Day of Rage

Play List Iraq?

A list of the music that I've downloaded (in chronological order): 


1. Air - Le soleil est près de moi (from Premiers symptômes)
2. Random Rab - aRose - (Album)
3. The Black Keys - Brothers (Album - Deluxe)
4. Band of Horses - various songs
5. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer (Album - The Deluxe Edition)
6. Ween - Chocolate Town - Quebec
7. Peter Gabriel - Passion: Music the Last Temptation of Christ (Album)
8. David Guetta - Memories (feat. Kid Kudi)
9. Flying Lotus - Reset EP (Album)

Then my iTunes jammed up, I had to write support and then we continue:

10. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Whole Album)  

My son flying to visit my father

Claudia and Andres were walking through the airport in Atlanta, while I was here online in Iraq - a page opened on my computer to a map of the airport and another to a map of the MARTA transit with each route and stop expanded into its own map. I had a page open to the Georgia Aquarium all the while on Google chat guiding Claudia through the airport  

"Ok, what do you see?" 

"Duty Free shop."

Ok, then turn left, and go down the escalator, take the tram, go to Terminal D, get out, go up the escalator, turn right - what do you guys want to eat? 

Ok - there's a place that sells soup next to the MARTA station. You are going to need $5.25 round trip - get the pass, it says here that it's cheaper. Take the gold line 8 stops north to Peachtree Center Stop, turn on Baker St...the aquarium opens at 9:00 - says here it's the largest aquarium in the world and that it's also in the Guinness Book of World's Records. It opens today at 9 - 6 - Adult entrance - $24.95 Child (age 3-12) - $18.95...and meanwhile she's snapping pictures with her Blackberry and uploading them onto Facebook so I am actually seeing what the soup looks  - and the weather out the window of train on the MARTA and a snapshot of a hammer-head shark floating in the blue water overhead... 

There was an article I read where Egyptians were ordering pizza online to be delivered to people protesting in Wisconsin. 

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/02/someone_in_egypt_ordered_a_piz.html

and another where someone in Egypt named his daughter "facebook" -  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/21/baby-named-facebook-egypt_n_825934.html

and it dawns on me that we are in fact living in the future.     

Col Oleg

I'm just finishing the fist book in the Chalmers Johnson trilogy that you sent, and it is eye-opening for sure. Particularly considering my current position. I just now came back from a get-together with NATO and met COL Oleg, a Ukrainian officer who is out here doing combat training with the Iraqis. So I joked with him that I hope these guys don't turn on him and use his training against him (or me for that matter)... and he gives this look like (brother, you have NO IDEA) and then starts telling his story of how, as a Second Lt. in the Soviet army he was sent to fight in Afghanistan in 84? at the head of a battalion of soldiers against basically the (US funded) Afghani mujahadeen (Bin Laden). He couldn't even find the words in English to explain it. That basically his men were all but completely wiped out and then the Soviet Union collapses and fast-forward 20 years and he finds himself back in Afghanistan, this time on a NATO mission training some of the very same guys that he had been killing and who had slaughtered his men 20 years earlier - a complete mind-fuck. He was talking about the cycles of history and that was a double cycle - like how we were allies in WWII with Russia, then the cold war and now what the fuck are we all doing here at a party in Iraq? and then we extended that to the US - Iraqi situation which is a triple cycle where the US funds Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war (both sides in fact) - and you can Google an image of Donald Rumsfield shaking hands with Saddam back in those days, then we go to war with the guy, and now here we are funding and training these same people again. Total mind fuck. In the end we all agreed that in the future we should leave all this fighting to our politicians while the human beings that these assholes are supposed to represent are left alone to hang out together and drink beer and be friends.