Iraq - The guerilla war since 2003
In March 2003, America and its allies invaded Iraq.
In April 2003, the regime fell.
The moral responsibility for all deaths in the war lies
with the fascist regime
for resisting Iraq's liberation.
Since April 2003, the forces of state tyranny and religious oppression
have fought a sporadic violent guerilla campaign to try to
stop freedom and democracy coming to Iraq.
The moral responsibility for all deaths since the war lies
with the fascist resistance
for resisting the introduction of democracy.
As
Bruce Thornton says,
Bush and Blair should not feel guilty
about trying to bring democracy and freedom to Iraq.
If it fails, it will be the fault of the Iraqi resistance and its allies,
not of anybody who has good intentions.
Thornton (not without sadness) criticises the idea that people are logical
and will do what is in their own interest:
"every page of history proves that people are much more than machines or clever chimps. Humans have at their heart a mystery that defies predictive science: the freedom to choose
even what makes them miserable simply because they can choose. It is our quirky unpredictability, our conflicting passions, our contradictory goods, and our willful desire to choose freely that sends all the experts' schemes to the devil.
Just look at Iraq for all the evidence you need. The bloody disorder there is not a consequence of Bush's ineptitude or some better plan that wasn't tried. Ultimately, the mess in Iraq reflects the disordered souls of a critical mass of Iraqis who prefer allegiance to tribal loyalties or a dysfunctional faith to freedom and security."
All is not lost yet.
This vicious and disgusting minority need not win.
But if they do, blame them,
not anyone else.
Bush and Blair are, and remain, innocent.
After liberation
Having lost the war, the enemies of the Iraqi people
are desperate for the Saddam butchers
and foreign Islamofascists
to claw something back.
- Problems with the western media
- Bad news after Iraq
- The killing of Uday and Qusay, July 2003
- The capture of Saddam, Dec 2003
- Optimism after liberation
-
Mark Steyn a few months on
- "The barest minimum victory has already been won:
Saddam is gone, his entire leadership is dead or in US custody,
his sons have been killed, stuffed, mounted and embalmed
....
Even if America handed over to the UN now,
Iraq's next dictator would come to power in the shadow of
the cautionary tale of his predecessor: catch our eye and you're dead."
- Of course, America wants more than that for Iraq,
as he then discusses.
But something huge has already been achieved.
-
Iraqis challenge "Arabism"
by Thomas Friedman
- Free Iraqis disgusted with the Arab countries that betrayed them
(by opposing the war
and supporting Saddam's forces).
- ".. there is a dramatic gulf now between Iraqis and a lot of
other Arabs. Young people here want
to move on. In 10 years, this will be a very different place. If I can
be a part of it, it will be like Hong Kong
or Korea - but with an Iraqi face."
-
"Bush Good, Saddam Bad!"
by John R. Guardiano
- "we were treated as liberating heroes when we arrived four months ago"
- "The "Arab Street" I've meet in Iraq loves
- that's not too strong of a word
- America and is deeply grateful for our presence."
- "Iraqis routinely ask me to "thank Mr. Bush for freeing us of Saddam""
- "The Iraqis know who their foes are too. Two Iraqi children once spontaneously shouted to me, "France, Chirac!" while
giving
the
thumbs-down sign and shaking their heads disapprovingly. The children quickly smiled and shouted "Bush!" while
punching the
sky."
-
The Iraq Effect
by Amir Taheri
The "anti-war" protests carried on even after they lost the war!
-
Don't you know your left from your right?, Nick Cohen, January 21, 2007
- OK, so the left was against the war, but:
"I assumed that once the war was over they would back Iraqis trying to build a democracy,
while continuing to pursue Bush and Blair to their graves for what they had done.
I waited for a majority of the liberal left to offer qualified support for a new Iraq,
and I kept on waiting, because it never happened"
- Peace and non-violence
- The "anti-war" demos of late 2003 after the liberation of Iraq
- "This was not so much a demonstration
as a wave of human spam"
-
Why this protest is deeply shameful
by David Frum
- ".. many thousands of British people
intend to converge on central London to protest against
the overthrow of one of the most cruel and murderous
dictators of the 20th century"
- ".. though I would not
quite endorse the verdict of the taxi driver with the poppy
stuck in his dashboard who dropped me off at the demos
("Not many of them traitors out tonight, I see"), he at least
saw something that they, with all their apparently
abundant education could not"
-
An Iraqi blogger on the demos
- "These London demonstrations, I know too well, Oh! Youth, and the Pint of Bitter
later in the nearest Pub. All you peace lovers and humanitarians of trendy London town,
spare a thought or two for
the coalition soldier out there in the dark and wilderness guarding our hospitals,
primary schools and orphanages from the bombers and assassins"
- Another Iraqi blogger responds
(Remember that Iraqi bloggers
could not comment
on the Feb 2003 marches, since they were living under Saddam's rule.
Now at last they are free to speak.)
- "I was ashamed and depressed watching those brainwashed and deluded demonstrators in London
carrying signs calling for abandoning Iraq and for an end to aggression.
... I'm sure Saddam is proud of you and clapping his hands in glee watching
from whatever gutter he is hiding in right now.
... I can only say SHAME on you."
- The tyranny-lovers, the
Stop the War Coalition
-
The Stop the War Coalition,
article by Amir Taheri
- "Those who can never win elections, always take to the streets."
-
Vice Presidents of the
Stop the War Coalition
are
George Galloway
and
Tariq Ali,
both of whom openly support the
fascist Iraq
"resistance".
-
The chair of the Stop the War Coalition
openly supports the genocidal slave-state of
North Korea,
which has killed 4 million people,
and, in the 21st century, keeps hundreds of thousands of men, women and little children
in concentration camps.
Also here.
-
The Socialist Workers' Party,
leaders of the Stop the War Coalition,
openly supports
the killing of US troops and brave Iraqi democrats by the Saddam butchers and Islamofascists.
Also here
and here
and here
and here.
-
As has been said many times, people like this aren't anti-war.
They're pro-the other side.
The SWP are not "anti-war".
They are pro-Saddam.
Why is that so hard to understand?
-
The Stop the War Coalition play host to and are allied with the
gay-hating, atheist-hating,
medieval thug
Muqtada al-Sadr,
whose followers are violent.
Again, it must be said, the Stop the War Coalition are not anti-war.
They are not anti-violence.
Otherwise they would not hang out with violent people.
-
Their motivations are not pacifism.
Their motivations are control of American power,
and the desire to see the West defeated and its enemies triumphant.
-
Stop The War Coalition anti-Israel march, Aug 2006
- This march
contained banners openly supporting the mass-murdering terror group
Hizbollah
and the mass-murdering dictator
Ayatollah Khomeini.
Both of these are extremely violent people.
Again and again, it must be said, the Stop The War Coalition is not "anti-war".
Otherwise it would not tolerate banners in support of violent groups like these
in its marches.
-
Bizarrely, this "peace" march contains
banners with a fist holding an AK-47,
and no one seems to think that is strange.
-
Stop The War Coalition anti-Blair march, Sept 2006
- This march
contained
open support for the violent group Hizbollah
and
open support for the violent group Hamas.
Anti-war, my foot.
Hypocrites.
-
More pictures
from the loony left site
Lenin's Tomb.
Again, it must be said,
if
Hezbollah flag wavers
and the extremist
Muslim Association of Britain
don't like Blair,
then he must be doing something right.
-
Iranian Reza Moradi
stages counter-protest
during loony left-winger
Tony Benn's speech.
Reza Moradi is stupidly anti-Israel and anti-American,
but at least he is anti-Iranian regime and anti-Islamist.
He's a man with half a clue.
Hopefully he'll get a full clue eventually.
-
Another counter-protester, Shiva Mahbobi, says:
"Listen. We are tortured by the Iranian regime,
and the flags of Islamic regime of Iran
is right there.
...
How do you feel if the Hitler's banner is there?"
The arguments descend into an open demonstration by young Islamist thugs
in support of Iran.
What on earth are these people doing in Britain?
-
Shiva Mahbobi says she was tortured by the Iranian regime,
and yet the thugs shout "Liar! Liar!"
-
Baghdad's New Anti-Americans,
by Steven Vincent,
February 18, 2004
- "Human shield" idiots and other anti-American creeps
still hanging round Baghdad
whining about America,
months after they lost the war.
- Steven Vincent
(and search)
-
Steven Vincent was murdered in southern Iraq,
apparently by Shiite Islamists,
in 2005.
-
His wife replies to Juan Cole
on his death.
-
Steven Vincent on Juan Cole:
"you might want to review your own site and how well it reflects love and concern for the Iraqi people.
After all,
on "Informed Comment," pro-liberation Iraqi bloggers are accused of being CIA agents,
the elections are practically dismissed as window-dressing and every terrorist
- no, I mean guerrilla, as Cole would have it
- attack is given marquis billing, as if their psychopathic bloodlust discredits
the liberation of 26 million people.
...
Well, I thank Cole for revealing his gut-level concern for the Iraqi people
...
My question to the Professor is, which Iraqi people
- the fascist thugs he calls the "resistance,"
or the police, National Guardsmen, politicians, everyday people and eight million voters
who comprise the true Iraqi "resistance?""
- his columns
- his last columns
In March 2005,
2 years after they lost the war,
the "anti-war" protesters are still marching!
You lost. Saddam is gone. He's not coming back.
History is moving on.
You lost. Go home.
-
The "anti-war" marches
contain
flags of the
violent killers of innocents
Hamas,
and banners calling for
"Victory to the Iraqi resistance!"
- another violent group of
killers of women and children.
-
This is why I call them "anti-war" marches, in inverted commas.
If they were really anti-war marches,
they would not allow these people in.
-
Pests in freedom's way
(also here)
by Amir Taheri,
March 15, 2005:
- "That remnants of the totalitarian Left and various brands of fascism should march to condemn
the liberation of Iraq is no surprise. What is surprising is that some mainstream groups,
such as the British Liberal-Democrat Party
and even some former members of Tony Blair's Labour Government,
should join these marches of shame."
- "The Lib-Dems at their spring conference last week found enough time
to reiterate their shameful opposition to the liberation of Iraq
at some length.
But they had no time to take note of what looks like a historic turning point
in favour of democracy in the Middle East."
- I love it. This really is a low moment in Liberal Democrat history
- a period that they will, once they wake up,
be ashamed of forever.
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2 Years
- The Iraqi blogger Husayn Uthman
replies to the "anti-war" marchers:
-
"So you ask me, Husayn, was it worth it. What have you gotten? What has Iraq acheived?
These are questions I get a lot.
To many outsiders,
like those who protested last year, who will protest today,
this was a fools errand, it brought nothing but death and destruction.
...
Now I answer you, I answer you on behalf of myself, and my countrymen.
I don't care what your news tells you, what your television and newspapers say, this is how we feel.
Despite all that has happened. Despite all the hurt, the pain, blood, sweat and tears.
These two years have given us hope we never had."
- "Before March 20, 2003, we were in a dungeon. We did not see the light.
Saddam Hussain was crushing Iraq's spirit slowly, we longed for his end,
but knew we could not challenge him, or
his diabolical seed
who would no doubt follow him and continue his generation of hell on Earth.
Since then, we now have hope. Hope is not a tangible thing, but it is something,
it is more than being blinded by darkness, by being stuck in a mental pit without any future.
Hope has been the greatest product of the last two years.
...
We are not going to surrender. For all that the two years have brought, the greatest thing they have given us
is a future, and a view of the finish line.
Iraqis see the finish line, the finish line of freedom and democracy and a functioning nation. We can smell it,
taste it, and like a sprinter, one who has broken his legs, but who has a heart full of passion,
we will crawl there no matter what the cost."
- "We have been brought from darkness to light. And not only has the future been made better for Iraq,
but the martyrs of our nation, their blood is watering the roots of democracy across the world.
We are watching our neighbors come closer to the light, and this only pushes us more, and makes us stronger
in our burning desire to reach the finish line, to realize the dream that our people have had for so long."
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Responses to the 2 Year Anniversary
- He gets some abuse from "anti-war" freaks in the West for his post.
He nails them down perfectly:
"it is in a way a rude awakening to me of the attitudes that some people in the West hold.
Perhaps I was a bit naive in the past, I thought these were fringe ideas, but I see that you in the West
have people similar to the self-defeating terrorists who infest our nation. If the US or Europe
were in a similar situation that Iraq is in, then these people would surely be the ones blowing up innocents
so that your nation would be stopped from progress."
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