Happy New Year, a statement every body around the world wish to say to his friends, relatives, and neighbors. They welcome the New Year and say goodbye to the old year. They exchange this statement of greeting with joy, happiness and may kiss each other. It is a universal tradition, almost every where except in my country.
This year, the day 31 December 2005 is a tragedy (as any other day). We say good by to 2005 and welcome to 2006 with the sound of bullets and fire exchange (not the type of fire people used to use here to express their happiness in some occasions as marriage). But it is toward each other.
You have the right to say, “oh ... look ... how ignorant and uncivilized people are there in Iraq”
But the reality is that the ignorant and the uncivilized people, which make up a considerable portion of the population, do not share this conflict.
Those who shared it are the people most concerned with the future of the country (from both sides). Each according to his own viewpoint is fighting to protect the sovereignty of Iraq, as he understands it.
The pro occupation forces (The Iraqi army, the policemen, the ING, the peshmerga and the armed militias of the ruling parties) together with the US troops from one side, and the anti occupation fighters (the insurgents and the resistance) from the other side.
On the other hand there are other groups which take advantages from the unstable situation and take a great share in the chaos and those are ; the thugs and the gangsters who kidnapped people for ransom, their sole goal is to collect money, they found the chaos as a good medium for their crimes, and as far as there is no power of law, they will continue to grow and increas in number as the poverty and the rises of prices and the jobless people are increasing.
Another group which may have the greatest inflict on the situation, is the Terrorists.
The terrorists are working for political reasons, which is most of the times not in the benefit of our country. Those are usually non-Iraqis, they come here because they know that a strong and free Iraq is dangerous to them. Those are who killed innocent people, exploded mosques, schools and market places, their real target is to plant fear and terror in the country to protect their own benefit.
We are looking forward to peaceful Iraq, where we can share others their happiness and live the life we want without supervision from other in a free and sovereign Iraq.
Happy New Year. To all of you.
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your comments make me feel so sad...It sounds so hopeless...yet I'm sure there are plenty of smart, clear thinking people there who could solve all this if they were given the chance. In the begining (18th century) the U.S. had people like that as leaders..I'm sure every countyr has such people..but how to put them in charge seems to escape my mind. Both Iraq and the U.S. need them.
SAFE New year!!
Happy new year to you too! I hope you and your family have a safe and pleasant 2006.
While 2005 was not great, a look at your daughters' posts from late 2004 suggests 2005 was at least better than 2004. I sincerely hope this trend continues and that 2006 is better than 2005, and 2007 is better than 2006, and so on, so that you will eventually get to the stable and prosperous Iraq that you dream of.
Happy new year!
Salaam TT
The situation in Iraq is desperate at the moment. Insha' Allah it will become a free and strong country.
Stay Safe you and your family.
May the New Year bring more stability to Iraq so that all of the Iraqi people of good will have peace. May good leaders emerge and provide the government that truly is responsive to it's people.
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Thank you my friends.
Your comments give me pleasure.
Wish happy 2006 to all of you.
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