Iraqis Turn On Liberal Left!

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sarasara wrote: How the Liberal :-3 Left Betrayed My Country - Iraq

By Naseer Flayih Hasan

FrontPageMagazine.com | January 3, 2005

Before the last war, we Iraqis spent decades cut off from the outside world. Not only did the Baathist regime prevent us from traveling during the Iran-Iraq conflict and the period of the sanctions, but they punished anyone possessing satellite television. And of course, internet access was strictly limited. Because of our isolation, most of us had little idea or sense about life beyond our borders.

We did believe, however, that democracy and human rights were important factors in Western civilization. So it came as a shock to us when millions of people began demonstrating across the world against America’s build-up to the invasion of our country. We supposed the protests were by people who had no idea about the terrible atrocities that the regime had inflicted upon us for decades. We assumed that once they learned what had happened in Iraq, they would change their minds, or modify their opposition to the war.

My first clue that this would not happen was a few weeks after Baghdad fell. I had befriended a French reporter who had begun to realize that the situation in Iraq was not how the international media or the so-called “peace camp” described it. I noticed, however, that whenever he tried to voice his doubts to colleagues, they argued that he was wrong. Soon afterwards, I met a Dutch woman on Mutinabi Street, where booksellers lay out their wares on Friday morning. I asked her how long she’d been in Iraq and, through a translator, she answered, “Three months.”

“So you were here during the war?”

“Yes!” she said. “To see the crimes of the Americans!”

I was stunned. After a moment, I replied, “What about the crimes of the regime? It killed millions of Iraqis. Do you know that if the regime was still in power, the conversation we’re having now would result in our torture or death?”

Her face turned red and she angrily responded, “Soon will come the day that the Americans will do worse.” She then went on to accuse me of not knowing what the true facts were in Iraq”and that she could see the situation better than me!

She was not the only “humanitarian” who expressed such outrageous opinions. One afternoon, I was speaking to some members of the American anti-war group “Voices in the Wilderness.” One of the group’s members declared that the Iraqi Governing Council (then in power at the time) were “traitors.” I was shocked. Most of the Council were people whom we Iraqis knew had suffered and sacrificed in a long struggle against the regime. Some represented opposition parties who had lost ten of thousand of members in that struggle. Others came from families who had lost up to 30 loved ones to the Baathists.

After those, and many other, experiences, we finally comprehended how little we had in common with these “peace activists” who constantly decried American crimes, and hated to listen to us talk about the terrible long nightmare that ended with the collapse of the regime. We came to understand how these “humanitarians” experienced a sort of pleasure when terrorists or former remnants of the regime created destruction in Iraq”just so they could feel that they were right, and the Americans wrong!

Worse, we realized it was hopeless to make them grasp our feelings. We believed”and still believe--that America’s removal of the regime opened a new way for democracy. At the same time, we have no illusions that the U.S. came to Iraq on a white horse to save our people. We understand this war is all about national interests, and that America’s interests are mainly about defeating terrorism. At this moment, though, U.S. interests are doing more to bring about democracy and freedom in Iraq than, say, the policies of France and Russia”countries which also care little for the Iraqi people and, worse, did their best to save Saddam from destruction until the last moment.

It’s worth noting, as well, that the general attitude of peace activists I met was tension and anger. They were impossible to reason with. This was because, on one hand, the sometimes considerable risks they took to oppose the war made them unable to accept the fact that their cause was not as noble as they believed. Then, too, their dogmatic anti-American attitudes naturally drew them to guides, translators, drivers and Iraqi acquaintances who were themselves supporters of the regime. These Iraqis, in turn, affected the peace activists until they came to share almost the same judgments and opinions as the terrorists and defenders of Saddam.

This was very disappointing for someone like me, who thought for decades that the Left was generally the progressive power in the world. You can imagine how aghast I was when my French reporter friend told me that the Communist Party in his country actually considers the “insurgents” to be the equivalent of the French Gaullists! Or how troubling it is to hear Jacques Chirac take satisfaction from the violence wreaked by the terrorists”those bloody monsters that we Iraqis know so well”because they justify France’s original opposition to the war.

And so I have become disillusioned, at least with the Leftists I met in Iraq. So noble in their rhetoric, they looked to the stars, yet ignored what was happening around them, caring only about what was inside their minds. So glorious in their ideals, their thoughts were inflexible and their deeds unnecessary, even harmful. In the end, they proved to me how dogma and fanaticism had transform peace activists into”lifeless peace “statues.” :-5

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Re ... p?ID=16513 Very interesting news.

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Thank you for a wonderful letter/article. I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for someone from the region to tell their side of the story of what is going on in Iraq.

The left-wing idiots are trying to pretend that they are the reincarnation of the peace movement of the 60's. They will guide the world to the greater peace that they will bestow upon the masses that have been humbled by their fearless pursuit of putting the world right.

They would do it right away but the Allies have thwarted their Great Peace and because they have done so they will suffer the wrath of the true liberators of mankind.You have to hand it to the European leftie establishment because of the way that they handled the whole situation.

When tha Allies had the gall to do as they thought best instead of doing as they were told they felt the wrath of the lefties lying and deceiving the public into believing their lies. They know what's right because they are a peaceful people that would never atack Iraq. What they ever so conveniently forget is how they got to be where they are. They forge the wars and the tyranny. The Holocaust. Dieppe. Normandy. Sicily, And all the other people that and places that were lost so that they, today, could claim the throne of pacifism.

They would rather give succour and aid to the people that have kept the Iraqi people under the heel of their boots for so long. They laugh and cajole like a bunch of jackals waiting for the lions to leave their feast. Waiting in the background for the morsels that will come their way.

Like bettors at a dogfight the European contingent jumps around placing their

bets on whom is right in their, how the fight is going to turn out, synopsis.

Egging both dogs on they ply their savvy to to the suddenness of the change that is fighting. Encouraging both laughing at the death that is not theirs to own.

They lie, use subterfuge, demean and all the other tricks that you could expect out of people who are not in the pit.

They don't think twice of accusing the Allies of the most despicable acts of inhumanity while they laud the suicide bomber taking a few more soldiers. They conveniently forget, yet again, that the innocents that have been destroyed are nothing but the fatherland brothers happy to go with the Martyrs to their rewards in the great beyond.

If they die with an allied bomb? Then they are ruefully referred to as collateral damage which they then claim is a euphemism for allied atrocities. Killing innocents they rail. How horrible, inhuman and despicable can these evil beings with their bombs and guns continue to be indiscriminately kill before their

without their free... dumb fighters come to rescue their fellow countrymen?

They love to raise the stature of the poor deposed leader that was falsely removed from power by the lying, conniving Allied forces. They didn't know or understand the rape. the torture, the death, the pain or the unspeakable injustices that they were served under the domination of saddam and his axis of evil.

They didn't mind the carnage or the suffering because they were safely ensconced in their little worlds where they believe that they let freedom grow.

Safe from the reality of horrors that mark each and everyday they contemptuously mouth their epithets at those that are willing to give their lives and their bodies so that freedom can be walked by the Iraqis. They continually stir the pot to look

for lies and accusations can be hurled against those that are giving their all to people they don't even know. All they know is that they are a people that have been brutalized for decades that are reaching out, with timerity, for the hand that will help pick them up off the ground where they have suffered in a silence that was adhered to because it was under the pain of death were it to be broken.

Soon they will be able to speak with their own voices. Live their own lives. Worship God and be alive with joy and happiness for the first time in their lives.

Thanks for the good read.