I have spent the last 72 hours scouring videos online, looking for citizen journalism from Iraq. I've found scores of video blogs and bits by US soldiers. I cannot find any videos created by Iraqis from inside Iraq. It may be because, I do not speak Arabic. Yet I doubt that's the case --there are quite a number of propaganda videos from the different insurgencies fighting in Iraq.

What I speak of is of videos coming from Iraqi cellular phones or digital cameras. I speak of videos where Iraqis may have filmed their surroundings, their day to day and put out on the web for any and all to witness and never forget.

Iraq by Iraqis in Iraq are nowhere to be found.

The measure of a brutal imperialistic force is in it's effective silencing of the people they've set out to conquer, submit, silence and colonize.

We The People Of The United States have been complicit in the silencing of Iraqis, in the wiping away of their culture and history, in the destruction of their freedom of speech and freedom to be by destroying their homes, destroying their country's infrastructure, destroying their economy.

Two and a half million Iraqis have fled the country and another 2 million have been displaced inside the country, running away from the bombing, the home invasions and the violence.

With our shock and awe, We The People Of The United States have robbed Iraqis of the right to free speech by denying them access to electricity, computers, to the internet, digital cameras and all the tools necessary for joining as free individuals the digital communities on the web.

I am sure there are videos and podcasts of Iraq by Iraqis in Iraq that I have failed to find. Yet, when Iraq on YouTube is mostly a repository of video clips for US soldiers and US sanctioned media, there's no better evidence of why our government intentionally failed to give Iraq back to the Iraqi people.