This is the admin of insideiraq, an invite-only community intended for Iraqis, those who are serving or working in Iraq, Iraqi expatriots, and others who may be going there in the future.
insideiraq is currently invite-only for the following reasons:
1> I want it to be a way for people who are, were, or will be there to find each other and possibly support and assist each other in meaningful ways. To a certain extent, this requires the community to be closed to most of LiveJournal's members, as those who are there cannot always speak publically about some of their concerns. By keeping membership limited, they are able to post "friends only" and still have a good shot at privacy.
2> I want it to be a way that those who are there have a good chance of finding others who are there. It took a lot of work to locate as many people on LJ who are connected to Iraq as I did, and I would rather save them the effort.
3> I want the community's identity to be formed by those who are there, as opposed to being a political shooting gallery, which I fear it could become if I open it up to everyone at this point.
4> The community is still getting started and really the groundrules are still not determined yet. I still need to communicate with those in the community and get their feedback in order to determine just how public or private they want the community to be, as it effects how they will use the community and whether it will be of interest or of value to them or not.
I have examined your profile, and although you do seem to have a serious interest in what happens in Iraq, I'm afraid that I cannot invite you to join the community at this time, because your journal doesn't indicate to me how you meet the criteria for membership, as you don't appear to either be in Iraq, going to Iraq, recently back from Iraq, or Iraqi.
If a reason exists that I am not aware of for your membership, please let me know.
No worries. I really don't fit the criteria, and mainly wanted to see the perspectives of people who are truly affected by the war--the soldiers and the people who live there.
They vary, of course. A lot of the people who reply to my posts are soldiers who were in or are back from Iraq, so you can probably check out their journals.
Well, screw the blonde joke. I tried clicking the link to it and got a message claiming that I'm not authorized to read it.
...and screw Iraqis. You know, if they really wanted freedom and a democracy in the first place, they would have done it the way we did- by rising up against their govornment and fighting it. Today, we see that many of them didn't really want that. The proof lies in the fact that many of them now attack our own troops.
No, there is only one reason why we're there. The Bush family had their own vendetta against the Hussein family for years. What better way for these US oil tycoons to profit more than to wipe out those who stand in their way, create a new govornment that listens to only the whims of the Bush family dictatorship. Then through that new gov't, steal that country's oil reserves. The Bush family grows wealthier still, and the people of Iraq become poorer. Eventually then, the Bush's move on to other arab nations (as has been threatened to other nations who build weapons in order to be sure that they have adequate protection against invasion), create false intellegence, start the whole shabang over until the United States owns Mid-Eastern territories. It's a crusade of aquiring all of the wealth possible this time, rather than the type of religious crusade fought over hundreds of years.
It's sick and pathetic. The diversity of these nations need to be embraced and understood better, not destroyed.
insideiraq is currently invite-only for the following reasons:
1> I want it to be a way for people who are, were, or will be there to find each other and possibly support and assist each other in meaningful ways. To a certain extent, this requires the community to be closed to most of LiveJournal's members, as those who are there cannot always speak publically about some of their concerns. By keeping membership limited, they are able to post "friends only" and still have a good shot at privacy.
2> I want it to be a way that those who are there have a good chance of finding others who are there. It took a lot of work to locate as many people on LJ who are connected to Iraq as I did, and I would rather save them the effort.
3> I want the community's identity to be formed by those who are there, as opposed to being a political shooting gallery, which I fear it could become if I open it up to everyone at this point.
4> The community is still getting started and really the groundrules are still not determined yet. I still need to communicate with those in the community and get their feedback in order to determine just how public or private they want the community to be, as it effects how they will use the community and whether it will be of interest or of value to them or not.
I have examined your profile, and although you do seem to have a serious interest in what happens in Iraq, I'm afraid that I cannot invite you to join the community at this time, because your journal doesn't indicate to me how you meet the criteria for membership, as you don't appear to either be in Iraq, going to Iraq, recently back from Iraq, or Iraqi.
If a reason exists that I am not aware of for your membership, please let me know.
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Mark Kraft
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...and screw Iraqis. You know, if they really wanted freedom and a democracy in the first place, they would have done it the way we did- by rising up against their govornment and fighting it. Today, we see that many of them didn't really want that. The proof lies in the fact that many of them now attack our own troops.
No, there is only one reason why we're there. The Bush family had their own vendetta against the Hussein family for years. What better way for these US oil tycoons to profit more than to wipe out those who stand in their way, create a new govornment that listens to only the whims of the Bush family dictatorship. Then through that new gov't, steal that country's oil reserves. The Bush family grows wealthier still, and the people of Iraq become poorer. Eventually then, the Bush's move on to other arab nations (as has been threatened to other nations who build weapons in order to be sure that they have adequate protection against invasion), create false intellegence, start the whole shabang over until the United States owns Mid-Eastern territories. It's a crusade of aquiring all of the wealth possible this time, rather than the type of religious crusade fought over hundreds of years.
It's sick and pathetic. The diversity of these nations need to be embraced and understood better, not destroyed.
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