OTHO,

It’s too bad that beacon of liberty and freedom of speech, Saddam, is now rotting in a jail cell.

And the demented guy who blew up over 100 Iraqis (ethnic or not), who were just looking for work, is a “hero” in Vicky’s book.

To adapt an old adage: Tell me whom you admire, I’ll tell you who you are.

Victorino, you are such a dork. Has anyone banned your stupid crap?
Mustapha interesting comparison, though the scale is way off. by the way, good discussion on the prior posts

VIC your commengs remind me of Baath slogans of imperialisim, in3ezele and so on of these hollow slogans…
ur still living in the past. I suggest u watch news more often and see what the pple really want
peace

I don’t understand who’s behind the attacks. If it’s Syria then why? The whole world is going to kick their ass so what are they doing? If it’s the Islamist then why do we have such small explosions? I did not know that they cared about infidel lives.

What’s the point of these attacks? People are not even angry at someone because they don’t know who’s behind it.

Dr. Vic, are you talking about the secular Saddam that established a sectariany-based dictatorship? That wrote the Qoran with his own blood? That added “Allah Akbar” on the Iraqi flatg with his own handwriting? That introduced some of the Islamic law in the personal statue after 1994? That called for Jihad on TV? That persecuted people based on their religion (not only the Shia, but also the Assyro-Chaledean). Even before 1990 he was never secular. Is this is what is called secularism in the Middle East? No wonder that I reject deconfessionalization then!

May God never makes us ’secular’ if it means deconfessionalized state with sectarian politician.

Vox Populi,

Who is behind the attacks? I really beleive it is remnant of the lebanese and syrian security. As the oft said phrase.

I think if you analyze Syria as a country it becomes difficult to understand their behavior. If you analyze Syria as you would a Mafia (i.e. with the same set of principles of revenge, honor etc.) then their actions start making sense…

Anyway I think the countdown has started for the Syrian regime and non too soon. The Baathist took one of the most important and educated countries in the MidEast and starved its citizens from education and a future.

Dear Dr. Vic,

Are you for real? or are you virtual.

I am at a loss to place you in the political spectrum.

Your writings are full of contradictions and hypocracy.

The Iraqis have every right to resist the American military occupation of their country but these terrorist bombings are inhuman and cannot be justified.

All countries in the ME are made up of diverse peoples. Being Persian or of Persian or Kurdish origin does not mean that that they have less rights as Iraqis.

“Sistani, Ja’afari, Chalabi, Talabani & Co. are all foreigners or Persian origin: they must leave Iraq now or meet the retribution they deserve”. This is pure racism and reminds me of the Lebanese fascists who like to use the term pure Lebanese .

Then, if that was not enough ,you go on to praise Saddam Hussein for supporting our Lebanese fascists. Did you forget that his muhabarat officers used to get drunk with their Israeli counterparts in Jounieh.

The Hariris are a dynasty that are very clever business people with very powerful and rich friends. They are not Wahabi or racist.

Lebanon love it or leave it is an old fascist Lebanese cliche and has no place in Lebanon today.

Issam

Issam, I think that you can’t put a label on everybody ‘you’re LF’, ‘you’re orange’, you’re FM. etc…

Some people, like Dr. Vic have a system of beliefs that is different from the ideologies on the politcal market. I, a federalist, did not vote for the LF at the last elections because I don’t share all their beliefs. If I had to chose the best guy for the economy, I’ll go for Siniora. (politics is damn important but economy counts to me). And don’t BS me about the debt.

And Mustafa, it’s not nice to publish Vic’s IP… Do you have other info on him:)? He’s the most colourful member of our bloggin community. Yes dude, we’re doing a Lebanese thing, we are creating a 19th community: the bloggers. It’s so sectarian!

We must submit these Lebanese non-blogger and force them to join us! Death to mainstream media!
:)
Just joking

Dr. Vic.,

You are a colorful character and I didn’t mean to pin a name or label on you. You are so contradictory that it would be an impossible task.

Are just having fun with us?

However, I cannot let you get away with your racist Persian remarks because it is this attitude that gives the Qawmi their bad name and was the undoing of the tyrant Saddam.

None of us are racially or ethnically pure and these comments about race and ethnicity are abhorrant and unacceptable.I for one am not “pure” Lebanese even though we can trace our heritage in Lebanon for the last 900 years.Before that our family was from Baghdad and before that in a town north of Tehran. Origin and politics can be independent of each other.

If the majority of the Maronites who are from Syria can be anti-Syrian by nature and if Chiha ,a Chaladean ,can be the one of the main proponents of Phoenicism, then this Persian can be a Lebanese and an Arab in spite of people like you.

Issam

Well it’s normal that Dr. Vic is contradicatry, after all he’s a democratical Qawmi. I thought that this specie went extinct in the 20’s but it seems that some specimens have survived.

The other thing is that we now know that he’s not Assaad AK who’s in the US.

I”m familiar with this subject too