'When Will the Americans Come?'--Here in northern Iraq, they're getting impatient for freedom.

Wall St Journal ^ | 3-5-03 | ASLA AYDINTASBAS

[SJackson]

IRBIL, Northern Iraq -- It is hard to imagine another place where Americans are more popular these days. "We like the son of 'Haji Bush,' because he will fight Saddam for us," a young Kurdish driver tells me plain and simple. Others -- young and old, Kurdish or Turkmen, shopkeepers and politicians -- echo similar sentiments about ending the reign of brutality in Baghdad.

[2timothy3.16]

In fact, just about the only people who oppose a war on the Iraqi dictator here seem to be the Western journalists who have flocked to the Irbil Towers Hotel to await its arrival.

Why doesn't that surprise me. I kinda hop-e they don't take the Tpresidents advice to leave, and stay where they are. Oh to be an o311 again, just for a day just for an hour just to see the faces of the media as our troops are greated as liberators.

[ez]

"In fact, just about the only people who oppose a war on the Iraqi dictator here seem to be the Western journalists who have flocked to the Irbil Towers Hotel to await its arrival."

[Destructor]

You mean- the Media LIED?!? The Iraqi people aren't happy being Saddam's slaves?

[CELTICGAEL (Celt)]

I wish Fox news would put this type of news on their shows. This would let the American people see and hear the truth. These people are suffering and they truly want Americans and our real friends like the Brits and etc. to come and liberate them. Moreover, the Iraqi people want to help themselves to be liberated. This is the real story. This is the truth! NOT the anti-war left that all the news outlets love to cover. True stories like this would shut a lot of the left up.

[SJackson]

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[tessalu]

I really wish that all people could be free like me.
I want the Kurds to be free, and the Muslim people who are so oppressed and brainwashed that they hardly know what has happened to them. It feels good to be free, with no one forcing you to believe whatever they think.

[TomB]

One exile admits that they are looking at Germany's de-Nazification

Note to Iraqis: It didn't work.

[AppyPappy]

We've screwed them before. I guess they are hoping we don't again.

[Robert DeLong]

True stories like this would shut a lot of the left up.

No it wouldn't. They would have to care about the truth and about the real plight these people endure. Neither are a true concern of the left. Only bashing America and Bush are their true concerns.

[tomkat]

This is the real story

amen !

[Momaw Nadon]

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