Dean's World

Welcome to the Carnival of the Liberated, a sampler of some of the best posts from Iraqi and Afghani bloggers. This week we've got a confession, a dialogue, a dream, a translation, a poll, an interview with Adnan Pachachi, and much more.

Shaggy, the blogger at Baghdad Bacon and Eggs is lazy.

There's an interesting post over on Diwaniya about the special role of Iraq and the Iraqis in the things that are happening in the Middle East:

This experience of democracy in Iraq will be sign (may be symbol, don't think it kind of exaggeration) in the history to be mention whenever the democracy come to there.

It's done, but by whom, Iraqis did it, they are really brave people, it's first kind of democracy, has been born, to be in use, Iraqis invent new style(kind) of democracy , built it by themselves.

You might want to take a look at the dialogue between Imad Khadduri of Free Iraq and one of his commenters. His permalinks are too idiosyncratic to be useful. Scroll down to Reflecting .. while affirming and read from there.

Saleem of Free Iraq, the New Birth fills in the blanks on the new Iraqi government.

There are a pair of posts, one from Friends of Democracy and the other from Baghdad's Mistress, that provide some food for thought on the role of the party in totalitarian or authoritarian states like Iraq under Saddam.

Mohammed of hajir wonders who he should pray for in Iraq:

These terrorists are not my brothers and certainly they are not Mujahid. Everyday scores of innocent iraqis die at the hands of these so called Mujahideen that millions of ignorant muslims pray for. God has darkened the hearts of these ignorant muslims so that they cannot see their ignorance: they pray harder and harder for their own destruction!

The true Mujahideen in Afghanistan and Iraq are the security forces that put thier lives on line to serve their country and construct their country rather than destroy it. It does not take much courage to be a loser and leave behind one's country (Egypt, Syria, Libya, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, other terrorist-breeding countries) and kill innocent people on the streets. It does take courage to have a family, to love your wife and your children to death, to love your parents and have so much hope for future and then join the police force knowing that death is awaiting you every minute. So which one is better, the one who cowardly destroys or the one who courageously builds?

Ibn Al-Rafidain has a translation of a newspaper column from Mohammed Abdul Jabbar, editor of Al-Sabah.

Speaking of Al-Sabah, Omar of Iraq the Model reprints a poll of Iraqis taken from that newspaper on the question “What should be the first task for the new Iraqi government?”

providing security 55.16% (877 votes)
dealing with unemployment 3.08% (49 votes)
getting the foreign troops out 4.97% (79 votes)
improving public services 1.26 (20 votes)
applying Shareat law 1.01% (16 votes)
writing the constitution 5.47 (87 votes)
providing more houses 1.51% (24 votes)
fighting terrorism 11.45% (182 votes)
fighting corruption 4.78% (76 votes)
Saddam's trial 10.06% (160 votes)
don't know 1.26% (20 votes)

neurotic iraqi wife has been busy. She was in Cairo during the recent terrorist attack there. She has a lament for Iraq. She dreams she's a terrorist.

Dr. Najeeb Hanoudi of The Hanoudi Letter, the oldest known Iraqi blogger (in his seventies) does some genuine citizen journalism and interviews Adnan Pachachi, the head of the Iraqi Independent Democrats, a moderate, liberal, and secular political party in Iraq. Very, very interesting.

There's another new, young blogger in Iraq: sunshine of Live Strong. She's the niece of Rose of Diary from Baghdad. Hat tip: Iraq Blog Count.

Dave Schuler posts regularly to his own weblog, The Glittering Eye. The Carnival was originally conceived by Ryan Boots.