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The stress and anger reached its maximum levels with me…this can't be, I'm going nuts…something must be done and sadly I believe my words or anybody else's can't change anything otherwise I would write continuously for a week.
We are living in a real hell now; for the past 3 days till now there is a sever sand storm, the sky is red and the air is suffocating added to that the heat is unbearable it reaches 60s and 70s C° in the sun and high 40s in the shade and since we have a sand storm then we can't open the windows and you can imagine how nice the weather is in a closed room in these temperatures…well, I bet you are thinking with your selves what is the problem? Just turn on the air conditioner or the air cooler!! Well, those are electrical devices and they need something really rare to operate; it's the holy electricity…yes, believe me in Iraq electricity is holy…I think soon enough there will be a group of people that warships electricity…why not? People used to warship fire, and electricity is more important than fire!! I'm not crazy or getting close to be but read till the end and you would know what the situation is.
It has been 5 days and there is no fuel in the gas stations! Yes 5 days without a single drop of fuel, that means I can't operate my home generator and once the fuel in the car is finished I'll have to stay at home and screw working, the queue for the gas station is about 6 km long with two rows and that means everything in Iraq will stop working pretty soon, even food will disappear from the markets if this continues ….it has been 4 days without electricity!! Well, we had it for 2 hours during the past 100 hours. You might ask your self "how are you able to use the computer and internet?" thanks to the neighborhood generator guy who is smart and have saved a good amount of diesel fuel to operate his generator for 8 hours a day and my laptop needs 1.5 hour to charge for 2 hours.
There are other methods to fight the unbearable heat; the heat that is not designed for humans at all, many machines wouldn't work in such temperatures…I can have a shower to refresh and cool my self a bit, right? So I went to the shower and I found that there is no water in the tub! It has been more than a week and the water is so scarce, it either drips or there is no water at all…I think that's great, we only have two big rivers and bunch of river branches with many lakes, we are so lucky to have dripping water once and a while !!!….OK, no need to take a shower I already took one with my sweat and keep in mind there is a sand storm out there!…I'll go to the fridge and drink something cold…Ooops, did I say cold? Sorry for that the fridge is hot and there is nothing cool in it and all foods have rotten and they need to be thrown away, isn't that just great?
OK, I must do something…I'll roam the streets to search for fuel from the black market despite my failure yesterday to find any, I heard it was sold for 30,000ID for the 20 Liters that is about 25$ (the actual price is 9,000 ID in the gas station and 12,000 in the black market) I went today and couldn't find fuel but the guy told me he will have some fuel 3 hours from now and he will sell it to me for 40,000 ID…I'll buy it, what can I do but I wish he will be able to get it.
All those beautiful things and the relaxing conditions weren't enough…I was injured few days ago but an injury that happens to anyone it's not related to violence but I can't say what it is to protect my identity…I have to tolerate all those things added to it my sever pain and discomfort from my injury…
What caused those things (as the clowns, sorry, the ministers say)…the minister of oil says that it's because of the ministry of electricity because they are not supporting us with enough electricity to operate the refineries while the minister of electricity said the ministry of oil is not supporting us with enough fuel to operate the power plants!!! And some news says that the truck drivers are refusing to work because of their salary reduction and some say that an important oil pipe was attacked…and I believe it's a dirty game they play and it's intended to increase the miseries of the damned Iraqis…I bet if those things happened in a real country the ministers would resign at the same day but not our folks who seems to have no shame or dignity at all…to hell with democracy and freedom we just want to live as humans do….Well I must end the post now because my charge is almost finished although there things on my mind that I wanted to write.
Would anybody want to stay in a country like this…May god have revenge from everyone who caused this.
We are living in a real hell now; for the past 3 days till now there is a sever sand storm, the sky is red and the air is suffocating added to that the heat is unbearable it reaches 60s and 70s C° in the sun and high 40s in the shade and since we have a sand storm then we can't open the windows and you can imagine how nice the weather is in a closed room in these temperatures…well, I bet you are thinking with your selves what is the problem? Just turn on the air conditioner or the air cooler!! Well, those are electrical devices and they need something really rare to operate; it's the holy electricity…yes, believe me in Iraq electricity is holy…I think soon enough there will be a group of people that warships electricity…why not? People used to warship fire, and electricity is more important than fire!! I'm not crazy or getting close to be but read till the end and you would know what the situation is.
It has been 5 days and there is no fuel in the gas stations! Yes 5 days without a single drop of fuel, that means I can't operate my home generator and once the fuel in the car is finished I'll have to stay at home and screw working, the queue for the gas station is about 6 km long with two rows and that means everything in Iraq will stop working pretty soon, even food will disappear from the markets if this continues ….it has been 4 days without electricity!! Well, we had it for 2 hours during the past 100 hours. You might ask your self "how are you able to use the computer and internet?" thanks to the neighborhood generator guy who is smart and have saved a good amount of diesel fuel to operate his generator for 8 hours a day and my laptop needs 1.5 hour to charge for 2 hours.
There are other methods to fight the unbearable heat; the heat that is not designed for humans at all, many machines wouldn't work in such temperatures…I can have a shower to refresh and cool my self a bit, right? So I went to the shower and I found that there is no water in the tub! It has been more than a week and the water is so scarce, it either drips or there is no water at all…I think that's great, we only have two big rivers and bunch of river branches with many lakes, we are so lucky to have dripping water once and a while !!!….OK, no need to take a shower I already took one with my sweat and keep in mind there is a sand storm out there!…I'll go to the fridge and drink something cold…Ooops, did I say cold? Sorry for that the fridge is hot and there is nothing cool in it and all foods have rotten and they need to be thrown away, isn't that just great?
OK, I must do something…I'll roam the streets to search for fuel from the black market despite my failure yesterday to find any, I heard it was sold for 30,000ID for the 20 Liters that is about 25$ (the actual price is 9,000 ID in the gas station and 12,000 in the black market) I went today and couldn't find fuel but the guy told me he will have some fuel 3 hours from now and he will sell it to me for 40,000 ID…I'll buy it, what can I do but I wish he will be able to get it.
All those beautiful things and the relaxing conditions weren't enough…I was injured few days ago but an injury that happens to anyone it's not related to violence but I can't say what it is to protect my identity…I have to tolerate all those things added to it my sever pain and discomfort from my injury…
What caused those things (as the clowns, sorry, the ministers say)…the minister of oil says that it's because of the ministry of electricity because they are not supporting us with enough electricity to operate the refineries while the minister of electricity said the ministry of oil is not supporting us with enough fuel to operate the power plants!!! And some news says that the truck drivers are refusing to work because of their salary reduction and some say that an important oil pipe was attacked…and I believe it's a dirty game they play and it's intended to increase the miseries of the damned Iraqis…I bet if those things happened in a real country the ministers would resign at the same day but not our folks who seems to have no shame or dignity at all…to hell with democracy and freedom we just want to live as humans do….Well I must end the post now because my charge is almost finished although there things on my mind that I wanted to write.
Would anybody want to stay in a country like this…May god have revenge from everyone who caused this.
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Are those two ministries controlled by different political parties? My guess is they are playing stupid games with each other, and the misery of the voters is a case of "Look what you made me do". Voting for a secular party next time might help. _____ I am puzzled as to why modern houses in Iraq no longer have the cooling towers? ______ Hope it gets better for you soon.
Dear Mohammed, it is indeed a shame and a scandal that you should be living like this. Certainly Iraqis have done nothing to deserve such conditions. Whenever things go bad in my own life, I think to myself: "hey, but you could be living in Iraq" ... and suddenly my problems seem trivial. You people have my respect and admiration for having lived through and succeeded in overcoming times such as these. Just hold out.
dear Mohammed.
what can i say to you? each day i enter your blog the conditions you describe are worse. i really admire you for your strength and for your will-power that let the world know what it is like to live in Iraq. i hope something happens that change things for the better and i hope that one day you can look back and see all these as very bad tomes that are long gone.
all my love for you and yours,
Fernanda
Oh no! It's the sandstorm season again. I remember how bad that was last year. I can't even totally blame your government for not being prepared for these things since the seem to happen every year. In our country, we have floods due to dikes breaking and when it happens again and again, turns out the government hasn't done anything to these dikes to make sure they'll hold for something like 60 years.
I am so sorry you have to live this way, Mohammad. I remember last year how you at least got some respite with your vacation to Syria.
I'm holding good thoughts for you that the sandstorms pass very soon.
Is America using its occupation in Iraq to steal Iraq's oil?
Well, Mockingbird, since America has already stolen billions of Iraqi dollars, and since they have been "advising" the puppets to award them no-bid contracts, I'd say probably yes.
Some Americans still think the US has "invested" in Iraq and is therefore "entitled" to steal Iraq's oil.
Big Oil's Iraq deals are the greatest stick-up in history by Naomi Klein, Guardian, 4 July 2008
Even the treacherous Chalabi now admits that the invasion was about securing control of Iraq's oil.
Cross-posted to Healing Iraq.
"May god have revenge from everyone who caused this"
How I wish I could send you the peace every human deserves. I will close my eyes and send you my peaceful thoughts. May the universe smile kindly upon you this day and bring you peace of mind and soul.
Blessings,
Deborah
May God exact vengeance upon everyone who has caused Iraq to the living hell it is today.
Nothing that i say will help because you are living in the worse condition ever. So i deserve you a very great future and god Bless you, all my pray i mention you an all Iraqis... best wishes, I'm sorry for the fucking stupid Americans that destroyed Iraqi.
UN says one in five Iraqis is a refugee, Azzaman editorial, 9 July 2008
An international conference on the plight of Iraqis displaced in the years since the U.S. invasion says there is little hope at the end of the tunnel for millions of Iraqi refugees.
The conference organized by the Ministry of Immigration and attended by U.N. Refugee Agency estimated that about five million Iraqis are now refugees out of a population of more than 25 million. ...
the government was doing almost nothing to help those willing to return.
When families escape a neighborhood, their property is not protected.
Many of those returning find their houses occupied by other families or turned into offices or barracks by rival militias.
A government decision calling on the security forces to compel individuals and political factions to evacuate property not belonging to them remains ink on paper.
The conferees found that despite public claims to the contrary the government has failed to honor commitments to help Iraqi refugees inside and outside Iraq.
The government had allocated nearly $2 billion for refugees but experts charged there was no sign that the money had reached the beneficiaries.
And the occupying power is doing nothing, either, in breach of the Geneva conventions.
Mo Baby,
What a wimp you are!
Your grandparents didn't have AC when they were young and they lived through hot Iraqi summers. Damn, you're really a pussy.
Heh heh heh.
Could I actually be trying to raise his temperature even more? Yep, I could.
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If you are such a man as you pretend (and I strongly doubt it) why don't you come here! I bet you'll wet your self as you hear the first explosion,looool so don't forget the diapers.
neither did your grandparents have AC because it wasn't invented, but my grandparents had something called Air cooler which I still use that same invention till now and the split system ACs are just a decoration thanx to people like you...and you are such an ignorant that you don't know that the temperatures of the whole world have raised
BTW my grandparent was a doctor so if AC was invented sure he will buy it.
People used to drink from rivers and drive chariots why don't you leave the car and drink from the rivers just like your ancestors?
You are no different than AQ fanatics.
I'll not drag my self to your lowest level of humanity and that's why I'll not reply to the bad language you used.
Mo Baby!
LOOK OUT! Here's comes another sandstorm!
Heh heh heh.
I always enjoy listening to your feverish tales of misery. Iraqis always get the leaders (and blistering heat and sandstorms) that they deserve, it seems.
And no, I will not be going to Iraq. Why in the world would anyone want to go to that hellhole? I've traveled in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, but no thanks on Iraq. There's a good reason Iraq will never be a tourist destination. Satan's sandbox is only for those like yourself, Mohammed.
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Mohammed, Jeffrey is the worst of a rotten group of Americans that tries to laugh and sneer at Iraqis at every opportunity they get, and then adopt the stance that Iraqis should be grateful for having the US around to teach you how to live. Frankly his hubris chokes me up. Next, he'll be sending you a list of "American inventions" to prove how great he is.
I applaud that you took the high road on this one. The man is some second-grade part-time teacher of remedial English, whereas you're a doctor from a family of doctors.
Maybe he's feeling inadequate.
Adrian Hamilton: The West still isn't taking the Iraqis into account Independent, 10 July 2008
Right from the beginning of this enterprise, none of the invading powers has ever taken any interest in the Iraqis themselves or their interests. True, their name has been called on to give moral colour to all the baser mix of motives that lay behind Washington's initial decision to invade and London's decision to support it. Nor, in ordering the occupation, were their views ever taken into account. If they had been, the last five years might have been rather more fruitful.
So now with the discussion of the surge. It's all to do with how we look at ourselves. What it means for the Iraqis themselves is just taken for granted. In John Humphrys' series of reports for the Today programme yesterday, it was as if the Iraqis didn't exist except as extras saying how nice it was to have a bit of peace and quiet for a change.
The Iraqis still don't matter in this debate. Having brought them total insecurity for five years, we now think reducing the level of that insecurity answers all their problems – of unemployment, emigration, ethnic violence and internecine struggles for power in the vacuum we have created. ... We can help with money, we should certainly be helping more with the refugee problem, and we may be able to help with expertise, but anything that smacks of control or ownership is simply unacceptable to the Iraqis.Which is why Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki now says that the the next best move for the foreign invaders would be a clearly-defined timetable for departure.
We should give him what he wants.
Interesting comments, too, by the readers, eg "can you really imagine the Americans leaving Iraq, especially after having spent a fortune reducing the place to a pile of rubble and building themselves the world's largest bunker? Oh, and don't forget, the American hawks and their Israeli chums need a staging post to pummel Iran."
Well if Jeffrey doesn't feel inadequate he certainly should. Not because of his crap job but because of the way he conducts himself. Imagine commenting on a blog with the sole purpose of making fun of the author and his problems. That's lowlife stuff but when the author lives in one of the most violent and dangerous places on earth, well it takes a real creep to stoop that low.
Most Iraqi bloggers have banned Jeffrey and with good reason...
"Most Iraqi bloggers have banned Jeffrey and with good reason..."
Good point, JG. Why subject oneself to this sort of rubbish?
Hello.
Hi.
How are you doing?
I'm fine.
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Hi Muhammad,
I am African-American (black American) and I have had your blog linked to mine a long time now. I am a pacifist, so when my country decided to go to war for reasons I was wise enough to question, plus I understood propaganda when I saw it, I was highly troubled. I felt not only a great crime, but a horrible sin was about to be committed.
Today, our economy is failing, and I believe this is only the beginning of much worst to come. You and your country will be vindicated one way or another,if not in this place and time certainly one day in heaven.
Thank you for trying to let the world know what is happening to Iraq. I always remember the Iraqi people in my prayers.
Former British prime minister, John Major, said recently that had Iraq not been invaded oil would still be 40 USD a barrel. It is now around 140 USD a barrel, and this is having a huge impact on the cost of everything, from food to anything made of plastic. That may teach us (the coalition countries) never again to join in the illegal invasion of a sovereign country that was no threat at all to the West.
Just as Iran is currently no threat at all to America, so the US has no reason at all to attack Iran.
Dr.Mohammed, I wouldn't worry too much about cowards like Jeffery. They only grow the courage to attack people from behind the cloak of the internet. His comments are like the writing on a bathroom wall: anonymous and stupid.
hey, if you get a chance, i think you should read "Generation Kill", by Evan Wright. I think it gives a good perspective on how things became as messed-up as they are in Iraq, at least from an american soldier's (or someone close to him) perspective...
i always think it's good to put yourself in the other guy's shoes.
What horrid conditions. Please hang in there we are trying to elect a decent person to take over America so we can get this thing stopped. Also, the ones that caused this will be forever hounded and with luck many will be punished. Bush will not be able to ever go in public again without being spit on or worse. Some suspect he will flee the country at the end of his term because he will not be able to pardon himself from war crimes if we do not impeach. And obviously he is not the only one, rest assured we have taken down all the names of all responsible. They will never rest in peace.
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