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Thursday, April 29, 2004
The Iraqis will never love us for what we did
THE MESOPOTAMIAN (Iraqi Sunni fm Baghdad)
Alaa wrote:
Alaa is right.
The time for a good outcome is past. Now it is time to pick the least bad outcome.
This means not worrying if America is hated or not. Just focus on finishing the liberation of Iraq.
We need to ensure that Iraq has a free and independent elected government. This requires the defeat of violent anti-democratic forces in Iraq such as the Baathists, Al-Qaeda and the Al-Mahdi militia.
For the sake of a free and democratic Iraq, the men who use guns as political tools must be stopped. The Iraqis will hate us for doing it, but we must still do it.
The Iraqis will hate us, and they will be free. We will have to be satisfied with that.
Peace and Freedom for an Independent Iraq!
ORIGINAL ITEM: http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/
Alaa wrote:
...Haven’t we recommended to you some certain security measures before, when there was still time? Haven’t we said that it is necessary to control neighborhoods? Haven’t we said so many things?I wrote in repy:
Well it is harder now but can still be done. There is no alternative to a comprehensive political solution. By now you should realize that the ease with which the Initial campaign succeeded was because the majority wished for your success. It was not because there were cowards here. “The Street” was on your side. Now you must recapture the street, and tanks and firepower cannot do this alone. It is vital both to you and to us to succeed, and it is still possible to succeed, though it was easier earlier, but it must still be done, and you still have credit in you account. It is a matter between you and us alone and nobody else, no foreigners, no neighbors, Arabs and non-Arabs, the former being worse.
As we said before, this is no place for weak hearted people. All the sacrifices and blood must not be in vain.
Alaa is right.
The time for a good outcome is past. Now it is time to pick the least bad outcome.
This means not worrying if America is hated or not. Just focus on finishing the liberation of Iraq.
We need to ensure that Iraq has a free and independent elected government. This requires the defeat of violent anti-democratic forces in Iraq such as the Baathists, Al-Qaeda and the Al-Mahdi militia.
For the sake of a free and democratic Iraq, the men who use guns as political tools must be stopped. The Iraqis will hate us for doing it, but we must still do it.
The Iraqis will hate us, and they will be free. We will have to be satisfied with that.
Peace and Freedom for an Independent Iraq!
ORIGINAL ITEM: http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/