Out of the Box...

Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

...So, the other night, on the Arabic Al Jazeerah, there was this program called "Ma wara'a al Khabar". Basically translated "Behind a piece of news." The night's subject was the "political escape" of Raouf AbdelRahman, the kurdish "judge" of the kangaroo, circus, court trial, where the Legitimate President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, met his ultimate fate. That same puppet judge who kept shouting with his broken Arabic accent (forced arabization?) "Shut up, sit down, stand up, take him out...Shut up, sit down, stand up, take him out..." The guy is a bad joke. He kept using his litle hammer- knock, knock , knock...Stuttering and repeating, "Shut up, sit down, stand up, take him out..." And the REAL Iraqis, of which Saddam Hussein is one, kept repeating: "Long live Iraq, Long live Palestine, Down with Zionism, Down with Imperialism, Long live the Resistance..." And the kurdish sell out judge would go - knock, knock, knock with his pathetic wooden hammer...and shriek in his squeaky, mousy, voice and purse his thin lips even more... That "judge" decreed that Saddam Hussein was to be hanged. And a few weeks later, he issued another similar verdict about his aides. And it was that same joker who escaped to Mother England. And all of you "valiant lefties" of the West and your lackeys in the Middle East and you hypocritical sell out Iraqis (kurds included), your silence was deafening...

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