From an ‘Iraqi widow’ to an ‘American widow’
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Yesterday , my dear sister !,in my dream,
I saw a cascade of tears from your eyes;
When asked about the cause of your grief,
You showed me the image of your husband.
You hurled abuses at me,as he was killed,
By a brutal terrorist in my land.
I recognized him, because he was the one,
Who with his friend barged into my house;
Raped my teenage daughter before our eyes.
When we resisted, they, out of dignity,
Shot her dead, and also riddled,
The chest of my husband with bullets.
As a sign of greatness of a great nation,
They showed mercy to me and my only son;
Spared us, and left with a triumphant pace.
Alas! My son was ungrateful,
In return to their benevolent gesture;
One day, he,with himself, blew them apart.
I was under the siege of emotions,
The raging inferno in my mind and heart;
Could defy the power of all the oceans,
Its flames could burn the entire world.
But your tears, shimmering like pearls,
Extinguished it , and made me ashamed.
I was unable to share your pain,
With a few drops of tears in your lap;
In a downpour, they all had been shed,
Over the bodies of my husband and daughter,
And also in the memory of my only son.
Now my eyes are stony, pallid and dry.
Your tears have generated in my soul,
A turmoil which will never be set at rest;
Unless you forgive me, as I am the mother,
Of the person who killed your husband.
To atone for my sins, and show repentance,
I declare my son ‘ a condemned terrorist ’
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airsupply is the hitler guy... and never the twain shall meet..
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
mjamille: lol, u r right ;)
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
you forgot "drunk" as always...
marhab: lol, funny as always ;)
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
clearblue, she means Abu
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
you have too much brain power and common sense to be airsupply...its that hitler guy, that has the arabic name(this time). He's just a very unhappy and sad person...
Abu is yet another person who is not airsupply...
sorry for the confusion...
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Well lets face it, he looks like a 1950's lounge lizzard from a very sleazy club in Cairo. Basically a Purple Johnny - we Brits used to shoot ém as soon as we saw the whites of their eyes yah! Yippee, Yippeee, its GORDONS gin for me!
WINNER Gordons Gin Personal Consumption Award 2008 Hic!
marhab: thks 4 clarification :)
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
OMG thats better - just had a Triple Whammo Gin Cocktail Fiz through a straw! Wow! No, whos on line? English speakers with brains i hope! Yippee, Yippeee, its GORDONS gin for me!
WINNER Gordons Gin Personal Consumption Award 2008 Hic!
Hi Mj! May i say how gorgeous u r looking today!
No, someone with ur slogan - looks like a Gyppo in a fez. Very sleazy. Yippee, Yippeee, its GORDONS gin for me!
WINNER Gordons Gin Personal Consumption Award 2008 Hic!
Scarlett: lol
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
Marhabtain: Are you talking to me?
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
marhab, no "Hic" this time? are you sober by any chance?
ohh, no its just airsupply ...sorry..
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Í see, so u think that only your god can judge you and yet u choose to judge others? Which God are you? Hypocrit! You deserve a QL Aaward for being a prize moron sunshine.
platter! And stop hanging your tongue out!
Scar
Scarlett: lol, btw, do you hear someone barking at this post? I could say i heard it but not sure ;)
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
you have no valid replies, so the only thing you usually do is make personal attacks...the same old hateful soul you have!
This includes your new puppy...platter
and we all know how honest all politicians are...regardless of what country they are from!
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Scarlett: Yes, we all know it that's why i said i wont loose my time discussing with him.
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
justified reaction to American crimes all over the world...as per what clearblue said...what gives anyone the right to do that??? Doesn't it go on both directions or only in the direction against America...
Enjoy yourself, air..go hit your head on a wall for a while and save us all your blathering nonsense.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Abu: I wont loose my time replying to you.
Scarlett: lol, but true, afterall they are both politics :)
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
everyone knows your rhetoric by now...so stop hiding under different names...
besides according to you the holocaust didn't happen, so therefore neither did WWII nor Japan...if you can ignore things, so can we.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
"let what happened to the US, happen to your country and see how your leaders react..."
9/11 was a justified reaction to all the american crimes around the world!
Let's not forget Japan & Vietnam
Platter: "Do you remember who killed some thousands of Kurds with mostard gas?
Your are lying again and posting hate as usual.
Even if we are to believe your lie, so what? The americans nuked the Japs & killed tens of thousands of them! No one invaded america after that!
"you mean like Iraq did to Koweit?"
You have to learn English in order for you to address the problems correctly. It's: Kuwait!
So what if Iraq invaded Kuwait? America invaded Vietnam! No one punished america after that.
Even Portugal has invaded many countries!
And we have the 60 year old zionist invasion of Palestine! I don't see that the countries of the world are punishing the zionist regime!
Back to the topic of this thread:
The thing that I really liked in the message of the iraqi woman, is that it give us a lesson how you can be proud sometimes, when you are called a "terrorist"!
You can't teach experience...
the only thing both of them are thinking right now is "what do I have to say to get myself elected President?" Period. The end.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
What Obama and McCain think about this?
-- F L A M M A B L E --
like anything else in the public...never believe everything you hear as each form of information will have its own slant to economic and wartime issues. Our own news people love to try and find a way to make any and everything appear to be wrong...just check out Geraldo Rivera when he went to Iraq and publically TOLD the entire world where one battalion of soldiers was located in Iraq. Sensationalism sells...regardless of who it hurts.
Of course you need to stick to what you think is right, but for your own good, always look at more than one viewpoint before you make up your mind. Do research, in depth research..and never take the newscasters word for anything except BS, which most of it is...
Bad thing about not being totally informed is that when you make blanket statements, some people will believe everything they read...which is really sad.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Scarlett: Thanks
Bluesky: Like you, i only stated my opinion, you accused me of "stirring up crap" right away.
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
Vegas: lol
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
our economy was already sliding downhill at a breakneck speed...if you check history, that's how most countries get out of depressions...they go to war...not exactly the best way..but it historically works.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
I always wondered why women weren't put in charge of countries...seems men always get into fights...put one of us premenstrual or perimenopausal women in office and may the good Lord help those who piss us off!!
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
FS: In a war, both sides loose
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
how the heck are you?
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
vegas..lol
No one can CREATE more terrorists..they were terrorists to begin with. There is definitely something wrong mentally in those folks.
What has the ones who blew up the twin towers gained?? We can ask many questions like this and really get no good answers..
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
You can't teach experience...
What did America gain from this war on Iraq and all these killings?
Created more terrorists and a ruined economy......nothing more!
and some come on as someone else to AGREE with themselves so it sounds like there are several persons in agreement with the original poster...I wonder if all those voices in their heads ever give them headaches..seems to me that it would be really crowded in there with that many personalities.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
odd how some won't post where they are actually from but love to stir up trouble when they can with blind abandon and rash judgements.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
at war right now with "my country is going to through a bloody civil war with ...
the MOST effective suicide bombers in the world who have a navy and air force to add to their ruthless power. " to quote her own words....none that I am aware of..
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
I was wondering exactly the same thing...
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
I could not adapt to your logic because I could not relate to your nationality?
"dgoodrebel will always be the rebellious good one"
Brit: Yes, i know that, think that France and Germany had something to do with it too. Politicians are all hypocrites :(
fs: i'm not saying that U.S. are inocent, just stating that Saddam wasn't that lamb that bluesky was making of him, i hate wars, violence takes no where, whenever there's a war there are casualities, this is a fact but doesn't mean i support war or the U.S.
Clearbluesky: No, 9/11 was the perfect excuse to invade Afghanistan (supported by the U.N.) and also any other country that supports terrorist groups.
Yes, i read your offensive words and wont go as low as you.
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
its just really gets under my skin to have people from other countries that slam my country for what they have done, when in actuality, most don't know the reasoning behind it. Sure, you say its oil..and to some extent, I'm sure it was..but it wasn't totally the whole reason. This is just what you've obviously grabbed onto and never let go. Yes, there was information that connects Saddam and Osama there, but unless you know the right people, you wouldn't know what it is. I, personally don't agree with the war but some good has come from it for some of the people in Iraq, but certainly not without some deaths, from BOTH sides. I know, I have relatives who are fighting over there.
It just gets really tiresome to hear such judgemental blanket statements such as you are spreading on here. Please, until you get FULL information, stop spreading only half truths and personal judgements.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
how wonderful that you are SO intelligent that you can declare war against suicide bombers and never injure anyone else. When you go into a foreign country to find the ones who attacked your country, people are going to get hurt and killed, especially when you have a country with guerillas and ones that wire women and children to explode when they are close to soldiers...so don't go off blaming all the civilian deaths on a country..some of them do it to themselves.
Since you are SO intelligent, why not run for political office of your country? Must be nice to know how to solve all the world's problems and never have to shed blood.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
you talk about others stirring up crap and you are the worst of all. Rather like the pot calling the kettle black.
There is never a good excuse to attack someone else...so where was the excuse that caused the attack on 9/11? And don't you dare go on with the "the US did it" because that's a load of bull hockey.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
let what happened to the US, happen to your country and see how your leaders react...
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
civilian wars were there since the evolution of mankind..Dictators killed their own people....we cant blame that for the killings in Iraq.
WWI ... WWII ... India v Pakistan ,, Russia v Chechen, Russia v Gerogia .. Russia v Afghan ,,, Iran v Iraq, Iraq v Kuwait, US/UK v Iraq, US/UK v Afghanistan etc,,,,
Come on try to find some solution to the PEACE at least on QL :-)
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Yep Martinez...I've heard Brazilians, are very friendly to mankind...
Until people stop using religion, race,nationality, to segregrate and hate each other, violence will not stop.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
This is an never ending argument.
IMHO, the West at that time knew who carried out the attacks, but chose to turn a blind eye. Why, because they "needed" Sadam at that time.. When he was no longer useful, he became public enemy number one..
Clearblue: Do you remember who killed some thousands of Kurds with mostard gas?
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
Bluesky: Invading other countries....hmmm...you mean like Iraq did to Koweit?
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
1st, a word to the Iraqi widow, it's sad what happened to your hubby and daughter, if it helps think they are in a better world now.
Yes, i know this is from other forum.
Martinez: You are right, the problem is that according to my muslim brothers, Islam is not only a religion but a way of life and i think that's the reason why they have so many problems. But i do think that the solution is better education.
One day all will understand that religion was never supposed to be a mean to split the Humans, we are all racional beings and shouldn't allow religion to turn us on irracional beasts that follow a code blindly without ever asking why, but that happens in all religions, even if Islam seams as the one that most people refer as problematic.
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
From an ‘Iraqi widow’ to an ‘American widow'
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And for your question on when it will stop ?
Until we people begin to respect mankind for what they are and not what religion they belong to. Until we people respect free will and toleration.
I think it is going to take some time for people of this part of the world until they begin to realise both.
(And as far generalisation of humans by nationality is concerned which i seldom do, by far South Americans are the most friendly people I've known as they are far busy enjoying daily lifes and struggles and do not spend time in religious hatreds and sectarianism.That is something valuable for others to learn)
God Bless the World !
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Think Global...Act Local !
It's not mine... read it in another blog...
just wanted to share...
That was commendable !!
I even pictured a video on my mind as I read that. Should inspire Linkin Park for sure.
Good Post FS
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Think Global...Act Local !
Very moving..
Tragic loss of life on both sides.. Perhaps soon, sanity will prevail..
until the oil stops to drop... tears will likewise stop...
When will these tears stop??
lets pray for a better world for all families and the children of the future