The chaotic and byzantine situation back home made my mind unable to configure or even imagine that there would be a solution at the end of this madness. The news became extremely preternatural that no human mind can even conceive. Besides feeling homesick, I felt what I read the past couple of days in the news was so painful. More destruction, more assassinations and more and more failure. Everything is falling apart.
The political powers’ bravado became so funny that it became a battle of spitting accusations at each other instead of maintaining a sense of camaraderie by uniting the bleeding country. This whole situation left my mind lost, looking for the honest people to save this wounded country. Whom should I believe, I though to myself after reading the crazy news. Everything is messed up now. Yesterday, the Iraqi government issued an arrest warrant against the culture minister accusing him of “terrorism” as Alarabiya sources reported. Asaad al-Hashimi was accused of “plotting” against the two sons of Mithal al-Alousi, a member of the Parliament whose announcement of his visit to Israel created a not-so-few enemies inside the religious-fanatics ruled Parliament, government, and political parties. In response to this arrest warrant, the Congress of the People of Iraq, condemned the arrest warrant and warned the government to avoid "playing with fire" by "fabricating lies to exclude Sunni politicians and officials from the Iraqi arena." The story goes further funnier. Al-Hashimi was not at home when the security forces staged a pre-dawn raid and detained some 40 of his guards. Muhanad al-Essawi, a spokesman for the main Sunni parliamentary bloc, said the minister was being kept in an undisclosed safe place in Baghdad and that Sunni politicians were asking the government to close the case.
O.K. Let’s see. I neither trust the Shiite government nor the People of Iraq Congress. On many occasions, the government proved to Iraqis its loyalty to sectarianism and religious extremism. On the other hand, the Sunni blocs are pretty well known among Iraqis that they have strong bonds with armed insurgents who carried out many attacks in which it is believed they took orders from these parties. So whom should I believe if I don’t even trust any of these sides?
What made me frustrated actually were two things. The first is the minister himself was a mosque preacher! How could you expect a prosperous country if the Prime Minister chooses a preacher to be a culture minister?! What kind of culture, education, or sense of civilization this man has if all he used to do was preaching in a mosque? I don’t doubt that he even brainwashed young men to join Jihad and kill whoever is against his religious views. The other thing is that the Sunni bloc is challenging the government and announcing publicly that they are hiding the minister in a safe place, just like gangs hiding their gangster from the police. Doesn’t saying that by itself is considered breaking the law? If the minister was innocent, why should the Sunni bloc be scared of surrendering him to justice? Or is it because the government is so sectarian that they may execute the minister by drilling him first without trial? Adnan al-Dulaimi, the head of the Sunni bloc told Radio Sawa, “due to the American intervention, the culture minister will leave Iraq and then resign from abroad.”!!!
The only one who is looking at us and laughing now is al-Qaeda. I’m sure that they are sitting on their filthy fat asses holding their balloon-size bellies laughing at what is happening. After these beasts succeeded in killing a not-so-small number of senior tribal sheikhs from Anbar province at the Mansur hotel two days ago, the accusation wars reached a new level. In today’s issue, Azzaman newspaper reported that a group of tribal sheikhs in Anbar accused Nouri al-Maliki of “creating a campaign against the armament of the tribal sheikhs of Anbar which eventually led to the bombing of the Mansur Hotel.” In previous reports, some government officials expressed their fears that after arming the Sunnis against al-Qaeda, these fighters will turn against the Shiite government and plan a coup. Again, whom should we believe?
In the middle of this madness, Iraqi people’s agony has reached its peak. In addition to the daily bombings and killings committed by insurgents and militias against the people, electricity comes for only one hour per day, leaving people endure the120 degrees. The children of Baghdad have become more and more depressed due to the daily ordeal they are facing. This Washington Post article sums up a lot of painful stories. Social activities have almost vanished as my parents and sister told me. All they do now is eat, watch TV, and sleep. They hardly see each other every two or three weeks and sometimes months.
Hope has almost vanished. How can we hope that things get better if there are such people ruling us? How can we hope security comes back if American leaders announce that the Iraqi troops are incapable of taking over security after four years of training? I was asked a lot about what’s the right thing to do to take Iraq at least to its situation before the war. My answer is change the corrupt government and parliament, call for new elections, ask people to elect individuals-not slates, or blow it up and bring a new just tyrant-funny ha?!-who uses extreme power and oppression against outlaws and execute them in the middle of the streets to make them lessons to anyone who thinks of hurting any civilian.
baghdadtreasure@gmail.com
The political powers’ bravado became so funny that it became a battle of spitting accusations at each other instead of maintaining a sense of camaraderie by uniting the bleeding country. This whole situation left my mind lost, looking for the honest people to save this wounded country. Whom should I believe, I though to myself after reading the crazy news. Everything is messed up now. Yesterday, the Iraqi government issued an arrest warrant against the culture minister accusing him of “terrorism” as Alarabiya sources reported. Asaad al-Hashimi was accused of “plotting” against the two sons of Mithal al-Alousi, a member of the Parliament whose announcement of his visit to Israel created a not-so-few enemies inside the religious-fanatics ruled Parliament, government, and political parties. In response to this arrest warrant, the Congress of the People of Iraq, condemned the arrest warrant and warned the government to avoid "playing with fire" by "fabricating lies to exclude Sunni politicians and officials from the Iraqi arena." The story goes further funnier. Al-Hashimi was not at home when the security forces staged a pre-dawn raid and detained some 40 of his guards. Muhanad al-Essawi, a spokesman for the main Sunni parliamentary bloc, said the minister was being kept in an undisclosed safe place in Baghdad and that Sunni politicians were asking the government to close the case.
O.K. Let’s see. I neither trust the Shiite government nor the People of Iraq Congress. On many occasions, the government proved to Iraqis its loyalty to sectarianism and religious extremism. On the other hand, the Sunni blocs are pretty well known among Iraqis that they have strong bonds with armed insurgents who carried out many attacks in which it is believed they took orders from these parties. So whom should I believe if I don’t even trust any of these sides?
What made me frustrated actually were two things. The first is the minister himself was a mosque preacher! How could you expect a prosperous country if the Prime Minister chooses a preacher to be a culture minister?! What kind of culture, education, or sense of civilization this man has if all he used to do was preaching in a mosque? I don’t doubt that he even brainwashed young men to join Jihad and kill whoever is against his religious views. The other thing is that the Sunni bloc is challenging the government and announcing publicly that they are hiding the minister in a safe place, just like gangs hiding their gangster from the police. Doesn’t saying that by itself is considered breaking the law? If the minister was innocent, why should the Sunni bloc be scared of surrendering him to justice? Or is it because the government is so sectarian that they may execute the minister by drilling him first without trial? Adnan al-Dulaimi, the head of the Sunni bloc told Radio Sawa, “due to the American intervention, the culture minister will leave Iraq and then resign from abroad.”!!!
The only one who is looking at us and laughing now is al-Qaeda. I’m sure that they are sitting on their filthy fat asses holding their balloon-size bellies laughing at what is happening. After these beasts succeeded in killing a not-so-small number of senior tribal sheikhs from Anbar province at the Mansur hotel two days ago, the accusation wars reached a new level. In today’s issue, Azzaman newspaper reported that a group of tribal sheikhs in Anbar accused Nouri al-Maliki of “creating a campaign against the armament of the tribal sheikhs of Anbar which eventually led to the bombing of the Mansur Hotel.” In previous reports, some government officials expressed their fears that after arming the Sunnis against al-Qaeda, these fighters will turn against the Shiite government and plan a coup. Again, whom should we believe?
In the middle of this madness, Iraqi people’s agony has reached its peak. In addition to the daily bombings and killings committed by insurgents and militias against the people, electricity comes for only one hour per day, leaving people endure the120 degrees. The children of Baghdad have become more and more depressed due to the daily ordeal they are facing. This Washington Post article sums up a lot of painful stories. Social activities have almost vanished as my parents and sister told me. All they do now is eat, watch TV, and sleep. They hardly see each other every two or three weeks and sometimes months.
Hope has almost vanished. How can we hope that things get better if there are such people ruling us? How can we hope security comes back if American leaders announce that the Iraqi troops are incapable of taking over security after four years of training? I was asked a lot about what’s the right thing to do to take Iraq at least to its situation before the war. My answer is change the corrupt government and parliament, call for new elections, ask people to elect individuals-not slates, or blow it up and bring a new just tyrant-funny ha?!-who uses extreme power and oppression against outlaws and execute them in the middle of the streets to make them lessons to anyone who thinks of hurting any civilian.
baghdadtreasure@gmail.com
