Tuesday, May 27, 2008

A Toast to the Charlatans!



If you've been celebrating and partying, with us, you may want to toast as well...

It's all part of the current festivities and it's free of charge, since blood money has already been paid in advance...

We have a nice sardonic proverb in Arabic and it goes this way "Ilhak al Kazab, lil Bab" - which means "Follow the Liar to the Door." - the EXIT door. And this is exactly what am planning to do with my "Toast to the Charlatans."

Let's start with one charlatan at a time.

On "Resistance Day" - the "Lebanese Resistance" aka the Sayyed and his thugs, Al-Jazeera (English) published an article and titled it "Hezbollah to back the Iraqi Resistance"

Of course all the media outlets including so-called alternative ones, took Al-Jazeera's wordings as total and absolute truth.

However if you read the chief charlatan's speech on his own website Al-Manar, you will find that he mentioned the Iraqi Resistance with 3 lines only out of a speech of over 200 lines! I know, I counted them.

The "Sayyed" in the Al-Manar article, his official voice, said:

- "This is our message today to Lebanon and the Arab and Islamic worlds; it's a joint message by the resistance in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq to the whole nation..."

then when talking about the concept of resistance in general he said

- "I tell anyone whose country is under occupation: Don't wait for consensus…take up your arms and head to liberation."

then talking about his own group - the hezb, he said

- "The Arab and Islamic worlds should have helped them, but many of these governments lagged behind, however Syria and Iran spearheaded the countries that assisted the resistance and consequently the historic victory in 2000.."

- then finally mentioning the "Iraqi" resistance he said

"In occupied Iraq, there are those who believe in resistance and others in politics…Today, you must take the decisive position. The resistance has been dealing severe blows to the US occupation army. Iraq is called to follow the strategy of the resistance."

You can read the full speech here.

Now compare the Al-Jazeera heading "Hezbollah backs Iraqi resistance" to that of the Manar article. The Manar article/speech is entitled "Qintar brothers to return very soon".

The Qintar brothers are Lebanese prisoners from the South, detained in Israeli jails.

Of course you know why Qatari backed Al-Jazeera has opted for this title, right ?

Because if you've read my previous posts you would understand that Qatar is clearly backing Syria and Iran and trying to surpass the Saudi role. Hence I can bet you anything that at the upcoming conference on Iraq, the US probes to Sunni Arabs would be to Qatar and not Saudi. Qatar will play a greater role on the Iraqi scene soon. Mark my words.

But let's leave Qatar aside for now, and let's see how the chief charlatan Nasrallah has backed the Iraqi Resistance in the past.

First let's ask him which Iraqi Resistance is he referring to here?

The reason I am posing this question is because I need you to be VERY AWARE of the following:

- Since the US occupation and for over 5 years now, the only Resistance in Iraq that has not WAVERED in its fight against the dual occupiers IRAN and the US is the IRAQI Resistance. Read - "Notes from the Iraqi Resistance" post to refresh your memories. Furthermore the Iraqi Resistance has NEVER BEEN INVOLVED IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS.

- Only a few months ago, Muqtada Al-Sadr with his fall out with Maliki referred to himself as the "resistance". When in fact for the past 5 years he has not only upheld the Jaafari and Maliki governments in Iraq and was HIMSELF INVOLVED IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS but has also helped the US occupier in ethnically cleansing Baghdad. And I have no less than 50 articles and no less than 100's testimonies all incriminating Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia the Jaysh Al-Mahdi. So clearly, Muqtada Al-Sadr is NO RESISTANCE WHATSOEVER. The proof is that troops entered Sadr city only a couple of days ago and his militias looked on.

- And furthermore, I've already mentioned in my previous post that I have information that his militia is involved in the current ethnic cleansing of Mosul alongside the Iraqi puppet troops and the US occupying troops - another mini pogrom of Sunnis.

So who is Nasrallah exactly fooling with his words ? He is not fooling the IRAQI Resistance for sure and he is not fooling the Iraqis and the Palestinians in Iraq either. And he is definitely not fooling me.

So when this charlatan says this is a "joint message by the resistance in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq to the whole nation.." He is not referring to the IRAQI Resistance but to Muqtada Al-Sadr, the chief driller of Baghdad who is currently in QUM-IRAN "studying".


Furthermore, in several of my previous posts, I have shown over and over again how Hezbollah Lebanon and the IRANIAN Quds Brigades also known as the Pasdaran have helped the Jaysh Al-Mahdi (JAM) by training and funding them - way before JAM's so called resistance to the U.S occupation, as per the last events in Sadr City.

I have over 45 articles from various sources to prove to you that Hezbollah -Iraq branch, JAM and the Pasdaran not only ethnically cleansed the Palestinians in Iraq but have also been very involved alongside the Mossad in murdering - Iraqi scientists, academics, army officers, Baath party members and innocent Iraqis who had nothing to do with politics and most importantly IRAQI RESISTANCE FIGHTERS.

These shiite militias, plus Badr of the SCII and the DAWA and the Chalabi's militia were full partners with the Americans in the ethnic-sectarian division and murder of Iraqis and were trained by the Pasdaran. Do remember that Hezbollah Lebanon was formed in 1983 by the Pasdaran and trained by them and do remember that the guy who reconciled Maliki and Muqtada Sadr during their last fall out was nothing but an Iranian Pasdaran by the name of Soleimani - " The peace broker" of Basra.

The above are FACTS that I NEED YOU TO REMEMBER ALWAYS.

It does not stop there.

Al-Manar a few weeks ago wrote

"... But shortly after the invasion, anti-US groups were formed, mostly among Sunnis and among various sectarian groups. Unfortunately, some of these groups didn't distinguish between the occupation and Iraqi civilians. As a result, the "Anbar Awakening" rose up against al-Qaeda in Iraq.
At the time Mahdi Army launched two uprisings against the US occupation; several Shiite resistance groups came into being and carried out successful anti-occupation attacks. But at the same time, prisoners and abuses were starting to pile up at a notorious prison west of Baghdad called Abu Ghraib. The start of 2004 was marked by a relative lull in violence in which millions of Iraqis were forced to immigrate.


Nevertheless, Iraqi people were able to overcome difficulties and establish political groups and factions. The country's first free elections were held and several competing parliamentary blocs emerged..."

Notice the language here - The sectarians are the Sunnis who finally rose against AQ. Mahdi is a patriotic resistance not a mass murderer, the Shiite resistance is kept vague because the Lebanese Hezb has very good relations with all the Shiites parties in Iraq. Hence Al Manar - The Hezb's voice, concluded by congratulating the "country's first FREE ELECTIONS" but it FORGOT to add - Free elections under a DUAL OCCUPATION -US/IRAN !

Moreover the Hezb's prominent Sheikh Qabalan extended his warm congratulations to Maliki and to Al-Hakeem of the SCII not too long ago, the two sectarian US-Iranian puppets who currently form the "Iraqi government".

And then you have the Iraqi sectarian from the Badr Militia congratulating N.Berri of the Shiite Amal party in Lebanon (Amal and Hezbollah are partners by the way.) I need to remind you that Amal is known for its cleansing of the Palestinian camps during the Lebanese civil war. And that the Hezb watched on during the cleansing of Nahr Al-Bared Palestinian camp in Lebanon not too long ago. Nahr Al-Bared's fault is that it was enough pro-Iran for the Hezb's taste.

And I can give you more and more examples...but suffice for the moment to tell you :

- that this charlatan by the name of Nasrallah, during those past 5 years of American/Iranian occupation of Iraq, did not support the IRAQI resistance (to absolutely differentiate from the so-called "resistance" from Qum led by Sadr and Co) - NOT EVEN ONCE.

- that during these past 5 years of occupation, the charlatan Nasrallah did not condemn not even ONCE the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Iraq by the Shiite militias like JAM, Badr, DAWA, and the Pasdaran.

- that during these past 5 years of occupation, the IRAQI resistance has been fighting totally ALONE, thwarting the Zionist, American, Iranian plan in Iraq. Now, that is a true Divine Victory for me, an ongoing Divine Victory against a ruthless TRIPLE Occupier.

- that the charlatan Nasrallah and his hezb distributed candies in the streets of his Dahiah and in the south of Lebanon when President Saddam Hussein was lynched on the eve of the Islamic Eid. So much for his "Islamic" turban !

So is this charlatan trying to convince us today that he has a joint statement from the Iraqi Resistance that his sectarian militias in Iraq have been murdering ?

No, ya Sayyed. This no joint statement. This is a statement from you to Muqtada Al-Sadr in Qum .

This is a statement on "resistance" day and you had to drop a couple of lines here and there...

This is a statement to cover up for your sectarianism and your silence of 5 years vis à vis Iraq and its Resistance fighters who have been fighting the Zionist Iranian- American occupations alone.

This is a statement to cover up for your blatant sectarianism in Beirut's last blood spilling where you used the guns of your famous resistance against your own people.

This is a statement to cover up for inviting the Syrians who are in full talks with the Israelis back to Lebanon under the U.S and Iranian guidance of your Ayatollah Khameini.

and much more since your ploys are many...

But there is one thing in which you have not lied ya Sayyed - The Qintar brothers are returning soon. Yes they are, because you too, like the Syrians, are involved with the Zionists in negotiations... And here is the proof

What a cheap ploy from beginning to end. But then that is expected from charlatans like yourself.

Let's toast that, shall we ? But before we do so why don't you just check out the following logos.

This is the logo of the IRANIAN QUDS FORCE in Iraq



and this is the logo/flag of Hezbollah -Lebanon.



Any similarities, you think ?

OK, now we can say CHEERS!


Painting: Iraqi artist, Kathem Al-Dakheel

Monday, May 26, 2008

A sordid Realization...


After everything has been said and done...We find ourselves here, alone...picking up the pieces.
I really believe the "average" Iraqi, frankly no longer gives a damn as to what is whom and who is what...In other words, we've paid our dues in advance...

Truth be told, issues like Lebanon, Palestine or Syria and its honeymoon with Iran is the least of our problems...We are survivors, hanging on...

Hanging on by threads, by thin ropes, to the utter indifference of the world...

We are not sexy enough of a cause...Not romantic enough for the "revolutionaries", not a "turn on" for your average shit headed "combatant" of my ass...This we understood from the very first day. This we knew...

Look at the pictures that depict us - a miserable bunch, a forgotten bunch, amidst ruins and dead corpses...

Everyone else is celebrating "divine victories", and we, we are still in the background, dusting off pictures of our dead...keeping the memories alive in all of this obscurity...

How come ? Am I the abnormal one here ? Am I the only one who can't sleep ?

Am I the only one lamenting like Nimrod ?

Am I the only one counting the stolen bricks from Babylon ?

I look at other Iraqi bloggers and I feel red with shame. They are such an insult to our memory, our collective history.

I see idiotic females going ahhhhh! and ohhhhh! over abysmal trivialities and males still trying to impress in spite of their teenage zits...I see some who have never set foot in my beloved's land and some easily co opted with false promises...

I see nothing, I see everything...I see the new god called a pair of blue jeans...I see the new god of Dunkin Donuts and Mac Donald's...and I cringe.

I cringe at the horror of what I am witnessing.

Let alone the deaths and the black wardrobe...let alone the exile and the nothingness of exile, let alone the lives and time wasted in vain...let alone...

I see and I cringe.

So few voices left. So dim, so stifled, so quelled, so choked, so far away...


Painting: Iraqi artist, Mowafak Abdel Hadi.

Party Time!



Yalla, it's "Party" time. Come and join in the celebrations.
If you really want to get into the "party" mood, you really need to read my post "Celebrate", only then can you truly appreciate the "party".

The Lebanese Army guy - Michel Sleiman (a Maronite Christian - like Aoun from the so-called "opposition") was voted in today as the new President.

Three items on his agenda. a) The arms of the "Resistance" (the Hezb party) b) The enquiry Tribunal for R.Hariri's murder and c)"Restoring diplomatic ties" with Syria.

I can already tell you that item (b) will be left on the back burner. Clearly Syria had something to do with it. And since the restoring of diplomatic ties is on the agenda, who will tread in murky waters ? No one.

Huge celebrations in Beirut today. All the Arab foreign ministers were present under the guidance of Qatar. Present were FM's from Syria - Al-Muallam, Mottaki from Iran, Amr Mousa, and a representative for Saudi Arabia amongst others...

There is one thing I don't really understand, or maybe I do now.

For 18 months, the Hariri camp has accepted that M.Sleiman becomes president. It was the Shiite parties of N.Berri (Amal) and the Hezb who kept delaying the elections for over a year. I even heard one of S.Hariri's speeches during the last bout of violence, where he fully accepted M.Sleiman as president. So what has changed ?

Obviously what changed were the two items on the agenda. Normalisation with Syria and the Arms of the Hezb to be kept intact.

M.Sleiman has an "interesting" C.V. He first joined the Lebanese secret services in 1973, then the army where he was promoted in the 1990's when Syria was in full control of Lebanon.

In any event, the Lebanese people, thirsty for some "stability" have approved of him and according to the media, are totally ecstatic at the prospects.


In parallel....

Two important piece of news from Syria.

- A high ranking Syrian army officer by the name of Turkomani is in Iran, reassuring the Iranians - who FEIGNED great "shock" at the news of the Syrian-Israeli peace negotiations - reassuring them that the strategic relation between Syria and Iran which has been going on for 3 decades will "NEVER be compromised."
Furthermore, Syria is in the process of signing a new elaborate defense treaty with Iran.

From the Iranian side, the head of the Iranian Quds Brigades, by the name of Jaafari assured his Syrian counterpart, that their mutual cooperation will be sustained, maintained and further developed, "NO MATTER WHAT."

- Syria on the other hand "warned" Israel today that it will "never compromise its relationship with Iran." and was willing to continue in the "bilateral peace talks."


From the Israeli side...

- Olmert is acquiescent to the Syrian terms, and even some Israelis in the Defense department, stated that "even though we are attached to the Golan heights - we can live without them." Olmert added that he "preferred these talks with Syria to remain secret" i.e bilateral talks in Turkey away from too much publicity.

- The other piece of news from Israel, is that the main negotiator in these secret talks is an Israeli of Iranian origins living in Turkey. I actually heard that on the radio. Then realizing the political blunder of such a piece of news, the news presenter cut the information very promptly. I wonder why ?!


Of course you can already guess what these Israeli-Syrian-Iranian statements mean, don't you ?

Iran is basically saying to Syria - OK go ahead, we trust you darling.
Israel is saying - OK, we go ahead - the game is nearly over.

Meanwhile in Iraq...

The American army says that "Al-Qaeda" is nearly finished BUT that it, nonetheless remains a real threat.

In Mosul, thousands have been detained, in what Pepe Escobar, in a moment of rare lucidity even though he is still praising the Drillers of Muqtada Al-Sadr, calls it and rightly so "a mini pogrom against the Sunnis" of Mosul conducted by the Kurds and the Iranian-Shia government of al-Maliki. And from my own sources, I heard that the Mahdi drillers have joined the Maliki bandwagon in Mosul.


Now for the ironic news...

Sarkozy has congratulated the new Lebanese government and Bush is very happy with the outcome... Hey, I thought Syria and Iran were part of the axis of Evil, no ?


Again, I reiterate firmly and loudly what I said in my post "Celebrate."

This "party" would have not been possible, if Iraq was not destroyed and handed over to Iran by America.

As it turns out, the only "evil" on this axis was Iraq.

And it was considered "evil" by Israel, the U.S and Iran because and I repeat -- Saddam Hussein was the only true anti-Imperialist, anti-Zionist, Arab leader around.

What more proof do you need ?

Yalla, tell me now, would you like to join the "Party" and "celebrate" with us ?


Painting: Iraqi female artist, Wasma'a Al-Agha.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

On Women and Football....HERE

Saturday, May 24, 2008

A quick thought on Saddam Hussein.

You know something, the more I think about it, the more it is confirmed to me - Saddam Hussein was indeed not only a visionary but also a GREAT ARAB LEADER.

Let alone all what he's done for Iraq and the Iraqis, but the fact that the fascist, retrograde, chauvinist, assassins iranians and their sectarian proxies (both shia and non shia - yes ALL of them) hate him so much, the fact that the backward, bigoted, racist, criminal americans hate him so much and the fact that the terrorist, nazi, zionist jews hate him so much -- just confirm how GREAT he actually was.

Yalla, catch you later with more...

Dual Occupations - The Palestinian flavor.

Khaled Mash'al from Hamas, based in Syria, was visiting Iran.

I looked at his picture and could not help but laugh at how the puppets always mimic their masters.

Mash'al looked like an Iranian official. His sober dark suit, his white shirt - no tie of course, Iranian way and his finger pointing in total demagoguery. The only thing missing were a few silver rings from Qum on his hands. He probably took them off - too obvious otherwise.

I guess Mash'al is not too bothered by the fact that Iran has been ethnically cleansing the Palestinians in Iraq - nor that they found themselves in tents on borders....nor is he too bothered that Nasrallah and his hezb contributed through their participation in the Lebanese army to clean away the Nahr Al-Bared camp in Lebanon. Nor that Amal, the shia party in Lebanon of which the hezb is a pure Iranian offshoot, was busy cleaning the Palestinians camps during the Lebanese "civil war".

I suppose these Palestinians are disposable material for Mash'al and his Hamastani cause.

The Palestinian people (or what is left of them) just like the Iraqis (or what is left of them) are also caught between dual occupations.

Let me qualify that - a dual occupation discourse. The Abbas-Olmert-Rice discourse and the Hamas-Assad-Ahmadinejad discourse.

The Palestinian cause has been HIJACKED by both sets of ZIONISTS.

Some "Palestinians" truly believe that Iran will free them from Israeli occupation.
This must the best line for a comedy - circus show in the unravelling Arab saga.

Yalla, what a pity.

May you rest in Peace ya Arafat. Both managed to kill you.

Conversations with Myself...


I've spent over 4 months researching, reading, listening to videos, cutting news articles, saving links with the aim of getting around to writing a post on the connivance between the Zionists - the Americans and the sectarian Shias of Iraq whose loyalties can be traced to their original mother country - religiously, politically and ideologically - IRAN.

I have over a hundred articles I need to sieve through before I produce that post...Articles dating from the days of Khomeini, his relation with the Western secret services in particular the French and the CIA, the Iranian-Israeli ties during his reign made most evident during the Iran-Iraq war...so from the days of Khomeini until today. You must agree - that is a tall order.

Then I have another hundred articles by Western "academics" and "analysts" (both from the right and the left) articulating the need for the restoration/resititution of "Shia Rights". Of course none bothered explain what these "rights" are. As if the Shias are not Muslims. As if the Shias are something apart/outside of Islam. But I suppose the occupation of IRAQ is a good indicator what these "rights" were/are all about.

In Iraq, the Shias had full rights just like any other sect or ethnicity. I still defy anyone to show me otherwise. And none have been able to, until this very day.

But tonight, this is not going to be the central subject of this post. Tonight, are my very personal thoughts on the subject.

I don't know if you have this habit too, but I keep talking to myself. No, am not crazy, not yet anyways...

And tonight, I will share with you my private thoughts, my conversations with myself...

This is what I talk to myself, about, daily - and don't think am not objective. I even argue with myself - trying to see both sides of the argument. But in the end, I am always back to square one. And the all prevailing thought remains...and will not change however much I argue with me.

So what follows next is the kind of inner conversations I have.

I will never return to Iraq as long as it is ruled by these turbaned shitheads.
I don't want to be ruled by sectarian Shias. I don't want to be ruled by any "Islamic" authority. I don't want to live in a theocracy Iranian style. I could not care less for the smelly Ayatollahs. They represent NOTHING to me. I don't believe in sects to start with. I only found out about my own sect only late in life. And I am not even from one sect nor from one religion nor from one ethnicity. I don't belong to this place anymore.

I have no penchants for cladding myself in thick black curtains. I don't want to have a "muhram" to travel or move about (a religiously accepted male companion),
I hate beards. I can't stand theologians and am allergic to organized religion even though am religious myself in my own way.

I detest Al-Maliki, Al-Hakeem, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Sistani and all those lice ridden, smelly feet from Qum. I could not care less what happened 1'500 years ago with the Imams Al-Hussein and Al-Hassan. I find it totally stupid for people to keep lamenting for centuries - it reminds me of the constant whining of the Jews and their Shoa.

I find head slicing, chest beating, and self-flagellating to be a mental sickness for which there must be some form of treatment and cure. I hate all the hypocrisy and superstition that accompany it. I find no glory in self-inflicted pain unless one is a pathological masochist.

I am also not turned on by the sadism of the sectarian Shias of Baghdad. I don't find their drills exciting, nor do their rape of women, nor their burning them alive. Nor do I find the fact that my cousins can't return because their names are Omar and Aisha -- to be an enticing trait in the "New Iraq."

I find it tiresome to keep hiding one's sect or to be forced to change it to please your local militias so you won't get harassed, beaten, tortured, detained, or insulted...

I don't find Basra an interesting place to be in either. Having my genitals mutilated, or my breasts chopped off or a couple of bullets in my head are not exactly my idea of a tourist attraction. And besides I don't want to speak Farsee nor fill application forms in this language. I am an ARAB and will remain an ARAB. To hell with Iran and its mullahs. I am not going to have anything to do with this repugnant lot.

Are you sure you're talking about Basra? Yes am sure.

God, I can't believe Basra has become that way. I keep wondering what happened to all the people I knew from there. I wonder about Basra and Baghdad. Don't remind me what Baghdad is like now.

OK let's assume I do return, who will give me a job ? All the governmental institutions are run by sectarian Shias. If you're a Shia you get a job, if you're not a Shia don't even consider it. Same applies to educational bodies.

All the females in my family have stopped working. They were either fired or got so harassed, they resigned. All the females in my family are today veiled, forced to veil. They stopped going out, stopped practicing sports, stopped going to the pool, stopped shopping, stopped driving, stopped visiting, stopped partying, stopped playing music, stopped painting...Their lives stopped. They only manage to go to the grocers. Otherwise they are cooped up at home, vegetating in front of the TV if they have electricity that is...I will never be able to live like that. Hell, here I have some freedoms and I consider this lot so backward compared to what Iraq was and to what women in Iraq had...

No, this is not my idea of living my life to the full. This is not my idea of a meaningful contribution to Life and others. Let them have it for themselves. Let them plunder and pillage more. They are all corrupt and I don't want to be polluted by their corruption. I simply can't.

No, I will never return as long as these sons of bitches are ruling Iraq. Just entertaining the idea fills me with both - extreme fear and disgust. I will retun to Iraq when they all fuck off back to Iran or Israel... Yes that's it.

I will only return to Iraq, when the green zone is truly Green again and is no longer a zone. When the whores and the pimps are out, back to England, America or whatever shit hole they came from.

But you love Iraq, you miss home, you miss being there don't you ?

Hell I do, but maybe I need to accept the fact that I don't belong there anymore, not for now. I still belong there but not really belong there anymore. These people I don't recognize anymore. They are not part of me and I am not part of them. Something happened...It's like a cup of porcelain, once it breaks, it's very difficult to glue the pieces again.

So you're no longer an Iraqi ?

Of course I am an Iraqi. But I am not today's Iraq. There is no Iraq anymore. There is an Iraq in my mind, in my memories, in my heart, but today's Iraq is not Iraq. It's the Iranian-American Shiastan of Iraq and the American-Israeli state of Kurdistan.

I don't care for the Kurds anymore either. I stopped speaking to them, even my old friends and some members of the extended family. I have just stopped addressing them. Their true colors showed with this lethal occupation. I never knew they were so chauvinistic, so vindictive. They no longer exist for me. Am coldly polite with them as if I was greeting a total stranger. I actually feel more warmth towards a total stranger than towards them.

My, you are really bitter aren't you?

No, I am not bitter. I am very aggrieved. I am very disillusioned. I am very raw, still. You know the feeling when there is a corpse lying on the ground and wild animals come and tear it apart, rip at its flesh...and the corpse is not dead, it looks dead but it's not, it's still alive...This is not bitterness. I don't know what you call it, but not bitterness. It is beyond any word I can find...

So you want Sunnis to rule ?

Not at all. I want true Iraqis who love this country to rule. And I guess deep down I don't believe there are any true Iraqis left.
They are either dead, in prison or in exile having the same thoughts as I and those who are still there, want to leave and they are too frigthened and too tired from surviving. They have become mute with having experienced so many horrors in such a short span of time. Who wants to return to this agonizing corpse anymore.

You made up your mind ?

Yes I've made up my mind. This is too sad for me. Can we continue this conversation some other time- I need to stop thinking about it.

You keep saying that but you never stop...

Yes you're right, I never stop. But one day I will. I will not need to have such conversations with myself anymore. Let's change subjects. Let's talk about something else - away from Iraq. This subject drains me.

OK. What do you feel like talking about?

I don't know...let me think...

You’re silent again - you have no more subjects to talk about ?

I was just wondering...Who is going to look after all these orphans...




Painting: Iraqi female artist, Betool Fekaiki.