http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000342.php#more Open Letter From an Iraqi
/I recently received this letter from an Iraqi friend who lives in
Baghdad. It is written as an open letter to Mr. Bush. -DJ/
While there is deep concern about the possibility of civil war, the
common talk between all groups now in Iraq is the poor infrastructure,
poor electricity, deficiency of fuels, bad drinking water, poor health
services, poor education and extensive unemployment.
Unemployment doesn't mean that young men don?t have jobs, because you
can hardly find a young man who sits in his house. Instead, they will
sell cigarettes, for example, or they work as taxi drivers or in the
weapons trade, etc. This kind of way of living will not improve Iraq.
I want to ask Mr. Bush
do you think that Iran is a democratic country?
With freedom and liberty? Do you?
If your answer is yes, then we can understand what is going in our country.
But if your answer is no, then let me ask you again
are you insane?
(pardon me)
Because now you have let those people and their followers have the power
and drag us 100?s of years backwards.
Do you know, Mr. Bush, that Shia students in Iraqi Universities are
making these mass self-punishments: weeping and crying marches on the
university campus instead of doing useful research? Are you happy with
this Mr. Bush? Well, we are not.
I am not against the Shia, as they are my friends and my neighbors. But
I am against this retarded ideology brought to this 21st century from
ages back and supported by the head fundamental Islamists who want
people to continue following them for good.
The very same who want to cut the body of Iraq into pieces so that they
can rule their way, or should I say the Iranian way? It?s the same.
Well Mr. Bush, I shall tell you that your troops invaded Iraq in three
weeks. But that was easy for you because many Iraqis, including myself
believed you. Let?s say that we had a dream. We believed that you are
going to take us to the real freedom.
And as I am writing a vision flashed in my mind, drawing back these
nice, hopeful dreams. I miss that dream I had from when I saw first an
American soldier with my eyes, and knew that Saddam?s era; war era,
sanctions era and suffering era had gone.
In this moment, now I wish that your era had not come. Because of you,
we have witnessed horrible days and the future is a gloomy one.
Mr Bush, be acknowledged that the Iraqi police and Iraqi army are not
dealing or treating Iraqi citizens as citizens should be dealt with.
They humiliate them, insult them with bad words and aim their guns
toward people without a reason. They have limited everything in our
lives; they have limited our roads, they have limited our freedom to go
on the streets after 8 pm, they have limited our feeling of security,
they have limited our hopes, our dreams and our social life.
Do you know that the government you installed has increased fuel prices
five fold? It has failed to provide the minimum power to people and
failed to supply water (Even if not good to drink. In addition, water is
not available for the last days in Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq).
Mr. Bush, you must be proud of your new icon of democracy in the heart
of the Middle East. Let me assure you that today there is no one in the
world who wants to be in your icon of democracy, and not one country
would want to be like Iraq. You know why? Because you have turned our
lives into a seemingly endless series of crises and our suffering is day
and night.
Finally, nothing seems positive now after the fraudulent ballots of the
last elections. After all, the biggest winner is Iran and the Kurds. So
you might go and sleep well tonight.
Signature:
An Iraqi citizen who believes in freedom and democracy, and who is
craving them.
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