The Common Ills: A new animal clinic in Baghdad

Sunday, January 23, 2022

A new animal clinic in Baghdad

That's AFP's video report on stray animals in Iraq, "Bella the dog can barely stand after being abused, but she is now receiving care from a Baghdad refuge that hopes to become Iraq's first veterinary clinic for stray animals." AFP Tweets:

Bella the dog can barely stand after being abused, but she is now receiving care from a Baghdad refuge that hopes to become Iraq's first veterinary clinic for stray animals http://u.afp.com/wNXY

1:05 AM · Jan 23, 2022

From Salam Faraj's AFP text report:

The Baghdad Animal Rescue opened around a week ago, and Bella, a nervous fox-like dog who raises her muzzle for strokes while still shaking in fear, seems in caring hands.

"We are going to care for all kinds of animals and release them when they're well," said Nazik, 37, who is among the volunteers.

Having a pet is unusual in Iraq, and many of the cats and dogs that roam Baghdad's streets are often mistreated.

More than a decade ago, thousands of stray dogs were gunned down with automatic weapons after municipalities including Baghdad decided that their numbers were too high.

For now, the shelter is home to just a handful of animals, including a black cat named Zaatar -- "thyme" in Arabic -- who was blinded in a car accident.

jmuhj1 Tweets:

msn.com/en-us/news/wor Compassion is at the ROOT of Faith! Respect, protect, and love the #cat!!!

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Stray animals find solace at Iraq animal shelter

Bella the dog can barely stand after being abused, but she is now receiving care from a Baghdad refuge that hopes to become Iraq's first veterinary clinic for stray animals. It could eventually hold...

7:51 PM · Jan 23, 2022

In other news, Dilan Sirwn (RUDAW) reports:

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) on Sunday voted on Barham Salih as the party’s only candidate for the Iraqi presidency, claiming that the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) nomination of a candidate is against “Kurdish unity”.

In a statement posted by the PUK’s co-chair Bafel Talabani on Facebook following an hours long meeting of the party's leadership council, the party announced its complete endorsement for the current Iraqi president to run a second term.

The statement added that the council believed that “the KDP has taken steps independently and made agreements with some political parties without any regards to the will of Kurdish parties and Kurdish unity.”

The sense of entitlement from the failing and faltering PUK really needs to be put in check. The PUK has been a fading political party since they staged photos of fat ass Jalal Talabani sitting at a table and 'conversing' when, in fact, fat ass suffered a stroke and should have been removed from office because he couldn't speak. The Talabani's thirst for power was more important to them than the Iraqi people. It was more important to them that they held onto power than that Iraq had a functioning president. Since then, the PUK has done poorly in one election after another -- aided in their elecrtoral disasters by idiotic decisions to stand with the US government and not the Kurdish people. 2021 saw, no surprise, the KDP get more votes than the PUK. The KDP got 31 seats in the new parliament, the PUK got 17.

In what world does that qualify them to hold the presidency. They are losers and they are a fading party. Did Bafel Talabani leave the US long enough to partiicipate in a leadership meeting in Kurdistan? Oh, how fortunate that Bafel was able to drop by Kurdistan.

We'll talk more about the losers of the PUK tomorrow and how they tanked others.

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