Posted on 11/14/2004 7:10:41 PM PST by LarkNeelie
Ali, Omar and Mohammed, three brothers whose blog Iraq The Model was one of the first to open a window directly into Iraq and helped pioneer blogging by Iraqis, publish love letters to their readers and to their liberators on this auspicious occasion of their one year blog anniversary.
From Mohammed.
…And this is the reason why we keep writing to you and we know that our love will find its way to you. No borders can stop it and no power on earth can stand between the love and the heart that opened its doors for the light.My dearest.. Thank you for your empathy and for walking through this tough road with us. I have no doubt that one day we will reach our destination and even if we stumble once or twice, we’ve got the determination now to try again and again and we will triumph at the end. We are so happy and we love you all.
From Ali.What I’m trying to say is that it was the readers, our good friends who share with us this humble page who made me realize that I must write, I must tell people everywhere what I, being an Iraqi see in Iraq, what I think and what I want. I’ll be always grateful for the people who helped me and my brothers find our voices and encourage us to share our minds and hearts with as many people as possible from all over the world.From Omar.Now we strongly believe that being optimistic in the darkest times is not something to be ashamed of. It can help us override the obstacles we’re facing no matter how huge they may seem and doesn’t mean that we’re dreamers because our optimism is based on beliefs and facts that do exist but are unfortunately not recognized by the MSM and many governments and parties that are either ignorant or have a similar agenda to that of the tyrant we lived under for decades.Also from the site, the brothers have been kind enough to translate an open letter to President Bush published on an Iraqi site that garnered more than 1,000 signatures in the first 24 hours. I‘m sure the brothers won‘t mind me printing it here in its entirety:The most important thing we achieved in the past year is building trust and understanding among us, failing the evil attempts of those who want us to think of each other as enemies.
In the name of God, Sir, President George W Bush, President of the United States of America.On behalf of the families of the victims of the mass graves, on behalf of the martyrs of “Halabja” and “Anfal” and on behalf of all the Iraqis that you liberated from dictatorship and oppression; we have prayed for you and now we want to send you our congratulations on being reelected as a president of the United States.
Mr. President, we’d love to congratulate you and the people of the United States on the beginning of a new phase of democracy, freedom and prosperity and we wish you and the American people the best, as they have led the liberation of Iraq and sacrificed their sons and daughters for the freedom of the Iraqis; the historical achievement that the United States has accomplished together with the other liberating countries. The United States and the coalition, among all other nations were the ones who recognized the suffering of the Iraqi people and saved them from a regime that was more lethal and more destructive than any weapons of mass destruction. A regime that murdered, slaughtered and enslaved Iraqis for long, dark decades, denied them their freedom and their right to live a decent life until God inspired you and helped you to rescue us, liberate our country and put us on the road of freedom and democracy.
Mr. President, we-the Iraqis-are on your side and we’ll keep supporting and blessing your efforts in eradicating terrorism inside and outside Iraq and all those who carried weapons against the liberating coalition forces and the new Iraqi police, hunting down the criminals who murder innocent civilians, whether Iraqi or American civilians.
We-the Iraqis- are determined to establish democracy and freedom in our country starting with general elections that exclude no one whether inside or outside Iraq. These elections would lead us to a democratic Iraq and we wish that you could help focusing on the role of the Iraqis outside Iraq and make use of their qualifications in the reconstruction process.
We also want to emphasize the necessity of establishing an international legislation that incriminates the Ba’athists, terrorists, fanatic salafis and all the parties, and governments that support them, not forgetting the media that promote the ideology of killing and terrorism. These parties ought to be confronted and fought to achieve peace and stability in Iraq, America and the rest of the world.
We’re also determined to establish a strategic, permanent relationship with our friends; the government and people of the United States to whom we hold the utmost feelings of gratitude, love and friendship for what they have given us and what they’re still offering. We will be united on the road of freedom and peace and we will always be supportive to all the efforts of America in bringing peace to the region. In the end, we ask God to guide you and bless all your efforts to do the best for humanity as a whole.
All the glory to the American and Iraqi martyrs. Long live America. Long live Iraq, free and allied nations.
Bet this never makes an appearance in the MSM.
Beautiful letter.
Thanks this is a great post
I have followed this website. Never heard about them on MSM.
They were profiled once in USA Today. But they sure deserve more attention than that.
Yeah, but that would be saying even ONE good thing about our committment to Iraqi freedom.
Without cable and Fox, its hard for liberals to even move a millimeter from the left.
If you want to read something totally facinating, go to the archives and read the entries leading up to the anniversary of their freedom. Mohammad's diary translated a year later gives you a very clear view into an Iraqi family during he "invasion".
(our optimism is based on beliefs and facts that do exist but are unfortunately not recognized by the MSM)
They heard of the MSM in Iraq! I wonder whether there are freepers among them!
I tried to go to 'Iraq the Model' site by clicking on the link above, but got a message telling me the site does not exist. What is the correct address? And could you also give me the links to the other two sites you mentioned? Thanks.
Amen to that.
The MSM template right from the begining was that Iraq was another Vietmam, a "quigmire". One wonders at what point do they cave in and admit they were wrong, or at least pretend they didn't say all the things they have , ignore Iraq , and go off to fight the next lost cause of liberalism ?
I always go to:
http://healingiraq.blogspot.com
and go through the "Iraqi Blogs" links on the right side of page. Some are junk but 4 or 5 are good and are updated every few days.
Nice Post Thank you!
Here is the address:
http://www.sotaliraq.com/George-W-Bush
I read ITM every day. The brothers are fantastic. It is an uplifting read. They really get it. They are so right about the MSM aiding the terrorists.
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