It was beautiful
The bridges
The river
There were fish
Now there's nothing
It was so beautiful
During the war it was so scary
Our house trembled and shook
The war was overhead
I was afraid in the night
We found some people saying "Baghdad has fallen!"
"The Americans have taken it"
The Americans pass by
The tanks pass by
The helicopters pass overhead
The world is so scary
The world is so scary now
It's all for the oil no more, no less
Why don't they take the oil and leave us alone?
We don't care about the oil
We've never benefitted from it
Saddam took everything for thirty-five years
and now the Americans will be even worse
I read in the newspaper today
that the Ame ricans deny taking Iraqi oil
Why are they guarding Basra and Kirkuk?
Because they have the oil resources
This humanitarian aid they talk of, where is it?
Did you get any? Did you get some?
Or you?
Why didn't they burn the Oil Ministry?
They settled in
The situation is getting worse every day
Every day it gets darker
Today is better than tomorrow
There is no security
No security, no police And you see the streets now
Bush wants us to receive him with flowers
How can he expect that?
If it's like this in the beginning, what will it be in the end?
When you first come, you see Abdul Khader Gaelani Mosque
Go right, there's nothing on either side
No, you go straight The streets are here and here
Go into the street, take a right, like that
- you see a cafe - we live opposite the cafe
You'll find me there
knock on the door, ask for Mohammed, and I'll come out
My boss told me "I am like your father"
He raised me up from a chiId
he and my grandmother
He loves me, loves me
He's nice to me
He doesn't swear at me or beat me
You don't clean the shop You're always playing marbles
Are we working here, or playing marbles?
Why are you doing this?
You pimp!
I told you many times not to play marbles
I tell you to sort the tools - the socket wrench is missing
where are the things?
Open your mind, open it!
Open your mind, you scum!
Look at me! Look at me!
Yo u tell me you cleaned the shop this morning?
You're lying to me? Eh?
I'm talking to you!
Look at me!
Aren't I talking to you Get up!
Look at me!
He loves me
He loves me, he's nice to me
He loves me like his son
He considers me as one of his sons
He doesn't hate me
And he won't fire me
One must form a new outlook on the worId
I n these times we must for get divisions and denominations!
This will not serve us or Islam This will not serve Muslims
Enough of this "He said this and they said that"
History must move us fo rward, Not hold us back!
If History becomes a barrier, we will suffer
We must use it as a lesson
and reap the benefits
Our history has been written for tho usands of years
He who tells history must tell it for all,
not only for himself
I never liked this thing from the start
Nobody got hurt except for us, the poor
Only the working class got hurt
If there will be work and reconstruction,
we won't be the ones who benefit
Only the rich will benefit
The others will stay the same:
The workers will stay workers
Everyone has their own opinion
Look at the differences between the Sunni and Shia:
You can see the divisions now
If youre applying for a job they'll tell you:
"Go to the Dawa Party,"
"and get their blessings"
Where has the Dawa Party been for the last 35 years?
Where have they been?
Why didn't they rid us of Saddam back then?
They've come back and now it's on a silver platter for them?
If you're a Shia they'll give you their blessings
If you're Sunni they won't
I tell you, I wish that Saddam were still around
I wish he were still here to see everything that's happening
So what if he oppressed us and was hard on us
He wouId never leave us in this situation
He wouId never allow it!
He told me he'd pay me later
He's lying, he's a beggar
I used to dream about work:
What is work? How do people work?
How's it done? I knew nothing back then
I used to dream about it I worked and dreamed
Now I kept working and stopped dreaming
I started working to support my mother and grand mother
I dropped out and went to work
I'll keep on working until I'm grown
My boss said, "You must go back to school"
"School will teach you to read and write"
He said, "I'll force you to go"
If you don't go back, I'll beat you
This year is not like the others
First, there will be no cheating!
Don't try to bribe the teachers or the headmaster to pass
There will be none of that!
Now they've got us in rows
And they're speaking about school
I want you to be the vanguard
We want you to do us proud,
to be the pride of the New Iraq!
Because we have finished with oppression and tyranny
Under Saddam they made us sing a lot, and we became ti red
a new president will come
We must sing a different song, if another president comes
We must sing differently
When you succeed you take a step fo rward
This step will help push out the Imperialism controling Iraq
With your efforts and progress
through your studies and cooperation
The first time around I failed the fi rst grade
And then I failed again the next year
I'm four year solder than them
But I don't care, the important thing is to read and write
Who is God?
Where is God?
Yes, in the sky!
How must we say our prayer,
that we must know by heart?
The chapter, the Opening Chapter
Say it: The Opening Chapter
This is something every Muslim
must know by heart
And you can know it, too
if God is willing
In the name of God, The Merciful, The Compassionate
All praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds
The Merciful, Compassionate Master of the Day of Judgment
You alone do we worship, You alone do we turn to
Guide us to the Right eous Way
The way o f those on whom you have endowed Your Grace
not the way of those who earn Your wrath, or goastray
I have an idea about those who pray:
The Drunks and the Sinners
If you treat them well, they return more than they receive
But one who prays and calls himself a God-fearing man
In matters of work or money he will always screw you
What did they tell you in school today?
They didn't give me anything
Did they give you homework?
I did it all in school I don't do it at home
How is the Reading book now? Is it still the simple stuff?
Yes, it's still the same They're bringing new books
The books we have are torn
Do you know how to write your name now?
Slow down, Boss!
Can you write your name, "Mohammed"?
Like this, like this, and like this
Good! You can writ e "Mohammed"
And your father's name? "Haithem"
That's the only thing I still don't know
I can write it, it's easy
"Haithem" HAl-THEM You haven't written it before?
You brother of a whore!
Four years! And you still can't write your father's name?
When will you learn your father's name?
What is it with you? It's the fifth year
I never expect to see my father again
My father is dead to me
I will never see my father, or anything
My father was a lieutenant
He was a policeman
Then he started talking about Saddam
They put him in prison
They showed him on TV
I saw what they were doing in his mouth
They were sear ching his mouth
They were sear ching his teeth and beard
and his hair
And they showed how he was before
How he was holding a sword
In the past
That shooting we heard this morning?
When we were sitting here Do you know what it was?
A brother and sister!
The Americans called to them: "Stop, where are you going?"
They were afraid and started running
They killed them both
They were just buried The shots were for the funeral
A brother and sister!
The other day they passed by with cars, not tanks
They were driving very slowly in their car
They were chewing gum
They drove forward One of them was in back
He was watching the kids in case they pulled a pistol
That's how he watched them
They may stay for a long time How would I know?
It's for the oil
It's for the oil, isn't it?
They're going to install a new president
It's not safe here
It's scary there's no security
I want to go abroad
When you are abroad, nothing will happen to you
But here you can't go out It's not safe
My teacher told me I could be a pilot
What would you like to be? An Engineer, a Pilot?
'A Doctor?' I told her 'A Pilot'
I want to fly the plane,
to see a place that's beautiful and nice
Not Iraq, but a beautiful place
I imagine... I imagine...
I'm high in the sky I can see the doves, the sky
I can see the birds
I am in the plane and seeing countries
Beautiful and nice
I fly down to those countries
I'll go to that country
The beautiful one
D-A-R spells what? "dar"
D-U-R spells what? "dur"
What does it spell? "dur"
What's the meaning of "dur?"
Many houses!
"dur" - What do we say? "Dur"
How do we we write "Dur?" D-U-R
And one house? We write D-A-R
DAR
DUR
DAR
DUR
When we say "dar" it means: "one house"
One house Who lives in one house?
People
You, Mohammed, Who lives in your house?
My uncles, me, my mother and my grand mother
All of you live in what? A "dar" - one house
Where do you live? In a house
And the house next door?
Our neighbors
Mohammed's house, plus his neighbors' ...
How many does that make? Daran! Two houses!
How many?
No, I'm telling you, is it clear?
Don't come to work starting Tuesday morning
What's the point in letting you work here an hour a day?
I'll find another kid to take your place
I'll find some little kid and let him work
Ah? What do you say?
Which is better? School or work?
Work
Why? Doesn't the school teach you?
No, it doesn't teach me
It doesn't teach you?
What will you learn today?
To work
You're going to learn to work today?
Do you know how to write your name?
Write your name here
Okay And your father's?
Is there any one who can't write their father's name?
I only know my first name
How many months has your father's name taken?
Show me how to write it here
The first letter in the name, what do you call it?
Eh? You don't know it?
So why are you in school?
Why are you going to school and don't know the letter 'M'?
Are you pleased with yourself?
Stand up and go away
Haven't you been in school for two months?
You spent five years just to write your name, "Mohammed"
When will you learn "Haithem?"
Next year?
He's been in school four years and he only knows his name!
Aren't I talking to you? Why will you say I fired you?
Because you can't write your father's name
Come here! I'm talking to you!
Come here! Why are you crying?
Did I hit you?
Did I beat you? Come here!
Did I hit you?
Can you write you'r father's name?
Why not? I'm talking to you! Look at me!
What's this? A handkerchief?
Better to clean your face with your sandals!
You dog!
Today when you go - look here! -
Bring a pencil tomorrow to write your father's name
If you don't know how to write it I'll roast you alive!
Understand? You write your father's name tomorrow
Go, you pimp! You mule!
What's his father's name? "Haithem!"
He can't read or write! After five years in school!
You dog, son of a bitch!
Five years in the first grade! Why are you going to school?
Why do they spend the money for you to go?
He's goes to school, drops out, goes to school and drops out
And he doesn't know anything
It's better for him not to go
It s better not to go, I tell you! Better not to go!
Go tell your grand mother that you're dropping out!
11 years old and you can't write?
In the morning
I went with my uncle
When he left in the morning he said, "Come with me"
I went with him to the big shop
I started working with them
It's much better for me
At my old work, they beat me and swore at me
I don't like anyone to beat me
In my uncle's shop, nobody beats me
Nobody swears at me, and I feel relaxed
I will never go back
I have forgotten him, even my boss name
I left him, once and for all
If anyone tells me to return, I will say:
"I would rather kil I myself than go back"
Beware our people!
We will rise up I ike a great earthquake!
The people were forced into silence,
and only in death couId they break their chains!
The crescent moon of our celebration nears
The celebration for which we have shed our tears
Be gone, Oppression and torture of Saddam!
We are the generation of Sadr
Grant us victory over the blasphe mers!
We are the generation of Sadr!
Ali, grant us victory!
As one of those children bornin the 70s
I always heard about Saddam's oppression
of the Shia
Saddam knows
- as do oppressors I ike him -
and it's clear to all,
that the Shia are the most revolutionary of all Muslims
I loved religion and I was very religious
I entered the Hawza,
I became a disciple, a student of the Hawza
I saw Mohammed Al Sadr almost every day
He created in me a kind of courage
And this courage grew ever stronger
until I resolved to challenge the regime myself,
to challenge the Baathists
They ordered my arrest
They threw me in a cell for an entire year
Nobody passed by, nobody asked after me
There's no fight between Shia and Sunni, especially in Iraq
The only differences were created by Saddam
and Saddam's regime
He made the disagreement between Shia and Sunna
After the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Saddam sounded the alarm
that the Iraqi Shia might make another revolution
I ike the revolution in Iran
He began to punish the Shia
for their Islamic customs and traditions
He forbade flagellation
They take up black colors and weeping as a symbol
And flagellation, this is also a symbol
of great tragedy they tast ed losing I mam Ali Bin Abi-Talib
They came to teach us of Western Democracy
Killing, displacement, and torture,
arrests without charge
- in the land of Iraq -
This is the Democracy they have brought!
But Islam is the true Democracy,
the opposite of the false, empty Democracy
they are boasting of
We are not terrorists - never! -
as enemies of God and The Prophet try to depict us
They would suck away our wealth,
and control our minds
After all that they accuse us of being terrorists!
Where is the money they are squandering?
Where are the food supplies? They blame security problems!
But by God! You see all these trucks,
coming from everywhere
all carrying supplies for the Americans,
carrying supplies for the security forces,
the instruments of repression!
They are not carrying food supplies
What a shame that some still believe
the occupying power has Iraqi interests at heart!
What kind of fool couId believe such a thing?
Either we wil I hold legal elections to liberate Iraq,
or we remainin the strangle- hold of the Americans
Maybe it will bring conflict, but we are prepared for that
Maybe the occupation forces will oppose us in the streets
We will lead civil disobed ience and sit down before the tanks
To prove we are in charge, that we can take our freedom
The important thing is to dissolve the im posed council
and replace it with an elected one
We won't abide those imposed by the Occupation Forces
Let them not imagine that in Iraq
though we faced 35 years of Baath ist oppression
that we don't know the meaning of democracy
We know what democracy is
If elections succeed in Naseriyah,
they'll throw out the Americans with a slap on the face
It will be like this: "The Islamic movements propose holding
direct general elections by secret ballot,
to elect a council to represent all the people of our province"
Everyone should feel they have a voice on the committee
- Yes, yes -
So we're saying four Islamic and three Democracy...
- That's seven -
And three... We aren't including a Sunni position?
No, that will create factionalism
It's factional? Okay, skip it
This is the reality, I want to explain...
These elections won't bring clear victory to any one group
This is the reality
The Religious Scholars are the last wordon the elections
and we will follow the Religious Scholars
Holding local elections proves national elections are possible
And if God is willing, it wil I be a signal
for the occupiers and the UN that elections will succeed
We will support elections
Elections that are democratic, popular and Shia
And it's your right to vote for whomever you like
We are moving on this path
and we will hold a conference of political parties in Naseriyah
First, we must organize our selves
If we can do that with dignity, then our path will be true
The Advisory Council, employed by the CPA,
was appointed, not elected
So we fought against it using non-violent resistance
We decided the solution is to replace the council by elections
We are under occupation Let's be realistic
The occupier won't allow us to do something be fore July
without forcing their own conditions
I know from experience there's a decision I ike that
They are shaking our hand and stabbing us in the back
It's a game!
After July they will allow us a small portion of our freedom
A portion Not the whole thing!
We must beware the factional provocation being sown in Iraq
They had th is plan in 1917, when the Eng lish occupied Iraq
in the 1st World War, when General Maude took Baghdad
They tried it then, but the Shia and Sunni declared unity
and so their plan failed
So I suggest we not to raise this sub ject in the elections,
as all groups - Sunni, Shia, Sabians - are true patriots
Even these parti es are not legal parties
A party must have a program, some issues they represent
There are no laws governing political parties
Excuse us - let's hear what Sheik Aws has to say
Brothers, we have no time to argue and quarrel
As our brothers have noted, the situation is critical,
and our province is forgotten
This meeting between Islamic and Democracy move ments
may be impossible in the future
Perhaps some foreign hand will intervene,
or the Devil may walk between our rows
I don't believe this opportunity will ever be repeated
Our mission and our duty, commanded by God,
is to show the correct path to those who go astray
They are bringing the sins of alcohol to Naseriyah
and people pass by them without protest!
Now we will consider it our duty to ask the faithful
if they pass the flea market and see alcohol sellers...
We are warning them against staying there
in the market, selling alcohol
We are an Islamic city!
The Mehdi Army will lead
groups to cleanse this area after three days
following this warning!
The Devil's plan is weak!
And God i s on our side!
Praise be to Moqtada, our leader!
We are with you, not Bush! Nor with any oppressor!
The alcohol sellers will escape!
We weren't doing anything, only passing by!
Just keep quiet
By Abbas Bin Ali Bin Ali Talib!
If wewe reguilty, we would have run!
...and I used to com plain about Saddam!
God bless your parents
You! What's the matter with you?
There's nothing wrong with me
After a bit you'll be released
But you asked what's wrong? - Yes, what's the matter?
It's blasphemy! Those wine sellers in the month of Ashura,
and you arrested us!
I won t go Just let me talk with him
I told you: I will release him If he's innocent I'll release him
Sometimes a man might have troubles, even with his family
We were saved from ty ranny! And you brought anothe r?
How can it be, brother?
When Saddam fell I rejoiced, but now again I m blindfolded!
We've returned to Saddam's time once again!
You arrested him in the market?
Yes He was selling alcohol
By God, he was selling auto scrap!
Saddam uprooted my family How is it I'm bound up again?
How can it be? - Stop your noise -
Even God cannot accept it!
You're slandering people In this holy month of Ashura!
What can we do? Today we didn't even eat breakfast
And now you're framing people
We are living through challenging times in this city
We will either live or die
We will close every door of depravity opened by Ame rica
And we know that America is preparing our punishment
and will try to destroy us by any means
They fear the Mehdi Army will drive them from Iraq
We are asking in a civil way,
and if we are disappointed n this path
then we must chooseanother path granted us by God
We turned out in a peaceful demonstration
to call for the release of Mustapha Yacoubi
A lot of people came
The Spanish were on this side, and the people on the other
The Spanish had taken u p battle positions
The police were pushed back and began shooting in the air
It seems some of the demonstrators had weapons
A firefight started, many people were shot
On TV we saw the Mehdi Army training in Baghdad
Moqtada's speech made the Americans very nervous
They trampled our holy places, they beat our Imams
The south will not be silent, and no American will feel safe
Where is the Democracy? Is this the Democracy?
Is this the Freedom?
They routed Saddam and now 100 Saddams to replaced him!
America promised a life of comfort, freedom, democracy,
but we knew it was all lies!
The American military claims they have stopped
using some methods of interrogation in Iraq
after revelations of torture of Iraqi detainees
in Abu Graib prison, near Baghdad
As to how what happened in that prison
will reflect on America and the American people...
...those disgraceful acts do not reflect our character
As we have broadcast all over the world,
we will conduct a thorough investigation
that the whole world will see
In order to find out the truth
of how these things happened,
whether there were any decisions made,
or orders given, and how they were delivered
And our investigations will be completely different
from what was done under Saddam Hussein
when no investigations were carried out
Has America saved us from the Baathists?
They've changed the faces They removed Saddam,
and here are the Baathists: They brought Alawi his kind
Who can trust America? Who can trust the biggest tyrant?
America is supporting Israel on one side,
and we Muslims trust that America came to help us?
Verily, glory goes to the revolutionary
Glory goes to the resistance
And shame, disgrace and defeat go the occupier!
When will we begin the fight?
You saw what became of the spies
who in formed on holy warriors in Sadr City, in Baghdad:
They were hanged from the electricity poles!
So shall it be with all spies
Peace be upon Mohammed and his followers!
Curse his enemies and make victorio us his son,
Moqtada! Moqtada! Moqtada!
If Vietnam was able to defeat America,
then we of courage and faith can de feat the enemy,
and expel them, God willing We can do it
If America leaves, these people will be like a return of Saddam
Saddam in a new form, a new image
The city is empty, a ghost town,
and Moqtada's men control it
America promised one thing and did another
They came as I iberators and became occupiers
They came to help the people but then turned against us
Against the Iraqi people, against Iraq
That's America
Their problem is they only know how to use force
You have to study the Iraqis to know them
They shouId learn our customs, our habits...
It's impossible to change us with the barrel of a tank
It's impossible
If they bring tanks here then they are against the people
We are in the center of the city It has become a battleground
there are people living here, going to cafes...
...and that's how it is
America wants the bombings!
They are killing civilians in the street
it's deadly serious
They say: "We came to save you from Saddam Hussein"
Who put Saddam in power if not them?
They supported Saddam for 35 years
They want to build a military base here
to steal our wealth and our oil
They want to take everything!
There is only one God!
America is the enemy of God!
Lighten their load, oh God
and bring their spirits to you, oh God
You are all-forgiving, oh God
You are the Mercy and the Blessing, oh God
Look favorably upon their virtues, oh God
If they have done wrong, for give their trespasses
All of you have come for the sake of your dead
All the dead of the King of Believers, the Shia
I remember all the days
they play before my eyes
In autumn they work the brick ovens
sometimes I go to watch
sometimes I go to the ovens and watch the fire
In the summer it's very hot
Without shade you won't last
You have to sit in the shadows
I will bury you
You'll bury yourself
When you take back moves I lose my desire to play
That's what you always say
You know me too well
Youre taking back your moves!
You only say that when you lose
You have won very beautifully
But victory doesn't come easily
That's all
When I was born,
my father named me Mahmoud, after an Imam
My father
He said, "I will let this one study"
And he put me in school
before he died
When my father went to God,
- we had sheep, we lived in the countryside -
They said "Mind the sheep You don't know how to study"
"You won't amount to anything"
I don't want my children to be like me
Let them be different
Sulei!
Come, little white sheep
Sulei, I got my hair cut at a barber
What style did you ask for?
The Arnold
Suleiman is a friend of mine
Sulei! Not like that!
You have destroyed my head!
As we get older, we won't for get each other
We won't say
"Now we're older No need to visit each other"
As we grow older, our friendship must grow stronger
I will be a teacher: Suleiman says he wants to be a doctor
He jokes with me:
"If you become sick, I'll give you the wrong injection!"
"Not the one that makes you better"
Go for five minutes!
And if I last that long? - I'll give you whatever you like
We have loved each other since child hood
Like brothers
When we first moved here
Bizhar and I became best friends
And it's the same at school
Me and Bizhar, we always stuck together
We still walk to school togethe r
If anyone fights with us, we defend each othe r
Teacher! Teacher! Teacher!
Stand up Suleiman, please, and stand up, Salar
I'm asking, Salar, "Who's that?" - "That is Suleiman"
Clap for him
However much you study, it's not enough
However much you study, it's too little
There are those who only study, and they'll be doctors
And those who haven't studied
They must take any job they can find
I pray my grades are good enough just to pass
The principal and I are on uneven terms
He's always saying "You'll fail But who knows?
He just says that so you'll study more
Bring them back, Rosho!
Always with the sheep, summer and winter
Why?
I don't want to leave school
I want to go to college and be something
We pray to God to end violence and suffering
to give the Kurdish people rest
I tried hard to put Suleiman in religious school
to become an Imam
I will die soon
In my remaining days I will attend the mosque
and spend my time praying to God
I said to myself, "I have six sons"
"Let one of them be for God,"
"and let the others be for this life"
It is written in the Quran, "If we stay alive, we will see"
"Any place touched by sunlight will be governed by Islam"
Now they say the Kurds are blasphemers,
that Kurds brought Amecica to Iraq
They say, "We will behead all the Kurds"
People think the Kurds are blasphemers
But suicide bombers? Can you imagine?
They think it s Jihad, that you'll be a martyr
But if there is religion left it is among the Kurds
In the past, we moved from our village because of poverty
Saddam Hussein destroyed the villages
He turned the area into a wasteland
He changed it into an Arab area
Because bones were broken and blood spilled between us
Ourunity and brotherhood will never return
God brought America to the Kurds
He brought her tous, and they liberated Iraq
They toppled the regime
We came out of the darkness into the light
There's been enough war in Iraq
How long can it continue?
Let's lay our weap ons down and practice politics
If you compare Jewish people with the Kurds:
They are much fewer
They have their own flag, their own government
They are free and independent
Why can't the Kurds be independent?
Why can't they have their flag?
Even if I don't live to see it, my children will benefit
The Prophet said, I desire nothing
He said, "Life is nothing, it is empty, like a house"
"with two doors: You ent er on one side and exit on the other"
I want no thing from this life
All my children, from youngest to oldest,
have followed in my footsteps
They are walking in my path
We ask God in His glory to hear our prayer
on this Friday sabbath
Dear brothers
We have all been requested to go
to cast our vote for our future, our country, our nation
To draw it with our hands!
You must sacrifice one day to save a persecuted people
Tounco ver how an entire nation was buried alive
in the Anfal Campaign!
It's just a paper that you put in the ballot box
The ballot box, my brothers
Many years we fought in the mountains
Many years we struggled against the oppressor
All that was nothing compared with the vote you will cast
The vote that you will cast
is better than 100 bombs and 200 boxes of bullets!
If the Kurds unite they will be something this time around
This is your only paper?
Yes
Then go in
Let them come, brother, let them come!
Check our bodies well!
Unti I now we have been unknown to the world
Kurdistan! Kurdistan!
Now they will know who we are
You can't stand here, the line is ove r there
Brothers! Be patient! I'll let all of you in!
Nobody without a form can come in!
Brother, I checked with all the polling stations
Anyone with an ID, just ask for his ration card
so we don't lose any votes for the Iraqi National Assembly
You must mark list 130, it's the Kurdish one
These are for other parties
Put your right index finger in the ink
Yes, this one
Where shall I put this?
I'm illiterate I have my husband with me
Mark 130, it's the Kurdish one
A man who eat these votes and for get me tomorrow,
who will only play with me, I will not vote for this man,
who only wants to fill his pockets
You must support those who support the poor
Now the Kurdish leadership has grown fat
While the poor people are moaning from hunger
This is the truth
If it cannot be, it cannot be
Now it will be hard for Kurds, Sunna and Shia to liv e togethe r
The future of Iraq will be in three pieces
Iraq is not something that you can cut into pieces
Iraq is a country
And how can you cut a country into pieces?
With a saw?
Kurdistan is lik e Heaven on Earth for the Kurds
We must protect Kurdistan like our own eyes,
and not let the enemy invade Kurdistan
Those who rely God's grace, God willing, they will succeed
If God is willing, he will give us strength
By God, the spring is very nice, the grass grows...
I have for gotten many things
Things don't stay in my mind
When they tel I me I was dreaming,
I say, "How can it be a dream?"
"I've never seen such a dream"
and yet I had dreamed it
His father said, "You must herd the sheep"
He had no choice, so he left school
His future will burn
I have no business going to school
I'm the only one left
They won't take anyone who's not a good brick cutter
All these young guys come searching
with their mustaches and their big muscles
From morning until night nobody gives them work
If they can't do even that work, they just go home and lie down
Always lying around...
But you must buiId your life Isn't it so?
Now I work the brick ovens
Then I tend the sheep
My father is getting old, he can't work
If we all went to school, he'd do the work
But we won't let him work
He raised us all Shouldn't we care for him now?
I'm tired I eat quickly so I can lie down
and fall asleep
Now the war is over
Today, everything in Iraq is control led by America
Nobody can escape America's reach
Two men are wrestling
Someone asks, "Whose side is God on?"
They answer, "God is always on the side of the winner"
Whoever wins, God is on his side
I'm going God be with you