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November 13, 2002
An open letter to an Iraqi citizen
I find myself addressing Salam, the underground Iraqi author of the Where Is Raed? website. His remarks come from a thread connected to the Legendary Monkey, who has herself been highly skeptical of the move for military action against Iraq. Salam's not very happy with my support for overthrowing the government of his country, though this is absolutely NOT support for Hussein.
that's ok AL you won't have to wait for long. first your bushie-bush will destroy the iraqis in self defense and then turn to palestenians, saudis, Iranians.
would you like us to wear badges saying (muslim-scum)so that your super smart laser guided missiles can find us more easily ?
Posted by salam at November 13, 2002
My reply:
Salam-
You're a smart fella, so I'm confident that you know better than the ad hominem attack you're making on me ["would you like us to wear badges saying (muslim-scum)"] Obviously NO ONE in the US supports indiscriminate killings of civilians. That would be YOUR leader Hussein, and, per your list, the political leadership of the Palestenians, Saudis, and Iranians. For our part, America and our Bushie-Bush have tried very hard to avoid killing innocent civillians.
I appreciate that you aren't looking forward to military action in your country. However, it is an unfortunate necessity. You know better than I what kind of mass murdering bastard is running your country.
Your problem is Saddam, not the US. You want to lash out at somebody, I understand. Feel free to say bad things about me, Al Barger, personally if it makes you feel better. Considering what you're facing, I'll understand. I'm pretty safe down on the farm, so a little cursing from you won't hurt me.
You and your countrymen have been either unwilling or unable to get rid of him, and he has been and remains a menace to the rest of the world. Therefore WE will have to knock him down.
I don't blame you personally. You are stuck in the middle. Unfortunately a good many of your countrymen, even possibly yourself stand to get killed. For our part, the US will be trying very hard NOT to kill you.
As to your danger, though, consider your own words:
"And in a case of war I do believe that if Saddam has any biological or chemical weapons he is very likely to use them on his own people to give the CNN and Jazeera the bloody images everyone doesn't want to see."
This scenario from you is even wickeder than any that occurred to me or most American hawks. We anticipate the possibility of him using WMDs against our soldiers, or lobbing them at Israel. It hadn't occurred to me that he might bluntly and purposely turn them against his own civilians, just to punish Americans with the sight of dead bodies.
Your quote here only re-doubles my support for a military intervention, though. A guy with that kind of evil in him HAS to go. He has to go NOW. If he'd do that to his own, there's little question that he'd do it to us just for a goddam laugh.
What do you think we SHOULD do? Should we just sit back and wait for him to pass some nasty crap off to al Qaeda? He could well be doing that now, so they can run interference for him.
I'm sorry for your country, and I appreciate your anguish, but we can't afford to take our chances with allowing him to remain in power. The longer he's there, the more hazardous he becomes. It's horrible that he's put your country in such a situation. We're not going to wait around giving him the chance to do the same to us.
The best thing YOU could do would be to accept the necessity of the surgery that we're going to do in removing this cancerous regime from your society, and HELP US. You're on the ground in Baghdad? OK, what kind of clues could you give us to troop movements? Especially, do you have any clues as to where some of those chemical and biological weapons might be? If you can provide any clues, perhaps that would help us destroy them before Hussein could use them on YOU. Here is the CIA COMMENTS PAGE, which would be the most obvious place for you to report.
I can appreciate how this request might strike you the wrong way on an emotional level, but it would be truly the best way to help your country. There's no future for your country while the Baath regime remains. The quicker and more precisely we get rid of him, the better it will be for both our countries.
I can appreciate how you might not feel very friendly towards President Bush, or to me personally for supporting him in this effort. Please believe me, though, when I say that I have nothing but love in my heart for you and your countrymen. I look forward to the day- which will be coming very soon- when the menace of Hussein and his henchmen is gone from you.
Peace be with you, brother.
posted by Al at 11/13/2002 01:15:00 PM
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