Happy New Year...(by an Iraqi blogger)

Iraqthemodel.com ^ | 1-1-04 | Omar

[veronica]

Good bye 2003, good bye my most beautiful year. I'll grieve your end and sing your legend as long as I live.

You made my greatest dream come true.

I know that the coming years will bring all the good to my country, simply because we have put our feet on the right path.

The will of the good have achieved victory, and that is enough for me to be optimistic, but those will not be as special as you were 2003; the year of freedom.

Before you I was mute, and here goes my tongue praying for the best, Before you I was hand-cuffed, and here are my hands free to write, Before you my mind was tied to one thought and here I find wide horizons and greater thoughts, Before you I was isolated, and here I join the wide universe.

I will never forget you; you broke the chains for my people, and rid us from the big jail.

Many of my people never realized that we were in a prison, as we were born inside its walls and we knew no other world than our jail. But, we were looking through the tiny windows that were hard for the jailor to close, and we saw that our jail was not the best-as our jailor claimed- and we saw that our jailor was not the gift of god-as he tried to convince us-, but we were afraid of his prowess , and owe to the one who says the opposite.

Before you 2003, I never learnt to love. It was forbidden for me, and I used to repeat a few words that I learnt in secret to my girl:

"What is man without freedom, Mariana? Tell me, how am I supposed to love you if I was not free? How do I give you my heart if it doesn't belong to me? "*

Good bye 2003, you made me feel safe, you who cast away my worst nightmare.

"In our village, we used to be scared of day just as night The light no longer promises safety Fear to us is a five time a day prayer" Now it's hope that has become our five times a day prayer.

Good bye 2003, my eyes saw the greatest scene through you, and I lived my happiest moment in you (the tyrant falls) Is there anything greater than that?

Good bye 2003, in you I listened to the most beautiful words "ladies and gentle men, we got him."

Good bye 2003, the legend of my people was written through out your days with blood and tears.

Good bye 2003, you were the best.

My friends, celebrate the New Year, but don't forget to add a new name to your invitation list, We would love to join, and we will have the honor and pride to do so.

We came holding our slogan "it won't be our duty to anticipate the coming disaster, but to struggle for a better world"**

Give us a little space on your ship, we still stumble, but we shall never fall again. We have our star that will guide us.

Believe me my friends. We want to be on your side.

Our hearts are bigger now; they will not only carry our sorrow, but those of the entire world as well.

Your help have taught us a valuable lesson :( we're all sinners, I'm in jail as long as there's a man in jail, and I'm hungry as long as there's a hungry man on earth)***We've got to create another world, a new land; where there's less pain and sorrow, and that will not be hard to do if the brave gathered for it.

I wish that my people as well as the oppressed people every where come to appreciate the gift of freedom, as when they do so they will be ready to fight for it and then, they will have it and no one could take it away from them.

As for the free people who helped us and are ready to help the others; I wish you peace and all the best as you certainly deserve it.

"I want to run out and link hands with others in the struggle, clench my fists and strike Fate in the face.

I want to drown deep in my blood that I may share with the human race its burden and carry it onward, giving birth to life My death shall be a victory.

My death shall be a victory."****

[Leroy S. Mort]

How about this. Home Page/Iraqthemodel

That gets me to http://new.blogger.com/. Not to the page in question. Thanks anyway for the help. Some things must remain a mystery I guess.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Why not send this to all the liberal media, to the RAT candidates who decry our military and CIC and get it read on every conservative talk station?

While I have no reason to doubt the veracity of this site, the "Hurtgen Forest" episode here on FR of a few years back has made me a tad gunshy.

[Maigrey]

BTTT!

[LizJ]

Thank you for posting this. I just spent some time reading the entries. It is great reading.

It just reminds me what hypocrites liberals are. How can they pretend to care about the Iraqis, when it is clear that this is good for Iraq.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Great post! Thank you. (^:
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The will of the good have achieved victory, and that is enough for me to be optimistic, but those will not be as special as you were 2003; the year of freedom.

Before you I was mute, and here goes my tongue praying for the best, Before you I was hand-cuffed, and here are my hands free to write, Before you my mind was tied to one thought and here I find wide horizons and greater thoughts, Before you I was isolated, and here I join the wide universe.

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2003: the year of freedom, ping!
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[SandRat]

This can't be true the Media Tells us that the Iraqi's all hate us. </sarcasm and derision

Thanks RC this is good news, very good news too bad the alpoMedia still doesn't get it. Too bad for them! The new year will bring the truth to light and the new year will bring peace and freedom.

[reformed_democrat]

Thanks for posting this. I really enjoyed reading it, and have forwarded it to several friends who could use a little holiday cheer.

That site is outstanding. Any time I feel depressed because PeterTomHoward'n'Dan won't Just Shut Up, I can go there and read the real story.

[In_25_words_or_less]

Happy New Year!

Back atcha! =) And nice find. It just underscores what a pundit said -- that this action may turn out to be serendipitous for Iraq.

[blackie]

Happy New Year...(by an Iraqi blogger) ~ Big Bump!

Freedom is a beautiful thing!

[radu]

Thanks for the ping, RC!
Thank you for this post, veronica!!

I've been following several Iraqi blogs for a several weeks now and their joy and gratitude is infectious, isn't it? I read each one with a big, dopey grin on my face.

Mass e-mail time, definitely.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

[TEXOKIE]

kleenex bump

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Sorry, forgot the blurry screen alert. (^:

Calling it an early night, TEX. Thanks to our awesome and protected troops keeping the world safe enough for the DoD / CENTCOM reporters to take the day off.

((Hugs)), and thank you!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Your birth -Jesus our master- was a declaration of peace. Your sacrifice for the sake of mankind will remain a sign for love, forgiving and facing the injustice with words stronger than all arms.

Obviously of the Christian faith, likely Asyrain(sp?)

[stlnative]

This one should work for you

http://www.iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/

[windchime]

He has such a way with words!

[VOA]

"OSAMA IS NEXT"

That's a great caption...
I wish they'd also had a sign to the effect of
"OSAMA'S 2004 CHRISTMAS PRESENT: BUNKING WITH SADDAM!"