| 18 Jan '04 |
SCOTTISH NATIONAL STANDARD BEARER:
Peter Dow
Saddam Disarmed!
Victory for freedom! When his statues fell, Saddam was disarmed of his state; when the United Nations supported the liberating coalition, Saddam was disarmed of all political support; now, taken prisoner, not with a bang but with a whimper, Saddam is disarmed of any hope of a come back. Now the world can say to Saddam "Consider yourself disarmed, you son of a bitch!"The Americans have won. The British have won. The Scots have won. The English, the Welsh and the Irish have won. The Australians, the Spanish, the Italians and the Poles have won. The coalition has won. The United Nations has won. The freedom loving people of the world have won.
The people of Iraq have won. The Kurds have won. The Shias have won. The Sunnis too have won. Secular Iraqis have won. The Arabs indeed have won. The Muslims have won a famous victory, shoulder-to-shoulder, proudly alongside their Christian comrades at this happy time for all people who love God (or Allah).
Good has triumphed over evil but let all of us who fight the good fight be aware that we still have many battles ahead. The war on terrorism goes on but there is one less terrorist ruler to worry about from now on.
Saddam and the fools who believed in him have lost, utterly and completely. That is how it should be.
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There is news (see The Scotsman's reports "US wins Europe's backing for Iraq" and "UN approves coalition plan for Iraq") of the complete political vindication of American and British leadership over the policy to remove Saddam Hussein's fascist regime in Iraq.
The world's governments now accept that WE WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG to fight for freedom, justice and democracy for the Iraqi people and to secure Iraq, the region and the world from the evil of Saddam. Click to read reports on Saddam's crimes of mass murder - Human Rights Watch: 'Iraq: Mass Graves Still Unprotected', 'The Mass Graves of al-Mahawil' and Shia News: 'Horrors of Iraq's mass graves'
We led, some governments opposed us then, but they're following us now. We freedom-fighters can live with that - peace with justice, we CAN accept. However, to die peacefully when fascists like Saddam give their orders - NEVER! No surrender to fascism, ever!
Who led, who misled? Click for
Iraq: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
When the coalition forces secured a most impressive military victory over the fascists, some commentators said "They think it is all over!". Well it is now! Admittedly, the remaining Saddam-inspired terrorists in Iraq remain a lethal danger and those politicians who opposed the liberation of Iraq are still scraping around for something to save face with. Yes, these die-hard opponents are a still a menace; regrettably, they will still get more innocent people killed. Nevertheless, we know now that their killing-spree will end sooner or later. LET FREEDOM RING!
To love the (former) Iraqi information minister is to love the mass-murder, torture and oppression of the Iraqi people and to love the deaths of brave Allied (or coalition) military personnel for which the Saddam tyranny was responsible (and the Saddam-inspired terrorists are now responsible).
We should NOT love Sahhaf; WE SHOULD HATE HIM and with good reason. Sahhaf was the gloating spokesman for Saddam and Sahhaf's shocking "release by the US military" can only further inspire the enemies of Iraqi democracy who daily threaten and murder our brave soldiers.
That Sahhaf does not appear in the deck of cards issued to US soldiers listing Iraqi leaders wanted for criminal offences committed while running Saddam’s regime is a staggering omission and a perverse failure of intelligence. The US should now publish a new card for Sahhaf, as a Joker perhaps.
It is as if the Nazi Joseph Goebbels had been captured alive in May 1945 (instead of committing suicide) and had then inexplicably been released by the Allies after interrogation instead of being brought to justice at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial.
Operation Iraqi Freedom has clearly moved into an extremely dangerous lions-led-by-donkeys phase. If Sahhaf is not urgently (re-)arrested and seen by the world to be brought to justice (or otherwise eliminated) then I fear that defeat will be snatched from the jaws of victory.
I fear now not a quick military defeat but a long drawn out Vietnam-war-style defeat wherein US, British and other forces, instead of fighting the enemies of the people of Iraq, like Sahhaf, our side, may be provoked into fighting the people of Iraq themselves. We must not allow that to happen. Therefore, the arrest of Sahhaf must be a priority. In the words of my poem, Sahhaf is in Saddam's "Baghdad team" and we should "have" him.
Of course, a competent US National Security Advisor would already be aware of these considerations.
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