Iraq in Fragments (2006) - full transcript

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!

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,

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