Omar of Iraq the Model performs an invaluable service by giving us a view into the opinions of Iraqis that would otherwise never be told here. A sample:
We lived our worst years under Saddam regime, a regime that many Arabs still believe in!We don’t know why don’t they leave us in peace, especially the Arab media that turns liberation into occupation and criminals into resistant. We, Iraqis, know the truth very well. The situation is much better now for the vast majority of Iraqis. Most of the people are government employees who used to get paid 4 or 6 thousand Iraqi dinars. Now the lowest salary is 100 thousand Iraqi Dinar. We feel free and we don’t fear prisons and torture. The Arab media, as expected, made a huge fuss about the prisoners abuse in Abu-Gharib. Shame on them. Where were they when Saddam put explosives around a bunch of young men and blasted their bodies and they all saw that on TV? Where were they?
Saman-Iraq.
What absolutely disgusts me beyond all recognition is how some on the left argues that the Iraqi people were better off under Saddam. This is as morally reprehensible as arguing that Germany was better under Hitler. Under Iraq today there are no more mass graves behind filled, no more random rapes, no more cutting off tongues. The Mukhabarat is gone. Uday and Qusay’s cruelty is gone.
It’s clear that those who make that argument have completely failed to understand what real tyranny is. However, be sure that the Iraqis know all too well.
If there are no mass graves being dug in Iraq post-Saddam, then where are the 14,000+ Iraqis killed during the war being buried? I don’t remember how many bodies were discovered in Saddam’s mass graves, but was it in excess of 14,000?
Well, about 4,000 of them are alive and walking around. The highest number is 11,000 – realistic estimates are between 9,000 and 10,000.
By comparison, Saddam Hussein was responsible for at least 85,000 deaths per year.
“What absolutely disgusts me beyond all recognition is how some on the left argues that the Iraqi people were better off under Saddam.”
Name one.
Why isn’t there more news from Iraq. I remember a few months ago that there were report from inside or near Iraq. I know there is a real danger to reporters in Iraq. But when has that ever stopped an inspired reporter searching for a pulitzer (or whatever the award is). You know what I’m saying!
Hans Blix
Howard Dean
Dennis Kucinich
How about three – and those are just off the top of my head.