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Tuesday, June 01, 2004

The Media vs. Real Iraqis


If you listen to the media they will tell you that the Iraqis will be content to remain slaves.

The position esposed by these anti-democratic pundits is fundamentally racist. Liberty and justice in a democratic society are the right of everyone in the world, regardless of geography, history, religion or ethnicity. If we are unwilling to allow the Iraqi people to become a free and democratic society, if we say that human rights are only for those people like us - then we will truly become the fascist imperialists that we are accused of being.

If you are willing to listen to the words of actual Iraqis, then you will know that they hunger for liberty.

Try going to these sites and listen to the truth:

Hammorabi (Sam - a Shia college student from Baghdad)

Healing Iraq (Zeyad - a Sunni Dentist from Baghdad, works in Basra)

Iraq & Iraqi`s (Firas - a Sunni buisinessman from a pro-Saddam neighborhood in SW Baghdad)

Iraq at a Glance (A.Y.S. - a Sunni architecture student from Baghdad)

IRAQ THE MODEL (Three Sunni brothers from Baghdad: Ali - a medical doctor, Mohammed - a dentist & Omar - a recently graduated dentist)

Kurdo's World (Kurdo - a Kurdish nationalist from Kirkuk)

Nabil's Blog (Nabil - a Sunni highschool student from Baghdad)

Sun of Iraq (Alaa Smary - a Sunni from Baghdad)

THE MESOPOTAMIAN (Alaa - a Sunni doctor from Baghdad)

Try listening to the opinions of Iraqis that are unfiltered by the Arab and anti-Bush media. Not everything is about George Bush. It is about freedom and justice for an enslaved people.

Liberty, equality and brotherhood are the right of every man, woman and child. We can never give up trying to help make a free and peaceful world, or we lose the right to call ourselves civilized.

Peace and Freedom for an Independent Iraq

Posted by: Zayphar / 6/01/2004 09:32:00 PM
Comments:
Today, most of Africa is enslaved by tyrannical tin horn dictators. This is true of Latin America as well. And great swaths of Asia. I might also add that many of these horrible regimes are supported by our government, through CIA proxy armies and other puppets.

In 1994, the US looked away as a half million Rwandans were hacked to death. We didn't feel the overriding need to "liberate" those people. Did we?

I don't understand why we have decided that Iraq must be "liberated" when there are millions of people in other countries who certainly deserve our attention. Shouldn't we be invading all those countries, as well?
It seems we like to pick and choose who should be "liberated" and who should not.

D. Bishop
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 5:56 AM
 
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D. Bishop,

Why Iraq and not the others?

The Bush administration has proposed a myriad of reasons, some of these reasons even have partial validity. But the real reason is: because we can.

One the most important reasons that the US is so distrusted, even hated by many people in the world, is becuase they recognize exactly the point you make: it is the US government, a government over which they have no control, that makes decisions that are fundamental to how they must live their lives. Their sense of weakness is based on an accurate perception on the world's power relationships. The power dispartity is so great, that no matter the good intentions of the US, the policies of the American government will decide issues that involve the well-being, life and death of most non-American peoples.

Power is real. It can not be wished away.

When you have a vastly superior power; even if you choose not to use it, your choice will effect the lives of others who have no control over us. Refusing to choose to act is still a choice; one that will fundamentally effect the lives of others.

They hate this about the US becuase their sense of powerlessness is rational.-
# posted by Blogger Zayphar : 9:48 AM
 
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