My friend, Sheila from the state of Texas, sent me this article, i couldn't agree more with her:


I have been listening to the media, public opinions etc. about the war in Iraq. I figured was time to put my two cents in for what it is worth. I think most if not all of us need to step back and look at what is going on there from another angle, another perspective if you will, if you can. I realize this will take some breaking from what is being force fed to the masses but I think most is educated enough to do this, to step back and see both sides. I have never been to Iraq, I was raised on a farm in Ohio. My loyalty to my country is very strong, I believe in this country still, although am terrified by what I see happening. Let's trade places here, will take some imagination on the readers part but again I have faith in people.

In my opinion Saddam needed removed from power. BUT how it was done, was unreal to say the least. What has happened since is beyond the twilightzone realm. By the US intelligence reports Iraq never was a threat, no wmd and was NOT involved in 9-11, yet we went to war a war that Bush said was winnable but there was no way to win the peace, so yes if we want to pound the people there into the ground, exterminate them it is winnable. Here is my thoughts on it.

We Americans are proud, since the day we broke from England we have held our beliefs to our hearts, a mixed culture embracing the right to free speech, free worship, the right to bear arms. Our past leaders has showed us all to well that we must stand as one stand firm, our constitution must NOT NOT be altered are rights are set in stone in my mind from my forefathers. We stand as a beacon of light in the dark for other less fortunate countries. We set international laws into place to protect all people not just us. All of us I think and believe will die to defend our home country our birthright, that being said here we go...........

Let your imagination run here, is called putting yourself in the other guys shoes.

We are under a tyrant, a ruler who kills for fun, we the people are strong, fiercely loyal to our country if not the leader, we love our homeland, but the situation is hopeless. NOW another country steps in does what we the people can not. They over throw that leader, all the terror is going to stop, how we would embrace them thank them, be in their debt forever. At last freedom, or so we think. The days following the toppling of that narcissist leader, the country who supposedly liberated us starts imposing their rules, their values, claiming any who disagree is insurgents. We the people are not given the right to set up our government in the way we deem best, we are not to be trusted to make the right decisions for the land we love. We the people are at first confused, than our men are locked up the midnight knocking on doors starts up again, is our old leader back???? NOPE is our liberators taking our men, locking them up, torturing them, not letting us see them, holding them and not releasing why they are being held. Our liberators are now our jailers. This is my land, your land, this is the land I was raised to fight for to defend, to die for and now we are again under domination. As any good United States citizen I would rebel, I would die trying to drive that country who claimed to be helping us from my homeland. After all the majority of us Americans are good people, yes we disagree about beliefs etc. but we are tolerant of the other persons rights to freedom, NOW though our liberators are taking more liberties from us. Is it the people's fault a dictator did horrendous acts against for the most part his subjects? Are we the people not educated enough to set up a good free country? What rights do those foreigners have to dare to impose ORDER ME, ORDER YOU how to run MY COUNTRY, OUR COUNTRY? Am I spitting mad is my fellow countrymen spitting mad, you better believe it. That country we embraced, that in the beginning we thought we could relie on to help us, let us benefit from their knowledge is now the enemy, they have crushed us and our belief in our fellow mankind more than our dictator leader could have ever done. The odds against us are great, but was they not as great when England refused to let us stand on our own, to make our own government???? Rally round my fellow Americans is time to finally put a stop to this is MY COUNTRY and I be damned if I will let that other country even if they are stronger turn us into a colony again.

Think on it people, most there are not terrorists, they are flesh an blood people with families they love and a homeland they love..............would we do any different if in their shoes???????

Hi:)))
i am in a very good mood today, i just came back from the uni.
it was a really nice day, really really nice, every thing was nice and everything went really good, as soon as i entered the uni in the morning i met my two best friends, i was happy! i dont know why but i missed them, although we meet everyday and spend all day together, hehe, anyways it was good to see them again, and they told me immediately that today there are no classes! yay! i didn't even bother asking why or who arranged that or does the head of the department know about that or anything, i was just very happy with the strange, happy news that they told me, not like it happens everyday, i still don't know why it happened and i frankly don't care, no classes means a whole day of fun and walking in the uni or sitting in the cafeteria with people i love, so it was very nice, and then there was another very nice surprise, some girls in my class decided, and i didnt bother asking why too, to make us a party and they cooked for the whole class and brought food with them, they made Biryani and Dolma, and they brought fruits and sweet too, Znood issit, and we had the best time, we emptied one of the class rooms and brought tables and chair, and we invited some Doctors and teachers too, you know we must suck up a bit, after all i am sure they will remember that when they make evaluation for our grades, hehe, and after like 30 minutes all teachers left and we stayed in, we had water fight and money other silly things, we called the uni photographer and had so many photos, someone brought a DVcam and i shoot really really nice things, interviews and everything, hehe, we laughed a lot, and we all were having very good time, everyone was so happy, it was such a nice innocently joyful two hours party, after we finished the class was more like Florida after the Hurricane.
then we helped out a bit cleaning the mess and we all thanked the girls a lot and left:))
after i left the party i met a guy who was looking for me, and he gave me a letter from a friend who is very dear to me but i didn't see for more than three years because he lives in another city, and it was very nice really! oh i forgot to say something! Before the party a very very very good friend of mine came to visit, he graduated two years ago and we rarely see him, so in one word, i had one wonderful day, i am still smiling:)
i think some of you are wodnering why am i so excited?
well, when you live our lives, you dont have many sources of happiness, sadness covers everything, so the smalest joy looks really big, and precious.
i have a feeling that this won't change soon, what do you think?
me*

Hey:))
i remember that sometimes, when i read Livejournal i find this little note at the end saying : listening to: *a certain song*
well, a im blogging, and listening to mortars falling somewhere around:D
its probably falling on the palace of Saddam near by, which is now an American military center.
maybe 20 mortars till now, and the counter is still going up...
great..Now after couple of AK shoots, i can hear an aircraft (after more than 20 minute maybe of mortars)..
wow, now tanks came(after few more minutes)..
i am really writing moment-to-moment report from the field.
may i remind you ladies and gentlemen that its a curfew now?
it gives you an idea of how stable is the security situation, how hard is it to indicate people moving with mortars in a curfew time? Come on!
silence now!
it was a little F*** You operation, done in about 30 minutes time.
from the battle field Khalid Jarar from secretsinbaghdad.blogspot.com was with you, thanks for joining us.
:)
me*

Please, email me ONLY to khalidjarrar@gmail.com i dont use the other accounts anymore. i give all attention and answer almost all the emails i get to the Gmail account.
and, you can add me to your msn messenger as khalidjarrar@hotmail.com and to your yahoo messenger as khalidjarrar@yahoo.com . i would love to chat with you.
take care.
me*

Have you seen the video if the soldier killing the old, an armed, injured man INSIDE a mosque?
Amna, a teacher in the school of Masjid il Islam in Oakland, Ca thought that she heard the man whispering something right before his soul left his tired body:


I am upset.
Look into my eyes.
Can't you see the rage?
Don't you know that I'm brutalized?
My home was bombed.
You brought your filth into my masjid.
I am saddened.
I see the fear in the eyes of the people.
The women and children are refugees, terrified at the coming of your army.
I am oppressed in the land.
Look at my face.
Can't you see the blood stained tears rolling down my cheeks?
Don't you know that I can't wipe them away?
Not anymore...Not after so many deaths.
I am passionate.
Look at my chest.
Can't you see my heart pumping?
Don't you know it's aching from pain and strife?
Listen to my Voice "Allahu Akbar!"Don't you know I truly believe it?
He is in control of my impending victory over your occupation forces.
I am wounded.
Look at my body.
Can't you see it's bleeding?
Yet ...You shot me while I am unarmed.
My soul departs.
There is neither blood nor tears for me now.
I am free.
Look on as I stand as a witness against you.
I will tell the truth of all that you did.
Can't you see my bright light as it illuminates my face and shinesall around me?
You are damned!
I can see your face covered in blackness.
You will have none of my light.
I refuse to share it with you.
Stand in jealousy of me.
My light will shine for eternity.
All praise is due to Allah.
I am shaheed.
Look at me in the gardens underneath which rivers flow.
I eat the fruit which is in easy grasp.
It is similar to that which I had before.
Look at my wives.
Their skin is as pure as honey.
Their eyes shimmer with the light of sunset.
I rest on the soft couch made of rich brocade.
I am at peace.
And beauty is all around me.
I will dwell herein forever...

this is only what the camera caught, God knows what is it that we missed.
the attack on Falluja started in the 5th (they American army announced it at the 7th) and its still going on since then...
me*

Have you seen the video if the soldier killing the old, an armed, injured man INSIDE a mosque?
Amna, a teacher in the school of Masjid il Islam in Okland, Ca thought that she heard the man whispering something right before his soul left his tierd body:


I am upset.
Look into my eyes.
Can't you see the rage?
Don't you know that I'm brutalized?
My home was bombed.
You brought your filth into my masjid.
I am saddened.
I see the fear in the eyes of the people.
The women and children are refugees, terrified at the coming of your army.
I am oppressed in the land.
Look at my face.
Can't you see the blood stained tears rolling down my cheeks?
Don't you know that I can't wipe them away?
Not anymore...not after so many deaths.
I am passionate.
Look at my chest.
Can't you see my heart pumping?
Don't you know it's aching from pain and strife?
Listen to my Voice "Allahu Akbar!"Don't you know I truly believe it?
He is in control of my impending victory over your occupation forces.
I am wounded.
Look at my body.
Can't you see it's bleeding?
Yet ...you shot me while I am unarmed.
My soul departs.
There is neither blood nor tears for me now.
I am free.
Look on as I stand as a witness against you.
I will tell the truth of all that you did.
Can't you see my bright light as it illuminates my face and shinesall around me?
You are damned!
I can see your face covered in blackness.
You will have none of my light.
I refuse to share it with you.
Stand in jealousy of me.
My light will shine for eternity.
All praise is due to Allah.
I am shaheed.
Look at me in the gardens underneath which rivers flow.
I eat the fruit which is in easy grasp.
It is similar to that which I had before.
Look at my wives.
Their skin is as pure as honey.
Their eyes shimmer with the light of sunset.
I rest on the soft couch made of rich brocade.
I am at peace.
And beauty is all around me.
I will dwell herein forever...

this is only what the camera caught, God knows what is it that we missed.
the attack on Falluja started in the 5th (they American army announced it at the 7th) and its still going on...
me*

An eye witness from Falluja, talk to him, ask him questions NOW.
me*

I am alive, I don't know about the kicking, but I know that I am definitely alive...
am I?
my heart is bleeding, my soul is burning, I die every time I see the news...
but the stupid scientists insist that since I have heart beat, I am still "alive".
well, I am not perfectly good biologically good either, this stupid flue is keeping me half-drunk, maybe its better to keep it this way for now...
I just decided yesterday, who is the person I hate most in this world, it is definitely Allawi, I wont call him names cause I know that many young fellows read this too, but I really need to, so give me one minute, I will go curse and scream, and I will be back.
ok, much better.
oer 75% of the families left Falluja, some people decided to stay with their families, the prefer to die on the soil of their beloved city, under the the walls of their own houses...
IF its true that people of Falluja asked Allawi, ok I need another minute here-ok, if its true that they asked him, like he said, to go invade Falluja to liberate them from the Zarqawi, how come we NEVER saw ONE person out of the 75% who left the city, on TV saying this? How come that we have never seen ONE person from Falluja saying that in real life? In newspapers? In radio? How come?
how come that EVERY single person we see on TV, in real life and in the newspapers, curses Allawi, and says that there isn't any Zarqawi, at least not in Falluja?
the man they set his house to the ground in Falluja, and killed his baby son, carried him in front of the camera and said: This is Azzarqawi, I am sure this is Azzarqawi, why else did they kill him?
The young man who just came back from the mosque, right after the sunset prayer, which is the time to break the fasting everyday day, was supposed to find his father and mother, sisters and brothers sitting around the table, waiting for him to eat with them, but he found them dead, all of them, the house that was bombed, fell on them...
Two churches were bombed in Baghdad yesterday, while Falluja is in the middle of a battle that needs every man and every weapon, is it still possible today to accuse this city of these terrorists acts?
Isn't Azzarqawi busy defending himself?
while you are reading this and enjoying the silence in your houses and offices, people in Falluja are dying and burning, screaming, 12 000 soldiers are trained and sent to kill them, for no crime except that they have pride, except that they wouldn't accept to be occupied, except that they swear to live with honor, and die with honor...
Close this window, get back to your life and enjoy it, I hope you all get nice sleep at night, and don't bother thinking of us, or pushing your administration, they are just "bad people" getting kileed and you are liberating us, long life Red America!

I am alive, I don't know about the kicking, but I know that I am definitely alive...
am I?
my heart is bleeding, my soul is burning, I die every time I see the news...
but the stupid scientists insist that since I have heart beat, I am still "alive".
well, I am not perfectly good biologically good either, this stupid flue is keeping me half-drunk, maybe its better to keep it this way for now...
I just decided yesterday, who is the person I hate most in this world, it is definitely Allawi, I wont call him names cause I know that many young fellows read this too, but I really need to, so give me one minute, I will go curse and scream, and I will be back.
ok, much better.
oer 75% of the families left Falluja, some people decided to stay with their families, the prefer to die on the soil of their beloved city, under the the walls of their own houses...
IF its true that people of Falluja asked Allawi, ok I need another minute here-ok, if its true that they asked him, like he said, to go invade Falluja to liberate them from the Zarqawi, how come we NEVER saw ONE person out of the 75% who left the city, on TV saying this? How come that we have never seen ONE person from Falluja saying that in real life? In newspapers? In radio? How come?
how come that EVERY single person we see on TV, in real life and in the newspapers, curses Allawi, and says that there isn't any Zarqawi, at least not in Falluja?
the man they set his house to the ground in Falluja, and killed his baby son, carries him on front of the camera and said: This is Azzarqawi, I am sure this is Azzarqawi, why else did they kill him?
the young man who just came back from the mosque,right after the sunset prayer, which is the time to break the fasting everyday day, was supposed to find his father and mother, sisters and brothers sitting around the table, waiting for him to eat with them, but he found them dead, all of them, the house that was bombed, fell on them...
two churches were bombed in Baghdad yesterday, while Falluja is in the middle of the battle that needs every man and every weapon, is it still possible today to accuse this city of these terrorists acts? Isn't Azzarqawi busy defending himself?
while you are reading this and enjoying the silence in your houses and offices, people in Falluja are dying and burning, screaming, 12 000 soldiers are trained and sent to kill them, for no crime except that they have pride, except that they wouldn't accept to be occupied, except that they swear to live with honor, and die with honor...
close this window, get back to your life and enjoy it, I hope you all get nice sleep at night, and don't bother thinking of us, or pushing your administration, they are just "bad people" and you are liberating us, long life America!