this is a video showing Rumsfeld with the Saddam hussein, only then Saddam wasnt being executed, yet he was also a tyrant back then. funny how things change.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Emotions and Politics
the war on Iraq has proven that emotions are as just as powerful as weapons. looking back at the situation in 2003, the American public was still emotionally disturbed due to the terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York, which helped many people ethically agree that the invasion of Iraq was the sensible thing to do. Taking a look at the Iraqi public, the first reaction raised many eyebrows, as many of the Iraqis were celebrating the American invasion in the streets. No more did they have to be ruled by a tyrant, no more did they have to worry about the wellbeing of their family members and friends, but little did they know, they were in for a troublesome ride.
Iraqis eventually grew tired of the American existence in their country as they knew that having a foreign country interfering in their daily affairs was not the democracy they were looking for. and after the news of the sickening acts that happened in Abu Ghraiib Prison spread out, the insurgents attacks on the U S Army in Iraq grew bigger in number, and a majority of the American public became fed up with their troops staying in Iraq.
A short period of time passed by before the notorious Al-Zarqawi was on the run targeting many of the Iraqi Shia Muslims, and iraqi civilians who shared different believes than himself, and then came the suicide bombings in markets blowing innocent people up. after a while the Iraqi Shias deicded to retaliate and that was the start of the iraqi civil war that still isn't over till today. The civil war made people lose all trust in the insurgents, and in the US troops as well, which drove many Iraqis to miss Saddam's late regime as things could not get any worse.
capturing Saddam was expected to be one on the main break points in Iraqi history, and it was, as he was shown to be captured in a hole, which also drove many of his supporters to turn against him. Then came the famous execution that was accidentally captured on a camera phone in a room which is supposed to be surrounded by high ranked army and government officials, not only did the video show Saddam getting executed, it also showed one of the executors shouting Muqtada Alsader's name, the anti Saddam Shia leader just before Saddam was executed, which brought heat against the Shia, not only in Iraq, but in most of the Arab world, and also made Saddam look like a hero dying for his people, and therefore increasing the hatred towards the current Iraqi Government and somehow justifying the fighting between Sunna and Shia Muslims to go on.
and the latest example was the Sunni and Shia insurgents fighting Alqaeda in Iraq which somehow decreased the hatred thats flowing around between them as they had the same enemy.
Where does it stop??? please share your comments.
Iraqis eventually grew tired of the American existence in their country as they knew that having a foreign country interfering in their daily affairs was not the democracy they were looking for. and after the news of the sickening acts that happened in Abu Ghraiib Prison spread out, the insurgents attacks on the U S Army in Iraq grew bigger in number, and a majority of the American public became fed up with their troops staying in Iraq.
A short period of time passed by before the notorious Al-Zarqawi was on the run targeting many of the Iraqi Shia Muslims, and iraqi civilians who shared different believes than himself, and then came the suicide bombings in markets blowing innocent people up. after a while the Iraqi Shias deicded to retaliate and that was the start of the iraqi civil war that still isn't over till today. The civil war made people lose all trust in the insurgents, and in the US troops as well, which drove many Iraqis to miss Saddam's late regime as things could not get any worse.
capturing Saddam was expected to be one on the main break points in Iraqi history, and it was, as he was shown to be captured in a hole, which also drove many of his supporters to turn against him. Then came the famous execution that was accidentally captured on a camera phone in a room which is supposed to be surrounded by high ranked army and government officials, not only did the video show Saddam getting executed, it also showed one of the executors shouting Muqtada Alsader's name, the anti Saddam Shia leader just before Saddam was executed, which brought heat against the Shia, not only in Iraq, but in most of the Arab world, and also made Saddam look like a hero dying for his people, and therefore increasing the hatred towards the current Iraqi Government and somehow justifying the fighting between Sunna and Shia Muslims to go on.
and the latest example was the Sunni and Shia insurgents fighting Alqaeda in Iraq which somehow decreased the hatred thats flowing around between them as they had the same enemy.
Where does it stop??? please share your comments.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Samy Alhaj
samy alhaj spent the last 6 years of his life in the notorious guantanamo bay prison. with no conviction nor a trial. its the long story of suffering is not just about Sami Alhaj, its about freedom of speech, its about targeting anything that goes against america. Its a media war.
British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith represents Al Hajj, and was able to visit him in 2005. According to Smith Al Hajj reported:He has been beaten. Smith said he had a huge scar on his face.Al Hajj witnessed guards flushing a Koran down a toilet.Al Hajj witnessed guards defacing a Koran with swear words.He has been sexually assaulted.He has been interrogated roughly 130 times.
Smith offered the opinion:
im also going to add a part of a letter written by alhaj from prison to his lawyer:
Dear Klive,
let me tell you about a question thats bothering me. why am i being punished?
the torture continues formonths and years of undeserved torture, and that question keeps haunting my mind, why am i being punished??
i wonder, why am i being punished, did we become like sheep?following orders without questioning them? we are not even allowed to cover our heads and hands when we go to sleep. i ask myself why am i being punished, why cant i even have the simple right of sleeping with a sheet over me instead of sleeping on the hard cold floor?
one night i was sleeping and they woke me up for an investigation, they found 2 pieces of rice on the floor. i was punished for seven days, and the question came to me again, why am i being punished, it because of the rice on the floor? why?
alot of questions run through my mind over and over, where is democracy and those who claim it ?
Sami Mohi eldeen alhaj, Guantanamo bay prison, Cuba.
that really drives me to ask every single time i watch the news, is this the truth?, infact we are so misguided we dont know who to believe anymore. judging by these acts i really fail to see the difference between Saddams late regime, and Bush's current administration. and is democracy just another phrase used in the media war?
please share your thoughts
please share your thoughts
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Media and the war
looking back at the slogans that were made to support the Amercian troops going to war, we see that the media played a big role in the war, just like it was a big part when America was at war with the USSR. Its actually much more clearer than people believe, Terms such as "commies" 20 years ago and linking it directly with people from the russian republic and neighbouring areas, and having the power to
change people's ideas towards these races.
eventually, and now America is at war again, however, with a different region, which is the middle east, and anyone that goes against the United States of America is automatically a "terrorist" by the media, unless that person happens to be a President of a certain country, then the media calls him a "Dictator" or even a "tyrant".
The second gulf war featured a new type of warfare, the battle for the hearts and minds, the media war. While most media coverage is taken from news stations and large media companies which we consider reliable ,due to the current age of media and technology that is accessible to every body, the world is seeing the face of the Iraqi conflict from the so called insurgents eye. Insurgency groups in iraq now feature media teams , the media teams purpose is to show another side of the war, and capture the operations of the insurgents against coalition troops. With power of the internet today and the speed of it, and it being the centre of the new worlds media universe its not hard to release these videos into the world and show another side of the war. The insurgents point of view can be seen all over the internet, in populatr websites like youtube.com with most tv stations labeling these insurgents as terrorists and as fox news is describing settelments in the Lebanese war about the bulidngs of civlians which was taken down by IDF were "collapsing on there own" , some people have decided to hear it from the underdogs point of view,through the net, and popular groups have emerged.
The Islamic army in Iraq, an Iraqi insurgency group currently fighting coalition troops, death squad badr militias and elements of terror groups such as al qeada in Iraq, with aim of expelling all foreign elements from Iraq, have created a certain hero for the Iraqi resistance. Juba the Baghdad sniper, is a soldier in the Islamic armies sniper brigade , who claims to have killed over 600 hundred of the coalition troops, he videos his operations and has made to releases which made him an internet "hero or terrorist" and a celebrity for his viewers world wide. Because of his targerting to coalition troops he is not seen as terrorist by iraqis, however, this takes a different turn when it comes to the americans. his skills, and his videos show over 60 attacks in each. This goes to raise the major question which is about the number of causilties, with so many different brigades around , each having there different realeses of their views on the war , with videos getting realesed daily . There is over 10000 videos featured in the net of humves getting blown up with marines in them featured in a website that is so extreme to the point of having a name like www. Terroristmedia.com , meanwhile the insurgency claims 30000 deaths while the U S claims 4000.
The second gulf war featured a new type of warfare, the battle for the hearts and minds, the media war. While most media coverage is taken from news stations and large media companies which we consider reliable ,due to the current age of media and technology that is accessible to every body, the world is seeing the face of the Iraqi conflict from the so called insurgents eye. Insurgency groups in iraq now feature media teams , the media teams purpose is to show another side of the war, and capture the operations of the insurgents against coalition troops. With power of the internet today and the speed of it, and it being the centre of the new worlds media universe its not hard to release these videos into the world and show another side of the war. The insurgents point of view can be seen all over the internet, in populatr websites like youtube.com with most tv stations labeling these insurgents as terrorists and as fox news is describing settelments in the Lebanese war about the bulidngs of civlians which was taken down by IDF were "collapsing on there own" , some people have decided to hear it from the underdogs point of view,through the net, and popular groups have emerged.
The Islamic army in Iraq, an Iraqi insurgency group currently fighting coalition troops, death squad badr militias and elements of terror groups such as al qeada in Iraq, with aim of expelling all foreign elements from Iraq, have created a certain hero for the Iraqi resistance. Juba the Baghdad sniper, is a soldier in the Islamic armies sniper brigade , who claims to have killed over 600 hundred of the coalition troops, he videos his operations and has made to releases which made him an internet "hero or terrorist" and a celebrity for his viewers world wide. Because of his targerting to coalition troops he is not seen as terrorist by iraqis, however, this takes a different turn when it comes to the americans. his skills, and his videos show over 60 attacks in each. This goes to raise the major question which is about the number of causilties, with so many different brigades around , each having there different realeses of their views on the war , with videos getting realesed daily . There is over 10000 videos featured in the net of humves getting blown up with marines in them featured in a website that is so extreme to the point of having a name like www. Terroristmedia.com , meanwhile the insurgency claims 30000 deaths while the U S claims 4000.
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