Posted on 09/26/2004 5:13:32 AM PDT by OESY
...The apparatchiki of despotism cannot help being uncomfortable with Allawi....
Allawi bears his title of "interim" with pride — in contrast to those "presidents for life" who fill the U.N. assembly hall every autumn. As an opponent of dictatorship for almost 30 years, this British-trained neurologist has paid a heavy price in personal suffering, including years of imprisonment and exile and the murder of his wife by Saddam's henchmen.
Yet Allawi's biggest "crime" is that he is sincerely grateful for the help that America and its allies gave the Iraqi people to liberate themselves from the most vicious regime in recent Arab history. "What happened in Iraq was a liberation in which the people of Iraq and the U.S.-led coalition were on the same side," Allawi says. "It was an experience that has united the two peoples forever."
...The sad thing is that Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, decided to dismiss Allawi as at best irrelevant, and at worst a Bush "puppet."
Hopes that Kerry might meet Allawi and commit himself to supporting Iraq's democratization were dashed when the senator spoke of "the wrong war in the wrong place and the wrong time." Worse still, Kerry has deemed it necessary to attack Allawi and his plans for leading Iraq toward free elections....
All politics is about choice. And now that the American people have seen and heard Allawi in New York and Washington, they can make up their minds.
One choice in Iraq is to cut and run, allowing the remnants of the Ba'ath, with help from al Qaeda, to reimpose terror by force on the unarmed people of Iraq. In that case, one could bring Saddam back and apologize to him for "the wrong war in the wrong place and the wrong time."...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Zarqawi agrees with the "wrong place" part of Kerry's analysis of Iraq. In a diatribe published in August 2002, Zarqawi rejected the view of al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri, who had called for taking the terrorist war to Muslim countries, notably Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. "The right place for our war is America, the heart of the infidel power," Zarqawi wrote. At the time, he did not know that he would not get a chance to take his war to America.
Allawi is an alternative to Saddam and Zarqawi if only because, unlike them, he believes the people of Iraq should be given a chance to choose their government and leaders. In that sense, Allawi is "the right man in the right place, at the right time." And that until Iraq experiences its first free elections.
The New York Post gets it right again.
Taheri "gets it right again." :~ )
"Terrorists strike indiscriminately at soldiers, at civilians, ....."So in Iraq we confront both, insurgency and the global war on terror with their destructive forces sometimes overlapping."
"That kind of talk does not go down well with the Hate-America international. America-haters would rather speak of an "invasion," plotted by "Jewish neocons" and carried out by an "Imperialist" power in search of "oil and security for Israel."
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is far from perfect. But in decided contrast to the Middle East's dictators, strongmen, kings and emirs, he seems downright practical and modest. He wears the "interim" label with pride in a region where rulers are accustomed to serving in office for life. America's enemies, from the Baathist dead-enders to the al Zarqawi Islamofacist cut-throats oppose the right of the Iraqi people to freely choose their own government. So does much of the UN's Hate America crowd. And here at home, we find the Democratic presidential candidate arrogantly declaiming Arabs don't deserve the same freedoms as Americans do. We should just abandon them to the tender mercies of the very people who have been looting, torturing and killing them for decades. All because we are too soft to pay the price necessary to ensure America's safety. That is why not only Allawi but President Bush are the right men at the right time and in the right place at this critical juncture in world affairs. It ought to behoove all freedom-loving men and women to support the Iraqi people's right to choose their next government in free and fair elections. Then and only then will we begin to see the tide shift in the War On Terror.
Amir Taheri, ping!
We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!
WRONG! Amir Taheri A Muslim we can't trust anything he says.
/sarcasm
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is far from perfect.
Who is...well except for you and I.:-)
Fouad Adjami is a Muslim writer I trust. He always has great insights. But the problem with Islam is the later violent verses (Medina) overrule the earlier (Meccan) peaceful verses when there is any contradiction
For your edification:
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From Rags to Riches, From Preacher to Despot
By Ali Sina
There are many contradictory verses in the Quran that can be quite confusing. This ambiguity allows Muslims to have their personalized “divine guidance” based on their own preferences. Those who like tolerance or want to present Islam as a tolerant religion can quote parts of the Quran that advocates tolerance, while the hardliners, the fundamentalists and even the terrorists can quote those parts of the Quran that foments hate and killing of the disbelievers. Therefore ironically everyone can find what he is looking for in that book. And they call this the "miracle" of Quran!
Let us compare both sides of Quran:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/preacher_to_despot.htm
Make sure you read the entire article. It is loaded with gems.
There are many contradictory verses in the Quran that can be quite confusing. This ambiguity allows Muslims to have their personalized “divine guidance” based on their own preferences. Those who like tolerance or want to present Islam as a tolerant religion can quote parts of the Quran that advocates tolerance, while the hardliners, the fundamentalists and even the terrorists can quote those parts of the Quran that foments hate and killing of the disbelievers. Therefore ironically everyone can find what he is looking for in that book.
This has always been my position. What I'd like to see is support of those who don't support those take the hardline..xenophobic version of Islam.
Only problem is the later violent verses of Koran supersede the "nice" verses. Have a lot more scriptural authority in Koran and Hadith. This is what the head of Jihad Watch says. Robert Spencer.
"WHAT is remarkable is the U.N.'s al most deferential attitude toward Saddam throughout those years. A majority of U.N. members, being despotic states, felt kinship with Saddam's terrorist regime. The dictator used oil money to bribe and buy politicians and media people in the "developing world" and some Western democracies. Last week, the same group of despotic regimes gave Allawi a cool reception at the U.N."
Bingo, we have a winner!
you're starting early ... ;~ )
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