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This young Iraqi girl was killed in Baqouba 60 km (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad during a fight between militias on Saturday night April 22nd, 2006.
As you read headlines in which George Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Jack Straw, welcome the the nomination of Jawad al-Maliki as Iraq’s prime minister designate you need to remember something. Remember […]

I have enormous respect for Susan/Dancewater. I first “met” her at Abbas Kadhim’s blog “Abbas Kadhim *Calling It Like It Is* .” While I would sometimes disagree with her I have huge respect for her integrity, compassion, love of her country, and courtesy in debate.
She’s been doing a magnificent job at “Today in Iraq” so […]

(But some are more equal than others.)
markfromireland
Update:
Young Officers Join the Debate Over Rumsfeld
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“An Iraqi man carries his son on his shoulders as he leaves weekly Friday noon prayers at the holy shrine of Imam Musa al-Kazem in Baghdad.”
(AFP Caption)
They both seem to be enjoying themselves. From the expression on his face the little boy is having a great time. When I was researching this post I came […]

These children are, that’s a garbage dump, - they’re looking for food.
What are you cooking for your children tonight?
Are your children the same age as these?
How would you feel if your children had to do this to eat?
If your children had to do this to eat would you be surprised if they turned to crime?
If […]

These three children were photographed today Thursday at the funeral of a man who was found shot dead yesterday night in Baghdad. As you can see somebody is trying to comfort them. Click the graphic if you wish to see the full size photo. Do they look comforted to you? They do not look […]

pete tx:
What’s the reason for the two beheadings?
Pete,
I don’t believe those reports.
But listen carefully to what I’m not saying:
I’m not saying that it’s not possible. I’m not saying that those determined to break up the country so they could go their own way wouldn’t do such a thing. I’m not saying that to […]

In which her divine serpentinity explains the upper reaches of what passes for thought amongst the American extreme right (and then has to take a lie-down to recover.)
Go read, not having ichor in my veins I’ll be busy spending the rest of the day in the vomitorium, third door on the left follow the […]

The naked colonialist arrogance of this disgraceful article posted on Firedoglake by “Democrat Taylor Marsh” put me in such a bad temper that I left. Here’s her concluding paragraph in which the memsahib delivers her instructions to the brown people:
” “A few days” wait to form an Iraqi government is not good enough. Someone needs […]

Today there was a bomb explosion in a cafe/restaurant in Al-Suleikh in Eastern Baghdad. AP are saying that the coffee shop was frequented by police. I rather doubt that. In that particular part of Baghdad the police are far from popular. As this from a resident helping to search for bodies in the wreckage shows:
“Labourers […]

25:40. And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
(Et respondens rex dicet illis amen dico vobis quamdiu fecistis uni de his fratribus meis minimis mihi fecistis)

markfromireland
Good Friday 2006
Indexed under: Christianity, Et respondens rex dicet illis

This child like all the other millions of Iraqi children has been caught up in war. For the third time in twenty years Iraqi children are suffering war. Conditions for children in Iraq, already bad, are deteriorating sharply. Even before the invasion led by America, the American domination of occupied Iraq, and now the American […]