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Painting by
Laila al-Attar,
an Iraqi artist
murdered by a U.S. attack in 1993.
►Treasure
of Baghdad
Al-Mutannabi Street in
Baghdad is a well-known
book market named after the most famous poet
in the Arab history, Abu Al-Tayyib Al-Mutanabi (915-965 A.C.).
“The people of Iraq have exhausted me.
There is not one strategy I use against
them that they have not already beaten me to.
I cannot conquer them, and I have
no other choice but to kill them to the last man.
” –
Alexander
the Great, in a purported letter to his tutor Aristotle.
►Trip
in India
I asked, ok, between
India and Baghdad,
where would you choose. He laughed and said,
even if they give me millions, I will never
come and live here.
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►Baghdad
Today I write of the Iraqi woman who must beg on the streets of
Amman or Damascus.
"And
yet, as the situation continues to deteriorate both for Iraqis
inside and outside of Iraq, and for Americans inside Iraq, Americans
in America are still debating on the state of the war and
occupation- are they winning or losing? Is it better or worse. (emphasis
added)
Let me clear it up for any moron with lingering doubts: It’s worse.
It’s over. You lost. You lost the day your tanks rolled into Baghdad
to the cheers of your imported, American-trained monkeys. You lost
every single family whose home your soldiers violated. You lost
every sane, red-blooded Iraqi when the Abu Ghraib pictures came out
and verified your atrocities behind prison walls as well as the ones
we see in our streets. You lost when you brought murderers, looters,
gangsters and militia heads to power and hailed them as Iraq’s first
democratic government. You lost when a gruesome execution was dubbed
your biggest accomplishment. You lost the respect and reputation you
once had. You lost more than 3000 troops. That is what you lost
America. I hope the oil, at least, made it worthwhile."
by Imad Khadduri
►Fashion
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BUM ARCHIVE FOUR
