You're Welcome, Prime Minister Allawi!
Yesterday, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi of the interim Iraqi government came to a joint session of Congress to thank Americans for their liberation of Iraq. Here's what he had to say:
We Iraqis know that Americans have made and continue to make enormous sacrifices to liberate Iraq, to assure Iraq's freedom ... I have come here to thank you and to promise you that your sacrifices are not in vain.
Furthermore, Allawi confirmed my belief that Saddam was himself a WMD! As Allawi said in his speech:
More than 1 million killed or missing, mass graves of more than 300,000 that stand as memorials ... Today, we are better off, you are better off, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein ... Your decision to go into Iraq was not an easy one, but it was the right one.
A WMD, Weapon of Mass Destruction, is properly defined as any weapon that kills many, many people. Legally, a person can be a weapon in himself or herself. No one will deny that those million dead Iraqis would have faced a different fate if Saddam was not in power. So, instead of finding stockpiles of WMDs in the form of artillery shells, which have a very short shelf life by the way, we found the WMD itself, Saddam Hussein al-Tikitri! No question justice will be served (I personally think he should be sentenced to life in Abu Ghraib or Attica rather than take the easy way out by being executed and martyred!)
Kofi Annan said that it was an illegal war to oust a dictator who killed a million of his own people, someone who had seventeen UN resolutions outstanding, someone who was properly removed from power. If it was indeed illegal, by all means, charges should be filed with the International Court of Justice at the Hague, and a trial in which Saddam should be restored back to power should America be found guilty of initiating an illegal war.
I bet you that it will never happen because everyone knows that if Saddam comes back to power, he will kill untold thousands in revenge. WMDs kill thousands.
Oh yeah, know your history. After America pulled out of Vietnam, the Viet Cong took over the South and killed millions in reprisals. That is why we were faced with a flood of Vietnamese boat refugees. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge took over in Cambodia after the Americans lost the Vietnam War, emboldened that the United States would no more prevent the spread of brutal communist totalitarianism. They then proceeded to kill millions of Cambodians, another holocaust in itself, because America failed to do its duty.
John Kerry contributed to the successful enemy propaganda program that ultimately turned public opinion against the war in Vietnam, which led to these WMD-like holocausts in Southeast Asia.
His response to Allawi's speech?
I think the prime minister is obviously contradicting his own statement of a few days ago, where he said the terrorists are pouring into the country. The prime minister and the president are here obviously to put their best face on the policy, but the fact is that the CIA estimates, the reporting, the ground operations and the troops all tell a different story.
Senator Kerry missed that meeting of the Senate, because, he was too busy selling himself on the campaign trail. I do not believe that qualifies him to criticize Allaqi's speech any more than I am qualified to criticize Senator Kerry. He may believe that nothing good is going on in Iraq, but I choose to open my eyes and happen to notice that, along with all the bombings and carnage, a lot of good things is happening in Iraq.
The majority of U.S. casualties has been in the Sunni Triangle, and in several provinces, there has not even been one combat death! Elsewhere, thousands of schools are being rebuilt, water systems installed for the first time, electrical and sewer infrastructure repaired, Iraqi Airways up and running in the first time in 13 years, I could go on and on. The basic point is that it IS better off in Iraq than when it was under Saddam.
We Iraqis know that Americans have made and continue to make enormous sacrifices to liberate Iraq, to assure Iraq's freedom ... I have come here to thank you and to promise you that your sacrifices are not in vain.
Furthermore, Allawi confirmed my belief that Saddam was himself a WMD! As Allawi said in his speech:
More than 1 million killed or missing, mass graves of more than 300,000 that stand as memorials ... Today, we are better off, you are better off, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein ... Your decision to go into Iraq was not an easy one, but it was the right one.
A WMD, Weapon of Mass Destruction, is properly defined as any weapon that kills many, many people. Legally, a person can be a weapon in himself or herself. No one will deny that those million dead Iraqis would have faced a different fate if Saddam was not in power. So, instead of finding stockpiles of WMDs in the form of artillery shells, which have a very short shelf life by the way, we found the WMD itself, Saddam Hussein al-Tikitri! No question justice will be served (I personally think he should be sentenced to life in Abu Ghraib or Attica rather than take the easy way out by being executed and martyred!)
Kofi Annan said that it was an illegal war to oust a dictator who killed a million of his own people, someone who had seventeen UN resolutions outstanding, someone who was properly removed from power. If it was indeed illegal, by all means, charges should be filed with the International Court of Justice at the Hague, and a trial in which Saddam should be restored back to power should America be found guilty of initiating an illegal war.
I bet you that it will never happen because everyone knows that if Saddam comes back to power, he will kill untold thousands in revenge. WMDs kill thousands.
Oh yeah, know your history. After America pulled out of Vietnam, the Viet Cong took over the South and killed millions in reprisals. That is why we were faced with a flood of Vietnamese boat refugees. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge took over in Cambodia after the Americans lost the Vietnam War, emboldened that the United States would no more prevent the spread of brutal communist totalitarianism. They then proceeded to kill millions of Cambodians, another holocaust in itself, because America failed to do its duty.
John Kerry contributed to the successful enemy propaganda program that ultimately turned public opinion against the war in Vietnam, which led to these WMD-like holocausts in Southeast Asia.
His response to Allawi's speech?
I think the prime minister is obviously contradicting his own statement of a few days ago, where he said the terrorists are pouring into the country. The prime minister and the president are here obviously to put their best face on the policy, but the fact is that the CIA estimates, the reporting, the ground operations and the troops all tell a different story.
Senator Kerry missed that meeting of the Senate, because, he was too busy selling himself on the campaign trail. I do not believe that qualifies him to criticize Allaqi's speech any more than I am qualified to criticize Senator Kerry. He may believe that nothing good is going on in Iraq, but I choose to open my eyes and happen to notice that, along with all the bombings and carnage, a lot of good things is happening in Iraq.
The majority of U.S. casualties has been in the Sunni Triangle, and in several provinces, there has not even been one combat death! Elsewhere, thousands of schools are being rebuilt, water systems installed for the first time, electrical and sewer infrastructure repaired, Iraqi Airways up and running in the first time in 13 years, I could go on and on. The basic point is that it IS better off in Iraq than when it was under Saddam.
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