Let me describe our situation before the fall of the previous regime. We were like a sick, weak prisoner under the thumb of a cruel jailer.
Then, suddenly and without warning, the gates of our prison were flung open. We were told: "Come on, you are free!"
Doesn't help when your own people are stealing copper from transformers and bus bars from substations to sell it for scrap...Plus anything that was not destroyed in desert storm was in rough shape COMMBLOC or shody European equipment to begin with...
This in the BBC? Have I dropped through a timewarp into an alternate universe again? I hate it when that happens...
It's clear that at least these few Iraqis cheerish their liberty already. I was a bit disappointed that not one person mentioned who it was that set them free, or thanked them, but at least they weren't condemning America and in the Arab world indifference towards the US is progress enough for now as far as I am concerned.
Like Americans of old the Iraqis will have to fight for their freedom to achieve security. They are fortunate to have us and our allies because the rest of the world did not lift a finger to help them, only to help Saddam and their own pockets.
It must be election time in England!
Funding baby. It is all funding!!
One good piece doesn't even come close to making up for 40 years of biases by what passes as "objective reporting". If it wasn't excerped on FR I wouldn't never have known!
I am an American Amateur Radio operator and have reciprocal operating privleges here in Iraq.
During my various communications with my Iraqi friends, their comments are nothing but positive. Of course, over-the-air conversations are very general in nature, but email is much more revealing. Most of them are extremely happy that we are here. You can't find more earnest and hard-working people in the world.
Best Regards,
SGT C.
U.S. Army
near Baghdad, Iraq
I'm sure the beeb tried to find disgruntled men on the street. Maybe they've all blown up or been "brought to justice"?