Posted on 09/22/2008 8:37:39 AM PDT by Righting
Iraqi 'Abd Al-Khaliq Hussein: America Did Not Occupy Iraq, It Liberated It
December 21, 2007
One of the Iraqi liberals who took umbrage at Ibrahim's characterization of the situation in Iraq was Dr. 'Abd Al-Khaliq Hussein in an article published on the liberal Arab website Aafaq on November 7, 2007. He expressed particular disappointment in the fact that Ibrahim, a respected and outspoken democrat and former political prisoner, would express such views. Following are excerpts:
"I would not be giving away any secrets if I say that I regularly read the writings of Dr. Sa'ad Eddin Ibrahim... but, and I say this with sadness, his latest article, titled 'From Vietnam to Algeria to Iraq'... was a shock and a disappointment to many of his readers - to the point where I cannot believe that the author of this article is the Dr. Sa'ad Eddin Ibrahim whom we know to be a firm defender of modernity, democracy, and human rights.
"I say this in all candor: If the name of the author were not at the top of the article, I would have thought that its author was perhaps [the pan-Arabist editor-in-chief of Al-Quds Al-'Arabi] 'Abd Al-Bari Al-'Atwan or [Nasser's former advisor] Muhammad Hassanein Heikal.
"I do not want to respond to the article paragraph by paragraph; I only want to address its strange position on the issue of Iraq and the terrorism that is being perpetrated there by the fascists of [our] age - the adepts of Wahhabi Islamofascism in alliance with Ba'thist fascism. [Dr. Ibrahim] has gotten matters confused and has treated America's actions in Iraq - liberating it from an evil, fascist regime - in the same way that he treats French colonialism in Algeria.
"The worst thing is that he takes the savage, barbaric actions that are going on in Iraq - the savage killing of children and women... and elevates them to the rank of the Vietnamese resistance... and the Algerian resistance... I cannot understand how he reached this strange conclusion..."
PS An Iraqi 'liberal' means less Islamic, better for the west, unlike a western liberal...
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Yes, an Iraqi “liberal” is still going to be pretty conservative by Western “standards.” (Such as they are (or aren’t.)
"Did a resistance and a popular armed struggle develop in these two countries against the 'occupation'? Not at all. And history has proven that what America did in these two countries was for the good of these peoples, the Japanese and the Germans, and both are now among the most advanced democratic regimes and enjoy the strongest of economies.
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[Unlike liberals in the west who are more about hypocrisy...] An Iraqi Liberal means more liberated from the chains of Islamic society, traditional totalitarianism.
With a few exceptions, most of the Iraqis I have met over the past few years are grateful that we came in.
And they're expressing that even more enthusiastically now that peace is descending and life has just about returned to normal. They're beginning to be able to actually enjoy their freedom now.
Agree. It also makes them extremely vulnerable to attack in both the literary and literal sense of the word.
Good to hear from you, Allegra. And it’s great to see it all coming together as well as it is.
As indicted the article is a bit dated. But never the less it demonstrates that some Iraqi see things in a realistic way. We came, we liberated, and shall leave them better off then before the invasion.
Yes, your last sentence says it all. And it’s those facts that the Left cannot stand.
It is lunacy outright lying, or tacit admission that all American’s are really S U P E R M E N to suggest that 150,000 Americans are occupying anything other than perhaps the green zone in a country of how many M I L L I O N S?
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