More proof that the Iraqis are really decent people who deserved to be liberated. I am so glad we did this, and I only hope we can get them off to a great start.
With every story of the decency of these people I have more and more hope.
It's strange. A bolt of sunbeam bathed our kitchen table as husband and myself watched Fox News' war coverage.
"I think it will be all right," I said, the words coming from my mouth but almost from nowhere.
"What's that?" husband asked.
"Iraq."
"Yeah, give them a couple of years. They'll be fine."
"I don't know what it is, but I've been impressed by these people," I continued. "They seem intelligent. Obviously they're glad to be free. There's a keen shine to their eyes. Even the looters seem like happy guys."
"How about those guys stealing the air conditioner off the roof top?" husband chuckled.
"I saw a fellow, he was on a wagon hitched to a donkey. A really shakey affair. On the wagon was a big, red couch, tilting left and tilting right on the back of that thing. When the driver saw the camera man, he waved all friendly like, so proud of his red couch he was porting precariously down the road."
This article, and me and my husband's pleasant Saturday conversation, some talks with neighbors, leads me to wonder if we all aren't seeing the same thing. Specifically that the Iraqis seem like a pleasant peoples and look like if any group of people can make it in that hell of thuggery called the Mid-East, it is the Iraqis.
They are obviously not stupid. The cities the coalition forces have went through look fairly well kept. Right from the beginning, even when the liberal kookoids were bemoaning the lack of welcome from the Iraqis, I could see with mine own lying eyes groups of them coming up to convoys, the children smiling shyly. Eventually they came out in droves. They smile and dance and they bang their sandals on Saddamn's face.
Hey, I like them. That's the ticket. I like the Iraqis. Me and a whole bunch of Americans I'm beginning to think.
I like the fellow who walked 24 miles to save Jessica Lynch. I like the Kurds who showed up to quietly police Um Quasir then politely faded into the background when coalition forces showed up. I like the Iraqis who lived decades in exile, many ready to return to make their homeland what they know it could be.
They are just soooooo ready. sooooooo very ready to become a great nation and you know what?
I totally believe they will do it.
Just before the war started I was ready to join the 'nuke em all' crowd...
My great fear, now, is that the good will on both sides will falter once the left gets their ilk in there to cause division and destroy whatever goodwill our troops (our first ambassadors) have built there.