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Let me be the first to say — B R A V O ! ! !! :beam:

Thanks, Yazad - trust me, we are still in the initial stages now - we haven’t been noticed much yet. Once the nuts really start pouring in, that is when Ashwini and I are going to need elephant-thick skins and the support of all of you :beam:

She definitely has a different point of view than us. Her article echoes what Thomas Friedman has been saying in many articles, for example Bad Planning. I would have joined the discussion at RWO, but there is a crowd alread there. But this is terrific, getting a first hand report from Iraq. You should get her to write regularly.

Since I have a unisex name, can I pretend to be a woman and write for RWO? :p

JK, I understand what you said about the crowd - it almost scares me to think of what might become of our little community :) She is going to be a regular contributor from now on. We also have another woman lined up, an older woman who used to teach at a local university. Hopefully we will hear from her soon and it will be a different perspective.

MadMan, I think your real name is unisex, but your handle ain’t :tongue3:

Shanti, It is great that the little community is getting big exposure. You can use this page hits to present the real image of India as well, and not the ones that the Roys and Bidwais present.

I think that is what the Blog Mela is going to be all about, JK. I think the mirror that we put up on RWO is going to show people from all over the world the we are all a pretty diverse bunch and some of us write pretty good too :)

HAHAHA…!! This is a classic case of Foot In Mouth…

What exactly were you expecting that woman to write? Bush is my hero??

Well I am really glad that you got to hear the real sentiment, so now lets stop the talk of “liberating iraqis” shall we?

Wow, isn’t it easy being an ass while posting anonymously! I was not expecting anyone to say anything. At least I am not afraid to give a forum to someone I might not agree with and let her speak without censoring a thing. What have you done lately, Mr. I-won’t-give-my-name-coz-I-am-a-fricking-coward ?

Oh missy, please spare me the I gave a forum to someone. Its a pure unadulterated load of bullshit…!!!

I remember reading the fuss you created during the war when some readers were against your views. The thing is now that you have done a classic Foot In Mouth, you have got no choice but to say that you are giving Zainab a forum to express her views.

If it makes you feel better, I knew what the tone of Zaineb’s post was going to be even before she published it - I was corresponding with her before she started writing. Oh, and if I want to, I can stop hosting her - I will not!

Oh anyways, just shut the fuck up till you have the guts to post under your own name. Whatever I said, I said as me - I am not hiding from anyone or anything - like poor, wittle, you are doing right now! Scared of the big, bad right-wing wolves, are you! Whatever I post on my blog is my wish and I will say I am a fricking saint on here if I feel like it. If you want to go against that, get our own fricking blog and denounce me to hell. It might bring some fun back into your pathetic life.

oh ok i know you are from the “Poor and Opressed is Exotic” group. As i look at it you are treating Zainab as a show piece, it somehow consoles your soul that you now that you have wrecked her country, you are helping her air her views. oh my… its ok if the army of my country went and fucked her country upside down and people have to starve, but you know what we restored democracy…!! how nice…

Whats in the name? it could anything Rahul Seth, Mathias Schmidt, Salma Qureshi, Anita Sorensen, Raul Ramirez, Zhao Qiang or 0x372B9 etc. etc.

Is it going to change my views? No.

What is more important, my views or my name?

Well, dumbass - it might help you to know (of course, here I am assuming you can actually read) I am not an American! I am an Indian! clears that up for you?

Anyways, be a man (or a woman) and post under your real name, or I will have to use my evil powers and simply zap your messages from now on. You are beginning to bore me.

What exactly are your views “June 29”? Apart from making cheap shots and dropping general platitudes, that is.

I see that members of the homo sapiens moronus species are making their appearance. :evil:

Yaz and MadMan, looks like we are going to have fun on my blog again. It has been so long, it might actually be worth it. I am not banning anyone anymore :beam:

Dear Dumbass No-name,

Here’s another piece of ammo for your paranoia: I was the one who nagged, uh, asked Salam to get an Iraqi woman to blog. Shanti can confirm this. Since I am a Jew, you can blame it all on the evil filthy Zionists.

Does that satisfy you??

Now go back under your rock.

Shanti, congrats to getting your own pet troll.:beam:

Diana, you leader of the vast “jooish” conspiracy!

JK, thanks - I have a feeling this troll is an old one coming back, since he was probably missing us, Awwww!

Oh, btw - 100 cheers for Diana for nagging, er requesting Salam into submission, till he decided to dump an Iraqi woman on us to blog around :beam:

Shanti and Ashwini… tip of the hat to both of you for getting the Iraqi woman to blog.

And I don’t think you should worry too much about anonymous flame throwers.

Thanks, Sameer :) and get ready for a surprise in her second post :beam:

You mean she’s coming back?????

:shocked:

Button, she is coming back and has specifically requested that the comments be turned on - seems like she is having as much fun as I am reading them :) We have a winner on our hands :beam: