[Vision2020] Disturbing Testimony on Iraq War

[Pat Kraut]

Well that's one persons experience within the framework of their group of friends. I know of others who are very joyful that we are there and the work we are doing. In talking with those fighting they feel like they are fighting a war on two fronts. And as long as some of the 'leadership' of the Senate and House keep making their ridiculous demands the insurgents will keep fighting. They truly believe (and with good reason) that just one more death and we will go home and leave Iraq to them. The demands for a withdrawel date encourage the insurgents to just keep up the pressure. If we formed a united front we'd be out of there much sooner. I am also told of those in Iran who are so delighted with our presence in the area as they seek more freedom.
This is complicated and has many sides not just one.   
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  PM Friday, June 24, 2005 

  Disturbing Testimony on Iraq War 

  HAIFA ZANGANA, 

  haifa_zangana at yahoo.co.uk

  http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/020917_zangana.html

       Zangana is an Iraqi-born novelist and former political prisoner. She went back to Iraq for the first time in 2004, after 25 years of exile. She had been imprisoned in Abu Ghraib by the Ba'athist regime and tortured. She said today at the World Tribunal on Iraq underway in Istanbul, Turkey: "The U.S. managed in the last two years what Saddam Hussein could not in the past 35, killing our hope for a democratic future. There are many people from Iraq taking part in this Tribunal because it is very important for us to document all the crimes we are enduring: the random killings, the collective punishments, the indiscriminate use of weapons, including napalm, the looting, the torture. ... Advocates of democracy like me are now finding their task harder, as the occupation makes a mockery of any notion of democracy. People in Iraq now laugh at us if we say democracy; indeed, it has all become laughable with this carnage we are experiencing, along with a stunning shortage of medicines, of clean water, of electricity, and of freedom." Zangana can also arrange interviews with other members of the Iraqi delegation to the Tribunal. 

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