Anti-war protesters have no idea: refugee (Iraqi man speaks to australian newspaper)

sydney morning herald ^ | March 23, 2003 | Eamonn Duff

[anncoulteriscool]

A good story about a man from iraq who escaped to australia who now feels free to speak...its too bad everyy "war protester" cant read this.

[concerned about politics]

FOX should be interviwing the people who know what we're fighting against.
The American people need to hear this.
I find it disturbing our own left wing section of our government supports this type of ruler. Pray they never, ever, regain any power in Washington. Amen.

[Balata]

"I speak out because they need to be told they are wrong. They need to support their country. They need to be told the truth - and that is that the Iraqi people have been suffering human rights crimes for decades.

Bump for the TRUTH!

[Owl558]

I work with an Iraqi man who expressed a similar sentiment in response to the apeasement protesters in San Francisco. He made it a point to to tell me that these protesters are supporting Saddam regardless of their intentions.

[Freedom2specul8]

I have to wonder if it's just our area..all of our local news stations have been interviewing local iraqi's...all the same story... They'd be dead in Iraq...everyone hates saddam..etc.

[Rocko]

Bump.

[Peach]

Excellent article. Thank you for posting it.

Drudge has two articles on his site that I've sent to liberal appeasers. These articles are likely written by embedded journalists and are first-hand accounts of the Iraqi's tears of joy at being "saved".

Send them on to anyone you can think of to get the word out, because the mainstream press surely won't.

[Rocko]

And bookmarked.

[Mrs. P]

Yes, it's too bad every war protester can't read. The ones I've seen on TV and in person here are definitely NOT the reading type - if you know what I mean.

[apkubrick]

I do not support "this type of ruler". However I do support other countries’ sovereign right to determine their own destiny without condescending, self-righteous outside influence.

[doug from upland]

But, of course, the RATS in the street hate Bush more than Hussein. They are vile, despicable peace pukes.

[RAT Patrol]

"I knew I had a 100 per cent chance of death if I stayed [in Iraq] but only a 90 per cent chance of death if I fled in a little boat," he said. "So I chose the 10 per cent chance of life. Wouldn't you?"

Wow, powerful stuff.

[RAT Patrol]

However I do support other countries’ sovereign right to determine their own destiny without condescending, self-righteous outside influence.

What is sovereign about the above description of life in Iraq? The only one with a choice is the butcher of Baghdad.

[concerned about politics]

I do not support "this type of ruler". However I do support other countries’ sovereign right to determine their own destiny without condescending, self-righteous outside influence.

Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head."

[yankeedame]

The ones I've seen on TV and in person here are definitely NOT the reading type - if you know what I mean.

Doesn't matter one way or the other. After all, we see what we look for. How many escapees from the USSR and Red China, telling their stories of horror, were breezily dismissed by "progressives" here in American, and the West.

[Gee Wally]

However I do support other countries’ sovereign right to determine their own destiny without condescending, self-righteous outside influence.

Who possesses the sovereign right, the people of Iraq or Saddam and his cohort of thugs?

[SolutionsOnly]

Even if an anti-war protester read this, I wouldn't expect it to make a difference. The anti-war crowd isn't objective. They tend to be idealistic utopians - if the facts get in the way of their ideals, they simply ignore them. Notice how selective they are in their outrage: How many anti-Saddam signs do you see in those crowds? How Many "Free Iraq" signs do you see? You'll see more 'Free Tibet" signs. They're out of touch with reality.

A quote I once came across sums it up well:
"If you want to make a conservative mad, tell a lie. If you want to make a liberal mad, tell the truth"

[jonno]

apkubrick signed up 2003-03-22.

Welcome!

[Rocko]

Bump again.

[frnewsjunkie]

If you saw someone killing a person .... you would not interfere if it was not your own family?

Do you not know these Iraqi could not remove this dictator? Do you not know anyone who tried, was killed in a awful manner?