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Wall Street Journal ^ | Thursday, May 8, 2003 | AWAD NASIR

Posted on 05/08/2003 6:02:24 AM PDT by WaveThatFlag

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:48:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Let me confess something: I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Saddam Hussein's statue toppled in Baghdad.

I am a poet and know that eyes can, and do, deceive.

For three decades, part of them spent in prison, part in hiding and part in exile, I had often dreamed of an end to the nightmare of the Baathist-fascist regime. But I had never dreamed that the end, that is to say Iraq's liberation, would come the way it did.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: awadnasir; statue; thankyouamerica
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To: WaveThatFlag
He is more than welcome.
21 posted on 05/08/2003 12:17:20 PM PDT by ewing
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To: Heuristic Hiker
Ping
22 posted on 05/08/2003 6:30:47 PM PDT by Utah Girl
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To: Howlin
This was an interesting read and very positive. Thanks for the flag.
23 posted on 05/08/2003 7:13:33 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: Fred Mertz
It's scary to think that even in a free country these whacks are voted into office !
24 posted on 05/08/2003 7:23:17 PM PDT by f.Christian (( Marching orders: comfort the afflicted // afflict the comfortable ! ! ))
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To: f.Christian
Which wacks?
25 posted on 05/08/2003 7:26:44 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: Fred Mertz
Caesar Chavez ... castro --- clinton // reno !
26 posted on 05/08/2003 7:28:24 PM PDT by f.Christian (( Marching orders: comfort the afflicted // afflict the comfortable ! ! ))
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To: WaveThatFlag
Bump for FREEDOM
27 posted on 05/08/2003 7:29:53 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
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To: f.Christian
It's scary to think that even in a free country these whacks are voted into office !

You get weirder by the damn minute.

28 posted on 05/08/2003 7:30:56 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: All
anarcho-loon whack alert !
29 posted on 05/08/2003 7:37:47 PM PDT by f.Christian (( Marching orders: comfort the afflicted // afflict the comfortable ! ! ))
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To: Fred Mertz
"This year's series of Heritage Lectures is concerned with the somewhat pressing question of whether our American culture will survive the tribulations of our age. In the two previous lectures, I have discussed the ideology called "multiculturalism" as a menace; and whether a civilization that lacks belief in a religion can endure. In my final lecture, in December, I mean to talk about means for combating cultural decay. Today I have chosen for my subject the degradation of the democratic dogma."

"I take my title from the writings of Henry and Brooks Adams. They found American democracy in process of degradation more than a century ago. The decay of the American Presidency from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Adams remarked, refuted altogether Darwin's theory of evolution. To a similar thesis I shall return presently."

"But first, indulge me in some observations concerning the present condition of what is called "democracy" near the close of the 20th century. We are informed by certain voices that soon all the world will be democratic. But whether or not, the American mode of democratic government prevails, the abstract ideology called democratism that any government which has obtained a majority of votes be received as "democratic." Enthusiasts for unrestricted democracy presumably forget that Adolph Hitler, too, was democratically elected and sustained by popular plebiscites. Alexis de Tocqueville warned his contemporaries against ... "democratic despotism," --- 20th century writers discuss "totalist democracy."

30 posted on 05/08/2003 8:54:13 PM PDT by f.Christian (( Marching orders: comfort the afflicted // afflict the comfortable ! ! ))
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To: f.Christian
Please crawl back out from under your rock for long enough to tell us who you are attacking, so we can tell you why you are wrong.
31 posted on 05/09/2003 5:33:00 AM PDT by WaveThatFlag (Run Al, Run!!!)
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To: WaveThatFlag
Did you read the quote ?

Do you know the diifference between a republic and mobacracy ?

Caesar Chavez says he wants to save the 'revolution'...

castro -- clinton -- hitler too ---

"preserve and protect the devilcrat party" !
32 posted on 05/14/2003 3:00:53 PM PDT by f.Christian (( the VERY sick mind - won't recognize facts -- REALITY -- probability anymore ! ))
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To: f.Christian
Please make an understandable point or stay under that rock.
33 posted on 05/14/2003 3:07:14 PM PDT by WaveThatFlag (Run Al, Run!!!)
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To: WaveThatFlag
flatliner ?

There is a sub-set of lunatic loons who appear to wish the ... end of American society (( link )) --- as we (( once -- 1st )) know it. Like the Nazis and the communists in Weimar Germany, they have a great deal in common as potential destroyers of the social fabric.

I have engaged in several debates in the last few days, and I admire FreeRepublic as a forum for the free expression of ideas, but the overwhelming presence of this bunch of loons is very off-putting.

Lenin is supposed to have said that capitalists would sell him the rope by which they were to be hung. The “anarcho-loons” on this forum would not bother to sell the rope but provide it as a public service.

401 posted on 05/06/2003 5:54 PM PDT by moneyrunner (I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed to its idolatries a patient knee.)

34 posted on 05/14/2003 3:20:07 PM PDT by f.Christian (( the VERY sick mind - won't recognize facts -- REALITY -- probability anymore ! ))
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To: f.Christian
Congratulations! You actually used a sentence. There is hope for you!
35 posted on 05/14/2003 3:21:24 PM PDT by activationproducts (I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.)
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To: activationproducts
You were promoted from reading group four ?
36 posted on 05/14/2003 3:23:17 PM PDT by f.Christian (( the VERY sick mind - won't recognize facts -- REALITY -- probability anymore ! ))
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To: f.Christian
Is this making any sense to anyone, or is it just me?
37 posted on 05/14/2003 3:24:06 PM PDT by WaveThatFlag (Run Al, Run!!!)
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To: Teacher317

38 posted on 05/14/2003 3:26:07 PM PDT by ALS
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To: activationproducts
I wish I could use this tagline ...

(( FR -- formely a heavy metal hemp site )) ---

you --- right ?
39 posted on 05/14/2003 3:26:44 PM PDT by f.Christian (( the VERY sick mind - won't recognize facts -- REALITY -- probability anymore ! ))
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To: f.Christian; All
Nope. Still can't understand what the heck you are talking about. Anyone?
40 posted on 05/14/2003 3:30:36 PM PDT by WaveThatFlag (Run Al, Run!!!)
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