Walk Like A Mesapotamian -

Walk Like A Mesapotamian - Iraqi blogger the Mesopotamian observes about the pro-dictatorship "anti-war" Anti-Bush protests in London:

"All you peace lovers and humanitarians of trendy London town, spare a thought or two for the coalition soldier out there in the dark and wilderness guarding our hospitals, primary schools and orphanages from the bombers and assassins, and the Iraqi Police reporting everyday for duty under constant danger of death and mutilation with their poor equipment and meager $50 or so a month pay package. They number almost 100 000 by now and if enlistment is really opened up they would quadruple in number immediately. Why do you think they come? Saddamists pay anybody ten thousand dollars per explosion, and they are going around trying to recruit, and this is a fact that all people in Baghdad know. So why do they come, you think? But only those who have eyes can see, and ears can hear. Why do you think the crackle of celebratory gunfire ululated till dawn, on that sultry Baghdad summer night when the death of Uday and Qusay the monster brats of the tyrant was announced? This, the media did not dwell upon, although quite newsworthy and dramatic. That was the real Opinion Poll of the vast majority of the inhabitants of Baghdad. (P.S. I hope the word ululate exists in the English language, it means the sound that our women make in celebrations of marriages or when welcoming heroes and the like, if it doesn’t please add it to your dictionary)"

He seems to have things in perspective:

But enough of this and to cut a long story short. As long as America and her allies choose the side of the oppressed and downtrodden, as long as they remain on the side of the people, they will be invincible. When Might is coupled with Right, then expect great historical transformations.

I once worked with a Ukrainian gentleman. When we got around to talking politics (and with this man, it was unavoidable), we got around to discussing Reagan. My only problem, as far as he was concerned, was that I (I!) didn't admire Ronald Reagan enough! He had been on the east side of the Berlin Wall until it fell, and told me of the regard in which Reagan was held in the former Eastern Bloc - a popularity some say is reflected by that region's support for the liberation of Iraq.

So will Bush be regarded the same way in Iraq - at least, Shi'a Iraq? Well, he's got Mesapotamian sold:

Here below I paste parts of the speech by that Great descendant of the ancient Celt, who everyday grows bigger and bigger in the eyes of this poor Iraqi “Ordinary Man”. Note the parts in bold.

Read the...well, you know the drill.

Posted by Mitch at November 21, 2003 06:01 AM