Early Morning Blabbings!

It was a quiet morning in Baghdad, and it was around 8:30 am, when suddenly, i was awakened by very close Kalashnikov gun shots!

I jumped from the bed running out of my room shouting: "Where is everybody?!". In 5 seconds time, "everybody" was accounted for, and i took a long sigh of relief!

I was terribly afraid that one of the family was going out, and they got killed -God forbid-. Thank God that we are "in-the-middle" kind of people with no political or relegious or any other affiliations whatsoever, which makes it "safer" for us than other Iraqis, but hey, Iraqis are killed just for being Iraqis!

The range of killing doesn't exclude anyone, of course, from rich and important people, to poor bakers or falafil sellers on the street; why? Because they're Iraqis!

I heard that some Arabists (some Arabs who claim that they are Arabophile and pro-Nationalism and all, but their situations could be sold and bought as cheap as junk) have given a decree, or maybe a fatwa, or whatever it may be called, saying that because Iraqis haven't fought with the former "legitimate" gov't against the "Bushy occupation" or "foreign domination", then they should be all killed!

First, i think it is not of their business, for they danced and benefitted over Iraqis' disasters during the last decade (at least), and now they suddenly appear to like us!

Furthermore, it is kind of stupid, in my humble opinion, because if you come and kill -or pay for the killing of- all the Iraqis then who on Earth would be left running Iraq except the "foreigners"??!!

Kill all the Iraqis, make Iraq empty or weak, and you would get a long smooch between the Bush Administration and its allies from one side, and Iran and all its allies from the other side; that is despite the fact that both blocs have their big differences, of course. But they are a living example of a Iraqi proverb which talks about simultaneous love-hate feelings, and that proverb may not be quite appropriate to be said here!

Meanwhile, the Iraqi gov't is STiLL under construction... It brings to memory a scene from one of Duraid Lahham's (AKA Ghawwar El-Toushe) movies, when he asks about today's newspapers, and he is told by the newspapers seller that they only have last week's newspapers, so he says: "bring them down! The news haven't changed since then!!"

Yes, the news haven't changed. Iraqis get killed by the dozens everyday, while politicians are still there, blabbing, and here you have some "@#$%^*" party threatening or deciding to pull out of the gov't and mess everything up because they were not given a certain ministry to play with!!!

Technocrats, non-sectarians, independent Iraqis: eat your hearts out!