Like everyday, Ahmed was going back home after a long day at work. Since college and since he started his job as a government employee in 2004, he did not have any problem in transportation. Most Iraqi middle and working class people use government buses and private minibuses for their transportation.Lined up near the old non-functional traffic lights in Bab al-Muadham district in central Baghdad, KIA minibuses were empty. Angry people, including Ahmed, argued with the drivers to let them in. “No one will go in before being searched,” one driver told the mob. Men and women disagreed first but later surrendered to the driver’s insistence to save their lives. There might be a terrorist putting on an explosive belt or carrying a bag with a bomb ready to cut the people’s body into pieces.
As it is known for everyone, Iraqis’ life has changed from bad to worse since the U.S.-led war. Now, even buses become one of the hundred things Iraqis fear. Distrust becomes something stuck with Iraqis wherever they go. Everyone started suspecting each other. If someone parks a car in the street, nearby shop or house owners ask him to take it away. It may be a car bomb.
Ahmed started to be worried all the time. Like all Iraqis, he is unsafe at all. “Wherever I go, I feel I am going to die. Even going to work became as hard as getting a job,” he told me once.
Today, a bomb planted inside a minibus exploded in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City neighborhood, killing at least two people and wounding six.
In addition to bombs put inside the buses, car bombs are also fatal and one of the daily threats people may face. In last August, at least 43 people died and 76 were wounded in triple car bomb explosions in central Baghdad. Two of the blasts went off within 10 minutes of each other at the busy Nahdha bus station. The third blast happened on the road to a nearby hospital, Kindi, some 15 minutes later, just as victims of the first two attacks were being brought in.
On December 08, 2005, a suicide bomber boarded a packed bus as it was pulling out of the same bus station, Nahdha, and detonated an explosive belt, killing at least 30 civilians, mostly women and children. Police said the death toll was especially high because the blast triggered secondary explosions in gas cylinders stored at a nearby food stall. At least 25 people were wounded in the attack.
Last Tuesday, a bomb hidden in a minibus exploded near one of the offices of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Kamaliya neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding three, police said.
Despite the above mentioned incidents, there are no serious efforts to put an end to this phenomenon. Security forces should be guarding the entrances and exits of the public bus stations to prevent any such attacks.
However, people always try to have a better life by tipping off the security forces of any suspected thing. Today, a group of people noticed an anonymous car parked inside the main bus station in Baghdad's famous Shiite neighborhood of Kadhimiya. They called the police who came hurriedly to see if the vehicle was a car bomb or not. Bravely, they defused the bomb they found in it and saved dozens of innocents’ lives.
The thought process of someone willing to detonate themselves in a group of women and children riding on a bus is practically incomprehensible. To think that someone might have traveled hundreds of miles to a foreign country in order to kill themselves while murdering innocent people. Why? Because they get an express ticket to paradise? It is unbelievable what some people can be convinced of.
ReplyDeleteZarqawi’s group claims to have carried out 800 of these types of acts. Unbelievable.
What bothers me are these people that profile suicide bombers and say that often they are intelligent educated promising...
Bottom line is someone who can do this sort of thing is pathological. Just because you may be able to have a conversation with them and they aren't drooling on themselves doesn't mean that they are intelligent. To label these monsters as anything but crazy is to give them too much credit.
For once I must agree with the reaction by TexAg, as in it's incomprehensible how a person could ever convince themself that it's somehow worth it to sacrifice not only their own life but the lives of dozens of innocent people. One thing I must point out, however, is that his representation of Zarqawi as having claimed to have carried out over 800 such attacks on Iraqi civilians is inaccurate, but understandable given the abhorrant reporting by American news agencies. The most believeable and thorough coverage of his 35 minute video (to get off track, for a second, that guy is f'n strong: it is so hard just to hold up such a heavy caliber machine gun like that, let alone be able to hold it steady standing up while firing; i'd hate to meet him in a boxing ring) I've found is on Asia Times Online, but unfortunately I haven't found a word-for-word translation into english anywhere yet. His claim was that his attacks were made on coalition forces, not Iraqi civilians. Whom he may consider as working for or with the coalition is debatable, but I'm just relaying what I've come across.
ReplyDeleteBT, I don't even want to try to imagine what it must be like to have to live in such a culture of (understandable) fear. I understand that, through much propaganda about "terror," the average American is "living in fear." However, being told you should be afraid and having to deal with very very real danger day in and day out are two completely different worlds. Again, as many times before, I applaud your courage.
I find it quite distressing that, while there is OBVIOUSLY no security, no "freedom" (in contrast by assertions by the American incumbants), and Iraq is indeed not the "better place" that CNN's State Department Correspondant has tried to claim as recently as friday. Yet somehow, there doesn't seem to be any real changes being made to the policy that has destroyed one country and is now setting it's sights on destroying yet another ( Iran ). How much death and destruction is it going to take before there is actually something resembling Change. For the sake of the countless additional innocents whose lives will undoubtedly be lost if things continue on their current path, I genuinely hope that Change comes soon.
I don't think suicidal desparation is anything new. Among US pop. every 20 minutes a successful attempt is made.
ReplyDeletePeople have been killing others for religious and other reasons for a long time. Ideological brainwashing is nothing new. I've met a small group of Christian followers of one guy I thought were they were brainwashed in comparison to the "outside world". They were apparently harmless. Since then I don't think we are so healthy, and pure compared to people in these isolated communities.
These are human souls with the same needs as you and I. They can be reached. The anger and fear can be crossed over. Trust can be reestablished.
missniche said: The most believeable and thorough coverage of his 35 minute video (to get off track, for a second, that guy is f'n strong: it is so hard just to hold up such a heavy caliber machine gun like that, let alone be able to hold it steady standing up while firing; i'd hate to meet him in a boxing ring)
ReplyDeleteLOL!
I'd love to. All I need is 30 seconds.
I hate to break thy heart strings for Zark missnitch, but the FN M249 [w/ 200-round box magazine] squad weapon is designed for the average European or American soldier and it's not difficult at all to hold and fire.
Art, true art, the kind of art defined by Ghandi, "that which describes the upward flight of the soul". You need this now in these conditions. Everyone needs it. But there is art which will help you persevere. You/We can continue to eat politics and misery, and fear. Or you/we can choose
ReplyDeleteto surrender, and die, to the Will of God. What we need, and what we'll do, are too often two different things. I know, I am afraid.
M249 only weighs 15 lbs. Doesn't take a rambo to fire it
ReplyDeleteI do sincerely apologize for the fact that I do not know much about the specifications of modern military equipment and their weight or recoil power, and as such was not aware that modern machine guns were designed for men, women, and children of all ages. I would also like to point out that I have at no time expressed that I agree with Zarqawi or ANY military/terrorist campaign at all for that matter that leads to non-military casualties. I also regret having said something to have distracted people from the very message of this post, and BT for that I am very sorry. If one ignores my small parenthetical sidetracking, one would be forced to conclude that THE WHOLE POINT of all this is an underlying sentiment that violence is not the answer and causes nothing but pain and hardship for all concerned.
ReplyDeleteThe Iraqi people are fighting
ReplyDeletefor the most part Saddam loyalists
suplemented by Zarqawi.
The world remains silent as Zarqawi continually boasts
and threatens to kill more and more innocent Iraqi ...
Why are there no world wide protests against terror ???
Why are there no protests in IRAN
against the Saddamites and Zarqawi
when it is clear to anyone that the most horrific killings of innocents for the past two years
has occured by their hands???
Imagine Iran ..A shiite country ...
Zarqawi in Iraq stating publicly
and boastfully of the killing of Shia and NO CONDEMNATION
at all!! ......
Protesters in US are now calling
for US and NATO to go into the Sudan to prevent genocide ...
but these same protesters want
US to leave Iraq immediately
even after Zarqawi reveals his
plans for Iraq ....
I beg Iraqi citizens to email
Sistani flood his website demand
that he go to United Nations in Iraq and appeal for help for IRAQ
from outside world ....
5000 Nato troops working with Iraqi security in Baghdad will help ... additional 5000 to assist
in Border viliages like Tal-Afar
These countries will be bidding for lucrative oil
deals once the horror is over with
demand that they help now while
Iraq is in need
Iraq ranks in the top 5.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.fundforpeace.org/programs/fsi/fsindex2006.php?column=rank&#
Baghdad Treasure, here is an interesting link on the blogspot of another Iraqi (Imad Khadduri) concerning the spate of carbombs. It contains some interesting speculation:
ReplyDeletehttp://abutamam.blogspot.com/2006
/05/covert-american-
killing-of-iraqi.html
Sound incredible? Hardly. If one reads the history of the CIA in particular, you will find many examples of ‘false flag’ operations where the US has allied itself with the most unlikely of bedfellows in order to achieve what it wants. Google Gladio and see what pops up.
[tex] “Zarqawi’s group claims to have carried out 800 of these types of acts. Unbelievable.”
Are you talking about this Zarqawi?
U.S. military plays up role of Zarqawi
Jordanian painted as foreign threat to Iraq’s stability
Thomas E. Ricks - The Washington Post - April 10, 2006
" [...] The documents state that the U.S. campaign aims to turn Iraqis against Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, by playing on their perceived dislike of foreigners. U.S. authorities claim some success with that effort, noting that some tribal Iraqi insurgents have attacked Zarqawi loyalists. For the past two years, U.S. military leaders have been using Iraqi media and other outlets in Baghdad to publicize Zarqawi's role in the insurgency. The documents explicitly list the "U.S. Home Audience" as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign. Some senior intelligence officers believe Zarqawi's role may [HAH!] have been overemphasized by the propaganda campaign, which has included leaflets, radio and television broadcasts, Internet postings and at least one leak to an American journalist." // end excerpt
Seems like the US was terrified of thousands of jihadis streaming to Iraq to fight their invasion, so it pumped up this Zarqawi myth in order to turn Iraqis against other Arabs. To use Iraqis as a shield, in other words. Yep, more US bravery at work.
[anonymous] “Why are there no protests in IRAN against the Saddamites and Zarqawi when it is clear to anyone that the most horrific killings of innocents for the past two years has occured by their hands???”
Clear to anybody who drinks the dope ladled out at the CENTCOM briefings, maybe. In actual fact, statistically US airpower is responsible for the most Iraqis killed, followed by the criminal activity unleashed by the lawlessness caused by the US invasion. Iran doesn’t give a stuff as to whether Americans and Iraqis kill each other; why should it protest? The US invasion of Iraq was the biggest boost to Iranian foreign policy in decades.
Bruno - Such wild consiperacy theories divert focus from the real threats facing BT and other normal folks actually living through this horror. Even though I have not had family members blown up by car bombers or friends murdered by militia murderers I take offense the idea that you would try to absolve the real enemies of Iraq.
ReplyDeletetexag0,
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't so sad the wild speculation and rumors would be a laughable.
OTOH You recognize the act, what else can you expect from the clown Brunhilda, anyhow?
Well, Treasure, your blog is the sugar water, and so.....at least you have the attention ;-)
ReplyDeleteI must confess......no, I'm not a member of the CIA, but.......I have been interested in the recent posting of "a map" at Juan Cole's site, and secondly, I am interested in knowing if you are interested in reacting to Bagdad Burning's latest post.
I have some opinions but I await yours first.
Victory, One neighbor at a time!
ReplyDeleteBaghdad neighborhood rises up and fights back
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Salah heard the screeching tires and gunfire outside his home in central Baghdad, and cowered. He'd feared this moment. He'd even plotted leaving the city, though he'd never followed through on his plan.
Now invaders had entered his street, and he knew that as the only Sunni on a street filled with Shiites, he was probably their target, whomever the invaders might be - insurgents, kidnappers or sectarian death squads.
"I was shaking; it was the fourth time in three days they'd invaded," he said. "I knew they were coming for me."
more at link
Texag03,
ReplyDelete“Why? Because they get an express ticket to paradise? It is unbelievable what some people can be convinced of.”
I kept asking myself this question hundreds of times. I couldn’t find an answer at the beginning but after reading few articles analyzing this thinking, I realized the following: I think that most of the suicide bombers are either mentally ill or have a history of disasters. I’ve read that most of the bombers did not have a normal life when they were children and eventually, this was reflected in their teenage and manhood periods which led them to this situation to get rid of life that did not give them what they want. At the same time, gangsters exploited this weakness in the youth and deceived them with their dirty thinking of “going to heaven” and so.
In my previous posts, I talked about a TV show which most of the Arab TV channels broadcasted. The TV show talked of how young men are being exploited by men that do not care about anything but to cause destruction. The TV show stressed on the fact that terrorism is made by people who disguise themselves with religious terms and use the children and young men to commit their terrorist operations.
http://baghdadtreasure.blogspot.com/2005/10/alhoor-alain-companions-with-beautiful.html
“To label these monsters as anything but crazy is to give them too much credit.”
I think “crazy” is too much for them as you said. Even crazy people do not do what they are doing.
Misneach,
ReplyDelete“However, being told you should be afraid and having to deal with very very real danger day in and day out are two completely different worlds. Again, as many times before, I applaud your courage.”
Thank you so much for your encouraging words. It is really unendurable to live anymore in Iraq. There are no signs even for safety to come. Just today, TV stations are broadcasting that 48 bodies were found handcuffed, blindfolded and shot dead. All of the victims were civilians.
I always convince myself to endure and get used to such kind of life but in vain. Fear is the most terrible thing to get used to. You can’t, simply you can’t. It’s not like feeling happy or sad because these feelings come and go but continuous fear is something different that sometimes I can’t define. All I can say is that I resembled to an evil ghost that follows you wherever you go.
Brunu,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link. I have already known this blog. Another Iraqi bolg :P
“The US invasion of Iraq was the biggest boost to Iranian foreign policy in decades.”
I think you are right. The invasion gave Iran a huge power to be more powerful, intervene in Iraq’s affairs, hurt Americans inside Iraq and declare its atomic energy to threaten if attacked.
Rubin,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link of the story. The story was very true and I’ve heard of such incidents a lot. It is one of the dozen incidents that happen daily.
Edoriver,
Thanks for ur nice words.
As for Riverbends last entry, I think it was very sincere and accurate in picturing the life of people during the war. From all of the entry, I liked this quote the most: “While I hate the Iranian government, the people don’t deserve the chaos and damage of air strikes and war.”
What I care most is whether the US is going to bomb Iran from Iraqi lands. If so, this would be the most shameful thing happens to Iraq, even worse than the Iran-Iraq war. It would be a big disgrace to the forthcoming government as the officials always say our land is “sovereign” and “Iraq will never be a threat to its neighbors.”
In all cases, the people will suffer whether the Iraqi people or the Iranian people. Iran vowed to hit America’s interests in allover the world. If they are attacked from Iraq, the Iranians will attack the US troops in Iraq were Iraqis live…
[tex] “Such wild consiperacy theories divert focus from the real threats facing BT and other normal folks actually living through this horror.”
ReplyDeleteConspiracy theories? Fact is, there have been a steady trickle of such stories filtering through the media for some time now. There was the incident of the British SAS men who were disguised as Arabs driving a car packed with explosives and weapons in Basra. There were the reports of US and Interior Ministry troops at Askariya shortly before the blast went off. There are continual reports of US surveillance drones being present during car bomb attacks, the recent blast at Sadr city being a case in point. Now there is the Fisk story via Syrian intelligence of US complicity in these events.
Solid, indisputable PROOF? No.
But there is a growing case of circumstantial evidence that leads one to certain conclusions.
And simply on a moral basis, the US has no scruples in doing such things.
To overthrow Mossadeq in 1953, the CIA and MI5 concocted a plan whereby their agents bombed the Mullahs houses, and then blamed the Communists. After that, they spread the word that (anti communist) Mossadeq was actually involved with the so-called Communist bombers (who were actually the CIA) and thus sparked the revolution which installed the Shah. The CIA is extremely proud of that episode, btw.
And there are more stories along that vein.
The “stay behind armies” in Europe which are actually paramilitary organizations ultimately accountable to the US and which have been involved in false flag ops to influence domestic politics (Italy, for example) are more examples.
Fact is, the main beneficiaries from Iraqi on Iraqi violence are Iran and the US. And surprise! The Interior Ministry is run by Iranian agents and US advisors. You know, the people with the electric drills? Tell the corpses that have turned up around Baghdad that they were victims of a conspiracy theory.
[rubin] “OTOH You recognize the act, what else can you expect from the clown Brunhilda, anyhow?”
Solid facts and indisputable logic demolish my arguments? I think not …
Your link to the neighbourhood defense watch was interesting, though. I’m glad Iraqis are banding together. You ARE aware that US military officials view such schemes as being composed of “insurgents”, right?
[BT] “The TV show talked of how young men are being exploited by men that do not care about anything but to cause destruction.”
ReplyDeleteWith respect, there is ALWAYS a motive for organized terror. What I want to know is how these people are able to operate in an environment where Iraqis overwhelmingly reject attacks on civilians, where there are many Iraqi Resistance groups that have rejected sectarian attacks and where no Iraqi group gains any clear advantage (in the scheme of a united Iraq) from such bombings. I can only conclude that this campaign is driven by external forces and peoples that are keen to keep Iraqis in a state of terror and who would want to split Iraqi society into divided and weak enclaves at war with each other.
If you are talking about the TV show “Terror in the Grip of Justice”, then please be aware that this program is funded and driven by the Americans, and has a specific PSYOPS function.
[BT] “ The invasion gave Iran a huge power to be more powerful, intervene in Iraq’s affairs, hurt Americans inside Iraq and declare its atomic energy to threaten if attacked. ”
[BT] “What I care most is whether the US is going to bomb Iran from Iraqi lands. […]
In all cases, the people will suffer whether the Iraqi people or the Iranian people. Iran vowed to hit America’s interests in all over the world. If they are attacked from Iraq, the Iranians will attack the US troops in Iraq were Iraqis live… ”
I agree with you 100%. While I don’t like a theocratic government, it does not then follow that I would support military action against it. Undoubtedly if the US attacks Iran, Iran will retaliate heavily by causing insurrection within Iraq against the US troops. I have spoken long about the re-alignment of the US within Iraq. The US is preparing itself for such strikes by using the “sunnis” as a shield against the “Shiites” who would probably form the basis of such a backlash against US forces. In other words, Iraqis will kill Iraqis for the sake of the foreign invader. This action cannot be achieved if Iraqis are united, if Iraqis see each other as brothers.
Who really profits from the division within Iraq? How can blowing up a bunch of civilians possibly advance the cause of Iraqis wanting to eject the US from Iraq? Answer: it doesn’t. Native division and disunity always profit the foreigner. The US and Iran, in other words.
You should read up a little on the Russian involvement in Chechnya, and the convergence of the aims of the radical Islamists and the Russians. I find frightening parallels between that war and Iraq.
I pray that you safely find a way out of this morass of fear.
Fear.
ReplyDeleteThere are a few who have never known fear, not even for a moment, as they have gone about their daily lives. They were not brainwashed. But they were exceptional. And their words and the example of their lives, inspired others to overcome their fear. So it is possible. And the motive that drove those I am thinking of, was not revenge or nationalism, or fanaticism. It was a profound love for man unkind.
IF there are any examples to point our children towards as models, wouldn't these few, be most worthy of finding, of copying? These are the truly global citizens, the ones who reach across Sunni, and Shia, and Christian and Jew, and Hindu and Zoroasterian boundaries.
They look from a spiritually higher plane of action and see the earth without lines to show where Iran begins and Iraq ends, or any other boundary that politicians have drawn on maps. And yet they have never said to disobey a legitimately formed government, no matter what form. Their sole purpose is the education of our soul.
There were leaders and followers then in those days. Some of the spiritually pure followers, I am sure, exist in the Iraqi community: whether in Shia, Sunni, Christian, Jewish or other smaller groups. I don't think they are concerned with labels. I believe they would recognize the sincere seeker of truth even if he or she came dressed in military or police or government uniform.
I believe that it is possible that their spiritual power is so great they could touch the awareness of a suicide bomber, but I have no idea what the outcome would mean to be.
If I were in Iraq, as a house holder with a family I would spend "some time" trying to find those who were at least closer to the goal than I am. They would share the same conditions as I,yet they would exist on another plane. They ARE demonstrated proof that anyone can become something more, even in such conditions as now exist in Iraq. Why bother? Because I think knowing of their progress towards the ideal would help me gain mastery of my own fear. It would help me cope with the conditions, more likely avoid disappointment, more likely provide emotional and psychological stability for my loved ones.
I am sure it wouldn't be too hard to find people (thousands?) who are more spiritually mature in handling the current situation better than I (again if I were suddenly an Iraqi householder). And then it would be merely looking for others who had climbed further up the ladder. It wouldn't matter that I never have the time to find "the holiest guy in the area". I think just finding progressively more detached people would eventually give me enough hope.
ReplyDeleteAbu Musab al-Zarqawi: The Outakes! :)
just guessing, but probably captured the unedited tape in one of these recent raids.
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Bruno, how do you even manage to feed yourself everyday?
just think of all the opportunities we have to poison you!
[Rubin] “Bruno, how do you even manage to feed yourself everyday? just think of all the opportunities we have to poison you! ”
ReplyDeleteNooo! Your total onslaught of facts and logic has left me breathless with shock. How can I ever muster the courage to reply to this devastating missive?
Heh.
Unfortunately for you, my post is based on reality and history, not idle taunts. Your shallow understanding of the situation is revealed over and over again. You’re laughable.
Your reference to Zarqawi is likewise amusing.
The latest reports are that he is unable to even handle small arms effectively (assuming that he is not dead and ‘resurrected’ by the US PSYOPS effort). So your lot wants us to believe that a complete moron has been kicking the asses of the American army day in day out in Iraq, apart from taking entirely pointless breaks to kill Iraqi civilians in a quest to create a ‘civil war’ which can only ultimately defeat the cause of the removal of the invader?
No, I think not.
I think it is resistance from the Iraqi people themselves that has been smashing the US Army.
I think that America realizes that it cannot stand against a united Iraqi nation.
I think that America has been trying to divide and conquer from day one.
Take for instance the reports of the mutiny of newly recruited soldiers in al Anbar. This was because they were recruited under the promise that they would serve in their home towns, and now are being told that they will serve in other parts of Iraq. To me, the reason why the US wants this to happen is perfectly clear. Because I have bothered to see what your modus operandi is like elsewhere. This method has a precedent in the killing fields of South America.
Simply, Iraqis will not kill Iraqis if they are told to kill their own kin and townsfolk.
But if they are taken to another part of Iraq where THE PEOPLE ARE UNKNOWN TO THEM, they might well be induced to do so. So: Shia will be used to patrol Sunni towns in Al Anbar. Sunnis from Al Anbar will be sent to patrol Kurdish or Shiite areas. And when people start dying, the flames of civil discord will be kept hot.
It’s not easy to expel the Americans if Iraqis are too busy killing each other, right?
Right.
A little past midnight, here.
ReplyDeleteThe quarter point of the "day".
Just think, dawn is happening somewhere, all the time. A very spiritually potent time of the day, recognized by all the major religions.
It's too bad,
I can't get up at dawn,
except for one month of the year.
Maybe that's the cause of my condition...spiritual mal-nutrition.
How and why does one become a mulla/ minister/priest.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned some time back that my parents hoped that I would become a minister (Protestant), but that I never felt "called", so I never gave it serious consideration. What does it mean to be "called"? From at least one Christian point of view, the verb "call" means just what it means. God/ or a voice inside your head, or some spiritual experience that you interpret, God "calls" you and says, "I want you to become a minister." I tell you, this sounds too incredible as I type this. But this is what is tradition in the Christian churches I am familiar with. The minister received some message in the past telling him "God wants you."
Is this the same with mullas? Do they recieve some "calling" from God?
My I invite you to leave this terrible nightmare around you behind for a little while and come with me through a cyberspace-tour through Munich, my hometown? I'd love to give you a little break ... I'd so much like to do much more to help you guys!!!
ReplyDeleteBruno said,
ReplyDeleteNo, I think not..
I think...
I think that...
I think...
What you think Bruno may be important to you but your track record of predictions is so poor as to be laughable.
And now it's advice to the Iraqi Army you give! LOL! The IA btw is quite capable and is still gaining, trained in part [officers]all over the world, and in the main in Iraq, something you said was impossible not so long ago.
Bruno: The latest reports are that he is unable to even handle small arms effectively (assuming that he is not dead and ‘resurrected’ by the US PSYOPS effort). So your lot wants us to believe that a complete moron has been kicking the asses of the American army day in day out in Iraq, apart from taking entirely pointless breaks to kill Iraqi civilians in a quest to create a ‘civil war’ which can only ultimately defeat the cause of the removal of the invader?
SCARY BRUNO
US PSYOPS
Black Programs
hint genius, reading the breaking news and cruising your favs on the www, has not made you any more prescient nor has it improved your analysis.
Just a reminder to ground you Bruno, You have absolutely no influence on US policy what so fuckin ever.
The USA is so muscular, inventive, and resilient it's amusing to hear the likes of you over the years try and [wishfully]invent devices like Killer Bourses and Tre Parte Alliances... eg. islamic/marxist Lilliputians dreaming to lash the great America Satan down with Gordian Knots. LOL! :)
Hey,
ReplyDeleteI just finished writing the introduction to my small classroom project: EFL writing class treatment and control for the coming year. And then after I greet you folks, I'm going to clean this place up a little before my family returns home.
Final note: visit Hnk's blog and see the picture of Ayman!!!
[Rubin] “What you think Bruno may be important to you but your track record of predictions is so poor as to be laughable.”
ReplyDeleteAh, any particular posts that jump to mind? Or are you just WISHING that this were the case?
[Rubin] “something you said was impossible not so long ago.”
Where? Link or post excerpt, please.
Otherwise, you said not so long ago that the height of riotous entertainment for you was a gerbil, a pipe and Vaseline.
[rubin] “Just a reminder to ground you Bruno, You have absolutely no influence on US policy what so fuckin ever.”
No, but I have an influence on you, Rubin. And – heh – you’re sounding just a little shrill there. Don’t get so tense, my man. Your embarrassments have only just begun … fuelled mainly by your inability to argue the facts like a man. Gosh, it must be difficult being you.
Here’s some more analysis of your commentary, for my amusement and your annoyance:
[rubin] “The IA btw is quite capable and is still gaining, trained in part [officers]all over the world … ”
Mainly under US tutelage, though. And there is a reason for this. The reason is, the US has made a practice of training and maintaining good relations with the militaries of ‘problem countries’ around the globe. Simply this gives the US the option of egging officers in the military of a recalcitrant country to revolt against an elected government should diplomacy fail to provide the US with what it wants.
This precedent is well illustrated by the case of Chile, where despite awful relations between the Allende government and the US, America continued to have good relations with the Chilean military.
The successor to President Allende?
General Pinochet.
Now, was that surprising or what?
Likewise, it is hardly surprising that when Iraq wanted to train its military in Iran, the US just about had an auto-enema. Because America knows well the advantages of training and indoctrinating the armies of other countries. As it is doing in Iraq, as insurance against ‘democracy’.
Please listen,
ReplyDeletePlease listen to Mozart, when you feel like talking politics is useful.
Please listen,
Please listen to what Mozart has to say in Clarinet Concerto in A, K listing #622,
Please listen to the Adagio, play it over and over until you can turn off the CD player and hear the tune in your heart.
B. No, but I have an influence on you, Rubin. And – heh – you’re sounding just a little shrill there. Don’t get so tense, my man. Your embarrassments have only just begun … fuelled mainly by your inability to argue the facts like a man. Gosh, it must be difficult being you.
ReplyDeleteEmbarrassment & Humiliation
Since you brought the subject up, perhaps you won't mind a history lesson! :-)~
I seem to recall a evening around 5? years ago when a 'big shot' strode right onto to a Blog one night just full of himself.
Stomped right on up he did in his brand new shit kicking cowboy boots, right in middle of an on going conversation between 6 or 7 mild mannered folks.
Jeez you couldn't miss it. The individual just poured out a river of "wisdom" attempting to illustrate that we were way too uptight and that we should develop a sense of humor in our political discourse. 'Don't take the world events on in such a serious manner'. On and On it went spewing forth, preaching right over the top of pontification.
And when the speech was finally done the 'big shot' strode off the Blog just as abruptly as it had come.
No one said anything but listened.
After a few minutes the regulars started up again and carried on as before. nothing unusual...
But about 30 minutes later all hell broke loose.
It was like a Meth Fuelled Maniac had hi-jacked the BLOG, THE RANTING WAS UNBELIEVABLE, it FOAMED at the MOUTH, spittle was flying, curse words were hurled, contempt and profanity; Moth*r F*ck this and Coc* Su*ker that, you no good Ba*tards deserve to die. America sux I hate you F*CK Y*U. on and on. but then it stopped.
you could have heard a pin drop.
wait for it....
I looked down at the name under the comment and it said Bruno.
YES The very same individual that was just preaching to us 30 minutes before insisting that we take it easy, have fun when you blog, develop a sense of humor, don't take it so serious.
Well we started laughing so hard we couldn't stop. The rolling on the floor kind, it was hilarious. On and On, My sides were splitting and to this day it puts a smile on!!
Well we called Bruno on this right then and there, and he stuttered and stammered and out came with some lame excuse about reading the previous entries that pissed him off in the intervening 30 minutes.
It just made us laugh all the much harder at him.
Guess what, he crawled off the Blog that night, there was no STRIDE left in him, it was gone kaput. He left totally deflated and HUMILATED!
Our true story is not quite over yet.
How could a real man have such mood swings?
Well we wondered about that too, but then it dawn on us, His mood swing were so violently abrupt it must be a whoremoan imbalance.
VIOLA
Right then and there the birth of a new handle was born..
Bruno was really a fumarole Princess, a practicing an actual Brunhilda.
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Thanks for teeing that one up B! :-)~
historical note: That was on Raed's blog. RIM
B maybe you could get your gerbil buddy Raed to re-post that thread.
suggestion: don't insist on a reach around next time and he may open all his comments again. wouldn't that be kool.
On the morrow the IA point by point, looking forward to the next installment...LOL!
Sad, sad, sad.
ReplyDeleteReading your posts is like watching a boxing match where the big pre-match loudmouth is getting pulverised by the silent chap who lets his fists do the talking. I mean, seriously, not only are you completely unable to stand your ground on your country’s foreign policy adventures (and indeed, would be advised not to even try) but you insist on quoting past conversations (real or imagined, who knows) that you are consistently unable to link to or quote verbatim from.
Take this for example:
[rubin] “Embarrassment & Humiliation. Since you brought the subject up, perhaps you won't mind a history lesson! :-)~ I seem to recall a evening around 5? years ago […] That was on Raed's blog. ”
ROTFLMFAO!
Yeah, and he follows it with his “it was a dark and stormy night” imagined rendering of an evening that he “seems” to recall “5” years ago, when, incidentally, I was not even commenting on the blogs. In fact, if we return to reality from Rubin’s whisky-fuelled alternative universe we see that Raed’s first post was on the 22-03-04. But hey, two years or five years, what’s the difference to Rubin, right? And you expect me to take your word as a HONEST NARRATOR that this version of events is true, or even existing?
Lay off the sauce, man.
Your talk is cheap.
You are cheap.
Trying to make out that you are some sort of heavyweight when you can’t even hold your own in a fact-based discussion with whatever random happens to drift by is acutely embarrassing. Learn to keep your pants up before you try to box.
Consider yourself dismissed, boy.
I seem to recall a evening around 5? years ago when a 'big shot' strode right onto to a Blog one night just full of himself.
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heh! weak
Ott-oh did we catch Brunhilda in a "fudge" curtsy again ?
forget this wee little interrogation point did we___?
It's called a punctuation mark Brunhilda. It has a purpose; even a child can understand it girl.
But there it is in Black and White..Brunhild pretended it wasn't there, feigned ignorance she did!!
but Why?
was it a dodge? or just a random escapement from her fudge fumarole? heh
So that's the best you can do to refute the night of shame at Raed's Blog when you crawled off?
Or Perhaps You just don't want to face the truth and admit it.
:-)~
Is that it.?
ROTFLMFAO!
wait for it.....
Ode to that shameful night on Raeds Blog
'O she did blow hard but blunted not a sword
She did the nabob curtsy but didn't kept her word
The sane believed she governed an imaginary state
She's the Princess of fumarole that all the world raked
:-)~
Consider yourself dismissed, fish