Today's Wall Street Journal features an article by Iraqi President JALAL TALABANI. Some highlights:
How is it that Iraq today has a democratically elected head of state, government and Parliament? How it is that members of the most repressed ethnic groups now hold the highest offices of state? All these welcome developments are a result of the courage and vision of President Bush and his allies, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian Prime Minister John Howard, leaders whose commitment of troops to enforce U.N. Security Council resolutions liberated Iraq.
The rapidity of the democratization and reform of Iraq is staggering. There was no German state for four years after the Second World War. By contrast, Iraq has moved from a centralized, one-man dictatorship to a decentralized, federal republic in half that time
Every terrorist attack on Iraqi forces leads to a surge in military recruitment--the opposite of the appeasers' myth that resisting terrorism causes more terrorism.
American forces are in Iraq at the invitation of the democratically elected government of Iraq, and with the backing of a United Nations Security Council resolution. Your soldiers are in my country because of your commitment to democracy. Moreover, during my visit to Washington, Mr. Bush reaffirmed the United States' complete support for the Iraqi political process toward sustainable democracy, and for the fight to defeat fascist and jihadist terrorism in Iraq.
Americans should be proud of what its soldiers have achieved. The presence of foreign forces has prevented a renewed civil war in Iraq--renewed because there has already been a civil war in Iraq. For 35 years, Saddam and his Baath Party made war on the Iraqi people. The liberation of Iraq ended that civil war.
With its allies, the United States has provided Iraqis with an unprecedented opportunity. Iraqis have responded by enthusiastically embracing democracy and volunteering to fight for their country
There you have it, straight from the horse's mouth. Check out the whole thing at:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007289

Today's Wall Street Journal features an article by Iraqi President JALAL TALABANI. Some highlights:






There you have it, straight from the horse's mouth. Check out the whole thing at:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007289
There is now 75% militia infiltration of iraqi security forces, how can US or UK forces operate, or stay there now, we already saw yesterday what that means, 2 uk soldiers handed over to militia by basra police, there is no way to go now, but OUT.

There you have it, straight from the horse's mouth.

The horse is a gelding straight off of George Bush's ranch. He reads his prepared speeches very well, though, you gotta give him that. Rather than listening to what Talabani is saying at the behest of Washington, we should be looking at what is actually happening in Iraq. Civil war is raging with different factions being supported by different surrounding states. The situation is so fluid, so unstable that almost anything could happen. Anything, that is, except for Iraq stabilising into a Switzerland-on-the-Euphrates, as you seem to be suggesting. There's no way to discuss this without it degenerating into a pointless argument - let's revisit this in September 2006 and we'll see if Talabani is right or wrong.

The horse is a gelding straight off of George Bush's ranch. let's revisit this in September 2006 and we'll see if Talabani is right or wrong.
Its a donkey from bushes ranch lets be factual here, no fantasy please,
we will all be dead from bird flu by sept 2006, get a grip man.

The sensationalist news media, with the horror stories of Iraq, is wrongly influencing so many of the public opinions. I think that scares me as much as almost anything else! What'll they influence the public to think next?

Baron Max

Is there any video documentation that the Iraqi president said what he said? And is there any DNA evidence to be found to show that it was really the Iraqi president that said that and not a body double? And how credible is the scientist who handles that DNA?

- N

Is there any video documentation that the Iraqi president said what he said? And is there any DNA evidence to be found to show that it was really the Iraqi president that said that and not a body double? And how credible is the scientist who handles that DNA?

- N
Well saddam hussain is the true iraqi president, and yes he had many body doubles, they would have to check parasite DNA, to get a accurate match to saddams.