Thursday, September 13, 2007

Blog Critique: Baghdad Burning

I have chosen to write my blog critique on, "Baghdad Burning". This blog is written by a women who lived in Iraq and literally witnessed the entire process of the American invasion. The blog is structured like a journal, indicating what she witnessed and experienced in Iraq. The blog tackles some of the most controversial and sensitive issues such as war, politics and occupation in Iraq. http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

This blog was first launched in August 31, 2003. Unlike some fragmented or manufactured story, this blog allows us the most unreachable insight and never been seen story on the Iraq side. This is largely due to the fact that the American government always attempt to either censored the harmful news or modified them into what they want their people to see. In a sense that it deminishes the war and made it seem entirely natural and normal. Therefore, this blog put fowards a complete opposite perspective to people who really seek to dig-deep into the contaminated and unobtainable news, without relying on the fabricated story phrased by the American government.

Moreover, this blog helps to promote the awareness of what is truly happening in Iraq, it helps us slap back to reality.......the world is not as peaceful and innocent as we hope it is. The blogger has intergraded her voices and personal experiences about her views on the Iraq war. She usually report her stories through incooperating the feeling and suffering of her fellow Iraqi people. The most brilliant and hilarious thing about this blogger is that she always carry a sense of desecrate humors and she criticizes and make fun of the American government and Bush's policy using glossy, witty and extreme sarcastic remarks. I remember so clearly that I almost laughed myself to tears when I saw the posts where she uses extreme satire to criticize both of Bush's adminstration and the Iraq political leaders.

On March 06, 2006, she published a post about who deserves to win the Oscar for the ultimate mastermind behind the mass destruction in Iraq. The nominates included some influential figures of Iraq political leaders and of course, the most notorious George Bush~~~~~~~(Boooo Boooooooo Booooooooo~~~keep it coming y'll). I will let you into a little insight of why I think she is sooooo hysterical, she wrote something like the "Nominees for Best Actor: Ibraheim Al-Jaffari in “Free Iraqi Elections” for his attempted portrayal of a non-sectarian, independent PM of a ‘legitimate’ Iraqi government". She continues, "George W. Bush in "OIF: The War on Terror" The third sequel to the original "Operation Iraqi Freedom: Weapons of Mass Destruction" and "Operation Iraqi Freedom: Liberating Iraqis". Bush's nomination comes for his convincing portrayal as the worlds first mentally challenged president". Pretty amazing right, wait until you see more of her humorous jokes and remarks in her blog. http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/search?q=election

Although she sometimes make funny remarks to ease the painful feeling of seeing her own country tore into pieces by the American intruders, she is I believe like most of the Iraqi people are profoundly heart-broken when ever they think about what is happening to their country. I strongly believe that she has every single reason to be upset and agitated because firstly the American government accused Iraq for weapon of mass destruction when really it was just an understatement of wanting to impose democracy into Iraq. Secondly, they destroyed the home of the Iraqi people and left a complete mess in the country, not to even mention how many causalities they have caused throughout the war since 2003-2007. The sickening feelings of what the American government has done are beyond indescribable.

The last aspect I wanted to point to is that this blog includes alot of hyperlink to other sites and blogs and also a couple of hyperlinks to some famous media broadcasting, such as the BBC News, New York Times and Al-Jazeera. And I would like from the bottom of my heart to applause to the author of this blog for her bravery to speak up for herself and ...to speak up for her people. To me, you really represent the modern Kanye West!!! (He is an African America rapper who lyrically and publicly criticized George Bush on his policy against the war of terror and the lack of promising policy to help the African Americans).

Three cheers for the author.........Hip hip~Hur-ray, hip hip~ Hur-ray, hip hip~Hur-ray!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good Job! :)