For God's Sake, Tell Me Where To Begin?

[babylonsister]

Initially posted in articles, but I want to see if there's any reaction here. Really, are we that inured to what's going on? And I recommend you read the whole thing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17921.h...

For God's Sake, Tell Me Where To Begin?

By Layla Anwar

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Now check this one out.
I mentioned in one of my posts that a junior member of parliament in the Green Zone brothel makes 30'000 dollars a month plus fringe benefits. Now do you want to know how much the matron makes? No joke here.

Jalal Talabani makes 1 million dollars A MONTH plus fringe benefits. This heavy hooker has pocketed in 2 years, 24 million dollars! Whilst the majority of the Iraqis don't have a piece of bread...

Bread...That reminds me of Nadia's husband. After being sacked from his job as an accountant, he took up the job of a baker. I just learned that he has typhoid.
Raging fevers in raging Iraq...


So kindly tell me, where would you like me to start? Pick and choose.

Fatherless day, orphans in feces, sodomy Americana, blood pools, home burials, severed heads, public castrations, erring homelessness, regrets and nostalgia or how to make a million bucks per month in Iraq? Or maybe I need to stop here and put out this fever?

So when you decide, let me know. But do remember there is no end in sight...

Now, If you don't mind, I would like to go and crawl into some corner, take up a foetal position and vanish...Vanish from these endless beginnings, vanish from my own powerlessness, vanish far away....


Layla Anwar : Who am I ? The eternal Question . Have not figured it out fully yet . All you need to know about me is that I am a Middle Easterner ,an Arab Woman - into my 40's and old enough to know better . I have no homeland per se . I live in Iraq,Lebanon,Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Egypt simultaneously .... All the rest is icing on the cake. Visit my blog http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/
" A nation that does not take care of its v

[noamnety]

1. k&r (nt)

[rubberducky]

2. OMG

Thanks for posting this website. I have not read anything quite like it. Her words make me sick to my soul.

[babylonsister]

4. Thank you for reading it. I want to get this woman and her thoughts out there! nt

[rubberducky]

3. another kick and a big rec

This website should be read by everyone.

[Hekate]

5. 5th Rec.

:kick:

I want my country back.

Hekate

[babylonsister]

6. Thank you, seriously. nt

[chknltl]

7. Top link no longer working....

...hmmmm
So far everything you post is high on my list of must reads babylonsister. Perhaps your threads are being watched and acted on by "little brother". Now I really wish I could have seen it.

[babylonsister]

9. I don't know if this is different, but try it:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17921.htm

[madokie]

25. now I'm enraged a little more

nothing we can ever do to make this up to the people of Iraq, nothing.

[ClayZ]

8. K and R

Thank you, babylonsister! Now I am going back to read some more.

[slipslidingaway]

10. June 19 / 20, 2004 Inside the Green Zone

http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick06192004.html

US is Paranoid and Isolated
By PATRICK COCKBURN

Baghdad.

"An Iraqi friend, who feared for his life because he was close to the Americans, used to live inside the Green Zone, the heavily protected area in central Baghdad where the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) has its headquarters. One day he fell into conversation with an American soldier guarding one of the gates. The soldier said he was of Iraqi origin and could speak Arabic. He added that security was not quite as tight as it looked since prostitutes were regular visitors to the zone.

My friend, a little alarmed, decided to investigate. He went to a house which was being used as a brothel. He says: "In the toilet I found that the women were writing pro-Baath party, anti-American and patriotic slogans with their lipstick on the mirrors." Their clients could not tell what they had written because it was in Arabic."

[babylonsister]

11. And your point is? nt

[slipslidingaway]

12. Since I never heard of the brothel in the Green Zone before I

looked for other articles and thought it might be of interest to some, guess I was wrong.

[babylonsister]

14. Please read the story; has nothing to do with a brothel, other than

what the author comppared it to when she wrote it.

[slipslidingaway]

27. Please read my post again, it was one item in the article that I

had not read about before and never suggested the original piece was about a brothel.

"Since I never heard of the brothel in the Green Zone before I looked for other articles and thought it might be of interest to some..."

[me b zola]

13. k&r

[G_j]

15. why am I not surprised? n/t

[Swamp Rat]

16. k&r

:cry:

[babylonsister]

17. SR, your graphics make me hurt more. But thanks. nt

[Swamp Rat]

18. It was a VERY painful graphic to make.

I haven't been able to do another like it since... I had to stare at the poor child (and father) for hours. :cry:

[Tsiyu]

19. Kicking

:kick:

[Truthiness Inspector]

20. I'll wait for another , verifiable source

I Googled this, and didn't find anything. Could be error on my part.

[babylonsister]

21. Yes, it might be; google her name, there's lots there to read. nt

[WilliamPitt]

22. the top link needs "tm" connected to the end; ".htm" will work.

[babylonsister]

23. Thanks; GOOD LINK HERE:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17921.htm

[Toots]

24. That ain't nothing, Exxon pockets a $100 million dollars a DAY

$100 million a friggin' day and Congress is scrapping over $4.5 million a year for Cheney...$100 million a Day and they still can convince Americans gas prices have to keep going up and they have no control over it. Americans really are as stupid as Republicans believe we are..

[n2doc]

26. That was a hard article to read, but a must read by all

Not the style, but the content. Makes me cry and rage at the same time. I cann't express the level of loathing I have for the so-called "leaders" who did this to Iraq.