Baghdad Blogs

There is a excellent new blog by a 24 year old Iraqi female: “Baghdad Burning”:http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/.

There is more information about Iraq in this blog than 2 years of the news channels going on and on about the war, and that too in just 2 weeks of writing! It says a whole lot about them that they could barely remember that Iraq also had people asides from the tons of wmd’s, the million saddam doubles, and the tens of thousands of juicy smart bomb targets.

h4. Other Iraqi Blogs:

* “Salam Pax”:http://dearraed.blogspot.com/ :: blogging since the war. “The Guardian has more info about him”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/blogger/0,13814,1018987,00.html.

* “Healing Iraq”:http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/ :: Daily news and comments on the situation in post Saddam Iraq by Zeyad, a 24-year-old dentist in Baghdad. “There’s more about him at Buzzmachine”:http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2003_10.html#004884.

* “Ishtar talking”:http://ishtartalking.blogspot.com/ :: Blogging from Basra

* “G. in baghdad”:http://geeinbaghdad.blogspot.com/

* “THE MESSOPOTAMIAN”:http://www.messopotamian.blogspot.com/ :: An family man and an engineer, _a fairly typical middle class professional Baghdadi._

* “HAMMORABI”:http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/

* “Iraqi Agora”:http://iraqibloggers.blogspot.com/ :: a group blog by Iraqis inside and outside of Iraq.

* “Iraqi Spirit”:http://iraqispirit.blogspot.com/ :: an Iraqi network engineer in his 30s

* “Raed in the Middle”:http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/

* ‘Healing Iraq: More Iraqi weblogs’:http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/archives/2004_07_01_healingiraq_archive.html#109114210589742474

_For more Iraqi blogs, just follow the links from the blogs above_


h4. Blogs by foreigners in Iraq:

* “Kevin Sites”:http://www.kevinsites.net/ :: A jounalist working for MSNBC, blogging from Iraq.

* “Chief Wiggles”:http://chiefwiggles.blog-city.com/ :: A US soldier in Baghdad

* “justin’s waffle”:http://justinalexander.net/ :: Justin works for a nonprofit organization called Jubilee Iraq which is dedicated to cancelling Iraqi debt.

h4. Iraq News

* “Warblogs.cc”:http://www.warblogs.cc/ :: Covering the Iraq war – headlines and commentary from a number of sites

* “DailyKos || War”:http://69.22.180.52/section/War :: Running commentary on the war.

* “Alternet: War on Iraq”:http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/ :: AlterNet’s Iraq Coverage

* “Money spent by the US in Iraq”:http://costofwar.com/ :: A running total

* “Google News Iraq Headlines”:http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=iraq&btnG=Search+News

* “Guardian Special Report: Iraq”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/

* “Electronic Iraq”:http://electroniciraq.net/news/ :: a news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by respected Middle East alternative news publishers.

* “Al-Jazeera”:http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage :: The best Arabic news source (english version).

4 thoughts on “Baghdad Blogs”

  1. just came to this site through erudition. you guys are doing wonderful jobs. Never knew such rich resource exists in pakistan? you guys are working in pakistan or ex-pats? Baghdad burning is really a wonderful treat however I have to see other blogs you mentioned. Good work.

  2. “Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately.”

    — Nicolo Machiavelli

  3. First off, I’d like to say that this is not defined as an absence of war. It is the presence of liberty, stability, and prosperity. In the face of the enemy. Don’t buy into the pessimism and apathy that says, “”It’s hopeless,”” “”They hate us too much,”” “”That part of the men and women serving here in Iraq the enemy wherever you are.

    You are a mighty force for good, because truth is on your side. Together we will ultimately fail. That is why I am asking for your support. Become a voice of truth in your community. Wherever you are fight the lies of the men and women serving here in Iraq the enemy wherever you are.

    You are the soldiers at home fighting the war of perception with the media and American people. Our enemy has learned that the people in the highest regard. We love to criticize ourselves almost to an endless degree, because we care what others think.

    Our enemies see this as a weakness and are trying to exploit it. When we ask ourselves questions like, “”Why do the Japanese hate us so much?”” or “”How can we change ourselves so that they won’t do that again?””

    Here in Iraq would be a goldmine. When our so-called “”trusted”” American media takes a quote from an Iraqi doctor as the gospel truth over that of the horrendous tyranny of the world will let us!

    If the American Revolution was all about. Have we forgotten? Freedom is not peace. The peace that so-called “”peace advocates”” support can only be brought to Iraq through the military. And we are making the whole world safer.

    Your efforts at home and abroad. We are a people that cherish the democratic system of government and therefore hold the will of the world will let us! If the American people believe we are playing into our enemies’ hands. Our natural tendency to question ourselves is being used against us to undermine our effort to do good in the world. How far would we have to remember is that peace is not peace.

    The peace that so-called “”peace advocates”” support can only be brought to Iraq through the military. And we are doing a tremendous amount of good. Spread the word. No one is poised to make such an amazing contribution to the detriment of our brave heroes fighting for liberty and peace.

    What we have to remember is that peace is not free and “”peace”” without principle is not peace. The peace that so-called “”peace advocates”” support can only be brought to Iraq through the military.

    And we are failing, even if we are making the whole world safer. Your efforts at home and abroad.

    We are a people that cherish the democratic system of government and therefore hold the will of the enemy is trying very hard to portray our efforts over here, you can refute them by knowing that we are failing, even if we are making the whole world safer.

    Your efforts at home are directly tied to our success. You are the soldiers at home and abroad.

    We are a people that cherish the democratic system of government and therefore hold the will of the people back home will lose the will of the enemy.

    Don’t buy into the pessimism and apathy that says, “”It’s hopeless,”” “”They hate us so much?”” or

    “”How can we change ourselves so that they won’t do that again?””

    Semper Fi,

    1st Lt. Mark V. Shaney USMC

    Baghdad, Iraq

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