Comments on: Witness from the Hurt Locker

By: bpdoe

bpdoe — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:33:44 +0000

May,
Great job, I hope this is but one of many post on this blog about your experiences and opinions. You never had the benefit of forgetting the war or escaping it. You lived with the constant reality of it kicking in your door at any time and invading the private refuge of your inner sanctuary of following you home, but yet you risk life and limb to work for Reuters and risk even more writing such an article in such a public forum. I am very proud to know you and consider you my dear friend, your strength and bravery are only matched by your passion for seeing peace come to your homeland.
loved this blog!
Brett

By: HBC

HBC — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:33:49 +0000

No wonder you’re nauseated by The Hurt Locker. So was everybody else. It’s one of the rottenest, most cowardly little ordeal movies ever made, living proof that any hack writer can hook up with a director of modest intellect, point four cameras at hours and hours of improv ensuing from a fairly decent cast, then let editors stitch the results into some albeit pointless semblance of narrative whose core failure, as with any embedded by product, never questions why US & UK aggressors continually destroy all and any peace or civilization that ever prevailed in Iraq by bombing and contaminating the place to Kingdom Come.

As not only millions of Iraqis know, that’s gotta hurt.

By: emilysinsight

emilysinsight — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:45:58 +0000

There are always people, some of them thugs, some of them businessmen, some of them religious, some of them bureaucrats who profit from the instability from which killings arise. We never seem to work up a hate toward these, the actual, troublemakers. Everyone senses oil money has a lot to do with all this suffering; no one’s self-interest is on the side of exposing how, so that story is forever untold. Viet Nam was about propping up the value of the dollar, and we rescued FRANCE, which was bankrupted by that war. No one remembers that, especially the French interests!

By: maynaji2003

maynaji2003 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:04:35 +0000

Well, the peace has not been restored in Iraq yet, there are still bombings happening from time to time, there are still hundreds of Iraqi refugees outside their country, lack of services, and corruption. There are different of groups of insurgents or militias, who they have appeared after the war fighting for different agenda and what helped these groups to grow is chaos, the absence of law, and more important is the lack of jobs which made many young people to become an easy prey in the hands of those who does not want the stability and peace.

By: MarwanShaheen

MarwanShaheen — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:37:26 +0000

although i don’t like the “hurt locker” as i consider most of the movies that comes with the cover of international conflicts is a “propaganda”. but i agree with article writer about how the people went through all these chaotic events “especially during 2005-2008″ ’cause i have lived this period and i saw many incidents like the ones above. this article in partial describes the American side of the “game”, it would be interesting if and only if it was possible to describe the dark side of this conflict. i prey that peace lands on Iraq, people and country.

By: manishindia

manishindia — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:14:39 +0000

May,

Now the peace has been restored in Iraq, has any been made to know more about these insurgent?

By: Story_Burn

Story_Burn — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:40:41 +0000

You think of all the aid going to Haiti, and you have to wonder….

By: cranston

cranston — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:10:30 +0000

It is partly due to the prurient interest and artful communication of events like those reported that support the continued violence and disgusting instances of war.

By: matilda

matilda — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:04:33 +0000

we must be there, to understand the pain

By: Pedja

Pedja — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:55:49 +0000

It is for your dream and that of many others who followed their dreams that can help end the nightmare your people are going through. No one should live in a nightmare, not in their own and especially not in that imposed on them, evil and cruel. I wish every child and every grownup can wake up from it an see an endless clear blue sky and fee the breeze of true freedom. Thank you for your wake up call May, Godspeed.