"These days are much darker than the days of Saddam", from a family in Badhdad.

Be sure you click on the top three Iraq blogs to the left to get a feel of what three different people actually living in Iraq think. A sample:

"Remember the days when every time you hear an Iraqi talk on TV you had to remember that they are talking with a Mukhabarat minder looking at them noting every word? We are back to that place.
You have to be careful about what you say about al-Sadir. Their hands reach every where and you don't want to be on their shit list. Every body, even the GC is very careful how they formulate their sentences and how they describe Sadir's Militias. They are thugs, thugs thugs. There you have it.
I was listening to a representative of al-sadir on TV saying that the officers at police stations come to offer their help and swear allegiance. Habibi, if they don't they will get killed and their police station "liberated". Have we forgotten the threat al-Sadir issued that Iraqi security forces should not attack their revolutionary brothers, or they will have to suffer the consequences."

Get pissed. We have allowed this guy to literally become a second Saddam right under our noses. One has to ask what Bremmer is doing. How many of our top people have had their heads up their asses for the past year? Rumsfeld's empty pronouncements really sound bad now. And sooner or later we all have to face the hard fact that Bush is a horrible president not capable of leadership. This is happening on his watch (er vacation time) and only his. Here's another POV from Iraq at a Glance

Now we have a silly angry boy, thieves and idiots..!
Wow.. what a group!!
I’m afraid the world will say that Iraqis don’t deserve the liberation because of those people..
Here in Basra, few Muqtada’s men are preparing themselves, hiking among the people and in front of banks and shops waiting for another looting and robbery acts and spreading rumors about the situation in other provinces.. they say that the governmental institutes are robbed and everything lost..etc..trying to breach the peace.. some of them are carrying sacks to rob the bank if their ‘leader’ will succeed and control Iraq!!
Got the picture of this militia?!
Of course there’s no one channel can interview an educated Iraqi who dares to say all of that about this militia ..

I pulled this extrapolation from a long post in Healing Iraq

I was standing outside with neighbours yesterday afternoon gossiping when a car drove by, threw a couple of fliers at us, shouting "read them, may Allah increase your reward". The fliers were signed by a group which called itself Saif Allah Albattar (Allah's striking sword) at Ramadi, Fallujah, Adhamiya, and Diyala, which advised Iraqis to remain home on April 9th (the anniversary of the occupation), stating that they would not be responsible if anyone failed to do so. Someone else talked about another group called the Iraqi Islamic Army (groups like these seem to pop up every other day) which claimed its responsibility for the killings of the 4 Americans in Fallujah last week, decribing them as 'Jews'.

Once again we just sat back and allowed this to happen. According to Hammorabi, alJazeera is acting as an agent for both Iran and this nut case;finally there is this from A Family in Baghdad

They say that hospitals are full with injured and killed people.
Only god can protect us from what’s happening…
These days are much darker than the days of Saddam Husein.

Nice, huh? BTW, a Family in Baghdad is in both Arabic and English if you go there.