… or any editorial I have ever read in the New York Times or the Washington Post.
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I’m so glad you posted this heartfelt and eloquent message. It should get as wide a readership as possible–and, thanks to you and Instapundit, it will, at least here in the blogosphere. But I’m looking foward to the day when this sort of thing will appear in the NY Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, and the AP.
I can dream, can’t I?
Meanwhile, with the AP, its again with the “militants.” Sheesh.
Roger,
Is there a Pulitzer for short firs-person essays?
Outstanding!
These are the personal stories the lame MSM is not reporting to the American people that give balance to the ‘whining” protests of the weak willed left.
This is no Vietnam. This war is just for the very reasons as told by Husayn. We of the Blogos are privledge to know of these personal stories, unlike others who depend upon the lame MSM for objective news of the day.
The MSM is no longer relevant. We of the Blogos must share these insights with many others so that they too can begin to understand this cause is just. It’s time for the free world to join in this noble effort to rid the world of these repressive regimes that use failed ideologies of the 12th Century to remain in control.
These despotic regimes remain in power by denying people certain universial rights as human beings. They deride America (The Great Satan) and Israel (The Little Satan) as the scapegoats for all the wrongs their people have suffured. All the while consuming the countries’ wealth in natural resources for their own personal interests.
As President Bush has said, “Freedom is on the March!” The intense light of the free world will implode these repressive regimes. They will melt away under the light just like the Wicked Witch of the East in the Wizard of Oz.
There are many parallels to the JRR Tolkien’s, Triology of the Rings, and the Evil in the world we are now facing. Many have agrued Tolkien’s stories were a prelude and prediction of the horrors of the Third Reich to come.
The Blogos can play a crucial role in the GWOT by bringing these stories to the American People.
The next chapter in the GWOT – see this essay here:
The Titans of the Blogs vs. the Mad Mullahs of Iran.
Bush said “Let this be Liberty’s century”.
I hope he is right. Men like Husayn have one way to go: forward.
I know there will be hard times ahead and the governemnt will be slow to form and there will be setbacks. Right now I am worried because they have not named the new PM and I worry that the Iraqis will grow tired of the politics.
But politics are better than bombs and rape rooms.
I hope this will be a new day for the ME. I don’t doubt they will still have problems, but maybe they will learn how to deal with them in a way that recognizes the rights of all people.
We can hope.
I agree Roger; this is much more important than anything the anti-war folks bring to the table. Especially since the anti-war crowd is more in love with their slogans and catchphrases than with the reality of the Iraqi people.
Roger, or more properly Husayn,
I think I saw the last pro-do-nothing protester float through the sewer grate and henceforth out to sea…
Pablo, the deserter from the Tsunami Relief Battle Group, made a little speech to about 300 folks in burlap sacks, and Birkenstocks, and purple stained middle fingers – and started to vanish down the drain pipe. Not a bad turnout for San Diego – a city of 2.5 million. Of course it might have just been the huddled homeless trying to keep warm. Soon Pablo will be trained in the Military Occupation Specialty of ’0000 Breaking Rocks in the Hard Sun’. Actually, his time in the sun is long past.
I guess Husayn answers the questions posed by the quickly peer reviewed Lancet Study. Son, to most Americans, it was worth it, it is worth it, and if we don’t get bombed by raving mad Islamofascists it will always be worth it. It is your time in the sun…
In this case, the carrot had to follow the stick…
R/S,
Roger
San Diego, CA
Husayn obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Just ask Juan Cole…
What a wonderful and courageous post by Husayn. This is a war between the Husayns and the Zarqawis. The Zarqawis are losing because America is creating the space for the Husayns to win.
Let freedom reign!
Husayn is trying to pop the MSM info-bubble that has been solidified around the liberation of Iraq, and so are others. Whether the leaks in the shell will lead to a complete collapse is hard to say, but the pressure and the jabbing of unimpeachable Iraqi sources seem to be having an effect. Even AJ . . . .
Husayn left me with a knot in my stomach and tears in my eyes. My heart swells with pride for the Iraqi spirit.
Me, too…there’s no way to read something like that and not get a little choked up. The oldest civilization, or nearly so, the ‘land between two rivers’, helped by civilization’s latest model government, free-market liberal democracy, to rid itself of a dawn-of-time tyrant…ya couldn’t write this stuff as fiction, it’s too far-fetched.
The war in Iraq is over. Why do so many hesitate to state the obvious? We are now confronted only with a dangerous post-war era. Iraqiís enemies have no realistic chance of ever again regaining power. This fact alone is a sufficient reason to declare victory.
Was the war worth it? What sane person can say with a straight face that it would have been better to allow Saddam Hussein to remain in power? Is it better that the police eventually arrested Charles Manson? There are some things that are not legitimately debatable—and the war in Iraq is one of them.