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©Rafa Nasiri

Painting By Iraqi Artist, Rafa Nasiri.

I cannot sleep. My seething anger keeps my eyes wide open.

But you are sleeping safely in your home, holding your partner or your child and you know in all probability that you will awake tomorrow. And tomorrow, you will open your eyes, step into your bathroom and you will find running water. You will fix yourself a coffee and you will find electricity, you will open your kitchen cupboard and you will find food.

Then you will get dressed, and you have clothes for winter and if you catch the flu, you can always call up your doctor or run to a hospital. Hey, you can even take flowers to your beloved ones if they happen to fall ill, or just check to make sure that the surgery of Uncle Tom was successful. Oh yes, you can afford to do so.

Then you will get into your car, drive merrily or maybe not so merrily to your work place, or go shopping worrying about what to cook for your sweet family, or meet with your friends for a morning cup and rant neurotically about how miserable your life is.

Your day is probably filled with things to do. Most likely you have a job and you know you have an income at the end of the month. And you can give yourself the luxury of planning for your future.

You plan everything don't you? What you will be getting for your kids at Christmas, how many parties you have booked on your agenda, your next vacation trip, your one year plan, your five year plan, when your government will be invading another country. You are in fact a great planner.

If you have kids, then you know they are getting an education. You can buy them pads, pencils, drawing books, toys and even take them for a stroll in a park free from Depleted Uranium and you can fly kites and raise your eyes to the sky and not see fire jets hovering above your little head. You can do that. I know you can.

And if you are walking about, you know that no bomb or bullet is going to blow you or blow your loved ones away. You will neither be kidnapped nor abducted never to be seen again.

You feel queasy at the sight of blood. Yes I know that. Even the blood you watch on your TV screen when you get back home safely in the evenings is censored so as not to disturb your sensitivities. You don't see limbs, bowels, and brains blown away, you are really cared for and so protected. And if per chance you come across such scenes, you conveniently zap or ask your kids to run upstairs. You don't want them traumatized. Yes violence is bad for you.

It disturbs your peace of mind. I really sympathize.

And when Saturday or Sunday comes, you go to your worship place, and praise the Lord for being born in the greatest country ever. Yes I know you enjoy your rights and freedoms.

During weekends, you can take time for your leisure, tend your garden, go to a gym, invite your friends, barbecue, go dancing, party. You can have fun. But of course, it is natural, it is written in your constitution "the pursuit of happiness" is just for you, and only for you. I don't need to remind you. You already know it by heart.

And when you are with your friends you can be so very interesting. You can tell them how fucked up the world is, how people can't get along. You will point your finger in our direction and hold us as an example. Oh yes, you know so much. Your press told you all about it.

And when you are done with all of the above, you will go back to sleep in your cozy bed, switch the lights off and snore in total oblivion. All the way to that state you are so familiar with, all the way back into your usual comatose indifferent self.

And we are still here, counting the minutes, the seconds and hoping we will taste life again. A life we had before you and your ilk took it all away.

Part II

Warning : This sequel to Part I may contain strong language that may offend some of the readers. To those, I say: Skip it.

To whom it may Concern

So, you are stuck in a quagmire huh?

No shit Sherlock. What did you expect then?

Did you expect a cake walk or did you think you will be tanning your ass in Baghdad like you do when you go on your yearly Caribbean vacation?

Yeah I know, you managed to have a little fun raping "Eye-Raqis" from little girls, to boys, to women and men.

And I also know that a good deal of you managed to pocket a few hefty bundles of dollars.

Some through dubious contracts and some through sheer theft. Stealing the palaces, the houses and even the huts. Don't ever think anything goes unreported.

Or maybe you thought that you can walk into our holy places with your filthy boots, spit and piss on our holy book and kill our preachers and worshippers when in prostration at dawn and we will just stand there and turn the other cheek?

Or maybe you thought we will give you candies and roses or better still make a statue in your honor, a statue dedicated to Freedom and Democracy?

Tell you what, I will show you my gratitude. I want to offer you a statue, a homage for your valiant acts. I want to edify it in your name and in the name of your founding fathers, and in the name of your Mafia ancestors. Yes I will dedicate this work to you. It will be made of skulls and bones, painted in blood and feces.

Yes you read me right. The skulls and bones that you left in every single street you visited, the blood of innocents that you spilled and the feces in which you drowned the faces of your "detainees". And I will crown that beautiful statue of your acts with the genitals you hacked off. Remember those? I do.

It will be an art work of phallic proportions dedicated to your virility and courage. A farewell token.

You don't like this language? I will try another.

I will not be like this poor illiterate peasant who screams when he sees his family killed by one of your smart missiles and his tiny house destroyed :

"I don't want democracy, I want to live, your democracy is killing me".

No I will not do that. I will be civilized, I promise you.

I will be the nice "Ayrab" girl now. I will bow down to you and be very graceful. I will even put on my best show of tears and touch your heart with my pleas, so you can finally feel safe to look at me or hear me.

You like it when am so servile don't you?

I will wear my best pair of satin gloves and use your other dialect. The dialect of the oppressed begging. This will make you feel like the Master and I know, you just love that high. The high of your grandiose arrogance.

I will say to you : Please understand, we are a backward "12th century tribal people", who are not used to democracy.

"We don't dig it". We are a tribal insane religious lot that thrives on "blowing themselves up". Your presence is just exacerbating this horrible trait in us. "We don't understand ballot boxes and votes, these are disgusting words"* for us and as a woman I can't even address you but behind a veil because gender equality is not something I am used to. Please leave us in our backwardness and pack your bags and go.

Does this ring better for you? No? Ok. Let me use a simplified version.

If neither dialect is comprehensible to you :The dialect of violence which you are so proficient at nor the Dialect of slavery that you just relish, then let me use plain English maybe you will finally understand :

Fuck off - Right back to where you came from.

*(Sentences heard on Mike Malloy Radio Show to "sensitize" the American Public /5.12.06)

Part III

Warning to readers: I frankly don't give a damn, but just to let you know that the following sequel to Part I & II contains profanities. And if you are expecting a lady like response from me vis a vis the events, forget it and move on to another blog that will manage your sensitivities.

Let me ask you something.

For fuck's sake, what have WE done to You?

Yes We - the Iraqi people. What crimes have we committed against you?

You : United dickheads of America, Great shitty Britain, neurotic paranoid Israel and self flagellating Iran.

Answer Me now. I demand a reply now !

Is it not enough that for over three decades we lived under One party Dictatorship?

Is it not enough that we lost over 500'000 of our young fine men during the Iraq-Iran War - fighting some crazy mullahs who want to "liberate" the peninsula with their fossilized ideologies?

Is it not enough that we were bombed senseless during Gulf War I and lost more thousands?

Is it not enough that we had to live under a draconian, savage embargo that no people in history had known and lost over another million people in the process? Half of which were Babies - babies you fucking bastards. Babies left to die in squalid conditions, tummies bloated by hunger and disease.

Is it not enough that we still have to live with depleted Uranium that has wrecked havoc in our bodies and riddled us with cancer. And you know damn well that this poison will be staying in our land for centuries.

Is it not enough that we had to sell our furniture, books, clothes and some even sold their kidneys for God's sake, during the sanction years, so families can survive.

Is it not enough that men with doctorates worked as taxi drivers, rubbish collectors and porters in neighboring countries?

Is it not enough that mothers had to prostitute themselves to feed their kids?

Is it not enough for you?

No you wanted more - more more more...

Like a bottomless pit. Like a beast with a hole in his gut that no amount of anything will fill.

So what did you do? You went ahead and took some more.

Gulf War II - This was no fucking war. This was an INVASION, and an OCCUPATION.

And you bombed some more, bombed away until oblivion. 700 fucking tons of bombs fell on our heads in operation Freedom, Liberation, Democracy...or whatever lie you used.

(you know, I have become so sick of these words, every time I hear them I want to throw up right in your face.)

And then you rolled in. Smelly Brits in the South, filthy Americans in the center whilst those other bastards from Iran were guiding you to the right spots and the other bastards the Kurds made the North cozy for you.

So you pillaged. Oil wells, museums, libraries, artifacts, palaces, homes, huts, anything you can grab.

Was that not enough? Oh no it was not.

You had to have some more....

So you destroyed-buildings, schools, universities, orphanages, hospitals, shops, houses, fields, villages, cities, towns.

And that was not enough.

So you shot left right and center, being wired to hate with zeal.

You know that feeling of zeal, that red hot hatred that runs in your veins. You know it all too well.

That burning contempt that loves to humiliate first then murder. The rush of getting them all. You know what am talking about you filthy bastards. You know.

So you trained mercenaries, snipers, contractors, militias, death squads, spies and you paid them with our blood money.

And that was not enough for you just to kill mercilessly. No it was not.

You first had to humiliate and insult - sand-nigger, towel-head, rag-head, desert scum, muslim mother fuckers, Iraqis sons of bitches, Arab sons of whores -cursing and wishing hell, cursing and threatening Death.

And still that is not enough for you.

So you had to do more. Imprison- prisons and camps all over. Hundreds, thousands, with no food, with no medical care, crammed together, pissing and defecating on themselves, tied up like animals, hooded, squatting in vomit, in urine, in feces for days, for weeks for months, for years in the burning sun, in the bitter cold and still there waiting for your final say.

And that is still not enough.

So you decided to Torture- bricks, sticks, canes, brooms, drills, sledgehammers, ropes, whips, electrical wires, razors, spikes, rods, iron bars... and only the Devil knows what else you came up with...

Were you satisfied? Oh no.

More, more, more cried the Beast inside of you.

So you raped - rape Abeer, rape in Abu Ghraib, rape Saddam, rape boys, rape men, rape girls, rape women, rape history, rape monuments, rape sacred places, rape the earth, rape the sky, rape the rivers...

Enough? Oh no- You did not reach that place where the thrill titillates you fully.

So you murder, slaughter, kill in cold blood, with acute precision -Abeer, Mahmoudiah, Haditha, Ramadi, Al Qaem, Basrah, Fallujah, Baghdad, Mosul, Tikrit...Saddam.

You left nothing and no one. Well over 800'000 dead and 100 a day sacrificed in your satanic ritual.

And is that enough? Oh no. You have to have more. That climax has not reached you yet.

So you burn, you mutilate, you spit, you kick, you thump, you piss, you curse...The Dead.

And is that enough for you? Still not.

So you continue and persevere. More more more..... hypnotized by Cruelty, enthralled by Viciousness, entranced by Blood, enraptured by Savagery, mesmerized by Death, gripped by Demons...

More, more, more.

And in the dumps, the swamps, the garbage that has piled up for years, amidst the smell of decomposing bodies, rotten flesh, limbs torn apart, sniffing stray dogs, little Iraqi children who probably escaped after some gory rape scene, with a red rash around their mouths or waiting to be given away or sold to anyone willing to buy them - scavenge for morsels to eat.

And it will never be enough for You.

Part IV

This unending sequel to I, II & III contains foul language. You don't like it? Tough!

I have been way too polite with you lot so far - Enough is enough.

I read that the criminal you voted for not once but twice and don't give me this crap about your rigged elections - this is your screwed democracy and this is not my problem and you voted TWICE for a bastard, criminal, thug, so shut up and don't you interrupt because I have heaps to tell you...

So this bastard of yours wants 3 trillion dollars for his war efforts in Iraq.

Four years down the line and your fucked up country with its equally fucked up military has not managed to control and seize a country the size of California.

You can stuff your flags right where the sun does not shine for starters.

Three trillion dollars to kill more innocent, poor people who have done absolutely nothing to you. Nor they nor their President Saddam Hussein nor his government.

And don't you give me the crap about your upholding a dictator.

For us he was a saint not a dictator and when you could not get him through years and years of inflicting misery and starvation through your smart criminal sanctions, you got us and him with your filthy smart bombs...And tell that shitty anti-war "liberal" "progressive" reps of yours that you did not uphold him in power, the people of Iraq did, by hook or by crook...and however much you hate it.

So get off your high sham pedestals for you are nothing and deserve nothing but the utmost contempt and get that truth right into your thick little skulls, skulls numbed with drugs, junk food, violence and trashy soap operas and of course...dollars.

Those same dollars that you will be spending on killing us some more.

A study, and only a fucked up country like yours would produce such a study, estimated that the cost of killing one single Iraqi is 2.40 Dollars.

This is what our lives are worth in your filthy calculating minds and in your shameless eyes.

So three trillion dollars divided by 2.40 and you would be finishing us all off.

This is what you are - a people who get high on blood and murder.

You make money out of killing in reality and in films and that is the only thing you can produce.

Just look at your disgusting hollywood and your cocaine addict stars, that is all you know in life and that is all that life will dish out to you.

The same way you have treated others, you will be treated. I can assure you that. Nothing goes unaccounted for in this life or in the one after, even though you have no one above auditing you but there is One that will not miss a single act. This is my promise to you.

Getting back to dollars, your green lord.

What happened to the 12 billion dollars you stole? And they were not 12 billion they were over 20 billion dollars that you stole from Iraq and the plan was to use this sum for "our liberation."

Twenty billion dollars that we got in exchange for "oil for food."

Just look at this sentence alone - "Oil for food program."

What a despicable sentence coming from a despicable people. This sentence is what describes you best. It encapsulates everything you stand for... ugly, ugly lot.

You give us your oil and we will give you food. And the message behind it, we will just feed you with your own oil. Just feed you, like you feed your pets but then you took us on a leash too like dogs (remember Abu Ghraib - you sons of bitches) but I am reserving as special treat for you on that subject, later.

I will not leave anything out, you can trust me on this one.

Liberating us with our money and our own blood. What a hideous lot you are. Sickening, truly sickening. I can't even begin to tell you how much I despise you. You rolled into Iraq with your crusading motto of Infinite Justice and my motto for you is Infinite Contempt. And you deserve nothing else. Nothing else at all.

And I don't want to read any of your patronizing, condescending comments about how I should show you compassion. Fuck that.

Again, this is what your arrogance is all about. You ask the victim to show the perpetrator compassion and you come and say lamely, "I am sorry for what my country did to yours."

Sorry, you are sorry?

You have destroyed us, you have destroyed our homes, our families, our livelihood, you have destroyed our country for ever, for generations to come and you say you are sorry and be expected to be off the hook that easily?

You think you assuaged your guilt for 3 seconds? Is that it?

You raped and killed a whole people for no reason at all and you are sorry?

Fuck you and fuck your "am sorry". I don't want your sorry faces and sentences.

I want my loved ones back. I want my relatives who are rotting in your camps and being tortured back, I want Omar back, I want little Hassan back, I want Nabil back, I want my home back, I want Iraq's wealth and treasures back...I want JUSTICE.

And the 3 million Iraqis dead that you killed and their relatives want Justice and the 3.7 million displaced because of you, want Justice.... You are sorry my ass.

I know how you lot live. If someone dents your car or takes one extra penny from you or you burn your lips on some crappy cup of instant coffee, you whine that your rights have been usurped and you sue and make millions. But then you go with impunity and unscrupulously steal other people's wealth and livelihood, strip them of their rights, rape them, massacre them and you install puppets who are in your own image, as filthy and as corrupt as you are. And you have the audacity to say you are the greatest nation on earth?

These 20 billion dollars that your administration stole and which are unaccounted for were the livelihood of millions of people, their rationing to eat and survive thanks to your oil for food program against the Tyrant.

The Tyrant? Who is the Tyrant here you sons of whores, who exactly is the Tyrant?

Your heinous "left" along with your equally heinous "right" moan:

" oh he gassed his people" and what did you do? You burned us alive.

"Oh he displaced his people" and what did you do? Conduct mass genocide and mass exodus.

"Oh he did not respect minorities" and what did you do? "Clean out" the whole of Iraq along sectarian lines and kill all minorities by starving them, bombing them, raping them....

And you have the audacity to keep pointing the finger at a dead man.

A tyrant huh? what hypocritical sons of bitches you are.

You are the tyrants, your minds are tyrannical, your minds are terroristic, your minds are psychopathic, your minds are sadistic. Your are the tyrants indeed. Tyranny runs in your veins along with your arrogance and ignorance.

You are one hell of a sick nation, that feeds onto others like some parasite.

6 % of the world population that feeds on over 40 % of the world resources.

Ignorant, apathetic, obese, spoiled, indifferent, arrogant, stupid, shallow, hollow, violent, neurotic, sadistic, perverted, superficial, ugly, evil lot.

You starved, killed, maimed, raped, traumatized a whole people, a whole nation with roots that dates thousands of years compared to your limited history of not more than 200 years, 200 years of a society made of smelly drunk white cowboys, slave traders and ex convicts. Yes this is what you are.

And for what? So you can continue being the apathetic, shallow, hollow, obese, psychopathic, ignorant, indifferent, arrogant, stupid, superficial, sadistic, perverted, violent, neurotic, ugly, evil lot that you are.

This is your curse. Enjoy it.

There is not one people you have come across that you have not destroyed or forced to liken you in character or behavior.

You destroyed the Native Americans, these noble people who have more wisdom than all of your race put together.

You destroyed the Africans whom you brought to your country chained and starved.

You destroyed the Asians whom you nuked senselessly and napalmed and more examples abound through history and they have not ceased...

They have not ceased because you have not changed. You have remained the uncivilized, primitive, uncultured, arrogant, haughty, greedy, covetous, gluttonous, people that you have always been. This is why it has not ceased.

It is not about oil. You love barking like rabid dogs and blaming the "neo-cons".

You keep using that word like a moronic parrot. The neo-cons are part and parcel of you. The neo-cons are a product of who you are, of your fabric, of your psyche, of your society to which you have blindly contributed like sheep.

Stop blaming your neo-cons and start looking at yourselves because this is where it all began.... Right inside of you. Yes you.

Getting back to dollars. When Baghdad was occupied forcefully, when Baghdad was penetrated violently, when you have raped Baghdad and the rest of Iraq, your government for which you voted twice, set up a so called CPA-a coalition provisional authority.

Many gangsters came to the Green Zone representing you and your CPA and you hired thieves like yourselves from the "locals" and you trained them in the art of perfection.

In the art of perfect stealing, raping and murdering...

Back in 2003, 364 million dollars in cash were found. Part of Iraq's wealth.

A special aircraft transported these 364 million dollars to New York to be "counted".

Someone I know very well asked, following a press interview, one of your CPA representatives who was in charge of "reconstruction projects" and who was an ex salsa dance teacher before he joined your "respectable" government of criminals. He asked him what happened to the 364 million dollars in cash. Your salsa teacher smiled and replied "It is still being counted." My friend pressed more and said "It's been 6 months!", the salsa thug's face grew stern and said: "You don't ask questions, you should be grateful." And it was our money, Iraqi money.

Well I ask questions and am not grateful you mother fuckers. I want to know where Iraq's money went? I want to know who took it and I want all of you criminals tried for theft, embezzlement, rape, slaughter, destruction and mass genocide...

Yes this is what I eagerly want, this is what I yearn for, what I long for...

I want to see you all, the lowly USA, convicted and shamed in this life and in the hereafter for crimes against humanity, crimes you have conducted since your inception till this very day...That is my ardent desire.

And my last wish for you, is that those 3 trillion dollars bring about your bankruptcy, your down fall, your end. Money is your weak point and this is where you will get hit hardest. Of this I am certain.

Al-Sahaf, the Iraqi ex minister of Information did not lie when he said Iraq is going to be your quagmire and your graveyard.

Iraq will be your moral, financial, political and physical graveyard.

Civilization started here in the Land of the Tigris and the Euphrates and this land will bring you down to your knees.

This land will finally liberate you from your phoniness, your deceitfulness, your deceptiveness, your arrogance...in sum your ugly shadow self.

It will liberate you from your spiritual bankruptcy. You will be able to be born again as a true people for a change.

You need to be eternally grateful to us and bow in humility and awe, for we are paying for your true liberation with our own lives.

Mark my words and say to yourselves, an Arab woman told me so.

But in the meantime, am not done with you yet...