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The strands of friendship link the peoples
of the United States and Iraq. This friendship took on new
qualities after the liberation of Iraq in 2003, which played an enormous
role in the destinies of the peoples of southwest Asia, including the
Iraq peoples. Iraq's liberation from the yoke of Saddam Hussein by the
United States forces, alongside which the coalition forces from many
nations fought, opened up the road of freedom and democracy development
for the people of Iraq.
The people of Iraq are justifiably proud
of their great democratic gains, achieved in two years of effort under
the leadership of the coalition forces spearheaded by the United States.
At the same time, mistakes and shortcomings occurred in deciding
practical tasks involving the construction of democracy. These were
justly criticized by the United States administration. This criticism
was appropriate, but advantage was taken of it by enemies of freedom and
democracy in the country, remnants of the routed Baathists in Iraq and
left-revisionist and counter-liberation elements at home relying on the
support of anti-war reaction and protest. Set back by the temporary
insurgency, now in its last throes, over the country's poor domestic
state of affairs and abusing the conditions of difficult reconstruction,
they launched an offensive against the coalition and against the
democratic system in an attempt to turn the country onto the path back
to despotism and separation from freedom and democracy.
The conspiracy of insurgent forces,
supported from the outside by anti-democratic reaction, created a direct
threat to freedom in Iraq. In these conditions, the United States
and other coalition countries, loyal to their democratic duty and their
obligations as allies and to the principles set forth in international
agreements, adopted the decision to extend aid -- including the
introduction of armed forces onto Iraq's territory -- to the
fraternal Iraqi people in defense of their democratic gains.
Our troops in Iraq want only one thing --
to preserve and strengthen the great friendship of our peoples, to keep
inviolable Iraq's freedom, independence and sovereignty as a democratic
state. It is on this freedom foundation that the relations between our
countries are based. It is this that constituted the outcome of
the recent transition of power to the Iraqi government, which confirmed
the friendship and fraternity of the United States and the peoples of
Iraq.
Despite the active resistance of
insurgent forces, the results of the transfer of sovereignty to the
Iraqi government is the only correct path for overcoming the
difficulties created by the activity of the enemies of democracy, for
further constructing a democratic and free society in the Iraq under
United States' leadership and for strengthening the domestic and foreign
positions Iraq, an inalienable link of the world democratic system.
The American people fully approve the
measures taken by the United States and it many allies to Iraq in
carrying out the jointly adopted decisions and in normalizing the
situation in Iraq; this normalization includes a resolute rebuff to the
insurgent elements and the terrorist reaction connected with them.
We are confident that United States -
Iraq friendship will remain unshaken through all tests. The American
people wholeheartedly wish the hard working Iraqi people, the
cooperative peasantry and the intelligentsia of Iraq the swiftest
possible overcoming of difficulties and confident and firm progress
under the banner of free enterprise, along the democracy and the path of
freedom.
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Do you agree with the article
above? Half the population of the United States would agree if the
polls on the support for the Iraq war are any indication. In 1968,
the Soviet Union invaded the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The
above article sounds very much like the rhetoric used during the 1968
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. It should. If you
sympathize with the article above, then consider this: the above
article except for changes in key words, Czechoslovakia to Iraq,
socialist to democratic, Soviet Union to United States, etc., appeared
in the September 10, 1968, edition of the Soviet Union mouthpiece
newspaper Pravda. The word "pravda" means truth in
Russian. The translation of Pravda's original spin on the invasion
of Iraq appears under the title "Indestructible Ties of Friendship"
on a CNN website. Click HERE
to go the CNN website.*
Scott McClellan, the White House press
secretary, responding to a recent Helen Thomas question about U.S.
administration credibility in southeast Asia said,
There are two democratically-elected
governments now in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we are there at their
invitation. They are sovereign governments, and we are there today and
we are doing all we can to train and equip their security forces so
that they can provide for their own security as they move forward on a
free and democratic future.
Thank you Scott and the Bush regime for
becoming the 21st century version of Pravda. You and this regime,
however, are far from the truth. As for being in Iraq and
Afghanistan at the invitation of their governments? I guess that
is true if one uses the same logic the Soviet Union used in invading
Czechoslovakia. Perhaps, what this points out is that imperialist
countries have similar goals and the same modus operandi, and, they
equally lie.
* http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/14/1st.draft/pravda.html
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