One week in Baghdad

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I am starting to check back in on my favorite Iraqi bloggers. I haven’t been reading them for quite awhile because it was just too painful. Even the most upbeat and positive Iraqi’s have been dragged down into hopelessness. One of my favorites, Zayed, a dentist in Baghdad, has finally decided to get out. He has been published in the Washington Post (see his article “One Week in Baghdad”) and has been encouraged to become a journalist. You can read about it here, along with some of the **** he sees everyday in baghdad.

I think everyone in Congress should be reading his and other Iraqis’ blogs if they want to understand the havac they have brought to this country. We’ve truly given terrorists a new base to operate from. Meanwhile, Iran just waits as we continue to spend huge dollars in a cause they know we will never win…a democratic Islamic state is truly an oxymoron, as proved by Afghanistan. Check out this article on the plight of women’s rights.
 
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FightingFat:
I am starting to check back in on my favorite Iraqi bloggers. I haven’t been reading them for quite awhile because it was just too painful. Even the most upbeat and positive Iraqi’s have been dragged down into hopelessness. One of my favorites, Zayed, a dentist in Baghdad, has finally decided to get out. He has been published in the Washington Post (see his article “One Week in Baghdad”) and has been encouraged to become a journalist. You can read about it here, along with some of the **** he sees everyday in baghdad..
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And the week they (you) picked was at the peak of the violence after the Golden Dome Mosque bombing? So what is your point?
 
Do you propose leaving? It recall how hopeless it looked for you in the early days of WWII, when so many isolationists in the US were counseling noninvolvement in your problem. Ist das nicht richtig?
 
From where I sit, there are some who, like the terrorists in Iraq, want the US to cut and run so they can point and say, “see we told you so” regardless of the risks to the Iraqi people, the region or the world.
 
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FightingFat:
You got me into this gilliam, I’m just reporting back to tell you what I’ve found out!
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Well, keep reading 🙂 Either it will get better or worse… their fate is now squarely in Iraqi hands. And there will be some Sunnis who will have to live with the fact that they are no longer lords of the Shia any more.
 
Actually the supposed gloom and doom is not happening. It is a myth. Here is what is happening. Quite an optimistic picture.

Bullish on Baghdad: The Iraqi economy shows signs of strength
Though the economy expanded by an unimpressive 2.6% in real terms in 2005, that figure is scheduled to reach over 10% this year… per capita income has increased from $500 at the time of the invasion in 2003 to $1,500 today… more than 30,000 new businesses have been registered with USAID in the past seven months alone… the success in the construction of schools, the training of more than 36,000 teachers, and the provision of nearly nine million textbooks should prove to be a valuable investment for the political and economic future of Iraq…
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In 2004 a modest 5% national tariff rate was imposed to help fund reconstruction costs. A flat corporate tax rate of 15% was applied by the Coalition Provisional Authority and foreign investment restrictions were extremely limited, with the exclusion of national resources such as the country’s oil fields. After years of sanctions and isolation–with the exception of Saddam Hussein’s corrupt enterprises–the above noted efforts have been relatively successful in opening up the nation’s economy…
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One of the first actions taken by the United States following the ouster of Saddam Hussein was the nearly immediate transfer of sovereignty of Iraq’s oil industry back to the people of Iraq… When asked by the Baghdad based daily Al-Adalah about American and British interference in the Iraqi oil industry, former oil minister Dr. Thamir al-Ghadban responded: "I can affirm that no person or side tried to influence on the approach that we adopted in the oil policy. Where is the influence? "
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The new Iraqi dinar, the official currency introduced in July 2003, has become a stable and unifying presence in the economy of Iraq. The banking sector is emerging as a powerful economic staple now that the Baathists no longer corrupt and distort the system. A similar development has occurred with the 2004 introduction of the Iraq Stock Exchange, as it too is free from the corruption that beleaguered the Hussein-era Baghdad Stock Exchange. About 90 stocks are listed, and market capitalization grew from $1.15 billion at the end of 2004 to $2.14 billion at the same time last year…
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What is recommended at this point is foreign investment.
 
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Geldain:
regardless of the risks to the Iraqi people, the region or the world.
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Of course, high level bombing of densely populated areas never risked the safety of the Iraqi people.

Oh whoops!
 
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FightingFat:
Of course, high level bombing of densely populated areas never risked the safety of the Iraqi people.

Oh whoops!
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I chuckle every time I see that website listed. Had they started keeping count of the dead during the days Saddam was bulldozing bodies over in mass graves they’d have some credibility with me.
 
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Geldain:
I chuckle every time I see that website listed. Had they started keeping count of the dead during the days Saddam was bulldozing bodies over in mass graves they’d have some credibility with me.
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So the people killed in the bombing was ok by you then?
 
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FightingFat:
So the people killed in the bombing was ok by you then?
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I love these logical fallacies, “So you support Saddam being removed by force = you support the deaths of innocent civilians” Hilarious! 😃

The death of all who are killed in a war is a sad thing. The effort expended to misrepresent the reasons for these deaths is also sad.

I am saddened anyone had to die at all in order to removed Saddam and his regime from power. However, to answer your question: No, it’s not *okay *they died. The person I hold responsible for all the deaths during the war to remove Saddam’s regime from power is Saddam and his thugs

The deaths since Saddam was removed from power I lay at the feet of the islamofacist-terrorists and sunni insurgents who fear freedom.
 
And then convieniently, we, the coalition of the willing, have totally clear consciences? A scene springs to mind of a Roman washing his hands of the blood of an innocent.
 
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FightingFat:
Cool. You have to live with it. I couldn’t. 🙂
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Insinuating having a clear conscience is something I have to live with is a logical fallacy.
 
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