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capital city of Baghdad is located on the Tigris River. With a population touching 7 million, it is the nation’s most important metropolis, and the one of the largest of its kind in southwest Asia. With its history dating back to the 8th century, when it was renowned as a hub of learning and knowledge, it was the home of the House of Wisdom created solely for Greek, Middle Persian, and Syriac works’ translations. With problems brewing with the ancient Caliphate rule of the region during the period between the 10th and 16th centuries, during which the Mongols destroyed a great part of the heart and body of the city, Baghdad fell to further despair under the Ottoman empire’s reign till the 19th century. Then with the formation of a British kingdom in Iraq in the early 20th century, the nation finally took over the reins of its own governance in 1958. A couple of decades on, Baghdad rose to enormous power and prosperity with the steep upward climb of the price of oil, which happens to be the nation’s largest export tem. Post the Gulf War and Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the United States military’s bombing of Baghdad began in mid 2003, which is when a lot of looting and rioting took place all over the city, resulting in loss of invaluable human and national treasures. The political upheaval of the country lies intricately woven into every aspect of its existence. Various priceless artifacts of the National Museum of Iraq were stolen during random disturbances. A Similar fate was in store for the hundreds of ancient documents lying in the city’s National Library, when the entire building fell due to arson. This continued till the end of the war, when Hussein was deposed, and Baghdad was taken over by the United States military. A Green Zone was created in the heart of Baghdad, for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) to govern the nation, while the people of the country formed their own government. The CPA began the procedure for creating new political functions for the city’s 89 official neighborhoods within nine districts. With neighborhood councils in place, the members voted for their own representatives to take a place on the city’s nine district councils, which was followed by the district councils electing their people for representation at the 37 member Baghdad City Council. With various other areas just out of Baghdad but lying within its provincial jurisdiction, a similar method was employed to form local councils from a total of 20 neighborhoods, which in turn chose their representatives for the six district councils. These in turn sent their chosen few to represent them in the 35 member Baghdad Regional Council. The last step of creation of the Baghdad province local government was done by election of people from the lower councils by their peers, for representation in the new Baghdad Provincial Council. This happened in 2005. Though this complicated hierarchy of 127 distinct councils might seem bulky, one must always remember that even at the lowest level, the groups serve a population of close to a 100,000 people each. For more information on Baghdad, Iraq visit http://baghdadmicroblog.com and http://iraqmicroblog.com

By: John Parks

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Regardless of your original view of the invasion of Iraq – a just, moral and necessary war according to us paleo-knuckle dragging, tooth sucking, unibrow conservatives – one has to admit that it is over. Done. Finished. Iraq is more peaceful than a typical summer in Chicago, a year in the slums of Toronto, or 9 months in the less savoury parts of New York. More die in a Chicago summer-fest of violence than US soldiers perish in a 2 year period in Iraq. Time to pull out of the Obama-Messiah’s spiritual center ? [Blessed be Obama the prophet]. Or should we just say that we won in Iraq and that the Iraqi’s and indeed the Muslim world, are better off for that remarkable feat ? We already stated in June 08 that this war was over – it is now more obvious than ever. June 08 – it is over

It is a fact that Muslims who live in the West – though they might **** the idea – are better off than those who don’t. Iraq has a stable confederation, with a Western styled constitution which guarantees Islamic law and observance. It is a country with an educated workforce, oil, millions of entrepreneurs, a transparent legal system, and it is a society which is not degenerating into civil war, or partition – contrary to many and sundry geniuses who stated the opposite for 4 years. Iraq 2009 will be generations ahead of Iraq pre-2003 without American intervention, including the hundred’s of thousands of lives saved from the barbarity of a fascist regime – one which murdered 1 million Iraqi’s over 20 years, or 25 times the current kill rate per annum in Iraq.

Not a bad legacy.

The West has an ally in the worst region in the world. We have secured a military victory over Al Qaeda and the Islamic fascists killing over 70.000 terrorists. Islamic fascist elements will never recover from this defeat. We now have military bases in 2 countries bordering Iran. We control the Gulf. We can put pressure on other countries including the corrupt Saudi royal family, to reform. We can protect Israel. In short we now control and are allied with a central state, in a central region and we have sent a very clear message to the Islamic world. You want violence – you will get it.

So where are the media reports of celebration? Where are the myriad stories of Iraqi economic and social development? Where are the interviews with politicians from across Iraq on the progress being made there? Where is the detailed story of the Shia militia defeat and the marginalisation of the demagogue and religious zealot and political idiot Sadr? Where are the stories of the Iraqi diaspora returning to all regions of Iraq to invest, rebuild and renew? Where is the over-arching strategic discussion of having military bases in the heart of the Islamic world and the benefits derived therein?

No where to be found.

The Western media is corrupt. It is a group of elitist trained self-loathing left-ocratic boors. Every bomb, every death of an Iraqi or Westerner, was reported ad infinitum over 5 years. But the pacification of a country engaged in various civil wars – almost exclusively intra-Muslim – since 656 A.D. and which is now being policed by US soldiers without body armour and without headgear does not even get a passing mention in the so-called ‘independent media’. Independent? Ha ha. How absurd and how immature is the thought. It reminds one of the hagiographies which were developed by this same media about Herr Hitler, Nazism and the benefices and great appeal of Communism. Morons.

As one syndicated columnist wrote recently and quite well:

“Americans tend to forget that, in the Middle East, most political disagreements are settled with assassinations such as the murder of Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and, more recently, the killing of Benezir Bhutto in Pakistan. In Lebanon, the Syrians assassinated a whole raft of politicians whom they found irksome. Several efforts have been made to kill Hamid Karzi of Afghanistan. In Gaza, Fatah was forced out by Hamas at gunpoint. Having achieved zero cooperation for decades, world leaders keep insisting that the Israelis negotiate with Fatah, giving them land and lollypops.”

Negotiating with the Arabs and with the fascistic elements of Islam is a waste of time. You simply wage war and kill them. You secure the lands, build bases, and impose your will. Historically that is what Islam and Arab culture understand – blood and steel and power.

This is why Iraq is such a momumental victory. It sends a very clear and compelling message.

For those who have been to Iraq, the war is obviously finished. Arabs killing innocents has been going on since the family of Muhammed were slaughtered by rivals claiming power over the early caliphates. Asking Muslims and Arabs to stop killing each other, or anyone else, is like asking Blacks to acknowledge Black slave trading and ownership. It will never happen. And yet that is the fault of the Americans or more specifically Bushitler.

Michael Yon, an embedded journalist wrote this in July 2008 in a syndicated column:

“’The war in Iraq is over. We won. Which means the Iraqi people won.’ When I wrote this on my Web site a few days ago, I set off a mini-firestorm. Perhaps because I have spent more time embedded with combat troops in Iraq than any journalist I know – and have interviewed countless Iraqis and members of the coalition military……

So I will be very clear what I mean when I say we have won the war. A counterinsurgency is won when the government’s legitimacy is no longer threatened by the insurgents, the government is able to protect its own people and the people are participating in the government. In Iraq, all three conditions apply.”

Indeed they do. That piece was written 6 months ago – and things have gotten a lot better since then. If Yon can write in July 2008 that the war is finished – a war he saw, smelled and felt – than 6 months later we should be having a general discussion of post-victory Iraq. What do we want there? What are the conditions we will give to the Iraqis and their politicians for our victory? How will the Iraqis help us repay the costs of the war through future oil revenues ? After all 4200 American dead, and 29000 American wounded were sacrificed in part, and only in part, to secure the freedom of Iraq.

In any event we won in Iraq – but the bells will never be rung. That says a lot about the state of the so-called ‘West’.



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An interview with ‘George Parr’ (a fictional character stating real facts). Shown in 2007 during Bremner, Bird, and Fortune the interview features Iraq and it’s oil. Taken from the new series of BBF currently on Channel 4 (captured via Channel 4 +1).

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Soldiers Injured in IED Detonation on Patrol, Fire Fight Starts. Mosul, Iraq. Jan 2008

SunNight Solar, a renewable energy company based in Houston, is hoping to spread a bit of light to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan this holiday season.

 

The company has put forth a call for support from its loyal customers and the American people. The group challenge is to help provide a solar flashlight for every serviceman and woman serving in the region. Donors will have the opportunity to purchase a light for the troops at www.warlights.com and to select a non-profit military support group from a list of approved recipient partners at the company’s website. Recipient partners include, Adopt-A-Platoon, Military Mom In Action, Operation Care & Comfort, Operation Troop Aid, Soldier’s Angels and The Hugs Project. The non-profit organizations will include the donated lights in holiday care packages they are preparing this season.

 

Highlighting the need of the troops were letters from military personnel, explaining that batteries… and light…are often hard to come by in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. Several letters came from medical personnel, working to save the wounded in volatile situations. While the US government certainly provides an abundance of conventional flashlights to the troops, as one serviceman wrote in, “Batteries are often hard to come by (okay nearly impossible) in the battlefield setting, so an alternative would be an absolute God send…” SunNight’s rechargeable batteries have an estimated life of 3-5 years even with daily use, so the soldiers would benefit both from the flashlight’s dependability and alleviation from problems associated with carrying around extra batteries, if any can be found.

 

One soldier writes, “My team and I are currently stationed in Iraq on a forward operating base that does not have street lamps or significant illumination.  It is pointedly called the “Dark Side” of FOB Warrior.  We have to use flashlights for everything (especially bathroom… port-a-johns have spiders and scorpions).  It’s a real pain burning through all the batteries too.  Such a waste when we get 12 hours of blazing sunshine everyday!  I haven’t seen clouds in months!”

 

A Marine writes, “I have spent 11 months in Iraq and am currently on my 4th year of a 5 year contract. One of the most difficult things to do in Iraq is not what you think it would be. It’s not the 125 degree heat, it’s not being away from your family, and it’s not constant layer of sand that is on everything. One of the most difficult things is trying to find decent indoor plumbing. Now you might be wondering what all of this has to do with a flashlight. Well when was the last time you saw a light bulb hanging up in the top of a port-a-john? Never, right? Well that is truly the main downfall of the port-a-john. …Because at night, you are out luck if you don’t have a good flashlight on you.”

 

While the initial cost for a solar flashlight is slightly more expensive than the typical conventional flashlight, when factoring in the cost of battery replacement, the overall cost savings (and benefit to the environment) are huge. A soldier concerned about the environment writes, “I try to set an example in my personal life through conservation–reduction, reuse, and recycling–whenever possible, however the nature of my career makes it fairly environmentally unfriendly.  I regularly search for ways to offset the large carbon footprint and energy expenditure necessary to fuel the defensive gears of our nation.”

 

A  US Air Force pilot points out in a humorous tone, “If I had the time to sit and crank a flashlight or shake it enough for legitimate illumination, our tax dollars certainly wouldn’t be getting a very good value”.  But in closing, he leaves the folks at SunNight with the chilling reality that, “the room lighting feature would be great for illuminating a dark corner of a poorly lit tent on a cold Afghanistan night. “ 

The founder of SunNight Solar, Mark Bent, is a former US Marine and State Department official who has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan so these responses hit hard.

 

SunNight Solar opened its doors for business in 2006 with a unique combination of goals. Close to the company’s core are deeply rooted humanitarian values which are expressed through its various social programs. The safety and welfare of women and children rank high on the company’s list of priorities. “Ideally”, says Bent, “We’ll gain enough support for this program to be able to provide a light to every service man and woman….with some surplus for the troops to distribute as gifts to the women and children living in these war torn areas.” Having served our country himself, Bent says that a “positive conclusion in Iraq and Afghanistan depends as much upon our national kindness as it does our force.”

 

For more information about SunNight Solar and its programs, please visit: www.sunnightsolar.com.



By: stacey bent

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It’s the end of 2008, and it seems like we now have the new century’s first two huge events.

Looking back to the 20th Century, it is difficult to feel that our current one will provide quite the scale or frequency of turmoil.  Even this year’s credit crunch, by comparison to the last century, seems tame. 

In 1900, for example, a car was something that looked a bit like a huge, stinking grandfather clock, and went just about as fast.  There were 4192 on the road in the US that year.  Horses were over 5000 times as common.  Computers weren’t even a dream.

Then there were the wars.  If you lived in the first half of the century not only did you experience in some, probably direct, way, the 1st World War, and all of its futility and horror, but were also exposed to the madness of a second world war.  This time the madness reached a pitch so vile and an expression so theatrical that, truly, any semblance of sanity had evaporated from the face of the planet.

Such fruits of the past century make our own, albeit little one, seem remarkably tame.  The “credit crunch” does not register amongst such upheavals.  I haven’t even mentioned, in the first half of the last century, the end of the British Empire, and the emergence of the United States in its place as top dog.  Neither have I bothered to mention the Great Depression.

These are all events that turn things upside-down.  If China assumes the mantle of the world, and we all have to march to their tune – that is such an event.  Others, such as the revolution that the car has made, totally changing people’s conceptions of space and time probably more than Einstein did – change the world more stealthily.  The automobile has been a game-changer.

For all the panic that the credit crunch has caused, it still does not register on the “upside-down” scale of world changing events…so far.  It must also be said, that neither does Iraq or Afghanistan at the present time.  As horrific as both circumstances may be, they are situations where the status quo is generally being upheld, rather than reversed.

So, if there doesn’t seem to be a “fast-burn” event so far this decade to equal a world war, a depression, or the collapse of an Empire – what else is there?

Arguably, the two “events” so far this century – those that look guaranteed to turn the world order upside down – are the Internet, and the environment.  The first mentioned fro a present perspective, seems more certain to revolutionize, partly because it has reached a greater maturity, but also because of it seems unstoppable, even viral in its nature.  In 2000, there were 361 million users, and now there are 1.5 billion.  Chinese access has doubled in the last 4 years.

The environmental revolution is still in its infancy.  It still has the capacity to be swept away and forgotten by further wars and aims of Empire – but if Nature insists, it too is an inevitable revolution in the making; possibly a greater one even than that of the Internet.  At stake is our very place in the world.  We might, promises the destruction of the natural world, learn to control our power.  We might become something entirely different from mankind over the past centuries, or even millennia – since by becoming stewards of life, we must suddenly question our vicious ability to rape, murder and plunder – in short, our very ability to create and worship Empire. 

Environmental catastrophe has the capacity to mean a sea-change whereby we must care for the Other.  It is not good enough to be a personal, familial, or nation-state mafia, whereby what is “in” is “good”, and what is “out” is a resource.  This has been the western model for centuries, and indeed is the very nature of Empire.  Instead of a prospector standing atop a hill and declaring 500 hectares= $200000 of material,  and ordering the clear-cut or strip-mine, he must see a living system, and so himself.  He must care.  He must ensure that devastation does not occur – where before, in the mafia-mind, it did not matter. 

Both the Internet, and the (less fashionable) environment are revolutions of connection.  The first promises global debate, information, trade and so on – the tendrils of human thought reaching out from everyone to everyone.  The second promises a connection not only to the environment out there, but to our own natures too – and could indeed, in the best possible scenario, lead to us growing up into creatures who care for more than themselves and their mafia-ideal.  On the other hand, of course, the raping and pillaging might very well continue, and leave the Internet as the only truly game-changing revolution of our time.  Nature will let us know.



By: Tom

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The long-awaited report from General David Petraeus on the ground in Iraq is due in the U.S. capital this week. Does anyone else hear his name as Betray Us?

I don’t think that’s his intent. I think General Petraeus wants to tell the world the truth about the surge strategy in Iraq. He may not be allowed to do so. In recent weeks, much has been made of White House speechwriters tackling the General’s report to make it fit for public consumption. The truth doesn’t need spin-doctors.

Confucius inspires me. “When purpose is directed, one becomes calm. When one is calm, then peace can be found.” Track them through Iraq with me.

Has purpose been directed? It has, but at incorrect intelligence leading to incorrect assumptions. Anyone else noticed how incorrect premises lead to less-than-productive actions which produce unhappy results?

What is our genuine purpose in Iraq? I can’t answer this question. The whole matter has been so spun, so doctored I can’t find the truth any more.

We need a new genuine purpose. The point Confucius makes is that when purpose is genuine, there is a natural result we may expect. Calm. There’s nothing calm about Iraq any more. Not in Washington, D.C. Not in the American populace. Maybe not even in the rest of the world. And certainly not in Iraq itself.

Is there calm to be found anywhere? Right now, I don’t think there is. It’s unfortunate because if our purpose were named Peace In Iraq, there would be a natural genuineness to it. Peace is a bottomline purpose for all people. It’s the one thing we can agree on that humans most universally want.

What we have trouble agreeing on is how to get there. Thomas Mann wrote, “War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”

Peace does cause problems. Peace takes time. Peace requires commitment. Peace means we don’t always know how to proceed. Peace means we get to listen and really work to hear. Peace means there are insurmountable differences that we get to figure out how to surmount. Peace requires courage. Peace asks for a long-range view rather than short-term gain. There are all sorts of inconveniences peace puts us through.

I agree with Thomas Mann. War is a cowardly escape. Let’s take a page out of the book of one of the best-loved cowards of all time, the Cowardly Lion. When he goes off to see The Wizard (of Oz), all he wants is “the noive.”

Find your noive this week and hold the idea of Peace In Iraq as a new genuine purpose. Sit in the calm you generate and help the U.S. find its new mission. Operation Iraqi Peace.



By: Dr. Susan Corso

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