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old. Since March of 2003 when Operation Iraqi Freedom started my friends and
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July 11th, 2006
Hello everyone! I have been getting quite a few emails lately of people wanting to write to Soldiers deployed. Please, f you have a family member deployed and you would like my friends and I to write to your family member that would work great! I am having a harder time finding addresses to give out to people now so if you know anyone deployed that would like to receive mail please let me know, thanks! Thank you United States military for your great service to our country.
August 15th, 2005 Click here for pictures from Alex
Freedom is costly in Iraq, but it worth it
By Alex Kurd*
Many people in the western countries take the freedom and democracy they have for granted, but it did not come to them easy, as it took long time and many sacrifices to achieve it.
It is not easy to live under a dictatorship a brutal and secret intelligence regime that has no mercy whatsoever toward any human being, except their loyalists. I am talking about Iraq and Saddam’s regime since they came to power in a bloody coup in 1968. Now, after the regime was toppled by the coalition lead by the US army, and due to their miscalculations for the aftermath of the liberation of Iraq, strange things have happened , many terrorists have crossed the borders and joined forces with the former regime members who lost their privileges and illegal benefits from the Iraqi oil export to be used for their own advantages without consideration towards the Iraqi people who suffered for years under the embargo for wars and invasion of other countries by Saddam’s regime. The people had no say in it, except to accept the punishment that they didn’t deserve. The terrorists fight against the new born democratic Iraq under the false reasons of fighting the American infidels or the occupation. These terrorists came all the way from many countries to impose their dark and inhuman rules on the Iraqi people to create another Taliban regime in Iraq, which is not acceptable by the Iraqis at all.
The former Iraqi regime did not accept their defeat after 09 April 2003 invasion and choose violence to try to regain their power, hoping to rule by torture again. They think we did not have enough of their brutal regime, but that is close to impossible, and the Iraqi people do not want them back, because the Iraqi people are enjoying the taste of freedom and democracy for the first time. It is imperative to mention some of the brutalities and tortures of the former regime that is known as Ba’th party or the Saddamists, who ruled Iraq with iron fists and deprived the people from basic human rights, such as freedom of speech, the Iraqis were only allowed to talk about the revolution and Saddam and his great achievements and victories in all the wars that he lost. However, we had to be devious and lie and turn that lie into a reality in order for the regime to give us food which is ours legally according to the oil for food program. We remember when the Ba’th party came to power in 1968 and ruled until April of 2003. All we knew was war . with Iran for 8 years and two million people were killed from both sides and neither side was victorious and both countries lost human lives. The invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the internal fight with the Kurds in the north using banned chemical weapons against them and the Shiites in south, and drying the 5000-year-old marshes after the uprising of 1991 in pursuit of Shiites fighters against his regime after the allied forces liberated Kuwait from Saddam’s invasion. Unfortunately it was the unfinished business of not toppling Saddam at that time that led to what is happening now in Iraq. All the actions of the regime lead to 4 million Iraqis fleeing their homeland to neighboring and western countries seeking a new life to escape the harsh situations and desperation. To be honest, we were strangers in our homeland. We the Iraqis did not enjoy the same life as any normal human being elsewhere. We lived with the fear of sending our children into hopeless wars, and the regime had created animosity between the Iraqis even in the same family. They forced the siblings to be their agents to spy on other members of the family and report any suspicious activities. Every family was expecting a midnight knock on their doors by the regime to take away a member of their family. Then they disappeared, and if the corpses of your brother or father were returned, you couldn’t publicly mourn them or open the casket because the body had been mutilated and tortured. You had to bring the body secretly, otherwise punishment waiting for you and your family.
The Iraqi nationals attempted many times to topple the regime in countless coups, but the regime always penetrated the rings, and uncovered them and hanged them.
The hopes came on April 09, 2003 when the coalition and the American Army came to liberate Iraq. Everyone saw the happiness on the Iraqi faces on the day of freedom, but recently that joy has evaporated due to the poor planning for post liberation, and the infiltration of thousands of the terrorists into Iraq as they joined forces with the former regime against the Iraqis and the coalition.
As the Iraqis were enjoying their freedom, they saw the confiscated videos and pictures of the tortures by the former regime. We saw how the regime members were attached sticks of dynamite to the pockets of the shirt of two men and remotely detonated them while the perpetrators were standing around enjoying the scene. Another video of them forced a man to drink fuel until his stomach was full and them he was shot and he caught on fire and exploded, in another video, they cut off people’s tongues, ears lobes, chopped off their heads like sheep and they threw a woman to lions that tore her to pieces while she was shouting for mercy. But all ears of the devils were blocked, and the reason for the woman’s death was because she was married and she refused to sleep with the handicapped Uday. It is known everywhere that a president of a country should take care and protect his citizens, but Saddam was the opposite. For example, once he met a very beautiful Iraqi woman and she was married to the Baghdad International Airport director, and Saddam’s secret guards forced the husband to divorce her so Saddam could marry her as his second lover.
The former regime did not only destroy Iraq, but they F*** the country too. Then they took the country and its wealth hostage and stole all its revenue to build more than 80 expensive palaces. Now the Iraqi people finally feel it is over, and the former regime will never come back, but the fear and memories are still around, because Saddam has not been put on trial, and why it is taking so long? A big question mark is there, and who is delaying the trial? Some are accusing the coalition.
People are enjoying the freedom and democracy, but it is not cheap. Iraqi blood is shed daily by the terrorists, but the people do not quit doing what they have to. To show their disappointment with the acts of terror against them for no reasons, by enjoying the freedom that came only after April 9 the new Iraq, the salaries have gone up big time. They can buy things they were unable before, there are many happy moments in the life of the Iraqis now, but unfortunately the local or western media do not see them or do not want to broadcast them. All they show is the suicide bombers, IEDs(Improvised Explosive devices in different shapes and sizes), assassinations and sabotaging of the infrastructure. Yes, these things are happening daily, but the Iraqis are optimistic about there future which is coming to light and are more visible day after day starting with the first election in January 2005. As they challenged the terrorism by voting and gave sacrifices during that day, it was interesting to know a couple in Baghdad postponed their wedding to January 30 and went to the voting center in their wedding clothes, and the police made an exceptional treat for the couple by touring them around Baghdad in police cars after closing of polling center.
Now, the elected parliament is busy drafting the permanent constitution for the country and soon there will be a referendum by the people to accept or refuse it. (By the way, many Iraqi people are not familiar with these things, election, referendum, constitution, federation,, etc because there were none in the former regime, all the elections were settled in advance for the benefit of the regim.). After that, there will be new, free elections according to the new permanent constitution, and democracy will reign in Iraq forever. Every few years, they will have a new elected president and a new cabinet just like other democratic countries, there are forces who do not wish or want this to happen in Iraq, because the wind of freedom and democracy will blow and spread to their countries and they want the status quo to stay as it is.
Freedom, democracy and human rights are blooming slowly in Iraq, but they are not cheap. The Iraqis are paying for it in blood daily, and the coalition forces are sacrificing their soldiers in fierce fights against the terrorists and the former regime members. It is costly, but trust me it’s worth it. History will tell the great role of the coalition, US Army and the Iraqi security forces. The Iraqis will proudly thank them for their sacrifices because the blood of the Iraqi fighters, Americans and the coalition forces have mixed in many battles against the terrorism here in Iraq . The people will appreciate that after the foreign forces leave Iraq and go back to their countries and loved ones, and they will welcome them back to Iraq as tourists after some years to see how their hard work has paid off or given fruit, as we say in Iraq,
Most of the Iraqis know the foreign forces will not stay forever, but the forces of dark animosity are playing on a sensitive string and brainwashing the people to believe the occupation will never leave. However, the Iraqis know that this issue will be solved rationally with the next elected government, and even the Americans do not want to stay and be considered unwelcome forces here. None of these issues were mentioned or given enough attention by the Media.
There is always talk about the potential civil war in Iraq that will burn everything to ashes, and those who are trying to move Iraq in that direction and want Iraq to be divided into three states. (Shiites in south, Sunnis in the center including Baghdad, and the Kurds in the north). This scenario is far from the truth the civil war will not happen among the Iraqis, because the Iraqi soil bonds us together, and also because the Coalition and the American forces are close by and present here. It is the Coalition’s moral obligation to keep Iraq united, as the Iraqi people wanted. That’s because Iraq is one big family.
Before, we did not say, this is a Shiite or a Sunni or Arab or Kurd or Christian, only we said he is from south or he is an Arab or from north Kurd, and for those who do not know the Iraqis there is love and respects between the people. All the assumptions are made by bad media and the radicals and former Ba’th party. Their claims are all false, and they have been used to stop the coalition from freeing 28 million Iraqis from a brutal regime.
The new Iraq, as we like to call it, is heading in the right direction toward democracy in calculated steps and stages faster than other countries. Germany was under occupation of the alliances for six years after the WWII before becoming a free nation with their new drafted constitution, but in Iraq we see this first-hand and see how things are going fast and well, but the media do not want to show that progress. For example, the people are staying out late at nights enjoying a cup of tea with friends and neighbors in coffee shops without being followed by mentors as was happening during the former regime. There are more weddings than before. The children are attending real schools and learning something useful instead of studying only what Saddam has said or did.
As I mentioned, our lawmakers are now busy drafting the new and permanent constitution, though there are some difficulties, but they are normal as all the members are discussing the best benefits for the Iraqis. It is a democratic era in Iraq.
Iraq will carry out the second constitutional elections at the end of this year, and both the Iraqi security forces and the coalition will continue and defeat the terrorism. Then the foreign forces will start to leave Iraq or keep military bases in Iraq to stable the whole Middle East region, and this matter will be solved by the government of Iraq. If the coalition for some reason decided not to leave, then their country and their people will force them to leave, but this is a hypothetical scenario.
The Iraqi army and the people did not fight the coalition when they invaded Iraq, because they didn’t believe neither the former regime nor Saddam’s family deserved to be defended. They also believed the mighty US forces would not stop at anything until toppling Saddam, and that was exactly what the millions of Iraqis wanted to happen, and it did happen.
The situation the Iraqis were facing under the former regime were not better than now in terms of the suicide bombers, assassinations, improvised explosive devices, etc, but similar to these acts, terror, torture and disappearance were happening during the 35 years of the Saddam’s ruling Iraq, but they were happening under cover and in secret. The families of the victims knew that, but they were told not to talk about it, otherwise the punishment would be severe. That is why the Iraqis were keeping their hate and frustration untold. When they had a chance to leave Iraq and publish or tell the story of their suffering, there were no ears to listen. The entire world became deaf because Saddam was paying them oil and money to shut them up. How many countries and individuals are guilty of supporting and participating with the brutal regime to continue punishing for so long the people of the first civilization of the Babylon.
No nation on earth has paid so much for its freedom and democracy as Iraq did during the era of the former regime, and during the two years after the liberation. We could be enjoying the new Iraq if it was not for the interference and involvement of dark forces and the enemy of freedom who have joined their ugly and brutal forces against the new Iraq. They will be defeated and freedom and democracy will continue flourishing over all Iraq. Many parts are enjoying freedom like the Kurdistan region in the north and most of the southern provinces. The only unstable region now is the central cities in which the terrorists were harbored and supported, and this status quo can not continue forever.
*- Iraqi citizen lives in Baghdad/Ridhwaniya Alex_kurd@yahoo.com
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