three new posts from the iraqi bloggers

[madrchsod]

contrary to fox/whitehouse news, maybe no one really wanted a civil war

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
Baghdad Burning


http://www.roadstoiraq.com/
Baghdad Dweller


http://www.idao.org/2006/02/unity-of-iraqi-people-against-us.xml
IDAO - Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation

[Pirate Smile]

1. Thanks for the links.

[BadgerKid]

2. Key quote

"The occupation is the problem and not the solution." --IDAO

[mom cat]

11. Sadr; Do you want to march behind the occupiers plans?,

The invaders are trying to split the brothers (Sunni and Shiia).

Sadr continues questioning the crowed:

Do you want to march behind the occupiers plans?, do you want to support the cursed occupiers trinity?, do you want to support the occupiers who threat our unity?, do you want to support the evil?.

Sadr continues:

Pay attention to the western plans, what we wants is not the US taking out their ambassador but we demand the taking out the occupiers or at least the occupation forces schedule their evacuation, we need to cut the head of the snake.

Sadr in the last paragraph was answering the crowed about some Iraqi politicians asked the US ambassador to leave Iraq after his announcement; “The US will not support an Iraqi government based on sectarian or ethnical values”.

http://www.roadstoiraq.com/

[seabeyond]

3. i went thru a good ten iraqi blogs last night. maybe more. i agree

i came off with the same feeling and then came on this board reading civil war. totally opposite of what these blogs are saying

[madrchsod]

4. i post on several of these sites

treasure of baghdad was in the usa last nov through dec-he got back to iraq the same day jill was kidnapped

[Mnemosyne]

5. .

[beachmom]

6. Thanks for the links

I agree with the other poster that at least the bloggers have no interest in fighting the other ethnic groups. But they are scared. I do wonder though how representative of Iraqis are the English language blogs? Zeyad of Healing Iraq posted pictures of Men in Black driving through the streets with guns, looking pretty damned scary. None of them are probably bloggers. It is amazing how their personal stories make the war more real than the best news report.

Probably the most impressive rant came from The Konfused Kollege Kid who was angry that all of the other bloggers had such gloom and doom, bleak reports. He felt that passing on that information only fueled the hatred and violence. It gives you the level of frustration Iraqis must feel about events completely out of their control.

[Emit]

9. I saw those pics too and this is how they were described

The Iraqi Rabita website reports an interview with a Mahdi militia leader today, quoted as saying: "Strange things are happening these days. It's true that our guys often act as a bunch of spiteful, criminal thieves going on sprees of sabotage, murder and plundering. But the people who were running the act were clean young men, elegantly dressed, in modern vehicles, carrying the latest weapons, unlike our guys who are usually unkempt ruffians. No one knows were they are now."

http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/

I wonder who these guys are.

[il_lilac]

7. thanks, K&R n/t

[Clara T]

8. k&r

[slipslidingaway]

10. K&R, thanks. n/t