Focus and Clarity News and Background Information: February 2005

Focus and Clarity News and Background Information

Enter into the fray. Let's not be so divided but come to the blog feast of news and opinions as Americans who love their country. Let's agree to disagree as a nation of civilized people who have the highest regard for our freedom of thought and speech and for our Republic of these United States with liberty and justice for all.

About Me

There is a great need in the world for earnestness, truth, honesty and trust. There seems to be little of it in today's world, when we can't believe in what we hear, see and often question what we even know within ourselves.

Again the world often seems to be mired in war physically, mentally and even spiritually.

What we know within ourselves, our own individual truths need to be reinforced. If we follow our hearts and our higher selves, our minds will follow.

My intention is to take ideas, ask the questions, look for the answers, inform, make connections, and sometimes create art and literature.

I am an admirer of the journalism of William Shirer and Ernest Hemingway, Eric Severied, and all the old timers who gave us the facts so vividly that we are able to create pictures in our minds, seeing the news/history as it was without bias.

I am an admirer of the craft of the writer Hemingway, when he was young, earnest and honest in love, whose work still speaks volumes on the inner person.

May I write well and create images and words of worth, and give people insight into what they truly know and feel within themselves about many things.

Monday, February 07, 2005

Iraqi villagers kill 5 insurgents

Iraqi villagers kill 5 insurgents
ABC NEWS, Australia^ | Friday, February 4, 2005. 11:27am (AEDT) | By Middle East correspondent Mark Willacy

The residents of a small Iraqi village have killed five insurgents who had attacked them for voting in last weekend's national elections.

Several other insurgents were also wounded.

The insurgents raided the village of al-Mudhiryah south of Baghdad after warning its inhabitants not to vote in the election.

The villagers fought back, killing five of the insurgents and wounding eight others.

The insurgents' cars were then set alight.

Al-Mudhiryah's tribal sheikh says his people are sick of being threatened by Islamic extremists.

Thoughts:
"Al-Mudhiryah's tribal sheikh says his people are sick of being threatened by Islamic extremists."

At last, evidence of some of the Iraqi majority taking back their country.