Dreams are one way for man to improve his or her life. The biggest achievements started with dreams. The happiest moment for us is when our dreams come true.
One of my dreams was to see more than one party in Iraq and not to hear about people killed for political reasons as Baath Party used to do for about 35 years.
Before 1979, Iraq was one of the best Arabic countries, people used to live a very good life. We used to have the best goods, the best factories and the best services but with the coming of Saddam to the presidency chair in 1979, everything changed. The man started his political life with an aimless war with Iran that brought nothing to Iraq but death and destruction. The war lasted eight years and Iraq lost about million men. We also missed the technological progress. After the eight years war, Saddam invaded Kuwait and the result was more death for men and children and a very hard long embargo that lasted until the US invaded Iraq in 2003. During the years of embargo, my dream was like the dream of the majority of my people. to get ride of Saddam who was the main problem of Iraq. With the need to work even when I was a student, I couldn't have any dreams but to live in a country without Saddam or Baath Party. When I left Iraq in 1996 to study my master degree in England, I was rejected by the British embassy in Jordan because I'm Iraqi. Once again, Saddam and his policy prevented me from making one more dream true. I didn't want to come back to Iraq and live again under Saddam's crazy laws. I decided to live abroad. I lived for more than seven years without visiting my family even for one time.
When the US military started what they called Operation Iraq Freedom, I really felt so happy for one thing. I thought Iraq would be free again and we would have real government with politicians who really care about Iraq future and its people. I had a real big hope that services will be the best again and we would live happily again. I never thought that we would start killing each other for the sake of some strangers or to kidnap each other for money but I was completely wrong. I was sure that the American administration had planned very well for the stage after the war but I was wrong again. Nothing really changed in Iraq after six years. To be honest, we have one big change. Now we have hundreds of political parties that do nothing to Iraq and all they care about is their interests. After six years, the Americans approved that they came without any plan because most Iraqis are still poor and deprived from the simplest human rights. Iraqi governments and the American administration failed completely in putting Iraq once again on the right path.
I have to admit that after six years of the invasion, ALL MY DREAMS HAD GONE WITH THE WIND
IM IN IRAQ RIGHT NOW YOU ARE DEFINITELY RIGHT ON MY 2ND TOUR AND NOT MUCH HAS CHANGE ONLY THE AMOUNT OF TROOPS WE HAVE HERE WHICH IS BETTER FOR US SHORT TERM
Posted by: SGT. CAMPBELL | April 20, 2009 at 06:42 PM
Your government leaders need to realize that they're in the position to serve his countrymen and not to do his own political agenda. They need to learn to love themselves and learn to respect others and have fear with our God.
Posted by: warcraft gold | April 07, 2009 at 09:47 AM
i'm so sorry. i wish i could make it better.
Posted by: annie | April 01, 2009 at 04:47 AM
May God bless you and your loved ones. Amen.
Posted by: Terry | March 27, 2009 at 05:27 PM
Get up and move on with your life. Your not in Iraq in anymore.
Posted by: Willy Corder | March 26, 2009 at 01:43 PM
always remember bush did a very good job for a retard...
Posted by: bill | March 25, 2009 at 10:44 AM
I think if your dream was really dead to you, you would not be mourning all the things you have lost. You would be talking how great things would be if only (insert name here!) could control everything and get rid of (insert other name.) Not forgetting that things were better once may be the first step to bringing those good things back again.
There is an old, old saying in America: "it's a bad wind that never changes." It means this-- even the worst wind will change direction someday. May this wind change and blow your dream closer.
Posted by: Diogenes | March 23, 2009 at 10:04 AM
I hope you dream new dreams.
Posted by: Susan | March 22, 2009 at 10:44 PM
I read this interesting post and then I read the beautiful post about your pilgrimage to Karbala.
What do you think, would it have been better if Saddam were still left in place, despite his tyranny? Or is it better, despite all the mess and danger, that he is gone and you can do things like go to Karbala?
Or maybe you are between these opinions?
Posted by: Jeff | March 22, 2009 at 05:19 AM