The other day I watched the BBC’s “Once Upon A Time In Iraq”. Spoilers : Saddam dies, America gets its bottom kicked, Al Queda turns into ISIS. The documentary follows different participants in the conflict and showcases their personal stories. There’s the military commander who looks and sounds like Sgt. Dennis Becker out of the Rockford Files and has the brilliant idea of putting an entire village behind barbed wire. He talks about killing people professionally. There’s the US Special Marine who drinks tequila straight from the bottle and revels in his barbarity like he’s wandered off the set of Tropic Thunder. There’s an old woman who hid people from ISIS and was given an award by the Iraqi Prime Minister and was pleased to meet Melania Trump. There’s the author of the underground anit-ISIS blog Mosul Eye https://mosul-eye.org ... There’s a young woman who has seen a lot of horrible things. There’s the US guards that Saddam used to beat at Chess… The thing that really hits home about this documentary is that you really see how much people have suffered and continue to suffer. And yet they still joke about it. Occasionally someone says “I don’t want to talk about that” and looks away from the camera. But it’s amazing that people can live through such perpetual chaos and bloodshed and still carry on. Then again what is the alternative?
Masrour Barazani’s been in power since July 2019. Previously the Prime Minister of Kurdistan was Nechirvan Barzani who has been there since 2012 and before that Masoud Barzani who had been there since 2005.
I don’t know how much democracy Rumsfeld’s lunatic plans have actually resulted in but if you want to run Iraqi Kurdistan it helps to be Barazani or Barzani.Of course the fact so many similarly named people have the top jobs might be a result of the region wanting to break away. Like the SNP always winning in Scotland or...
My lawyers advise me that that’s all I have to say…
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