"Whatever"

If you don't read the blogs from Iraq on the McClatchy website, you should....but, get ready to feel rage and frustration and helplessness, the same feelings of ordinary Iraqi's:



"Thank you, appreciated …"

After four years of liberation we've got a lot of things and we've realized a lot of achievements like:

We don't like the government which we've elected and it's obvious that we regret voting for it.

We started feeling ashamed of saying that we are Muslims because of all of the continuous crimes that have contorted true Islam.

But the world needs to know that the Iraqi Muslims are not behind these crimes as we have been living together for hundreds of years and we haven't witnessed this kind of sectarian and racist issues.

We mustn't forget the freedom and the respect that we've gained as individuals from the Iraqi leaders and the leaders of other countries.

The President of Iraq has left to the United States of America for medical treatment while my wife has cancer and I can't take her even to Syria for treatment like many other Iraqis do.

The Chairman of the United Iraqi Alliance made a trip to the United States of America to undergo medical treatment for his cancer; but he didn't like their hospitality so he made his decision to go to his mother's country (Iran) at least they will treat him better; but still, the choice is his to go anywhere because he's "the man" in Iraq, but my wife like so many other women do not have the choice, because they are not the "madams".

The Deputy Prime Minister is the bravest. When he was injured during an assassination attempt, the government took him immediately to the green zone hospital (which is under the American doctors' supervision). Then, he flew to Jordan for medical treatment. So, as he is a leader in the Iraqi government, they took care of him but it doesn't matter if other Iraqis are injured by an IED or VBIED (car bomb), understandably ….there are a lot of Iraqi's but there is only one PM deputy.

No country gives Iraqis entrance visas; not even Arab or any foreign country when Iraqis apply for it; why?

They say (YOU GUYS ARE HAPPY ENOUGH IN YOUR COUNTRY. YOU WILL FEEL BORED IN OUR COUNTRY, AND WE DON'T WANT TO BOTHER YOU). They show us much more respect than we expect. They don't even search us because they don't allow us to enter their border in the first place.

What respect we are shown !!!!!

From this equation we have discovered that the government doesn't serve anyone but itself no matter what.

But my main question is, if the Americans claim that they came here to save us, the poor oppressed Iraqi people, why then, are they allowing this government of corruption to rule us till this very moment? Do they like the way they work? Or are they bored and tired of us, their pet project already, and say to themselves "WHAT EVER" ? !.

Why don't they just do something???

Posted by Correspondent Wissam at 05:07 AM |

http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/iraq/

or go to http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington then click on the blogs you want to read

God, what kind of penance do we owe our brothers and sisters in Iraq?

MKJ

on edit: Thanks again. As I read this, I'm struggling to understand the brilliant humanity in the face of adversity of which we've not seen here.

I question that I could see beyond the moment of neighbor against neighbor, with everyone and everything I hold dear, at stake.

People, we need to get our Constitution back.

MKJ