"Will of the (Iraqi) people!" [Press, Chirac, Anan, DNC ~ listen to Saddam's survivors:]

It is a wonder the 'caring' left doesn't see how cruel they are being to the Iraqi people every day they undermine our efforts in Iraq.

The Left is interested in the greater, long-range good of humanity, which of course means minimizing the Bush administration's prestige, power, and influence in the world. If that means hoping for and working towards an embarrassing failure in Iraq, then it's "too bad Iraqis". The people of Iraq just don't serve any useful purpose for the Left right now, and in fact an improvement in their well-being would be a setback for Project Heaven On Earth.

"Everyone in Iraq had been totally conditioned to wait to be told what to do by the state. Anybody with initiative got tortured or killed by Saddam, so people just waited for orders. So even after the liberation, they couldn't understand that they were free; they didn't know what it meant. But then I saw that gradually they were realising, and that day by day they were sort of defrosting." .. "These are going to be the seeds of democracy," Yasser explains. "Once you learn to argue against people instead of killing them as Saddam did, you're on your way. We explained to the university students that they could have different newspapers - and even have different opinions in the same newspapers - and it seemed totally surreal to them. They just couldn't understand it. But when they realised that it really was possible and nobody was going to punish them, they were so excited that they were just obsessed. "They were in the middle of their exams and supposed to be studying, but they insisted on writing and photocopying a newsletter that they distributed everywhere. They wrote articles on amazing things they could find out about on the internet - philosophy and art and the difference between proportional representation and first-past-the-post! It was the best thing in my life, seeing that," Yasser says. ...Sama explains: "We took a group of university students to a workshop arranged by a Washington-based organisation about how to set up NGOs [non-governmental organisations]. To you or me it would seem incredibly basic, but to them it was a revelation. They hadn't understood that you could set up your own organisation, without any orders or permission from anyone. They thought societies and charities were something the state did to you, something secretive and conspiratorial, not something people create for themselves. It was beautiful to see this happening."

The seeds of FReedom will blossom throughout the MidEast, and America should feel proud of its role...MUD

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