offers no hope in and of itself.
There was nothing new in Bush's speech, and most of what he said was inaccurate.
Light at the end of the tunnel, as they used to say in Vietnam. Here is how the US occupation of Iraq has worked out so far: http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick06282005.html
Good luck, Zach, and if you've made it home for your leave, stay there - it's safer for you and for the Iraqis!
Taff
In case anybody's interested, here is an excerpt from an ex-CIA analyst's view of Bush's Iraq policy http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern06292005.html :
....A General with the Courage to Speak Truth
More outspoken still has been Lt. Gen. William Odom (US Army, ret), the most respected senior intelligence officer still willing to speak out on strategic and intelligence issues. Unfortunately, you would have to understand German to know what he thinks of "staying the course" in Iraq, because U.S. media are not going to run his remarks.
Here is my translation of what Gen. Odom said last September on German TV's Panorama program:
"When the president says he is staying the course, that makes me really afraid. For a leader has to know when to change course. Hitler did not change his course: rather he kept sending more and more troops to Stalingrad and they suffered more and more casualties.
"When the president says he is staying the course it reminds me of the man who has just jumped from the Empire State Building. Half-way down he says, 'I am still on course.' Well, I would not want to be on course with a man who will lie splattered in the street. I would like to be someone who could change the course...
"Our invasion of Iraq has made it a homeland for al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Indeed, I believe that it was the very first time that many Iraqis became terrorists. Before we invaded, they had no idea of terrorism."
Hey..have a safe trip man. I just found this place. See ya when you get back.
http://www.back-to-iraq.com/
News flash: Iraq is a disaster. I've been back one day, and the airport road was the worst I've ever seen it. We had to go around a fire-fight between mujahideen and Americans while Iraqi forces sat in the shade of date palms on the side of the road, their rifles resting across their laps. My driver pointed to a group of men in a white pickup next to me. “They are mujahideen,” he said. “They are watching the Americans.” Indeed, they were, and so intently that they paid no attention to me in the car next to them. We detoured around two possible car bombs that had been cordoned off while Iraqis cautiously approached.
Rumsfeld's assessment of “good progress” on the constitution is not accurate, as the committee to draw it up still hasn't completely agreed on how the Sunnis will take part.
When I was in Ramadi, I found the morale to be lower than expected. It wasn't rock-bottom among the Marines of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, but it wasn't great. Most of the ones I talked to weren't confident they were doing anything worthwhile, and were instead focused on getting home alive. If a few Iraqis had to die to make that happen, well, war is hell.
I'm not sure who's winning this war, the Americans or the insurgents. But I know who is losing it: the Iraqi people. Those bumps in the road are their graves.
touching kristen, you're words of solidarity to hurria and her family. maybe next time you could suggest she and her family eat cake?
foreign invaders and killers out of iraq!
I'm new here and did not find the time to read all your posts yet - but the few I read are *fantastic*.
(I'm French, living in Versailles, France, then please excuse the mistakes I can make in English)
I don't want to make any political comments on the fact that invading Iraq was a good thing or not - now it's history - just want you to know that you soldiers and all the Iraqies people are in my thoughts and in the thoughts of a lot of my compatriots. I hope that in a very near future we all, American, European, Arabs, will be able to find the best solution to stop all these horrible things happening in Iraq, all these bombs killing civilians and soldiers.
Just want you to know that, even if I disagree sometimes with decisions that your or my governement can take, I fully support you as soldier, who do "his job" as well as he can, and I do know how difficult this job is.
That's definitely the time to work all together.
Sure you're going to enjoy these days with your family :°)
Take Care.
geez, hurria, if you hate it so much, why don't you move to another country?
once the war is over, make sure you don't enjoy the freedoms you will have. my apologies, but honestly, your miserable comments are insufferable. some people in your situation wake up every morning and praise god for allowing them to see the sun one more day. they take immense pleasure in spending time with their families; it makes it much more precious. see, it's the little things in life that make it worth living. any of us could die at any time. i ask god that he grant you the gift of being able to enjoy those little moments.
i am happy that zach will be able to enjoy some of those moments.
a french woman i knew for about ten years had some interesting observations about americans. she was married to a georgia farmer for 25 years, has 3 kids with him, one in the us armed forces.
she told me once, "what americans hate more than anything is to be called stupid............" guess that's why you disappeared the last comment. happy 4th. off them a-rabs.
Zach have wonderful time at home with your family.
daedalus if you still think that the invasion of Iraq will bring Iraqis freedom in the American way and the fact that you're asking God for someone to tolerate suffering and abuse makes you extremely naive and a moron.
Why don't you pray to God to make things better for everyone concern instead of stepping on others opinions and values.
Again Zach, enjoy your time a home.
Zach, have a great time with your family and friends. Hope you dont need to return. But if you do, God Bless.
And dont worry about all these people who cant appreciate what USA is doing in the middle east.
The iraquis are used to violence, death, torture, and oppression. They have lived this life since saddam gained his seat of power.
It is sad to note that indeed, the iraquis are suffering on a daily basis, but how much of that is at the hands of the coallition?
Aren't the insurrgents suicide-bombing their own civilian infrastructure? Police recruiting facilities? Their water treatment plants? Just because we helped build and finance it? The same as we did for EUROPE after we helped them.... TWICE!
and did that take 2-3-4 years? was it easy? did nobody suffer? are they greatful for our intervention?
Not then. Not now.
the last anon commenter might like to read this...... http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45087 or this: http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/signs.htm or this: http://www.juancole.com/
if anyone in the usa thinks the usa is helping iraq, or people in the middle east, they are dumber than a bag of rocks. the usa really helped the american indians too. and the panamanians. and the foks in el salvador.
its simply incredible how DUH DUH DUMB americans are proud to be. (but if all you want to look at are fox and cnn, whose to blame?)
wake up folks. butchKo is going to pull the carpet out from under you, real soon. he and his gang of thugs belong in leavenworth penetentiary, life without parole and no tv or cell phones or doritos or chicken pilaf.
or this http://www.guerrillanews.com/videos/37/NEW_Taliban_Country
or try this http://malakandsky.blogspot.com/
DUH
is this the reality of the situation in Iraq?
how many of our current respondants have been there recently?
are we sure the Iraqis (of which I am proudly) are in fact angry that the americans interfered?
did they do this for our benefit?
are we better off? should they just stayed out of our lives?
my nephews have diedbecause of this insurgency> but they think that the americans care about the oil. the americans care about finishing their responsibility with their government. they want to go home. they want to go to school.. my son wants the opportunity to go to school.
he wants to travel. he wants to speak different languages.
i want to travel. to have the freedom to meet different people.
my husband dies trying to protect irqaqis from outsiders, but the only ones to help him were American soldiers.
am I selfish? am I naive?
i live here. in IRAQ.
where do yo live?
snag dude,
methinks you're snagged somewhere unpleasant.
http://billmon.org/
For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. The fabulous statistics continued to pour out of the telescreen.
George Orwell
Stunning Victory!
The latest reports from the Anbar Front show the swinish subhuman terrorists in headlong retreat, after suffering massive casualties at the hands of our heroic troops.
Army information specialists say the fleeing enemy has left behind evidence of unbelievable atrocities -- including mass graves, torture chambers, sadistic scientific experiments, the use of nerve gas, smallpox and anthrax against innocent civilians, and millions of DVDs and videotapes of prisoner beheadings.
Intelligence analysts say captured enemy documents show terrorist mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi in complete despair over his losses. "Fanatical cowards such as we can never defeat the awesome power of America," the evil monster laments in one captured letter. "Democracy has triumphed."
In cities across America, spontaneous demonstrations are in full swing, as College Republicans and other patriotic groups express their undying devotion to our beloved party leaders.
At the White House, a steely-eyed President Bush vowed not to settle for anything less than total victory. "Our purpose is firm, our moral vision clear," he said. "We will never -- never -- negotiate with terrorists."
(In a related development, Pentagon officials say they have reached an agreement with Sunni freedom fighters to evacuate the Green Zone in downtown Baghdad. Transfer of sovereignty to the newly proclaimed Islamic Caliphate of Iraq will occur at midnight.)
Posted by billmon at 04:18 PM
Editorial
We support the troops and you should too. It feels good to say "we support the troops," so we think you should say it a lot. It will make you feel better about the war.
"We support the troops."
Don't you feel better now? We sure do.
Some people say we should ask tough questions about the war, because it's been going on for a couple of years and a lot of our troops are still getting killed. But the bad guys haven't gone away. In fact it looks like there's more of them.
But we support the troops, so we're not going to ask tough questions. It's really annoying when people ask tough questions -- almost as bad as when people criticize us. Bloggers ask a lot of tough questions. Bloggers criticize us a lot. We don't like bloggers. They're unethical.
We don't remember why the troops are in Iraq, but we know there must be a good reason. We could look it up on the Internet, but that's hard. And we don't have much time, because of all the shark attacks. Sharks are scary, but also really cool. We like sharks.
But we definitely support the troops. Especially when they die.
Posted by billmon at 03:38 PM
Let's Invade Iran
The AEI says they'll have the bomb any day now. But Kenneth Timmerman says the people love us. He was on the Daily Show.
The White House says things are going really swell in Iraq. So I guess we have enough troops for the job. Plus we've got Shock and Awe. I really like Shock and Awe. I like to watch.
This should be a cakewalk.
I wonder what's going on with that woman in Aruba . . .
Posted by billmon at 02:55 PM
Celebrities Sure Are Fascinating
I wonder what Michael Jackson's up to these days. Don't his fans have a right to know?
Somebody really should interview his plastic surgeon.
Posted by billmon at 02:37 PM
When Tabloids Attack
Suddenly I feel this powerful craving to write about shark attacks . . . or missing white women.
Or a pretty blonde white woman who everybody thinks is missing, but who's actually been attacked and eaten by a monster white shark! With Roy Scheider! And Richard Dreyfuss! And exploding shark heads!!!
God I love being in the journalism business.
Posted by billmon at 02:11 PM
Enjoy your leave, Zack. I still think you're a JERK for not timing it so we could go to Dragon Con together. Bastard. :-P
Before we deployed, I left a book in your car, titled "The Atrocity Archives". Can you find it and mail it to me? Thanks.
-The Crichton
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2031.shtml
how many gi's are felling like this, deep down in their guts?
Why is everyone assuming Zach has gone home on leave? With FOB Danger being turned over to the Iraqis, I would think he's been tasked to help his unit pack up & move to their new location.
I think they're assuming that because they actually know Zach, and know that he is going home on leave :) Have fun with Tara and the kids Zach!
~Hillary
Britain is pulling out of Iraq. 18 months and they are out. When will we do the same?
-roamer in mich
Hurria, I am very sorry for all that you have lost.
Have any of you thought about what it is like for the families that are left behind? Especially Zach's wife? I can tell you what it is like. My husband was in the Gulf during Desert Storm. We got word a few days ago that he is going to be deployed to Iraq. This time we have three little girls to tell. We have to tell them that their daddy has to go to Iraq. They have already lost their biological parents to this war. My husabnd and I adopted my nieces.
While he was in the Gulf I cried alot. I felt guilty when I did something fun. He felt guilty because he wasn't there for me. I worried about his safe return. My heart stopped each time there was a knock on the door. I feared that it was the knock that would tell me my husband was killed and how brave he was and that he died an honorable death. When he came back he wasn't the same man that left. He was withdrawn. He had violent nightmares. We couldn't sleep in the same bed for about 2 years because he feared he would hurt me in his sleep. Alot of counseling later he is the same man I married at 17. There are still nights that he can't sleep due to vivid nightmares of his time in the Gulf.
We have three girls that need their daddy. I can't show my feelings as much this time aound because I don't want to worry those innocent girls. The twins will be starting kindergarten this fall. Now their daddy can't keep his promise to them. He can't walk them to school for he will be gone. I will have to get another job to support the girls, pay the mortgage, and other assorted bills. The girls will have to go to daycare for the first time.
I am just thankful that they don't fully understand what daddy will be doing and the danger he is in.
We just thought that the military days were over when he was discharged 6 months ago. Guess we were wrong. He was called back into active duty.
I just want to know from the politicans: If this war is so important why aren't your sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, brothers, sisters, husbands, and wives over there?
Just a military wife's reality.
Zach, hope you stay safe and return home for good. My prayers are with you and your family as well as with all that are affected by this war.
Bobbie
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=88719&ran=105700
Just some stuff I found. Really the solution is simple: over 50 million Americans voted for Bush. I know, without a doubt, that there are plenty of 18-39 year olds in that demographic that can serve in Iraq. There are 144,000 troops in Iraq? Surely there are enough eligible Americans who "Support the Troops" that can join the Army and double (maybe triple) the number of active duty troops. Enlist, get a commission, whatever. That way, the US wont have to stoploss anymore troops, no more recalls to active duty, and there will be plenty of "boots on the ground." And if you cannot qualify for service in the US Army (who has a waiver for EVERYTHING) encourage your son or daughter or friend or father or mother to enlist. It is a great honor to serve. Now, if you are a spouse of a deployed soldier, that is rough so I say you are doing your time, but when your spouse comes home, you should deploy. That way, you can avoid those pesky "I had it worse than you arguements."
Imagine if each military eligible citizen in the US volunteered 18 months of thier time, the burdon of this conflict would be shared by all (therefore much easier to carry).
the burden of this conflict? idiot ameriKans.
Iyad Allawi, the former puppet of the US, now says Iraq is right on the edge of civil war. So, now Allawi decides to tell the truth???
-roamer in mich
yo sg Zach,
you havin fun on leave? or whwerever you are?
you and your ameriKan "friends and allies would best go home and plant vegetable gardens........ http://abutamam.blogspot.com/
mr/ms hurria....... any commment here?
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What do you call ..
A Letter to the British People.
From Iman as-Saadun.
I’m sending this letter to the British people and in particular to the residents of London. For a period of hours, you have lived through moments of desperate anxiety and horror. In those hours you lost a member of your family or a friend, and we wish to tell you in total honesty that we too grieve when human lives pass away. I cannot tell you how much we hurt when we see desperation and pain on the face of another person. For we have lived through this situation – and continue to live through it every day – since your country and the United States formed an alliance and laid plans to attack Iraq.
The Prime Minister of your country, Tony Blair, said that those who carried out the explosions did so in the name of Islam. The Secretary of State of the United States, Condaleezza Rice, described the bombings as an act of barbarism. The United Nations Security Council met and unanimously condemned the event.
I would like to ask you, the free British people, to allow me to inquire: in whose name was our country blockaded for 12 years? In whose name were our cities bombed using internationally prohibited weapons? In whose name did the British army kill Iraqis and torture them? Was that in your name? Or in the name of religion? Or humanity? Or freedom? Or democracy?
What do you call the killing of more than two million children? What do you call the pollution of the soil and the water with depleted uranium and other lethal substances?
What do you call what happened in the prisons in Iraq – in Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca and the many other prison camps? What do you call the torture of men, women, and children? What do you call tying bombs to the bodies of prisoners and blowing them apart? What do you call the refinement of methods of torture for use on Iraqi prisoners – such as pulling off limbs, gouging out eyes, putting out cigarettes on their skin, and using cigarette lighters to set fire to the hair on their heads? Does the word “barbaric” adequately describe the behavior of your troops in Iraq?
May we ask why the Security Council did not condemn the massacre in al-Amiriyah and what happened in al-Fallujah, Tal‘afar, Sadr City, and an-Najaf? Why does the world watch as our people are killed and tortured and not condemn the crimes being committed against us? Are you human beings and we something less? Do you think that only you can feel pain and we can’t? In fact it is we who are most aware of how intense is the pain of the mother who has lost her child, or the father who has lost his family. We know very well how painful it is to lose those you love.
You don’t know our martyrs, but we know them. You don’t remember them, but we remember them. You don’t cry over them, but we cry over them.
Have you heard the name of the little girl Hannan Salih Matrud? Or of the boy Ahmad Jabir Karim? Or Sa‘id Shabram?
Yes, our dead have names too. They have faces and stories and memories. There was a time when they were among us, laughing and playing. They had dreams, just as you have. They had a tomorrow awaiting them. But today they sleep among us with no tomorrow on which to wake.
We don’t hate the British people or the peoples of the world. This war was imposed upon us, but we are now fighting it in defense of our selves. Because we want to live in our homeland – the free land of Iraq – and to live as we want to live, not as your government or the American government wish.
Let the families of those killed know that responsibility for the Thursday morning London bombings lies with Tony Blair and his policies.
Stop your war against our people! Stop the daily killing that your troops commit! End your occupation of our homeland!
Hey Dia-Hurria,
Maybe this would have been better? ( http://massgraves.info/ ), Do you know anyone in here? some of your friends might.
There was quite a bruhaha on my blog yesterday and today over the link I posted to this blog and the letter someone wrote. Let me know what you think.
Check This out...
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html
"The best thing that Kan happen for Iraq now, as always, is for the U.S. to get the hell out."
Stupid IraKKis!
If you & the IraKi people really wanted to keep foreigners out, you would have gotten rid of your own diKtater, and eleKted someone who would have Kooperated with the U.N. and been a good neighbor to the rest of the world.
But since you didn't we had to Kome over there & do your job for you. You & the IraKi people Kreated, or allowed your problems to exist. And you allowed a diKtater to reign, kill his own people, and threaten the rest of the world.
You all Kan say thats a lie, or just AmeriKan greed talking, but
I suppose Iran & Israel bombed a vacant building back in 07 June 1981. Or the Coalition air raid on 17 January 1991. Both air raids, and many more, were specifically designated for the destruction of Iraq's nuclear weapons program infrastructure that was KNOWN to have existed.
Are you saying that we should have stopped in Afghanistan, even after many of the Taliban/Al-Qaeda fighters had fled into Iraq? Do you think that UN sanctions, or harsh words would have made Saddam give them up? Or maybe the UN inspections that worked so well after desert storm?
A leader who is willing to murder his own people wholesale ( http://massgraves.info/ ), will have absolutely have no qualms about using any Weapon of Mass Destruction that he could get his hands on. Now mix in a ready and willing terrorist force, the possiblility of WMD's, and pray they don't strike in your neck of the woods! LIES? I don't think so!
Besides anyone who has been paying attention, will know the only LIES about this war, are political partisan LIES.
Stupid IraKKis!
Hurria,
That's what I meant by scary. I find it scary that other human beings feel that way because of our Forces invading their country. Don't be so quick to argue. I was agreeing with you. If you want to change things you have to not be so quick to jump. People don't react well to being berated by someone (especially when their view-points are the same). It doesn't reflect well on your intelligence.
Enjoyed reading your blog. Pretty impressive that you can speak and translate Arabic. Best of luck to you and your family. Hope you can come home soon.
Feel free to visit my blog as well:
http://babyastrid.blogspot.com
"Hey Dia-Hurria said..."
Stop using MY posts for your arguments!!!
Anyone can cut and paste, use your brain and think of what you want to say, then say it.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us... Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy is a form of Government, Politics is a collection of buffoons attempting to interpret the ideals of that form of Government.
Anything you say here is public property!
"I wish America was more like every other country in the world in the advocating of second and third languages in schools. We are so arrogant to think that if anyone wants to talk to us, they better learn our language"
I thought Spanish was our second language. I think it would qualify as one because enough people here speak it.
I had a couple of years of German In high school, but I only remember enough to get by now.
Zach, hope you and your family are well, and you're safely away from the thick of things over there. Take Care.
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Zach, hope you and your family are well, and you're safely away from the thick of things over there. Take Care.
The Next Step said...
Really the solution is simple: over 50 million Americans voted for Bush. I know, without a doubt, that there are plenty of 18-39 year olds in that demographic that can serve in Iraq.
I'll go if YOU will pay all my Property, Income, and other socialist giveaway program Taxes, that your liberal friends like to make me pay for.
Your Answer???
Every soldier swears in KNOWING that the possibility of actually having to go to war exists!
And they sure love that college money and benefits that military life provides.
So every soldier that is complaining (Zach) deserves a big, I TOLD YOU SO!!!
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