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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is complicated and has many sides not just
one. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, June 26, 2005 12:01
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Disturbing
Testimony on Iraq War</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">PM Friday, June 24, 2005 <BR><BR>Disturbing
Testimony on Iraq War <BR><BR>HAIFA ZANGANA, <BR><BR><A
href="mailto:haifa_zangana@yahoo.co.uk">haifa_zangana@yahoo.co.uk</A><BR><BR><A
href="http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/020917_zangana.html">http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/020917_zangana.html</A><BR><BR>
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.
<BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>V2020 Post by Ted
Moffett<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT>
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