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Thank you England

Iraqi | 30.01.2005 16:50

I was in London today voting for the first time in my life, my father for the first time in over 50 years

My mother was so determined she got out of her bed despite an illness.
I have spoken to my cousins in Baghdad and people of all religious beliefs are voting in numbers even higher than could have been dreamed off. In some areas nearly 80%. Old women have defied the gunmen and taken their sons and daughters to vote. The time of Saddam is over, the time of the B'ath is over. The Mullahs fear us and they fear democracy as it weakens their hold on the uneducated.

The resistence you are so quick to praise have tried to kill those who vote, why would you support them ? For Iraq and Iraqi people everywhere our day of liberation has come.

I thank the people of Britain who gave a home to my family when they fled Iraq and I thank the British troops who have given Iraq its freedom.

LONG LIVE A DEMOCRATIC IRAQ !

Iraqi

Comments

Display the following 15 comments

  1. Democracy rules — Suzy Sue
  2. Hope — Sceptic
  3. war cannot foster peace — anti-war
  4. Not a resistance — Z
  5. mmmmm...........meaningful — anarchkit
  6. Saddam was a lackey of Britain and America — Andrew
  7. tiny turnout — Andrew
  8. 12.5% ? — Tony
  9. Bogus — B (aged 7)
  10. in response to Tony — Andrew
  11. Resistance — Jurg
  12. Facts only — Remembers the past
  13. Great — Les
  14. Great - an inspiration. — B
  15. patience is a virtue... — ICJ