Bad news, and...............Bad news !! (A.Y.S,IRAQI DENTIST REPORTS)

Hi friends, we are in Basrah, I met an old man in the bus, he told me dangerous things in the village that I will work in, do you know what he has said ? He said ' Oh .. that village !! it is important to prepare yourself for the insects and the flies!!! They are different in size and EFFECT !!' he added ' It is far away from the center, inspite of all the bad things concerning the life there, but the people there are kind and live a simple life, they are ready to help and they appreciate the guests very much' We are supposed to live at a house beside the hospital, it is told that the house is in a good condition, and we can avoid the insects !!

We will get there tomorrow. Sorry, the internet line is also slow, I will write soon.

Do you want the bad news first or the bad news !! We went to the hell, sorry... To the village that we will work in, it is 45 minutes away from the center of Basrah and we saw the dental center, the dental chair is broken .. ..There is no civilization !! We can't go anywhere.. There is nothing to do ... I saw something significant.. The people are tall .. Most of them are tall.. Do you know why?? Because there is a huge mass of mud stuck under their slippers !!!! Yes, there is mud everywhere.. We returned to the hotel in Basrah with brownish trousers!!

The boss told us that the dental chair will be changed as soon as possible. In the bus I told Omar that I am afraid that we will lose our minds there !! And stop thinking !! Anyhow, we sat down ( Omar, another friend and I) thinking and everyone said something good there.

The good things are:
- The house is newly built like the other houses in other medical centers.. Which is one of the plans of rebuilding the hospitals, medical centers and doctors' houses.. These plans began a few months after the liberation.
- Omar, our friend and I are at the same house.
- We can get the Vodka ( from Baghdad of course) and
drink freely !!
That were the good things only.
There is another thing which is very very important and till now we don't know it.. The internet access.. Some said that there are telecommunications there, others said 'forget it' !!

I will inform you about it later.
We will get back to Baghdad tomorrow morning.
I am really confused.. The greatest problem, for me, is the computer and the internet access, I can't live without them.
I will post from Baghdad tomorrow..Ok..Bye. A.Y.S.

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A.Y.S is male and lives in Baghdad ,Iraq . He works as a dentist. Almost daily, A.Y.S posts his own ideas , thoughts and opinions and posts them on his blogger site - Iraqataglance.blogspot.com.

One of his recent posted conversations with a patient entitled:
Freedom is a Responsibilitysays it all!

A.Y.S:Unfortunately, many people explain the freedom that has been given to us as they like, some of them are looting from the governmental buildings..Stealing whatever they want and saying” this is a freedom “,”these are our rights from the government “, others are building new houses wherever they want to build without licenses and they are saying ” this is a freedom “, others are not obeying policemen and drive however they want, some people are not organizing themselves in queues and preferring the mess and fuss wherever they go saying that ” this is a freedom “ , driving in wrong directions in order to save time ! ” this is a freedom “.

I want to tell those idiots that this is not a freedom this is an anarchy and chaos .
The freedom is given to people who do not know what is the meaning of it .
Two days ago, a patient came to my dental clinic , he was dirty with offensive odour , looked like a beggar .. after he’s sat down on the dental chair he’s started talking about an accident he had with his CAR !! I said “ do you have a car?!” he said “yes, doctor”, at once I concluded that he was a thief :(( in slang known as Hawasim , a name derived from Saddam’s description to the coming war at that time as Al-hawasim which means The Decisive War , after the end of the war ,everyone whom seen in the loot and robbery is called ‘Hawasim’ !!
Back to the patient .. I told him “ what accident” he said “ yesterday I was driving in ‘alkasra’ ‘ a neighborhood in the north-east of Baghdad’ with my PATROL and there was a traffic jam , so I went up the sidewalk and I drove along it passing all the cars then suddenly ANOTHER car went up the sidewalk when I couldn’t keep away from it then I hit that car so that the two cars were badly damaged” “I blame the policeman for that accident” he said.
I said “ the policemen are doing their best to control such cases, it was your fault” . He said “no.. this is a freedom .. I do whatever I want to do”!!
I was so angry that I wished to plant the probe in his eyes. Then I referred him to another dental clinic , because he did not deserve any type of help .

That was one of thousands of stories which make me feel that those people will never learn to behave like human beings .

I look forward to letting the FREE people to think even for a minute daily about freedom and use it correctly and wisely.-ays

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