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Iraqi Blogger Reporting The Latest Fights! (Unbelievable!)

last-of-iraqis.blogspot.com — ***** the big cold-hearted media! THIS is how you really report a story. This Iraqi blogger is right in the middle of everything and constantly updating his Blog. He describes the fights, how the U.S. army is responding and what the local people think. Plus he's connecting all The latest happenings in a way you won't hear from CNN, BBC and Fox!

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  • Inthenameofmine, on 03/30/2008, -3/+124If you're interested in what the Iraqis think, here's a list of some very good blogs: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/middle ...
    We have these days the resources and the connections to be informed about an issue from all angels. Use this new medium, it's one of the best we've got.
    • Inthenameofmine, on 03/30/2008, -3/+18I don't mean channel4, I mean the blogs of course.
    • secleinteer, on 03/30/2008, -12/+5"We have these days the resources and the connections to be informed about an issue from all angels."
      Indeed, both the Muslim angels and the Christian angels.
      Sorry, couldn't resist :P
    • Gerbil_Juice, on 03/30/2008, -13/+8I don't believe in angels.
    • 98percentcogdis, on 03/30/2008, -1/+4Thank you for this information. I will be adding it to my favorites for easy access.
    • scy1192, on 03/30/2008, -2/+2I prefer the Pony Express
    • quokkapox, on 03/30/2008, -3/+3There's also some live blogging going on by an American soldier stationed in the Green Zone here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/29/45620/ ...
    • 5urr3al5am, on 03/30/2008, -11/+2Where's the credibility?
      • Memitim, on 03/30/2008, -1/+12That's a question that should be asked about every single piece of information you receive. It doesn't make these any different. Or am I supposed to give more credence to CNN and Fox News because they have multi-million dollar operating budget, fancy graphics, and the requirement to generate profits as members of publicly owned corporations?
      • darkwing81, on 03/30/2008, -0/+8ya, sorry "Mohammed", I dont care if you were born and raised in Baghdad. unless you can produce documentation from an accredited school of journalism, me and 5urr3al5am will continue to get our news about whats really going on from Geraldo.
  • Kizilbash, on 03/30/2008, -7/+34Great stuff, thanks!
    • 2bees, on 03/30/2008, -3/+3read this people! This is under Patreus/betray us on his blog.
      "But the withdrawal of the US troops specially in this time is not a good idea , that's what I think.
      I join many people who are worried about the Iranian influence and control over Iraq after the US leaves , and as most of the people know that Iran already have a great influence and control over Iraq and Iraqi government. What will happen when the US troops leaves ? a massacre will happen because Ahmedi Najad have officially announced that Iran is ready to fill the gap that the US troops will leave behind???!!! he is ready to invade Iraq!."

      Iran is just waiting for the US to leave! Even Mohamadd knows it's unrealistic to do so.
      • Tehrooni, on 03/30/2008, -3/+2hehehehehe
        I love it how the Iraqi bastards are begging us to stay now. We might have sacrificied 4000 of our best, but Bush's vision that we will win the hearts and minds of Iraqis is coming to unfold. If anyone had any doubts, read this blog again.
  • notque, on 03/30/2008, -1/+30Very interesting to read. Really helps to sort out some of the conflicting news reports. Thanks.
    • DangerCollie, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2Does he say somewhere in his blog where he gets his internet connection? If dude is for real, he's got some large caliber brass ones. I'll give him that. Really interesting reading about Iraq from the point of view of an Iraqi.
      • supermanred, on 03/30/2008, -0/+10He doesn't need brass ones. There is basically almost no government in Iraq right now, let alone anyone to maintain any form of censorship.

        Its the American media that seems to be censoring itself and stretching the truth and sometimes downright lying about this Super Vietnam that the US has gotten itself into.

        Personally, I get my news from the CBC which believe it or not is a bit more informative (99% less Britney Spears) than US networks. It also appears to be less government-controlled than US media outlets which is funny because the government of Canada OWNS the CBC.

        • looselips, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2does digg support a href's yet to imbed links? Nope, so here's a regular link:
          http://www.cbc.ca/
        • grinchdec23, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Indeed you are correct, the CBC almost seems to be getting BETTER than even 5 years ago...in fact Global News is doing a good job as well... much less censorship than anything in US...
  • davidkeithjones, on 03/30/2008, -102/+16Why the violence? Why are Iraqis fighting each other? Everything is wrong, Iraq had an opportunity for freedom, they are squandering it on stupid Islamic ideas that make little sense.
    • davidkeithjones, on 03/30/2008, -78/+8Ah ya, I'm getting Dugg down because I suggest that Iraqis need to take responsibility. I apologize for making too much sense.
      • Kizilbash, on 03/30/2008, -10/+77No, you're being dugg down for being an idiot. Iraq was invaded, the Iraqi army was dismantled and the invading army did not have enough manpower to guarantee the safety of the population. Plus they allowed Iranian-backed militias into the country and into the government, plus they supported Kurd militias and allowed them into government as well. Sunni and Shi'ite nationalist Arabs felt threatened (rightly so) and started their own militias. This was all predicted by Middle East experts btw, but the Bush administration 'knew better'.
        • spawnfree, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1everything that government makes happen is planned that way, just ignore what they say and judge them on their actions.
      • BassMastr, on 03/30/2008, -1/+11The doctor also blamed the Iraqi people.
      • Danktolker, on 03/30/2008, -4/+40You are being dugg down for being an incredibly douche bag. How dare you fake like you understand that insanely complicated ***** that is Iraq? It's a millions times easier to ***** something up then it is to fix something figure that ***** out davidkeithjones, you ***** simpleton.
      • sabach, on 03/30/2008, -2/+27You're being dugg down for presuming to dictate to Iraqis what should be important to Iraqis.
      • SoxSweepAgain, on 03/30/2008, -2/+26You're dugg down because the Iraqis never asked for this AND this was predictable.
      • PAStheLoD, on 03/30/2008, -14/+2Still the man has a point, but when it comes to people and responsibility and thinking about the greater good or making compromises, it becomes moot.
        For example see this digg thread :|
        • VinceNoir, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4That is to say, you really want an iPod instead of that crapass Zune you're saddled with.
      • VinceNoir, on 03/30/2008, -1/+12Personal responsibility assumes that there is some semblance of order in a society. That is not the case in Iraq, thanks to America.
    • Kizilbash, on 03/30/2008, -4/+35Islam has very little to do with it. This is more of a class struggle between two Shi'ite parties that represent different groups. The pro-Iranian Islamic Supreme Councel of Iraq - the senior party in government - represents the bazaaris (merchants), the middle classes that were the mainstay of the Iranian revolution. The Mahdi Army that they are fighting represents the Shi'ite working class and the unemployed, the poor. The ISCI and their militia the Badr Corps have Iranian funding and better training and are more well-organised, but the Mahdi Army has strength in numbers. Both groups are fundamentalist, though the Mahdi Army is more nationalist and the ISCI wants an Iranian style Islamic republic.
    • JointVenture, on 03/30/2008, -2/+9Im gonna say its mostly about money, with RELIGION being used to control the pawns...I mean people.
      • lastrite, on 03/30/2008, -0/+9Freedom?! they were invaded and had a pro US government forcibly instated in a 'democratic process', the bloodshed and absolute chaos started in 2003 and will not cease until many years after US troops pull out of the region.
        • supermanred, on 03/30/2008, -0/+8Some people are too ignorant and uneducated to see beyond the lies of CNN and FOX and George Bush.

          They don't have the mental capacity to realize that if China started bombing the ***** out of the US, killed half a million Americans that they too would be pissed off and kill as many Chinese as they could. They can't seem to wrap their heads around why most of the world thinks America is doing pure evil in Iraq.
          • Tehrooni, on 03/30/2008, -6/+1First of all, liar is your cousin Bin Laden and his cousin Saddam. We have the best and freest media in the world. Hell, we even let reporters to ride around with our soldiers.
            Second of all, China would never bomb us, because that would be the VERY LAST thing they'll ever do. We went to Iraq to liberate it from Saddam and his cousin Osama. Saddam is already six feet under ground, and Osama is hiding some cave. We just gotta finish the job we started. Iraq will be a model country is 10-15 years. Just wait for the reconstruction....
    • Tehrooni, on 03/30/2008, -22/+3I dig you bud. These god damn moozlems are all fanatics. We got one of our own here as well. The dude is running for president too!!! The best solution for Iraqis is to convert out of Islam. Best choice is of course believeing in Christ, but I don't care if they become Buddhists or whatever. As long as they give up fundamentalism. Then the Iranians will have nobody to do their fighting for them, and there will be peace in Iraq. Simple!
      • spongya77, on 03/30/2008, -3/+7Are you ***** kidding? Or just being sarcastic?
        • supermanred, on 03/30/2008, -2/+10No, I think he's for real. Gods help us.
      • VinceNoir, on 03/30/2008, -0/+12Talk about fanatics. Anyone who thinks that ending Islam will end the problems is off their rocker. Islam = Christianity. There are good Christians and there are lunatic fascist Christians. There are good Muslims and there are lunatic fascist Muslims. If we were to use a "final solution" and kill every Muslim in Iraq, then spend the next two generations raising Iraqi children in a "Christian nation", the same segment that would be blowing themselves up for Allah would be doing the same for God.
        • supermanred, on 03/30/2008, -3/+3It's all just an excuse to kill each other. It isn't about religion, it's about education levels.
        • Azerael, on 03/30/2008, -8/+1The guy was being sarcastic.
          • VinceNoir, on 03/30/2008, -0/+9No. No he wasn't. I've been keeping my eye on him and he just loves to cause trouble. That's fine, in and of itself, so do I. But, you should have some style and finesse when doing it. He lacks both.
        • Tehrooni, on 03/30/2008, -7/+1Hey moron, fanatic is your hero Osama Hussein Barack who I am sure uses Linux to send out his hate messages. We have a job to do in Iraq. If we were not so concerned about human life, we would have just dropped a couple of nukes on Saddam and had this war over with in 24 hours. But no, we have sent out our best to educate those people into being better people by abandoning their moozlem fanaticism. It is already happening. Iraqis are 10 times more civilized than they were when we got there. There is just a few more problems to iron out, and Iraq will be a model society. We got things under cover... you go back configuring another driver on your Linux box.
        • zeabu, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1In Indonesia, Christian church refers to God as ... Allah. That's because Allah, isn't a name like Yahweh. It's just Arab (and Indonesian) for the word god. Islam is a spin off from Judism, as is Christianity (as inside christianity you have spin offs from katholicism, for eg. angelicism, protestantism).
          They all believe in the same god, but they disagree on a particular issue. Both Christianity and Islam accept the OT, which is actually the tora (Jewish "bible") both Islam and Judism disagree with Christianity about Jezus. For the latter it is the son of god, the first consider him as a prophet.
      • afterlife23, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4nobody listens to you islamaphonbiacs anymoe
    • dgn3, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Maybe those ideas don't seem so 'stupid' to them. Have a little empathy.
    • ecape7, on 03/30/2008, -2/+2Iran is based on islamic idea and so is indonesia and some major parts of sigapore its not islam its the oocupation idiot
      • Tehrooni, on 03/30/2008, -5/+1what's your point? Iran is the model to follow now? FYI, all these moozlem countries are problem prone BECAUSE of Islamofascisme. That's just the way. And the only cure is to get rid of Islamofascisme once and for all. I believe John Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran Mccain is the man to settle that score for us in 2009.
        • crazydiode, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4you never learn, do you?
        • zeabu, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1We'll talk with you again in 6 years, when you turn 18, and you have to serve in Iraq.
    • muzy, on 03/30/2008, -1/+3nothing to do with Islam, its the ***** who raped their country for profit.
    • slaizer, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Kinda absurd to think that going into the middle of a class struggle by booting everyone in the face and then saying "enjoy your freedom now, boys", then blaming them of wasting their chance, would really be a way to solve crisises.
  • aaron4, on 03/30/2008, -5/+33everybody love everybody!
  • exomni, on 03/30/2008, -34/+21Shhh! If you read what the Iraqi's are writing, you might get the idea that they want us the ***** out. Best you stick to the MSM for your Iraq news.
    • Picaroon, on 03/30/2008, -1/+31You probably should have read more of the blog before you made this comment.
    • redcosmic, on 03/30/2008, -3/+20Did you read any of that blog, or just make a patheticly weak anti-war comment because you just assume that all Iraqis agree with you and your own spin on things?
    • JointVenture, on 03/30/2008, -6/+14Typical reaction from the Diggucated left.
    • bingobongony, on 03/30/2008, -1/+15Wow...you couldn't POSSIBLY have destroyed your credibility any more than you did with your post. All it would have taken was a minute of your time to READ the link and you would have saved yourself a whole ***** of trouble.
    • Tehrooni, on 03/30/2008, -1/+4idiot
      • grinchdec23, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1WTF morons.. he is at least as correct as your "read for one minute" *****... its clear that things are out of control period.
        • bingobongony, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1His comment is 100% wrong, as backed up by this article. Period. Idiot.
  • gplpark92, on 03/30/2008, -21/+5Creative sucks
    • Sonof8Bits, on 03/30/2008, -1/+3***** the RIAA! Whoops, wrong article...
  • gravityboard, on 03/30/2008, -2/+15As a product of the 24 hour news cycle, I am constantly in search of good news sources. Thanks for opening my eyes to a new way of gathering reliable information on the situation in Iraq.
    • sovietninja, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1This dentist has great photoshop skills, and also alot of time on his hands to write this. I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say its real but some things just seem strange, the pictures for one thing... but again I'm not skeptical about whats taking place, I'm just not sure this is truly one person giving their first hand account. Could be a reporter for all we know. I also hope this is not propaganda created by our government to make us want to stay and "fix" Iraq becuase of secular violence.
      I don't buy the whole, if we get out, Iran will take over. So why did we invade Iraq if the real danger was Iran to begin with? And why did these Mullahs suddenly grow balls and think they can take on the US and yet were ***** scared ***** of the Baath Party and Sadaam? Maybe he really did have those WMDs. The best time for Iran to have invaded would have been right after we got within 150km of Baghdad during Desert Storm. I don't know how the US can fix Iraq, seems to me the region has been broken since the Iranian Revolution, and we are too Dependant on the Oil Producing countries to make any moves.
      • xBDVx, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3Everything is more complicated below the surface, Iraq is no exception. That was the US's mistake. The short answer is that there's a power vacuum, and now there are a lot of people vying for it. Sure, there's a government in place, but it has no power, obviously, or it would be able to enforce the rule of law.
  • krytz86, on 03/30/2008, -1/+16I've read the top two posts and this is fantastic. I'm probably going to spend the next few hours reading the entire backlog.
    • Tehrooni, on 03/30/2008, -7/+1dont bother. It's all the same *****. Bottom line is that we gotta get rid of moozlems and everything will be all right after.
  • TobiasParker, on 03/30/2008, -16/+1I think he died, the most recent post is horrifying.
  • weakradiator, on 03/30/2008, -18/+35WTF are WE doing over there?
    • JointVenture, on 03/30/2008, -4/+14You didnt read it either.
    • bugsy187, on 03/30/2008, -8/+25Because of Bin Laden is friends with Saddam... no, because Saddam caused 9/11... no, because of WMDs... no, because we can't stand the brutal dictator the neocons supported through his worst atrocities.... no, to spread "freedom" and "democracy"... because we'll be greeted as liberators, not as an invading, occupying foreign army....

      The best and most honest explanation I've heard is that control over Iraq is like economic veto power over certain countries in Europe and Asia. Oil isn't just for cars, it's a profoundly important resource for industrialized countries. It's energy, but it's also for making plastics, rubber, pharmaceuticals and a wide variety of cheap industrial chemicals. Iraq is also the new place for US military bases, since we can't keep troops in Saudi Arabia anymore (one of the main grievances for 9/11). So, in short, political power is the reason, and if you're as morally deficient and criminal as people like Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, you have no problem trading a massive number of lives for it.
    • leexy, on 03/30/2008, -6/+4More importantly, how stupid did you have to be to let your taxmoney and compatriots turn the country into that hellhole? For Heaven's sake, the whole world was screaming at you from the rooftops to use some common sense.
      • GeneralXod, on 03/30/2008, -2/+7You're assuming that anyone was listening to the few of us Americans who knew what was happening was both a lie and very, very wrong. I had to use my fists more than once trying to explain to my fellow citizens that Saddam Hussein and his secular Baathist regime had NOTHING AT ALL to do with bin Laden and his theocratic Wahhabist al-Quaeda. Once the "shock and awe" began all that I could do was grab a beer, sit back, and sigh. Being an American I am guilty for the unjust and illegal invasion of Iraq.
        • supermanred, on 03/30/2008, -1/+4Nobody cares about that, and they shouldn't. Do YOU care why a man kills a child? Was it because of his childhood? Did he have a bad hair day? Don't care. Hang him. The world thinks the same of the US blowing ***** up in Iraq. We don't care why you are there anymore, because no Iraqi ever attacked the US. You attacked THEM. You were attacked by Saudi Arabian Muslims and instead turned the guns on Iraqi Nationals of various faiths.

          Nobody cares about the Americans who are against the war. They will not be remembered. The Germans who opposed WW2 will not be remembered either.
        • sovietninja, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2With that kind of attitude, where do you expect change to begin? Or do you want another world war and a change in world order? WW2 left us with a cold war and two main superpowers. What would happen after WW3? It will be like the middle ages, and people will once again fight for GOD or Allah, which would be a reversal of over 400 years of advanced thought that finally pull us away from such feudal thinking (I'm talking about Hobbes' Leviathan).
        • JulyZerg, on 03/30/2008, -2/+1People do fight for GOD or Allah today... just look around...
          • sovietninja, on 03/30/2008, -2/+3No, I'm talking about a new world order that just based on the concept of protecting either God or Allah. We didn't go into Iraq for god, unless your god is oil. And I don't believe in God and I am still an American. The previous world orders were Communism vs Democracy/Capitalism. If said WW3 were to happen such orders would be meaning less and I believe people would revert back to a Medieval/Crusade mindset. Sorry if I was unclear.
          • Kyan, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1After WWIII, you'll say:

            "Sorry, if I was nuclear."
          • insurgente, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2@ sovietninja:

            Communism vs. democracy/capitalism? First of all, the USSR and the PRC were and are far from communist, and capitalism can only be quasi-democratic at best. Communism, a socioeconomic system in which all institutions of society are governed by direct democratic councils, is a truly democratic system.
        • ordig, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3Vietnam protesters were remembered
    • captspaulding, on 03/30/2008, -4/+4silly goose, we are liberating them! yay liberation!!

      *extreme sarcasm*
    • blinktude, on 03/30/2008, -0/+0bake sale?
    • futureisours, on 03/30/2008, -2/+1Hussein has been linked to terrorists and WMD, but of course the liberal media doesn't report this. It's basically a pre-emptive strike against any future terrorist strikes he might support and something that should have been done 15 years ago.
  • wisammy, on 03/30/2008, -1/+42If anybody is interested his name is Salam Pax, he also blogged during the invasion of Iraq and was seriously risking his life. He has a book out now also.
    • CaptainAmerica1, on 03/30/2008, -1/+18Salam Pax is a pseudonym, meaning "peace peace"
      • wisammy, on 03/30/2008, -0/+8Well there you go.
      • SoxSweepAgain, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3I came here to say that. But it works for me.
        • wisammy, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Doesn't change the fact that, that is his name.
    • Hangly, on 03/30/2008, -1/+4Also he's Sunni, and gay. I've been reading him for a long time.
      • wisammy, on 03/30/2008, -4/+7You know it's funny you say that. I always thought he was gay. My brother interviewed him when he went to Iraq to film a documentary on our family there. It's called Nice Bombs. www.nicebombs.com

        him being Sunni is irrelevant. The whole divide between Shiite and Sunni was created by the US. It was never ever an issue until the American Regime invaded.

        woof
        • xBDVx, on 03/30/2008, -7/+8Yeah....they never hated each other before....it's all the US's fault. It's really easy to blame the "Americans," but for once this isn't our fault. I would have given Saddam another 10 years before he died and then this civil war would have happened anyways.
        • wisammy, on 03/30/2008, -1/+19I was born in Iraq. I am both Sunni and Shiite. I know what I am talking about. Your so absolutely wrong. Iraq is a country of peaceful people. There has never been a civil war. Saddam was evil yes, he committed crimes yes. But they had a virtually 0 murder rate, rape, major crimes etc.. Their dollar was worth more than the Americans. Full Health Care (more advanced than the USA) higher literacy rate, small class gap (almost a completely middle class country) and free university.

          It was amazing.

          Then the sanctions.
      • mille716, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2Are you sure he's gay? I'm reading the post "The Jail" and he's talking about his wife.
  • mark076h, on 03/30/2008, -6/+13what is going on in Basra will happen all across the country when we pull out, if we pull out tomorrow or in 20 years it will not matter.
    • drewsheldon01, on 03/30/2008, -14/+4its not our problem
      • Danktolker, on 03/30/2008, -1/+16We kind of made it our problem when we decided to spends hundreds of billions of dollars on this *****.
      • spongya77, on 03/30/2008, -0/+7Yeah. You just went in and ***** this thing up. When I'll knock up your little sister, I can walk out, too, right?

        Idiot.
      • supermanred, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4Yeah it is, idiot. Iraq was under control, civilized and DEMOCRATIC before your CIA installed Saddam Husein.

        Then, even during Saddam Husein's American controlled reign of terror, things were at least under control of law.

        Then Saddam told the US to ***** off.

        So you blow the whole country the ***** up, killing 100,000s of people. Men, women and children.

        Yes, its your problem.

        And even if you don't give a ***** about what is going on there, you have to be enjoying your recession. Lost your job yet? Your President is laughing at you. Your Vice President shipped all his billions to Dubai, knowing full well he was raping the US and investing instead in Dubai.

        Yes, its your problem even if you are too dumb to know it.
        • xBDVx, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3Don't you think your exaggerating a little? I wouldn't have called any past Iraqi government a 'democracy.' And we're definitely not in a recession, our unemployemnt rate is better than some European countries. So you should do some research before exposing such claims and then calling other people names.
        • ecape7, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1you are being sarcastic not in a ressecion god you give a bad name to american its assholes like you and others that make us europeans think your stupid
    • SoxSweepAgain, on 03/30/2008, -8/+3Which is why we should leave NOW. All we're doing is delaying a certain civil war.
    • NelsonR, on 03/30/2008, -5/+1If McCain has his way we will be there forever. The man is an old political hack who has lost his humanity.
      • sovietninja, on 03/30/2008, -1/+3Is that really McCain's way? Or the conservative pro bush way?
    • elipabst, on 03/30/2008, -0/+6Actually I think this is a very shrewd and planned out act on Maliki's part. It seemed like Al Sadr has been laying low, biding his time until the US pulls out at which point he'd make a move against Maliki. I think Maliki realized this and forced AlSadr's hand now, before his "muscle" (the US) pulls out. I think he realizes there's a very real chance that a Democrat could be in office soon and a withdrawal would begin soon after. By doing this now, the US has no choice but to back him up. Unfortunately for us, if this goes badly you could see things degenerate quickly and many of the gains over the last 8 months disappear. On the flip side, if Maliki pulls this off he consolidates power and gives the Iraqi gov't some legitimacy.
    • Memitim, on 03/30/2008, -0/+7Good thing that we are there for force them to get along at gunpoint. Except that we don't do it nearly as effectively as Saddam did. He was a right bastard and well deserving of a good assassination, but he was also the right man for holding that tribal ***** at bay, particularly with the capital of the Shiite world right next door salivating at the chance to get their feet in the door. I'd imagine that the more extremist members of the Iranian government would love to send think you cards to the Bush administration for providing such a wonderful opportunity to them.
  • drewsheldon01, on 03/30/2008, -13/+8thats why we should back out
  • nathangl, on 03/30/2008, -20/+3RIP Last of Iraqis blogger.
    • SuperMoses, on 03/30/2008, -0/+17Where did you hear he died? Why say ***** like this and not inform people with a source that he died?
    • lastofiraqis, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3I'm Alive thank god!!! who told you that? or you are just making threats? if you are trying to do that I'd like to let you know that I can't be scared...I'm a blogger against AQ, and Militias in Iraq and you think I'll be scared!!
  • Depthfunction, on 03/30/2008, -17/+23Mission Accomplished!

    I love how Bush had yet another MA moment just a couple of days ago when this latest conflict began, calling the Iraqi army's attack against the Mahdi army another "turning point" for the country. Today, though, in what few reports are making their way into the American news media, we have news of Iraqi soldiers defecting and joining al Sadr, and the army that remains loyal is getting its ass kicked.

    Yeah, that surge really worked out great.
    • poxonyou, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1100 more years of chaos! Vote McCain! /s
  • fodbirdy, on 03/30/2008, -8/+12dugg, I've haven't heard anything about the upswing of violence outside of the blogosphere, MSM needs to get on this
    • JointVenture, on 03/30/2008, -1/+13Its been on the news all week!
  • HanSolo69, on 03/30/2008, -21/+1If this is the future of reporting then we're all doomed to ignorance.
    • SoxSweepAgain, on 03/30/2008, -0/+10If you don't think this is the future of reporting, then I think WE know who is "ignorant".
    • JulyZerg, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4Yep - anything not forcefed to you by bush is ignorant!
    • Mpwns, on 03/30/2008, -1/+3no i think he is a grammer nazi who just noticed it is and he has his work cut out for him

      /i already know theres mistakes but you still read it and understood it so i dont really care
  • mal1964, on 03/30/2008, -11/+11Soldier Blogs
    http://www.aapavatar.net/blogs.htm
  • mshea, on 03/30/2008, -8/+2Like all good bloggers, he makes extensive use of the elipsis...
  • DJREJECTED, on 03/30/2008, -13/+1Listen to Presidents of the USA's - Love Everybody.
  • minox, on 03/30/2008, -2/+6Anyone else here read Michael Yon?
  • soccerman90, on 03/30/2008, -1/+16amazing read. More insightful than anything ill find on the tv news
    • thecoffeecake, on 03/30/2008, -7/+3thats because you only hear from the news what is politically correct and what they want you to hear. You think they want us to know everything?
      • soccerman90, on 03/30/2008, -1/+9i know, thats why i said what i said
  • PoonGnarfler, on 03/30/2008, -13/+14It really sucks to know that our country is the reason he has to go through all of that. If anything like that was happening to Americans you know this war would be done in a flash.
    • thecoffeecake, on 03/30/2008, -4/+14I hate to back America but thats because we can control our country. If a militia did ***** like this, they'd be dead in hours.
      • EarlOfLade, on 03/30/2008, -9/+2Wow, you really ARE retarded!
      • Gregbertt, on 03/30/2008, -4/+5You hate to back America? Why? A fifteen year old from New Jersey "hates to back America". Only in America...
        • thecoffeecake, on 03/30/2008, -4/+1From New Jersey exactly. You should see some anti american ***** that goes on in my school. Im probablly considered patriotic
      • bingobongony, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2It is unfathomable that you could write that comment and not realize how HORRIBLE it made you look.
    • Olfster, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2We could only hope.
    • rac1234, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3Unless the Americans in question were non-white...
  • mrzack, on 03/30/2008, -21/+8The vietnam war bankrupted the USA, and the USA had to go off the gold standard for backing its currency. This Iraq war is bankrupting the USA again. This time, a new currency named the Amero will replace the fallen dollar. All three countries will use the Amero (Canada, Fascist USA, and Mexico). This is the globalists plan for the destruction of America.
    • Olfster, on 03/30/2008, -4/+7You seriously believe this? I grant you corporations have too much power, we have only seen the begining of corporate wellfare and this war is costing us beyond what anyone can imagine right now, but an Amero?
      • supermanred, on 03/30/2008, -2/+7***** that *****. I don't want our Canadian dollar tied to that sinking stone of the US greenback. You guys are one more Dumb President move away from being Mexico North.

        That's all we need up here is more damn Americans going north for work.
        • looselips, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2If we have to lower ours to closer the peso, you should be expected...
          Oh, ***** no...
          I agree, the NAU would ***** us all, please stand strong against it for me.
          I'm not mexican, but you are still a brother to the north, try to help keep it that way.
          I bet you might do it if our dollar >= peso, don't count on your govt not selling out, eventually.
    • dbt10, on 03/30/2008, -6/+6What? You're a straight up idiot.
    • EarlOfLade, on 03/30/2008, -6/+5Vietnam war ended the gold standard? ROFLMAO! Another retard!
  • mistergoodburge, on 03/30/2008, -20/+2How pissed will we be when we find out this "iraqi" is just a liar looking for attention
    • Habemus, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2He gets too many details wrong for him to actually be there.
      • boombye, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2because you know the neighborhood so well.
  • nastronomical, on 03/30/2008, -32/+43..2..1 cowardly liberals go on your usual rant about war and blah blah blah.


    Instead of bicthing about violence be happy its not here....yet ;)
    • zoltamatron, on 03/30/2008, -2/+14And what...you think that what we're doing over there is REALLY keeping violence away from us?
      • supermanred, on 03/30/2008, -1/+10He appears to be mildly retarded, go easy on him.
    • Dweller99, on 03/30/2008, -2/+14Cowardly right-winger fighting this war from behind his keyboard in 3... 2... oh wait, there he is!
      When can we expect you at the recruiting office nastronomical?
    • Caalro, on 03/30/2008, -0/+14In the last year you have made 1,702 posts, most of which liberal bashing hate speak. The other posts are spam to links you have submitted.
      I doubt you will care, but I am not aware of any liberals who eat babies, kill US troops, or welcome drug addicts to marry their daughters.

      According to your profile, you live in NYC and, I assume, are the victim of the system because you are a white male. The liberal system has abandoned you to take care of your minority neighbors, who you feel, do not deserve any help because they have not done anything to deserve it. You see this as an injustice to yourself and the hard work you put forth.

      I can only speculate that, one day, you will figure out that helping people is not a terrible injustice. The world is not against you. The 'Liberals' are not the enemy, in fact, most care for you. They care that you have the freedom to express your *****. Some even want you to have guns to protect the very rights that have been stolen by this administration. I hope you come to these conclusions one day. The alternative is a very dark world of hate.
  • jm4847, on 03/30/2008, -26/+8A few thoughts:
    Soldiers are NOT heroes, they don't deserve honor nor respect. They are government employees. Shut up about them "fighting for freedom" and "serving". Anyone who thinks like that is a brainwashed moron who probably went to public school.
    This invasion (not war, invasion) wasn't justified. IT WAS WRONG.
    So don't support anyone involved with it, and feel ashamed if you voted for Bush in '04 or neglected to vote.
    • thirteenthcor, on 03/30/2008, -0/+9but a Person can be a HERO... and sometimes they are Soldiers, sometimes they are parents, and sometimes they are friends. There is no one side to anything
      • jm4847, on 03/30/2008, -3/+4Ok point granted.
      • JulyZerg, on 03/30/2008, -1/+6I think he was saying that not all soldiers deserve to be treated as heroes, considering that a portion of them are murdering assholes...
    • zoltamatron, on 03/30/2008, -0/+13Dude.....I'm against this stupid war as much as anyone, but you got it all wrong if you think that the soldiers on the ground over there don't deserve our respect. Its not their fault that we are in this war.

      And what's with your stupid crack about public school? Are you some kind of elitist super-liberal?
      • jm4847, on 03/30/2008, -5/+4But why do they deserve our respect? Can you give me a rational argument to support that statement? They are doing a job, and getting payed for it. They volunteered.
        Public school idealizes historical characters, makes the country in question look heroic and, yes, indoctrinates children to accept stuff "Just because" (Soldiers are heroes, the Founding Fathers are flawless, nationalism, abiding the law, etc).
        • LewisBreaker, on 03/30/2008, -2/+4He is right!
        • Typhoon2009, on 03/30/2008, -3/+3I have some respect by default for certain figures. Police officers, firemen, good educators, doctors. And soldiers. Why? Because they do jobs that are either very dangerous, very important to society, or both. Often their job is thankless. At the individual level, a soldier (in this example) must either earn more respect or lose my respect. But frankly, when I'm on the metro in DC and I see a soldier (there's a fair few around here, working at the Pentagon) and he doesn't look busy I give him a quick "My respects to you sir." Same thing I do on the bus... I always say thanks to the driver and tell him/her to have a nice day.
          • LewisBreaker, on 03/30/2008, -1/+3we are told they are heroes so that people join the army and other military forces.
        • boombye, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2Yeah I forget how you went to that religious private school that told you not to honor America's heroes as false idols jm4847.
    • Gregbertt, on 03/30/2008, -4/+4Ok, so let's take a quiz, then, shall we? Who said this: ""The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." -- Yep. you guessed it. Bill Clinton in 1998

      Or this: ""I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." -- Yep, you guessed it, John Kerry, Oct 2002

      Or this one: "As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." -- Yep - you guessed it. Nancy Pelosi, (currently Speaker of the House) December 16, 1998

      Bush lied eh? So did your darlings on the left. Start by blaming them, too, and then you can move on to Bush - he deserves some too, don't get me wrong. Plenty o' blame left over for him when you're done blaming those who advised him. The list of quotes from the left goes on and on, so relax about how it's all Bush's fault. We went to Iraq because that's what everyone was saying needed to be done. Go ahead now, see if those quotes I gave aren't accurate.
      • jm4847, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3lawl delicious copypasta
        • Masterson, on 03/30/2008, -3/+0hey JM.....he just tore you up and spit you out.....LAWL all you want.....
          • jm4847, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1I never defended the democrats.
          • diptheria, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2He didn't tear him up.

            He quoted people who helped disarm Hussein, through the use of UN weapons inspectors and the international community (Clinton and Pelosi from 1998), and guess what, their efforts seem to have worked! Where were all the weapons of mass destruction that Bush told us about? Apparently they had been dismantled with the help and pressure of the international community, but Bush lied about this in order to rationalize to the public his invasion of Iraq. Mission Accomplished. The other quotes are from people who were deceived by the lies of this administration concerning the threat of Iraq.

            Gregbertt "tore" nobody up, but is just copying from some other blog or article [without citing] in some odd attempt to say that this mess we're in now somehow was Clinton's fault?! Really? Wow! They must have used some harsh detergent when they washed your brain...
      • spongya77, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3Funny, only a right-wing neocon actually started a war. (Though that ***** Clinton did cause enormous suffering of millions by the embargo, while Saddam and his cronies were getting richer and richer.)

        BTW who says that just because I say Bush is a retard, and so is everybody else who sucked up the whole WMD/911/ugly dictator *****, I have to back Clinton or Kerry? Are you that simple? There are only two sides?
        • diptheria, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1So you are admitting that you voted for Ralph Nader? Hows that working out for you?
    • thecoffeecake, on 03/30/2008, -1/+6Now listen, this war was not justified, but you can't take it out on our soldiers. Yes I oppose the war, I oppose all war, but you cant take it out on those who CHOOSE to defend us, thats *****. Its amazing how the kids who went to public school got their education for free while those private school kids paid thousands to learn to rant about how much better they are than the world. You guys are a group of rich ***** who know *****.
      • Typhoon2009, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2Hey hey. I go to private school. Yeah, lots of tools get a sense of superiority going there. I'm not one of those tools.
      • jm4847, on 03/30/2008, -2/+11. Defend you from what exactly? Saddam's WMD's?
        2. Read my other post, you were indoctrinated, not educated.
      • mnocket, on 03/30/2008, -2/+1You're wrong thecoffeecake. The liberal progressives have no problem taking it out on our soldiers. The fact that they continue to do this is sad.
        • jm4847, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2Why are soldiers so god damned special to you people? I honestly don't get it.
          I want reasons, not emotions.
    • Typhoon2009, on 03/30/2008, -0/+5Blame the politicians, blame the politicians, blame the politicians, ad nauseum. THEY are the ones who started this ***** war, not the soldiers.
      • jm4847, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2They voluntarily enlisted during a time of war. Did they not know what the war was really about? Then they're idiots. Did they know? Then they're just as guilty as the politicians.
  • lxZanderxl, on 03/30/2008, -17/+70*update* Day 6:
    ...my mom got scared and said "You're moving with your auntie and your uncle in Bel-Air." I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said "Fresh" and there were dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought, naw, forget it, yo holmes to Bel-Air. I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and said to the cabbie "Yo holmes smell ya later." Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.
    • GregFD3S, on 03/30/2008, -4/+3Don't you mean the prince of Basra?
    • thisissami, on 03/30/2008, -17/+5tasteless
    • JLobes, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1Brilliant!
    • Zaggynl, on 03/30/2008, -1/+4I cannot fathom being in a real war since I live in safe and quiet Netherlands, but that wasn't funny.
    • pagno, on 03/30/2008, -2/+1?! Did you eat paint chips as a kid, or are you just naturally retarded?
    • Mpwns, on 03/30/2008, -0/+5no you guys are wrong its just that here in the USA we just don't care about Iraq anymore its been so long its normal to alot of us. when the death toll hit 3000 it was talked about at work. when it 4000 a few people at work told me they didn't even know it was that close. many of us know there really is no way of leaving if we leave now civil war and the middle east will get real scary everyone will go to war there because of it. it may be hell over there now but if we leave it will be worse.
    • jonnasi, on 03/30/2008, -2/+1You are just plain ***** idiot!
  • GregFD3S, on 03/30/2008, -11/+12On Fox News, you would just see the American Soldiers killing the "Bad Guys", because they want you to think we're winning this "War". This truly gives you a different perspective.
    • thecoffeecake, on 03/30/2008, -1/+3Fox news has very conservative views and they will never admit that we cant win.
      • supermanred, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3Doesn't winning mean taking over the entire country?

        I think you will find the Iraqi people are a bit more brave than you give them credit for. You will have to kill many 100,000 more men women and children (and as Borat would say down to the lizards) before the country is handed to you.
    • Wacer, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2I didn't get the perspective that anyone was losing. I got of an impression that the people were not being told what is going on so there is little news other than a person is living in a curfew, ***** water, no electricity, and spotty luck with the stores. This persons blog is good in sense that it can be felt from the street level but it doesn't give the whole picture.
    • dcollins, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4Why just fox news? I haven't seen any thing on the other news stations about this either?
  • Sonic84, on 03/30/2008, -4/+14wait, people still pay attention to the US media for actual news? The spin they put on their stories could off-set the earths rotation!
    • Wacer, on 03/30/2008, -2/+2The US media is fine as long as you don't rely on it as your only media.
  • cjshamrock, on 03/30/2008, -4/+8The future doesn't look very bright for Iraq :(
    • Pake, on 03/30/2008, -0/+10I don't know, based on his last post: "I'm so sick of sitting home and the fuel for the generator will be finished soon, I feel like a prisoner but I will endure it and I'll be so glad and happy if in the end there will be something good for the Iraqis, if there will be less killing, kidnappings or explosions, if Iraq and Baghdad is militias-free…for that I'm ready to be a prisoner in a hole for a year, I really do."
  • Gavron, on 03/30/2008, -4/+7As important as this is, I just wish he would reverse the colour of the text and background on that page. I know the Iraqis have it bad, and I do feel for them... but man, my eyes!
  • Olfster, on 03/30/2008, -7/+9hmm, any one think Mission Accomplished after reading this... "And we have AlMaliki saying that who will not go to work will be considered loyal to AlMahdi army…what could the civilians do? Go to their work and get killed by AlMahdi army…or put themselves in big troubles and might be killed if they don't go to work?"
    Guess the Bush administration didn't pay enough of our money to keep the calm until the election was over. Sad... Very sad... Here and there. What fools we have all been taken for...
  • Ovalteen, on 03/30/2008, -2/+17Latest Fights? You make it sound like a boxing match....
    "In the red corner, all the way from the US of A, weighing in at billions of dollars and over a hundred thousand soldiers, the Mean Green Killing Machine, Unnnnccccllllleee SAAAAAAMMMM! And in the blue corner, taking a stand in the sand, not just getting mad but declaring Jihad, the one, the only, the INSURRRRRRGEEEENNCCYYYYYYY! Only on Pay Per View!
  • daxsymbiont, on 03/30/2008, -11/+2"Iraqi" that speaks Queen's English.

    Nice try.
    • nblsavage, on 03/30/2008, -2/+8You're right, they are are unwashed, illiterate barbarians who couldn't possibly learn an advanced language like English. /sarc
      • lastofiraqis, on 03/30/2008, -1/+0By the way you are calling Iraqis including me a barbarian! I'm a dentist and in Iraq we study english since the 3 grade in the elementary school....My father is a doctor and a consaltant and so is my mother and they both studied in UK and I know english like that since I was in highschool and I watch hollywood movies and listen to Metallica, Linkin Park and Evanescence....I talked in that way so you can understand...because you seem to be so disconected from the rest of the world....aha and by the way I speak little French too
    • buhbyebot, on 03/30/2008, -1/+5Most of the people I have met in my travels from that part of the world do speak that way. Gain a better understanding of the world around you please.
    • hassanchop13, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3he's a dentist. if you knew anything, you'd know that medical education in most parts of the world is done in english; they dont really write text books in arabic for that kind of stuff. so yes, i'm sure he knows it.
    • voodooattack, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3I think you do hate the fact that someone is speaking your mother language better than you?
      Believe it or not, but eloquence and fluency of one's language is just a matter of skill, like anything else.
      Being smart enough to comprehend and assimilate another language is only limited by your wits, and your ability to voice and formulate your thoughts, and coin them into intelligible phrases that people understand.

      P.S: Guess what? I hail from Egypt, and Arabic is thoroughly more complex than English, not only in terms of it's alphabet, nor the complex-script involved in writing, I am talking about rhetorics and grammar.
  • daxsymbiont, on 03/30/2008, -17/+1The use of English in it proves it's written by an American.
    • buhbyebot, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2Not by a long shot. (pun intended)
    • nfulton, on 03/30/2008, -1/+11This blogger is world famous. He's been interviewed by the BBC. He is an Iraqi. He lives in Iraq. GET A CLUE!
      • Pyroteq, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1I'm selling my sarcasm detectors for 25% off if you ring in the next 15 minutes and pay by credit card.
    • felman87, on 03/30/2008, -0/+6Cause only Americans write in English?
    • Pyroteq, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4Don't you mean the use of American?
    • Typhoon2009, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2A fair amount of Iraqis know English, actually. Some of them learned it before the war, I'm certain some learned it by chatting with the soldiers there.
    • Hangly, on 03/30/2008, -1/+3Iraq was a British colony. Just FYI.
    • hassanchop13, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1copied from my post above: he's a dentist. if you knew anything, you'd know that medical education in most parts of the world is done in english; they dont really write text books in arabic for that kind of stuff. so yes, i'm sure he knows it.
    • lastofiraqis, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4I'm an Iraqi and everyone knows that...why you found so hard that an Iraqi can speak and write English? my blog is in NY times Baghdad bureau as a recomended blog so as in Channel 4 news so as in Observers 24 and so many other places....do you think they will link to me if I was a fraud?? I'm an Iraqi and I live in Iraq and here I'll write Arabic text in Arabic letters:
      أنا عراقي لكن المشكله فيك تكمن في عقده الارتياب لديك وانفصالك التام عن العالم....واذا لم تصدق انني عراقي اقرا مقالتي السابقه وشاهد الصور.
      and here is what I wrote in English letters:
      Ana Iraqi olakn ilmoshkila takmon fee 3okdat al2rtiab ladaik wa infisaloka altam 3n il3alm....o itha lam tosadk 2nne Iraqi 2kra2 makalatee alsabika o shahid al soar.
      the 2=`a the 3=is a voice in Arabic that is not found in english ....these numbers are used by all the arabic speaking people.
      and by the way I speak little frech.
      I'ma dentists and I have studied in highschool in baghdad that uses English only and we used Oxford books and there are many Iraqis who speaks english pretty good.
  • charmaniac, on 03/30/2008, -6/+4U.S. media licks the sweat off a dead man's balls. Hardly any mention of the fact that Iraq is blowing up.
  • Masterson, on 03/30/2008, -11/+12 jm4847 - You my friend need to go live in Cuba......I hear they just got permission to use Cell Phones..... They don't have permission yet to use the internet. I'm sure you're a big fan of Fidel, Chavez, Correa and the rest of those FARC fascists.... You have the right to spew your stupid ***** because of THOSE soldiers you retard.... People like you are the reason no one can have a serious argument about all of this.....
    • nblsavage, on 03/30/2008, -5/+4Actually he has the right to spew anything he wishes because of the Constitution. Likewise yourself.
    • tcpip4lyfe, on 03/30/2008, -3/+5Use the reply button please. This isn't a forum.
    • nfulton, on 03/30/2008, -6/+2Its very hard not to be cross with military men for not refusing to do this crap. We know there is the whole chain of command thing. The whole mutiny issue.

      But this occupation is entirely wrong and we expect more of US citizens and soldiers than to blindly follow really ***** up orders. We hold them in great esteem . . . and so we hold them to account.

      So many, many, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been injured in this stupid war . . . and US military men did the injuring.

      Its very hard not to blame them . . . because if they began to refuse orders the war would stop.
      • Typhoon2009, on 03/30/2008, -1/+4...couldn't we blame the politicians that started this war? The people that voted those politicians in there? I'm god damned sick and tired of people blaming everyone BUT the government. I was talking to a rather liberal friend of mine the other day, and he was talking about how a month or two ago there were these protests and they trashed some Army recruiting offices. When I asked him why they didn't protest Congress, he bluntly said that it was because they didn't want to get the ***** beaten out of them by the police.

        Yep. Only protest when it's convenient for yourself. The politicians are the criminals here. The people who voted "yes" on Iraq, every last one of them are shameful in my eyes.
        • 2bees, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2How come everyone forgets that WE are the government.
      • Masterson, on 03/30/2008, -1/+5I understand your point of view. I just don't believe that spitting on the people that are willing to put themselves in harms way for us is the issue. Until you are willing to put yourself in harms way I don't think it's the right argument. Putting Obama in office is the best way to prove your point. Getting out and solving the issue on that level is appropriate. NOT pointing your anger at the people that are willing to go out and do something about it while you sit at home and smoke your weed and complain about your boss at 7eleven..... (not referring to you, just a general observation of malcontents that don't know where to channel their anger.....)
    • Mpwns, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1umm how are they protecting us? no one in the middle east can really attack us as an act of war yet on our soil. and dont give me 9/11 that was a terrorist attack and we had far more terrorists attacks by americans.
  • SellotapeGuy, on 03/30/2008, -10/+2Propaganda
    • lastofiraqis, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2for who??? just read my older posts and you would know that I'm no prpaganda for anyone...you should read well before you judge people.
  • RioMo, on 03/30/2008, -4/+6Its sad how in today's world if you want to get the real story behind something happening you have to go to a source THAT'S NOT the American media. And yes I'm American.

    • kemp34, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Corporate/oligarchy owned media in the U.S. is utter TRASH.
  • JLobes, on 03/30/2008, -14/+2A lot of silly-looking people need to read the article before commenting on it.

    In case you've come this far down the comments and haven't figured it out, theres no way in hell it's real.
    • Hangly, on 03/30/2008, -0/+6Salam Pax is real. I've been reading his blog(s) for about seven years now.
    • JLobes, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2Really? I would have put money on it being a hoax. The more I read the more it looks legit.

      My bad.
    • ordig, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1what was that about silly looking people?
  • BikerDude69, on 03/30/2008, -7/+5Imagine if this were a blog coming from an American neighborhood! This is HORRIBLE! No one should have to live through, or even die through this! STOP the war, DAMNIT! Unbelievable...

    After reading that blog, I still don't know who is who. Everyone seems to keep switching sides, and it's all foreign. I could no timagine if this were happening in America, and I was able to understand where the different factions come from. What total chaos and horror.

    Legalize hemp and make fuel from that, and leave everyone alone, damn. This is madness!
    • Masterson, on 03/30/2008, -6/+1Well there you go.....the answer to everything. Legalize pot and all will be well with the world....lol I think Charles Manson felt that EXACT same way....
    • Wacer, on 03/30/2008, -3/+2How do you propose to stop the war? If everyone just left quickly, there would be a civil war between the Sunni and Shiites and then a civil war between the factions of Shiites. It's apparent that the place is in major bind. You mean stop the war so all the media pulls out as well and everyone will quit talking about it while the place self destructs. Then you can feel all better.
    • alenox, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4Madness?! This is BASRA!!!!!!!
      *kicks puppy down a well
  • rickremixx, on 03/30/2008, -9/+3WAR NO MORE - enough said
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K33ly8bYgRk
  • Hangly, on 03/30/2008, -3/+1Where is Raed? :(
  • NelsonR, on 03/30/2008, -3/+15Not surprising, the war in Vietnam was censored and the American public never knew what was occurring except sound bites from embedded newsmen who knew to not rock the boat. I must say it again people so please listen, we went to Vietnam based on a lie and America lost 58,000 thousand American soldiers. Here we are again, Bush did it this time, in Iraq fighting a war that cannot be won, cannot be won and cannot be won. Betray Us and other military leaders are toeing the political line that Bush/Cheney desperately desire to stay on course. Go ahead some of you call me a liberal, actually Independent with both liberal and conservative slants, but it changes nothing. No Pearl Harbor occurred, No sneak attack, No Iraqi aggression on American soil yet we attacked them. Like many on this blog we would fight to the death for America if we were attacked, we weren't, so why are we there? Twelve million dollars each and every hour we spend in Iraq while America is going bankrupt and the five percent American traitor elitists get richer. It's all insane yet Bush is still with us.
  • mrgreg, on 03/30/2008, -0/+8Reminds me of the guy who stayed in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit, and stayed, reporting on everything and taking pictures and video for quite a few days before leaving.
  • fuzzynyanko, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4Pretty good stuff. His writing is straightforward and there doesn't seem to be any extreme bias towards anyone (though I wouldn't blame him if he did have any). He seems to be writing as just a citizen.
  • talibah, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2disclaimer - This name came from a MtG card and I've had it for years, don't get any ideas about it otherwise.

    I have questions from the article maybe someone can reply and help me with.
    1. Is AlMahdi and AlMahdy the same thing?
    2. Who is AlMaliki? Who is Muqtada? Who is the Badir Brigade?
    3. Is there some kind of civil war going on between these two/three groups?
    4. AlMahdi appears to be a sect of worshipers. Does that equate to a group of people, as in Judaism/Jews or is it more like a Christian group (Episcopal, Protestant, Baptist) who believes in a specific interpretation of the religious text? Are they closely related in America to the group who is carrying weapons in the article?
    • NelsonR, on 03/30/2008, -3/+0YOU JEST I'M SURE.
    • RuSTeDs, on 03/30/2008, -1/+121. Yes
      2. Nouri Al Maliki is the president of Iraq handpicked by US govt. Muqtada Al Sadr is a Shiite insurgency leader. Badir Brigade is a battalion of Iraqi Army. Get them all together and you'll have a big slumber party.
      3. Yes, apparantly they dont like each other. Or better yet, US govt under Bush ***** Iraq.
      4. Muqtada Al Sadr has tens of thousands of followers, various charity organizations and other social causes. His military wing is called Mahdi Army. In Islam, Imam Mahdi is the twelfth (and final) Imam according to the Shias, and a pious religious leader according to the Sunnis. Imam Mahdi is supposed to come before Jesus before the End of days. He is especially important in Shia'ism, but every Muslim on earth acknowledges Imam Mahdi.

      I was bored.
      • Zaggynl, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4Excellent info, thanks.
      • Drogoganor, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2"Get them all together and you'll have a big slumber party."

        I lol'd
  • Schoffstall, on 03/30/2008, -1/+6Great blog thanks a lot
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