Thursday, January 06, 2005

FROM BAD TO WORSE


It seems that we returned back to two years ago, just after Baghdad fall. we have a fuel problem for more than two months and it’s getting worse and worse, it’s affecting everything even the national electricity, which we used to have between 8-12 hours a day. now we have them only for 4 hours a day. we have 2 hours Elect. for every 10 hours off. Just like we used to had it 2 years ago.
We can’t operate the generator that long, not more than 3-4 hours and then we have to give it a rest, beside the fuel is very expensive in the black market. today we bought the 20 litter of fuel for 10000 ID while you could have the same quantity in the petrol station for 400 ID only!! but you have to be so patient that you can stand in the line for 12 hours. Yes, yes, yes, today I think for the length of the line of cars waiting in line it should take more than 12 hours to reach your turn, It’s more than 5 KM long!!!! I think It should be recorded in Gennis book for the record. The operator of our local generator which works on Diesel reduced the working hours because the fuel became very expensive and the owner said it’s tripled than before (two months ago) so he operates it for only 6 hours a day. the problem is not when you stayed with or without elec. the problem is with water you can’t operate the heater on the generator it needs a lot of energy the generator could not give it. the weather is cold and the water is freezing and you have to heat the water for many purposes. many of the house work can’t be done without elect. beside how can you explain that we don’t have elec’ to a 3 years old daughter when she wants to see her favorite cartoon!!.
things are not getting bad only for feul, but also in security. last Friday two hairdresser shops for females were blown up in my street at about 9 pm. nobody was in them but they had bad damage not only to them but also the shops near them. also some male hair dresser shops were exploded in other parts of Baghdad in the past days and they said the terrorist told them that they were doing some feminine things in their shops, not only cutting hairs. now I don’t know why they exploded the female shops. maybe they want us not to cut our hair and look like men!!!!!. I still don’t understand how these terrorists could escape while there are two police cars standing at each end of our street?. those criminals are acting just the way they like, every one hate anyone can go and kill him or blow up his house or shop. Now I don’t trust my government what did they do to us till now? NOTHING and the terrorists seem like they are getting control of the situation very well and not getting weak at all as we heard on TV, It’s all lies. I don’t know what they have done in Falluja beside of damaging the city.
In Mosul it’s getting worse also. two days ago there was a battle near my sister’s house for four hours. my sister said that her mother in law went to bring my sister’s daughter from school which is near to their house, and on her way back home a battle started in the middle of the day, near their school. Her mother in law and my niece were so terrified they couldn’t escape and the bullets were around them, all the houses near them were closed and nobody could open the door to them. they sat near a fence, till a small man in shop which was almost closed opened a little and a man shouted to them to come to his shop. the man was inside the shop hiding when he saw them sitting and my 6 years old niece were crying. some children could escape and came to the shop and the man closed it’s door. They stayed there for 3 hours. the children were so terrified and they were all crying. my sister’s father in law could not return to his house because all the area was closed, another strange man asked him if he lives in that area and could not enter it, when he answered yes, he invited him to his house and he was strange to him and he stayed there for 3 hours where they even served him lunch.
The terrorists as my sister said escaped. she wished they were caught, they were in two cars but they ran away.
I wonder what those gangs want from us, they only hurt us and I don’t think by bombing few shops or fuel pipes the Americans would leave us, there must be something else in their minds, if they have any.
I heard that the suicide bomber who exploded himself in the American camp in Mousil was not Iraqi, he was a medical student, from Saudi Arabia, studying in the capital of Suddan. I don’t think we have Iraqis suicide bombers it’s not our way and it has never been. All the major operations were made by terrorists who came from outside the country.

killing our police, our guards, destroying our infrastructure. They all made by those terriosts. maybe we have some of our ex-regime helping them in information. I don’t know how someone have all this hate against his own people. But still things are getting worse and I still don’t think that the elections will make any difference if they were held in time, and I still want the election to be postponed till the government could handle the situation in Baghdad and Mosul. Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq and they can’t neglected it in the elections. I asked all my family, relatives, friends if they will vote in the coming elections. all their answers were they wished very much but with these situation they could not. one of my relatives said he is not only afraid from bombing the centers of elections but he is afraid if someone sees him and knows his name or other information, he might hurt him or his family later on. The terrorists are threatening any person who will vote, that he might get killed.
So is it getting from BAD to WORSE or not?





12 Comments:

Blogger The Queen said...

They should have mail in ballots. The very WORST thing that you can do is allow these terrorists to win. I think that every Iraqi person needs to open their eyes and look around them. You need to take notice of people's behaviors and report anything that is out of the ordinary. There should be ways to do this anonymously for those of you that do not trust anyone. It is up to you ordinary Iraqi citizens to get the terrorists out. Make it clear that you do not need them to help you rebuild your country. They are delusional thinking that they are doing anything to benefit you. This war could have been over a long time go if it wasn't for them.

2:39 PM  
Blogger Dancewater said...

Rose, I am so sorry for the terrible conditions you are living under. I wish there was something I could do to help, but I can't think of anything. You, and all Iraqis are in my thoughts and prayers.

Lynn - if the US military cannot control the insurgents, what can ordinary Iraqis possibly do? Get a grip, please.

7:50 PM  
Blogger The Queen said...

John, you say "Surely it is the responsibility of the people who conquered the country to now make it secure?"
You are wrong there. It is the responsibility of the Iraqis to secure their country. It is not the Iraqis that are committing these terrorist crimes. It is the foreigners that want to install an islamic regime in that country that are doing these things. They are not killing innocent people for a love for the Iraqi people. They are sacrificing these innocent lives to wear the people down and instill so much fear that the only thing that they think will save them is a hardline islamic government.
You say,"the US troops are holed up in forts and shoot at you if you go near their patrols." Is that true Rose? I don't think so. I do believe that people could be afraid to walk up to any troops in case they are seen by an insurgent that could even be their neighbor. I don't think the anonymous tips would be anything like Saddam's regime.
So, John, do you really think that the best thing would be for the coalition to just pack up and leave? I'd be all for that myself but then what would happen? Do you think that things would get magically improve?

7:53 PM  
Blogger Zipcard2 said...

Rose, May peace be with you and your daughter whatever you decide to do. No one will judge you because no one is in your shoes. Out of all these people commenting on your blog, YOU are the only one who knows what the true everyday Iraqi is like, you say they aren't and never have been suicide bombers and I tend to believe you. You certainly are the expert in this forum! People seem to forget others coming from outside the country doing these dispicable acts.
Take the advice for what it is worth and know our prayers are with you. Do what is in your heart, whatever that ends up being. Take Care Of Yourselves!!

8:20 PM  
Blogger The Queen said...

Rose,
I wish to God that you and your family did not have to be going through this right now. It all seems so ridiculous in this so called "civilized" age. I wonder if any of these fighters stopped for just a minute after the news of the tsunami and it's devastation and thought about what is really important. Not power, not money but LIFE!
This discussion of whether or not you should get out to vote reminds me of the civil rights movement in this country. The south was a terrible place to be if you were a "colored" person. They stood up and demanded their rights and that took a lot of bravery. They did not necessarily know who their enemies were (KKK wore cloaks). Not every white person was evil, many many were helping them in their struggle. The whites who helped them were putting their lives and the lives of their families in danger as well. Registering to vote was a serious danger to live and limb. The thing is though Rose, they knew that if they didn't do it their lives could not ever get better. Their lives did not magically improve the day after the elections but it was worth it in the long run and these people are heroes to their decendents. You need some heroes in Iraq.
Peace, and be safe Rose

8:30 AM  
Blogger Mister Ghost said...

Rose,
You and your fellow Sunnis can't give in to cowardice.
GET OUT AND VOTE!Here's a 9/28/04 NY TIMES Op Ed from David Brooks
that shows what Salvadorans faced, a much worse situation than Iraq, but they exhibited courage and went to the polls. . .

Conditions were horrible when Salvadorans went to the polls on March 28, 1982. The country was in the midst of a civil war that would take 75,000 lives. An insurgent army controlled about a third of the nation's territory. Just before election day, the insurgents stepped up their terror campaign. They attacked the National Palace, staged highway assaults that cut the nation in two and blew up schools that were to be polling places.

Yet voters came out in the hundreds of thousands. In some towns, they had to duck beneath sniper fire to get to the polls. In San Salvador, a bomb went off near a line of people waiting outside a polling station. The people scattered, then the line reformed. "This nation may be falling apart," one voter told The Christian Science Monitor, "but by voting we may help to hold it together."

Conditions were scarcely better in 1984, when Salvadorans got to vote again. Nearly a fifth of the municipalities were not able to participate in the elections because they were under guerrilla control. The insurgents mined the roads to cut off bus service to 40 percent of the country. Twenty bombs were planted around the town of San Miguel. Once again, people voted with the sound of howitzers in the background.

Yet these elections proved how resilient democracy is, how even in the most chaotic circumstances, meaningful elections can be held.

They produced a National Assembly, and a president, José Napoleón Duarte. They gave the decent majority a chance to display their own courage and dignity. War, tyranny and occupation sap dignity, but voting restores it.

The elections achieved something else: They undermined the insurgency. El Salvador wasn't transformed overnight. But with each succeeding election into the early 90's, the rebels on the left and the death squads on the right grew weaker, and finally peace was achieved, and the entire hemisphere felt the effects.

1:04 PM  
Blogger Papa Ray said...

Greetings, health and happiness and safety to you and yours.

But, my wishes or nine hundred and ninety nine billion good wishes, won't do you any good, not one drop of good.

The same goes for advice and for reasons or excuses or predictions or any other form of verbage, words or discussions.

THIS IS A WAR, A WAR THAT WILL BE WON, IN ONE YEAR, TEN YEARS, A HUNDRED YEARS. ONE SIDE WILL WIN, ONE SIDE WILL LOSE. THE INNOCENTS INBETWEEN WILL DIE, BE WOUNDED, LOSE THEIR HOMES AND THEIR COMMERCE.

I can tell you that is just the way war is. Does that make it any better for those involved? I can tell everyone not involved, that their words and feelings are just wasted, does that make you feel any worse?

Everyone just wants no war and everything to be back to some kind of normal. Well, guess what, that is not going to happen until thousands, or even millions are dead and the blood runs like the oceans.

Why, because this is the continuation of a war that is two thousand years old. Islamic/Arab/Muslim/Persian extreamists and others are determined to wipe out anyone that does not prescribe and practice their brand of beliefs, religion and culture.

They have been beat back and down, many times in the past. Read your history of the Middle East and of Europe. This time they have the backing, the money and the raw recruits that they have been teaching to hate everything not theirs and anyone not with them for at least the last forty years. They have been training them and preparing them almost as long.

Should we all just dispair and give up? No, we can not, we can not because if we do, they win.

Believe me, you don't want that to happen.

This is my post

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA

5:39 PM  
Blogger Pat in NC said...

Rose, may God grant you wisdom as you make your choice in how you will respond to my elections. I do understand that Sunnis are candidates in many of the parties running for election. Many good Iraqis will vote and many good Iraqis will stay home and tend to their families. May God bless all good Iraqis and may the elections provide wise and good leaders.

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