{"id":242,"date":"2003-11-22T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2003-11-22T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=242"},"modified":"2003-11-22T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2003-11-22T09:12:11","slug":"iraqis-argue-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Iraqis Argue Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a working weekend for me [getting paid for my overtime while I can<\/a>] but thought I’d pass these links on for those with time to read and discuss the news:<\/p>\n

IRAQIS ARGUE BACK<\/p>\n

This week on http:\/\/www.openDemocracy.net<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

APRIL TO NOVEMBER: AN IRAQI JOURNEY
\nAYUB NURI embraced regime change with cautious hope; now, he reports widespread bitterness and disillusion with the American occupiers
\nhttp:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/debates\/article-2-95-1589.jsp<\/a><\/p>\n

NOT NORMAL, BUT BLEEDING
\nFormer 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
\nhttp:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/debates\/article-2-95-1593.jsp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}