“the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”

Where is Raed ?

An Iraqi Blogger at home in Iraq…

MSNBC – Live Video

Live Baghdad camera.

Fox TV Reports Oil Wells Burning Outside of Basra (washingtonpost.com)

News.com.au – 77,000 body bags (, )

http://www.indymedia.org/ A War of Lies – and of American Shame

The new US war on Iraq has begun: arguably the greatest moral tragedy of a generation, an unprecedented failure of diplomacy and international order, and a profound crime against the principles of democracy. Tens of thousands of people may lose their lives as a result of US attacks. Hardly any of them will be Americans; most of them will be civilians. They will add to the already huge death toll of Iraqis killed by a decade of sanctions and years of missile attacks raining down from American planes patrolling the no-fly zones with ever-expanding target lists and ?rules of engagement.” People in many areas of the world – perhaps especially in the Occupied Territories, but also in Europe and North America ? have new reasons to fear terrorism, as a result of this great act of American aggression. The Bush administration pushed relentlessly towards this war with a long series of incredible lies about virtually every aspect of the current conflict–US intentions, international law, weapons inspections, Iraq’s likely military status and the amount of international support for Bush administration aims. Applauded by American corporate interests and cheered on by media institutions, the Bush administration?s unilateral drive to war has been actively opposed by most of the world?s people, governments and international institutions. Nobody on Earth will wake up safer tomorrow than they did today.

The New York Times on the Web

BBC NEWS | News Front Page

CNN.com – U.S. launches cruise missiles at Saddam – Mar. 20, 2003

Saudis Stock Oil Reserve to Make Up for Iraq Loss Hmm, very interesting…