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By: El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado » Blog Archive » Apocalypse Redux

El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado » Blog Archive » Apocalypse Redux — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:14:42 +0000

[...] Before Haifa I was in Baghdad. It was my fault we were there – me and the girl I’m dating in the dream – because I said I thought it would be good for our relationship … a change of scenery. Anyway, it turns out that she’s not such a fan of Baghdad because, you know, there’s a war going on. So I tell her I’ll go down to the market, buy fresh ingredients, and cook an amazing meal. I’d even find a bottle of wine somehow. There I am in the market (which, tangentially, is identical to the markets in Cuba where you buy rice and beans with your government-issued ration card). And, once again, I’m getting seriously annoyed because nobody has the chile pepper I’m looking for and I’m sure they’re just keeping it from me because I’m white. Then a bomb goes off and everything goes up in flames and everyone everywhere is running around and I feel so bad about yelling at the lady who told me she didn’t have any chile peppers. [...]

By: Intermap » The Massacre Frame in Lebanon: Media Report July 1 to July 15

Intermap » The Massacre Frame in Lebanon: Media Report July 1 to July 15 — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:25:21 +0000

[...] Adil, who normally provides a series of quotes lifted from a wide range of Iraqi blogs, is himself disturbed by the rapidly decaying events on the ground in Iraq. This is reflected in his assessment of the blogs he is summarizing for his report: “The stories that Iraqi bloggers are telling this week are of sadness, horror, disappointment and general depression.” Here is a selections from his report: Raed (of Raed in the Middle) comments on the increasing futility of the national reconciliation plan that was supposed to address the growing sectarian and ethnic violence across Iraq. He attributeds the failings of the plan squarely to U.S. intervention: “Sadly, again, the U.S. intervention turned the strong 28 point plan into a weak 24 plan that does not include any requests for a withdrawal timetable. In addition, the very solid amnesty proposal turned into a vague and useless one after an extreme amount of U.S. intervention. This latest wave of US interference included a number of Congressional bills informing the Iraqi government that granting amnesty to Iraqis who have killed Americans is not acceptable. … Consistent U.S. interference in Iraq, and the misuse of the Iraq war for gaining advantages in the U.S. domestic sphere, eliminates any hope for Iraqis to get their country back through diplomacy and democracy, and it is pushing more Iraqis to adopt violence as a means in building a better future for Iraq’s next generations.” [...]

By: Zebster

Zebster — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:57:39 +0000

Comments are of no use, are they, from those who aren’t living it and can’t truly understand to those who are living it? Under those circumstances any attempts at support and care would ring hollow.
I do feel, however, that the more information from the day to day lives of people trying to exist, survive and endur there will make a difference.
How do you write about something you can never truly understand. My apologies for trying.