Posted on 07/23/2004 9:45:30 PM PDT by freedom44
We are not sure if you ever get the chance to see this letter, however we though to drop you a few words of thanks for all the good work you and your administrations have done so far.
In the world of chaos, continual human-made catastrophes and political turmoil it is easy enough to miss the humane actions of many noble people out there.
But, this does not mean that normal day-to-day ordinary people cannot see and they do not appreciate your hard-work and the tremendous pressure you sustain to help your fellow innocent human being.
Sirs, please allow us to thank you for everything you have done. Please let us say that although we don?t have the power to show you how we really appreciate your positive actions but we truly are grateful.
You have changed the mind of decent people in this world to believe in their leaders again. To have faith and trust in having some genuine leaders out there who really care for their people and more for every human being in this earth.
It is very sad to see that many big-money-making media, tabloids, political groups and so forth have never bother to go, see and acknowledge all the positive values that you have brought to us since you got the power. Instead they have done everything they could to undermine your honest and thoughtful values. It must be very hard for you to receive all these ?unjust selective blindness? from the media on your goodwill and still believe in your cause, trying to get the justice done for the innocents. Not many people have the decency and courage to go this far to help the other people.
Thanks to you and your hardworking staff, now many children in Afghanistan have a chance to go to school and enjoy the freedom, as every child deserves to have. Thanks to you and your team, people like Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar and the other bloodthirsty creatures alike are no longer in any position to harm another innocent person. Thanks to you and your noble belief, most of the tyrants in the world are now worried and sleepless at night.
As a simple sign of respect we take our hats off for you, your family and your decent staff for doing your best for us. There is no way we can really pay you back for everything you have done but please accept our thanks on behalf of all those poor and innocent people in Halabche, Kabul, Najaf, Karbala and the other parts of the world who have died in silence under their unjust rulers without any hope that one day someone like you will bring their butchers to justice.
We believe anyone with a bit of decency in his or her heart should be able to see your kindness towards the innocents.
Sirs, please do not give-up on us and remember there are thousands of little children out there each day look at your pictures and wish they could come and put their little hands in your hand and say THANK YOU.
Interesting post. Lets not forget that there is a significant minority in Iran that seeks reform. I hope the Bush admin gets and term so they can help Iranian's compete with Iraqi's for the blessings of Liberty!
At first, I thought this would be some sort of satire or parody, but then the link checked out. Thanks for posting this. I never would have seen it if you hadn't!
Thanks for posting this, I look forward to the day when the author of this piece is living in freedom. That day is coming
More like significant majority - recent polls [that landed the pollsters in Jail] said that:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/6/25/231407.shtml
A Christian Science Monitor poll shows that "90 percent of Iranians want change" and "70 percent want dramatic change." Last week, some 250 prominent Iranian dissidents in an open letter accused Iran's clergy of "setting themselves in the place of God."
Here's what Colition Provisional Authority's Micheal Rubin had to say on Iran whom he dubbed the most pro-American population in the world:
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/media/rubin/rubin-tehran.htm
The anti-American diatribes emanating from Tehran's government-controlled media notwithstanding, most Iranians these days are not seething with hatred for the United States. Neither would it be fair to say that they are ambivalent. The simple fact is that most Iranians are zealously, outspokenly, pro-American. American fashions and American popular music are in. Scholarships to study at American universities are prized, green cards doubly so. Baywatch seemed to be playing on television in almost every home I visited.
At the same time, and despite the large electoral margins by which he won the presidency, Khatami appears to be rapidly falling from grace among the same middle-class citizens who have been his most fervent supporters. Soccer riots this past October, which received only passing notice in the Western press, were of seismic significance in this respect: along with chants of "death to Khamenei," another slogan heard coming from the crowd was "death to Khatami."
Although Iranians do not express it in these terms, Khatami is emerging as a kind of Gorbachev figure, a man struggling desperately to repair and rescue the ailing theocratic system of rule by giving it a human face. He is commonly perceived in the West as a "moderate" or a "liberal," but these words, if they apply at all, must be understood in a context very different from our own. On some matters, as the State Department's annual report on terrorism makes clear, Khatami and Khamenei are not dove and hawk but birds of a feather.
It will be wise, moral, and unpopular (among some of our allies) to choose the latter course. The overthrow of the first theocratic revolutionary Muslim state ... and its replacement by a moderate or secular government would be no less important a victory in this war than the annihilation of bin Laden.
This is not the first time we have been tempted to extend an olive branch, and a helping hand, to a militant anti-democratic dictatorship, only to have the branch rebuffed and the hand bitten. The war on terrorism has opened up real possibilities for radical change in Middle Eastern politics, and not least in Iran. It would be worse than a shame if, for the sake of avoiding hard decisions, we were to choose the route of accommodation and appeasement, and betray both our own interests and the millions of Iranians who may today constitute the most pro-American people in the entire world.
B U M P !
75 to 80% majority.
Reform in government is all well and good if its democracy you're aiming for, but they will never give up Islam. And as such, it would only be a matter of time before some other crackpot group of Mullahs would take over again...and the cycle would continue (rinse, lather, repeat).
It was very pleasant to read these heart-felt words of praise and thanks to our President.
...and heart-felt thanks also to Prime Minister Tony
Blair.
Such people exist in China, too. Probably in N Kor as well except they are starved to death so they aren't ever heard from.
It's nice to hear foreign people are thankful for President Bush and his actions...
You just repaid them in full. That's all they really want, for the good people on earth to realize that what what they do they do out of good will.
Blair, He can easily be a hero as well if he delivers.
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