It’s a working weekend for me [getting paid for my overtime while I can] but thought I’d pass these links on for those with time to read and discuss the news:
IRAQIS ARGUE BACK
This week on http://www.openDemocracy.net, we continue our survey of Iraq under occupation. Two weeks ago we published Yahia Said’s report that civil society was re-emerging. Last week Mary Kaldor offered her view that the Coalition needed to give Iraqis time to re-establish democratic institutions. This week two contrasting views from the inside: former Iraqi officer Mazin Ezzat offers a bleaker view, and from Kurdish Northern Iraq, Ayub Nuri, a firm supporter of the invasion, says the people he interviews wish for the return of Saddam Hussein.
APRIL TO NOVEMBER: AN IRAQI JOURNEY
AYUB NURI embraced regime change with cautious hope; now, he reports widespread bitterness and disillusion with the American occupiers
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1589.jsp
NOT NORMAL, BUT BLEEDING
Former Iraqi officer MAZIN EZZAT, a wounded survivor of the deposed Iraqi regime, responds from Baghdad to Yahia Said’s optimism with a bleaker view of his country’s prospects
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1593.jsp
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