Kitabat, Iraq
Showing Respect to
a Hero: President George W. Bush
"We have lived through a
period that not only saw the end of Saddam's criminal regime, but the establishment
of a comprehensive, socio-political transformation. The moral duty imposed on all
patriotic, honorable Iraqis is the raising of a statue of President George W. Bush
in Baghdad's central square, thus paying him the respect and gratitude he deserves."
By Khadir Taahar
Translated By James Jacobson
December 23, 2008
Arabic - Iraq - Original
Article (Arabic)
When will we acknowledge
the debt that we owe him and erect a statue of President George W. Bush?
It's regrettable that the collective
behavior of Iraqis isn't always rational, logical or wise, since our society is
most often characterized by herd-like, demagogical behavior and attempts to
alienate voices and movements that oppose ideological exclamations and
aggressive sloganeering.
The process of evaluating President
George W. Bush's achievements, particularly the liberation of Iraq from slavery
and genocide, requires a great deal of rationality, realism and the ridding
oneself of the influence of hostile slogans and false accusations. One must
avoid the use of these as instruments of analysis, since such intellectual and
ideological projections distort reality.
For example, when examining
the journey of the American President, no one in the Arab world talks of his
patriotism and devotion to country. As far as his patriotism and diligence in
protecting America's interests are concerned, Bush has put in a remarkable
performance. For despite all the objections and protests that have been raised
against him, he stayed the course, determined to battle and crush terrorism. He
avenged his country, managed to kill thousands of terrorists in Afghanistan and
Iraq, and purified the earth of their filth. But despite all of this, and
because of the tyranny of false accusations and ideological slogans, no one
speaks objectively of Bush's achievements, his patriotism as a political leader,
and the bravery with which he has fought terrorism.
Both individually and
collectively, Iraq's political mind must assess the Bush era objectively, by
virtue of the fact that this man played a major role in writing a new history for
our nation. We have lived through a period that not only saw the end of Saddam's
criminal regime, but the establishment of a comprehensive, socio-political transformation.
One of the most salient features of this change has been for the majority of
people, successfully breaking free of the myths, idols and influence of the clerics
and Islamic parties. For the first time in Iraq's modern history, people are
permitted to publicly criticize religious institutions and clerics, discuss
their backwardness, their lies, their thievery and their opportunism. This
historic civilizational success would not have occurred if President Bush had
not liberated Iraq.
The Iraqi people are called upon
to set aside demagoguery and raise their level of national awareness in regard
to the Bush era. It is time to recognize its positive traits and beauty, since
he granted resurrection to Iraq after her death at the hands of Saddam's regime. The
moral duty imposed on all patriotic, honorable Iraqis is the raising of a
statue of President George W. Bush in Baghdad's central square, thus paying him
the respect and gratitude he deserves.
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Letter to the editor
about Khadir Taahar,
author of this
article
Translated By James Jacobson and Nicolas Dagher
December 21, 2007
Iraq - Kitabat -
Original Article (Arabic)
I so admire the
writings of Khadir Taahar! This writer raves with such frankness and clarity, and
never shies away from shocking the reader with his contrarian beliefs - whether
he (the reader) be left-wing, right-wing or independent. For him, all that
matters is that the reader be an Iraqi. Why? Because regardless of their
religious denominations or particular beliefs, Iraqis are uncomfortable with
the international brand known as the “United States of America.”
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
To say: “They are
uncomfortable” in a polite and civilized way is not to say: “They hate or are
resentful,” since I don’t wish to annoy Khadir Taahar - who is more American
than the Americans and even more than Bush, Cheney, Rice or Gates. He is more
part of the American intelligence apparatus than the men of CIA and more Jewish
than the Jews (remember his Kitabat article from April 15th 2007, in which he
called for establishing friendly relations with Israel so that it could take
part in rebuilding Iraq!)
I like the work
of this writer because he isn’t ashamed or embarrassed to express his ideas and
political views clearly and honestly and he isn’t afraid of critics of his
writings. Nor does he feel the need to respect the feelings of other Iraqis,
who take umbrage at his favorite leaders, the Americans, who have inflicted
death, destruction and ruin upon them in the service of Israel and her future
security, and at their hands of Washington’s creation, the terrorists, who came
from abroad at the behest of their [Iraqi] allies and advisers from the former
regime.
kodhayer1961@yahoo.com
[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
January 7, 10:17pm]
