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Free Voices of Iraq [FDD articles - Iraqis speak for liberation]
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies ^ | January 2003

Posted on 02/25/2003 9:49:22 AM PST by Stultis

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Perspectives

January 2003

Free Voices of Iraq

 

Free Voices of Iraq is a series of perspectives published by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in which Iraqi democracy and human rights activists speak out about the suffering of the Iraqis under Saddam Hussein, their desire to be liberated, and the prospects for bringing democracy to a post-Saddam Iraq.

 

Safia Taleb Al Souhail, Advocacy Director for the Middle East and Islamic World at the International Alliance for Justice,  www.i-a-j.org, shares the stories of six Iraqi women who met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair last December to brief him on Saddam Hussein’s persecution of their families and communities:    “These stories are just a tiny sample of the crimes that the Ba’ath regime has committed against the Iraqi people for the past three decades… Saddam Hussein himself is a weapon of mass destruction. Disarmament is not enough… His ongoing wars against the Iraqi people must be stopped.”

 

Rend Rahim Franke, the Executive Director of the Iraq Foundation, www.iraqfoundation.org, a non-profit organization working for democracy and human rights in Iraq, discusses the prospects for democracy in Iraq and argues that a free Iraq could act as a catalyst for democracy in the Middle East:     “Removing Saddam Hussein would liberate the Iraqi people’s energy and talents so that they may be directed towards good, not evil.”

Entifadh K. Qanbar, the Director of the Washington, D.C. office of the Iraqi National Congress, www.inc.org.uk, a coalition of Iraqi opposition groups, calls on the United States to commit itself to supporting a democratic Iraq: “All of the Iraqi opposition is united around two common goals: The removal of Saddam Hussein, and the creation of democracy in Iraq. We welcome the United States’ leadership in helping us to achieve these goals.”

 

Dr. Barham Salih, the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, www.puk.org, explains that a military intervention to remove Saddam Hussein would not be a war on Iraq, but a liberation of Iraq: “When the President of the United States drives through Baghdad in his limousine, the streets will be filled with thousands of Iraqis waving American and Iraqi flags.”




TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fdd; iraq; wot

1 posted on 02/25/2003 9:49:22 AM PST by Stultis
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HEY PEACENIKS ARE YOU LISTENING?? I GUESS NOT (I forgot this was about Bush!) - Tomorrow they are doing their virtual march!
2 posted on 02/25/2003 9:53:01 AM PST by areafiftyone (The U.N. is now officially irrelevant! The building is for Sale!!!)
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Bump.
3 posted on 02/25/2003 11:39:49 AM PST by k2blader
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