Iraqi Insurgents Issue Open Letter to President-Elect Obama
By Evan Kohlmann
The NEFA Foundation has obtained an Arabic-language communiqué issued by the Political Council of the Iraqi Resistance (PCIR), an umbrella organization which oversees the political interests of several major Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq—including the Islamic Army in Iraq (IAI), the Salahudeen al-Ayyubi Brigades (JAAMI), Hamas al-Iraq, and the breakaway “Shariah Committee” from the former Ansar al-Sunnah Army. The statement from the PCIR, addressed to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, offered blunt advice “for the new American administration to benefit from and to use to avoid the mistakes that the old administration fell into. The reason why you won the presidency is not because the Americans suddenly found out that they should not be racist, it is because of the many mistakes that the Bush administration fell under which didn’t leave for the American citizen any room, not even for a second to think about keeping that administration and the least proof for this is the large numbers of votes against them. Your campaign promises were built on change and the time for it has come, and we say with that the time has come… therefore we ask for change and do not listen to those who tell you that a withdrawal from Iraq is a defeat. We say to you that a withdrawal will mean a triumph of reason and logic… You must correct your mistakes and work with courage to pay compensation to all those who you have destroyed, their families or their house or their psychology. And you must release all those you have as prisoners until the last Iraqi of them, and you must order the sectarian government to release all its prisoners and to return the balance of security to Iraq. Without this we will not think that you will be coming with the change that you have promised, and if you do this you will be written down in history as the courageous one.”
Well the Obama should be content. Not only did the American people ok his plan for defeat in Iraq, the terrorists have put their stamp of approval. In fact they are asking for reparations. Heck, they should have asked for a formal apology. Isn't this great? I wonder when he's going to set up an unconditional meeting for that to happen.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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Don't worry too much about this, as shocking as it is. Obama won't be president long if the American people find out he's using our tax money to pay reparations to Iraq. It simply won't happen and I don't think the slippery eel Obama is that stupid. If he is, great, because we know he won't last more than one term and mid-term elections will be a wash. But no way America supports this in any way, especially in the middle of an economic crisis.
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