Tariq Siddiqui wrote: An excellent article by Naomi Klein. Neocon supporters and warmongers need not read this. http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html
Mario replies: I recommend that all Goanetters read the article Tariq considers "excellent". It an excellent example of callous, hate-filled anti-Iraqi left-wing ideology. People like Tariq and Naomi Klein get physically ill at the thought of Iraq being free from the brutal heel of Saddam Hussein and his minority Sunni Baathists, who would rather kill people than give them a chance at freedom. The author Tariq considers "excellent" likens the Americans trying and dying to free Iraq to the misogynist Taliban who tried to subjugate Afghanistan, beat women in the streets, and banned education for girls. She describes the re-construction going on in Iraq as capitalist "greed", never mind that it is providing much needed jobs for millions of Iraqis, and re-building an infrastructure destroyed first by Saddam and then the attack to remove him. You will be sorry to hear, Tariq, that the mass graves are no longer being filled in Iraq, the rape rooms are closed, the beatings have stopped, no tongues are being cut out, and 80% of the Iraqis will experience the exhilatation of voting in an election this weekend. As the Afghans did in Afghanistan, Tariq, millions of brave Iraqis will pray and take part in Islamic last rites in preparation for death, then go to the polls on January 30. That displays a thirst for freedom that you will never understand. These are the true martyrs, not the cowards who want to kill tham. In the meantime, your hate-filled Sunni Baathist friends, with the moral support of people like you, Haroon Siddiqui and Naomi Klein, are writhing in hatred, declaring democracy un-Islamic and going as far as to kill and commit suicide in a desperate attempt to stop the elections from proceeding.