· July, 2006

Stories about Iraq from July, 2006

Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

  31 July 2006

With all the war and suffering I just don't feel like blogging. But todays post is important and I feel it is my duty to write it. If you read no other blog post this week read this Caesar of Pentra writes of the numbing pain and screaming anger at...

Lebanon at the Iraqi Blogodrome

  24 July 2006

The Iraqi blogs have been alive with comment on the crisis in Lebanon. The opinions are so diverse that subject deserves to be covered in its own right. If you read no other post read this one Ali from Free Iraqi delivers a sharp analysis that would make Machiavelli nervous....

Iraq: Freedom!

  20 July 2006

Mama says, “freedom means free to kill,democracy means you have the right to leave the country.”

Kurdistance: Lebanon's Legacy?

  19 July 2006

While the world's media eye is focused on Lebanon, other potential conflicts are arising in the Middle East; but they are arising using Lebanon as the primary example for conflict justification. The Counterrorism Blog says it best: Turkey is currently making a lot of noise about launching a cross-border incursion...

Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

  16 July 2006

As the old Chinese curse goes “may you live in interesting times”. And this week we have been witnessing some interesting times indeed. I am not going to play ‘my war is better than yours’ but it is enough to say that by Iraqi standards the whole crisis in Lebanon...

Kurdistance: No Good News

  12 July 2006

The overwhelming themes of the Kurdish blogs this week has been a sense of outrage and despair over the never-changing events in the lives of the Kurdish peoples. Let's begin with Kurdish Aspect this week and his posting of a punishment given to a small child in Eastern Kurdistan (Western...

Iraq: Good News!

  11 July 2006

LadyBird, has two good news. According to her, “for the first time an Iraqi official accuses the US and Israel, on creating the chaos in Iraq.” The second good news is that “Iraq will ask the United Nations to end immunity from local law for U.S. troops.”

Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

  8 July 2006

Writing this post is not getting any easier, and this week is especially hard. I can even notice that I have been subconsciously avoiding it. The stories that Iraqi bloggers are telling this week are of sadness, horror, disappointment and general depression. If you are looking cheerful uplifting stories, don't...

Kurdistance:

  5 July 2006

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Today's post is going to be short for two reasons: one, I am currently taking an intensive Arabic class this summer and transitioning back to English today is proving to be much more difficult than I first imagined and two, I just fell up the concrete steps...