[Ragtime Cowgirl]

 Thanks, Tonkin!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Excerpts from recent articles, giving the Iraqi people a voice.

The troops, I find, like these a lot. The press and Dem. politicians, I find, don't.

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[Yardstick]

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She adds: "I find it absolutely incredible that the anti-war people are now calling for the coalition to leave straight away. Nobody in Iraq wants that. The opinion polls show it's just 13 per cent. Don't they care about the Iraqi people and what they want at all? This isn't a game. This isn't about poking a stick at George Bush. This is our lives."

[MissAmericanPie]

Iraqis are clearly still upset that other Arabs were able to study in Iraq, effectively on former President Saddam Hussein’s payroll. Iraqis have had enough of seeing their own lives compromised for the benefit of Arabs from neighbouring countries."

"Iraqis saw other Arabs benefit from the Baath regime, while they were left to suffer."

Those of us who are tired of seeing our lives compromised for the benefit of illegal aliens feel the exact same way. Especially those white or asian citizens who can count on being discriminated against because of their skin color regarding college admission, in favor of illegals and other chosen minorities.

[Nam Vet]

What a great read, Girl! Thanks for posting it.

Nam Vet

[pierrem15]

many thanks again, for the great posts!

Now if we could get even Fox to cover this in depth instead of Laci Peterson or Kobe Bryant, it would be nice.

[Ex-Dem]

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The letter from the grateful Iraqi to Pan Yans Wife is a must read.

[Congressman Billybob]

For a factually honest appraisal of the current situation in Iraq, click below for a comparison between Iraq in 2003-04 and the occupation of Germany in 1945-46. The American press is wildly inaccurate and incompetent in reporting this story. Some of that is a matter of laziness; the rest is due to deliberate bias.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Lessons for Iraq from General Washington, Major Andre, and Der Fuhrer Adolf Hitler," discussion thread on FR. Article is also on ChronWatch.

[jonsie]

Thanks, my son is in Kuwait now ready to go into Iraq with some of the 82nd replacements. We need to keep up these positive stories as the media is providing only "quagmire alerts".

[CGVet58]

RC, you knock it over the fence again!!! excellent post!

[Mudboy Slim]

"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