Wednesday, December 01, 2004
The real situation in Baghdad and Fallujah
Riverbend's posts are infrequent but she's such a good writer that they are worth waiting for. I won't quote, you have to read it for yourself. Comparatively, CNN's got nothing. The real deal is here.
Comments:
I'm curious, Isen, do you know that Riverbend is a Baathist sympathizer and a Saddam supporter? Why on earth would you call her blog the "real deal" and ignore the many Iraqi blogs from Iraqis who hated Saddam?
That's like linking to Tokyo Rose and calling her the "real deal."
That's like linking to Tokyo Rose and calling her the "real deal."
# posted by 
: 12/01/2004 3:35 PM
: 12/01/2004 3:35 PM
Dear Anonymous,
No, sorry, I was not aware that Riverbend is a Saddam supporter. How do you know this? If she were materially connected to Saddam or his henchmen, my opinion of her would certainly change. Evidence please. (I am curious too.)
But even so, unless she is being payed by her government to broadcast pre-arranged propaganda over government facilities, I reject the Tokyo Rose analogy. Again, evidence please! (I am even more curious.)
She seems like a poor Iraqi blogger to me with an incredible skill at English wordcraft, an innocent civilian victim of a war the U.S. initiated under false pretenses. Unless you present evidence to the contrary, Mister (or Ms) Anonymous, real evidence, not the forged yellowcake kind of phony WMD bogus mobile weapons truck impossible centrifuge Bushco evidence, but real, credible evidence, Riverbend is not *my* enemy.
No, sorry, I was not aware that Riverbend is a Saddam supporter. How do you know this? If she were materially connected to Saddam or his henchmen, my opinion of her would certainly change. Evidence please. (I am curious too.)
But even so, unless she is being payed by her government to broadcast pre-arranged propaganda over government facilities, I reject the Tokyo Rose analogy. Again, evidence please! (I am even more curious.)
She seems like a poor Iraqi blogger to me with an incredible skill at English wordcraft, an innocent civilian victim of a war the U.S. initiated under false pretenses. Unless you present evidence to the contrary, Mister (or Ms) Anonymous, real evidence, not the forged yellowcake kind of phony WMD bogus mobile weapons truck impossible centrifuge Bushco evidence, but real, credible evidence, Riverbend is not *my* enemy.
Search carefully through all her posts, and find a single anti-Saddam sentiment. Anywhere. Posted at any time.
You won't.
You'll find that about 95% of her content is anti-American, and has been since her very first post. But you won't find 1% that's anti-Saddam.
Suspicious, don't you think?
Then, compare her take on current events to the other Iraqi blogs. You can find them all linked from here:
http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/
Why is Riverbend "the real deal" rather than zeyad at Healing Iraq, Alaa at the Mesopotamian, ays at Iraq at a Glance, hammorabi, Mohammed at Iraq the Model, or a dozen others?
On those blogs, you'll also find posts critical of the US and the war. But rather than Riverbend's knee-jerk al-Jazeera-fed bullshit, you'll find balance and thought and relief at the end of Saddam's reign of horror.
Which seems more "real" to you?
-- James
You won't.
You'll find that about 95% of her content is anti-American, and has been since her very first post. But you won't find 1% that's anti-Saddam.
Suspicious, don't you think?
Then, compare her take on current events to the other Iraqi blogs. You can find them all linked from here:
http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/
Why is Riverbend "the real deal" rather than zeyad at Healing Iraq, Alaa at the Mesopotamian, ays at Iraq at a Glance, hammorabi, Mohammed at Iraq the Model, or a dozen others?
On those blogs, you'll also find posts critical of the US and the war. But rather than Riverbend's knee-jerk al-Jazeera-fed bullshit, you'll find balance and thought and relief at the end of Saddam's reign of horror.
Which seems more "real" to you?
-- James
# posted by : 12/01/2004 5:03 PM
: 12/01/2004 5:03 PM
James, if this is real evidence, then I support bank robbery because I have not said one word against bank robbers in my entire blog.
And I am not going to blogroll Qwest, SBC, Verizon or Zeyad just to be FnB according-to-James. So here's my offer to you: I'll cite who I want and you read the blogs you want.
And I am not going to blogroll Qwest, SBC, Verizon or Zeyad just to be FnB according-to-James. So here's my offer to you: I'll cite who I want and you read the blogs you want.
Of course I'll read the blogs I want.
I'm just wondering if you're aware of your own extreme bias and utter lack of objectivity. And hoping to inform your readers of this.
A quick question for you: Toppling the Taliban: a good or a bad thing?
I'm just wondering if you're aware of your own extreme bias and utter lack of objectivity. And hoping to inform your readers of this.
A quick question for you: Toppling the Taliban: a good or a bad thing?
# posted by : 12/02/2004 9:49 AM
: 12/02/2004 9:49 AM
Your silence suggests this thought process:
"As a liberal, of course I think toppling the Taliban was a good thing. But wait! George Bush did it, so it must be evil! Malfunction! Does not compute!"
A pity. Perhaps someday you'll return to the fold of liberalism.
"As a liberal, of course I think toppling the Taliban was a good thing. But wait! George Bush did it, so it must be evil! Malfunction! Does not compute!"
A pity. Perhaps someday you'll return to the fold of liberalism.
# posted by : 12/03/2004 11:53 AM
: 12/03/2004 11:53 AM
Isenberg, nobody has ever met Riverbend, and plenty of people have tried, most notably Cesar Soriano of USA Today, who's done four tours in Iraq and who says (scroll down): "As for Riverbend, I have attempted on numerous occasions to contact the author of that blog. “Riverbend” has never responded to my queries and, as far as I know, has never given media interviews." Soriano has met the brothers who write "Iraq the Model" and can at least vouch for the fact that they're Iraqis blogging in Iraq. Riverbend claims to be personally familiar with the situations in both Baghdad and Fallujah, which is unlikely.
There are certainly a number of real Iraqis blogging who have very different perspectives on current events than this Riverbend character (see the Blog Awards,) who's either a Saddamite shill angry about loss of privilege or a Western leftist writing from somewhere outside Iraq with the typical Anti-American Sophisticate Attitude (tm). There is certainly zero evidence that she is who she says she is.
There are certainly a number of real Iraqis blogging who have very different perspectives on current events than this Riverbend character (see the Blog Awards,) who's either a Saddamite shill angry about loss of privilege or a Western leftist writing from somewhere outside Iraq with the typical Anti-American Sophisticate Attitude (tm). There is certainly zero evidence that she is who she says she is.
Wow, anonymous, I didn't know Riverbend was a Baathist sympathizer either. Maybe that's because she's NOT. She's actually a very progressive thinker and her posts are very compelling, so this insinuation that she's fake or something is just hilarious. She can't reveal her identity because she doesn't want to be killed, see? No, she's no Baathist, but she sure hates Bush and stupid Republican Americans who write to her with their idiotic comments. Good for her. I too hate stupid war-mongering Americans and our good-for-nothing, redneck president - guess I must be a Baathist.
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