"Friday, April 07, 2006
Hi,

Another hurried urgent note.

There is no doubt that the political situation is very complicated at the moment. It is certain also that the U.S. and her allies remain one of the main players and important factors in this multi-sided struggle. The situation is so confused that it would need a super computer to work out all the permutations and combinations. One factor, though which must be very carefully weighed by the strategists concerns the changing fortunes of those currents within the Shiaa movement that are associated with the Sadrists and their fellow travelers and their relative weight within the Shiaa camp."
http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/

This remind of what THE MUDVILLE GAZETTE is talking about:
"Periodic media "coverage flux" occurs from Iraq - "we are the targets of an insurgency" becomes "we are caught in a civil war", "the Sunni insurgency is the problem" becomes "the Shiite militias are the problem" (oddly enough in the wake of an attack on a Shiite shrine). Ultimately the media will arrive at a unified theory - and stick with it until they can no longer hammer every development into it's shape. I propose "chaos" as that theory - everything fits that one."

Of course, the chaos theory does required super computer. The media are hopeless in understanding it- even if they wanted to.

Another blog [madly in love with Iraq]:
"My city is battered, dirty, full of concrete blocks, no- through roads, closed bridges, chaotic and unsafe. The people I know looked haggard and helpless. I tried to find any traces from the past, I searched all corners; I opened my drawers and looked through my old books and diaries. I stayed awake all night, not to waste any precious moment, I struggled to leave an optimistic impression on my friends and relatives…but in vain.

All the people I met wanted to leave and never come back.
...
When my time was up, I behaved like a child who doesn’t want to know, I made a big fuss over silly things, I provoked a fight with my mother, and when everyone was silent trying to absorb my fury. I finally cried."
http://inlovewithiraq.blogspot.com/

In earlier entry:
"I am often torn between feeling sorry for Iraqis back home and feeling angry at them.
It is just like when you give excuses to your loved ones whatever they do to you.
We say “Love and speak, hate and speak”.

A lifetime was spent behind slogans, Imperialism, collaborators, colonialism, Arabism, we never thought of what is beyond that."

And Ammar is under a lot of pressure:
" “Well, doc, let me put it this way, I have been here for less than 36 hours, and I have already missed 9 meetings and/or events, two of them at the White House, does that tell you anything?”

And I wasn’t even trying to impress.

The truth is, the last week of March was supposed to be one of the busiest weeks of my life, serving as a prelude to what was supposed to be one of the busiest month in my life. But, as fate would have it, I ended up spending the Glorious Week divided between home and hospital, and the Glorious Month is shaping up to be quite the ordinary month, albeit by my rather not too ordinary standards. "
http://amarji.blogspot.com/

And Zeyad is wondering if he can go to "new graduate school of journalism at the City University of New York.":
"Jeff Jarvis and this Wall Street Journal article by Yochi Dreazen featuring my blog have outed my secret. I have been admitted to the new graduate school of journalism at the City University of New York. Jeff, my blogdad and mentor, convinced me a couple of months ago to join the school, where he will be teaching interactive journalism. This is not your traditional journalism program. In fact, Jeff believes that this new batch of graduates (from diverse international backgrounds) will help save and change the face of journalism as we know it today."
http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/

Of course these are just snippets. And these can be found in the links at http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/