Sadr Lashes Out at 'Terrorist' Gates

alalam ^ | April 12, 2008 | Sadr

[Thomas W.]

Did you see this, written by an Iraqi?

Khudayr Taher: An Apology to the Valiant American Soldier

In an April 8, 2008 article titled “Apology to the Valiant American Soldier,” Iraqi liberal Khudayr Taher bemoaned the ill treatment the U.S. army received from those it liberated:

“We forsook you and betrayed you - we, whose history is an expression of massacres, conflagrations, and ruin. We killed you, and we killed our dream and aspiration of reaching the sun, the moon, and the stars - [we killed our dream] of availing ourselves of the opportunity to live as true humans, thanks to your presence.

“My dear, brave American soldier, you noble individual who traversed land and sea in order to write the story of Iraqi freedom for the first time in its modern history - you believed, in accordance with logic, self-evident truths, and rational thought, that a people who had been subjected to repression, starvation, and killing would dance for joy, and would thank Allah who sent you to them as a liberating angel. [You believed that] they would strew flowers and break out in songs of joy that would smash the chains of slavery, ignominy, and humiliation.

“Not even a writer of surrealistic [literature] or [theater of] the absurd would have imagined that the Iraqi people would revolt against their liberator and would rush ardently back to a new bondage of a different kind - that of the religious cleric, the tribal sheikh, and the gang leader. It was unthinkable that the people would go against logic, rational thought, and self-evident truths, in a mad rush towards the abyss and total ruin.

“My beloved, brave American soldier, we apologize to you, and we are saddened at our wretched and miserable selves. Since we are a people that slaughters itself, and kills one another, cutting off heads, what can you expect from us other than ingratitude, perfidy, and stabbing you in the back for the benefit of Iranian and Syrian intelligence and Al-Qaeda?”

http://tinyurl.com/6jwu54

[nonliberal]

Tell me again why this guy is still alive?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I can’t answer that.

[txhurl]

There’s a slim chance maybe he was in Shiraz today?

One can hope

[Marine_Uncle]

I forget the name of the town the Iranians set him up in a villa with his new bride but it is in the north somewhere in the area of Qom so he can attend his Islamic training to be booted up a level in the clergy (no where near the level a Ayatollah would achieve less a Grand Ayatollah), a few years down the pike. The clown is playing games from a safe haven.
My sources for this statement came from our postings of recent vintage, that I cannot now reference.

[txhurl]

I've always thought Shiraz was like Malbec or Beaujolais, best drunk young :)

[Marine_Uncle]

Beaujolais I am familiar with. I never tasted Shiraz or Malbec but I must admit I tend toward the great years the Bordeaux and Burgundy regions produced super fine reds and whites. Damn I have not sat down and had a fine bottle of a burgundy from say the Cote de Beanune, Cote de Nuits/St. Georges, or Cotes de Nuits/Gevrey-Chambertin along with some fine brie cheese, since I lost my job with AT&T some years back.
Now poor old uncle George has to settle for the boxed Chiantis and potato chips, heh heh. So be it.
With that I have to hit the sake shortly. Work comes early. Work work work. Yet to young to retire. Do have a great upcoming day.

[txhurl]

You, too, Sir! Go find yourself an 8-dollar bottle of 2006 Malbec, from any vineyard in Argentina. Decant it, and be amazed.

May I suggest Kerrygold’s aged Cheddar (salt rind), delicious, and a little goes a long way.

[AmericaUnite]

I read it back in the day when I read Newsweek. That is my source.

I'm sure there are lots of Iraqis how want to live in peace.

Between the Iranian influence, criminals Saddam let go, the Sunnis who felt they were without a job and out of power, to the AQ infiltrators, they probably just kept on being under the thumb of someone else. It's scary being responsible if you've never done it.

[SunkenCiv]

The US won’t enter any political process that will allow Sadr to remain in Iran.

Under it, maybe.

But not in it.

[Marine_Uncle]

I have had a few Argentina wines years back. They where great. Can’t remember the types nor the specific areas. Yea. I have indulged in aged Cheddars. Life has it’s pleasantries on occasions.