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Something about
"Liberation"...
By Layla Anwar
04/30/07 "ICH"
-- -- This "liberation" has done us in.
There is not one person I know who has not been affected and
whose life has not been altered, read - forever changed by so
much "liberation".
You don't even have to be an Iraqi. This "liberation" has served
as a perfect mirror reflecting the moral bankruptcy of some and
the resilience of others...
Those who are faithful to Iraq - the concept of it - (now we are
talking about concepts since the Reality of what was Iraq is
something of the past!), those who are close to Iraq in spirit
and mind lose sleep too...
I have received tons of mails from all over the world. Africa,
India, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the USA.
Those who are close to Iraq in spirit feel alienated from their
peers. They suddenly feel out of place, they suddenly no longer
feel as if they belong to what was deemed a "familiar"
environment. This "liberation" has affected them too...
Seems they, too, are as unable to handle so much "freedom"...
But they are a minority. I like to call them the "feeling"
minority. These people and all honors to them have not lost the
capacity to feel...Praise them for they have become a rare
breed.
Some write to me expressing their own pain, some write to me
telling me how they feel strangers in their own land and some
write to me thanking me for "freeing" them with my
anger...giving them that inner space and permission to express
the repressed taboos of the "politically correct", to formulate
their own anger vis a vis the lies and the deceptions...
And they write to me expressing their disgust.
Something about this Iraqi "liberation" is viscerally
disgusting...
Something about it, something out of this world... Something
unseen before, something unfathomable...
As if all the dirt and the scum of the Earth has risen to the
surface like the sewage of the streets of Baghdad...
As if this Earth has not stopped vomiting all of its foul bitter
acid bile ...covering the whole land of Ur with it.
Never, at least not to my knowledge, has a "liberation" produced
so much human filth...
Never has a "liberation" managed to generate so many death
mercenaries and contractors being paid up to 5'000 dollars a day
with the sole aim of exterminating...and "pacifying".
Never has a country been so openly plundered and pillaged right
in front of everyone's eyes and to the utter silence of its
spectators...
Never have so many atrocities of an unspeakable kind, not even
seen in the worst horror films go by under an aura of such great
detached indifference...
When I mention that cadavers are deliberately left lying in the
streets until they are bloated by death or chewed at by wild
dogs, I am not believed...I am called extraordinary with
extraordinary claims.
I am told, surely the civilized world will not allow that!?. I
am then asked to prove it.
Like do you want me to send you a corpse by DHL or should I ask
one of the mercenaries of Blackwater Inc. to carry one in his
suitcase, courtesy of the Crusaders?
When I write to "friends" that some children are seen playing
football with the skull of a dead man, something that has been
confirmed by the Arab League Ambassador to Baghdad, I am told
that I need psychiatric help...Surely no "liberation" will drive
children to play ball with heads ?!
When I am told, that some members of a sectarian militias like
the Badr Brigades or Mahdi Army of Iran presented a sunni woman
with her baby boy roasted and on platter delivered in front of
her doorsteps...I say to myself surely this "liberation" cannot
give birth to so much cannibalism...and that maybe I do need
psychiatric care after all.
When am told that an elderly woman waiting for her son in some
street in Baghdad is presented with a plastic bag with her son
in it in pieces...I feel I am watching a third rate horror
show...and maybe I am having audible hallucinations.
But this is the reality of the Iraqi "liberation".
All these base, bestial, sadistic, psychopathic impulses have
been unleashed and encouraged to flourish...
Iraq , the mirror of the West's "suppressed" bestiality? I leave
you to ponder on this one.
But whatever you come up with, you must admit, there has never
been a "liberation" like this one...ever.
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.
http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com
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