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IP: *.echostar.pl 27.03.03, 09:28
Human shields-turned-hawks


They arrived as Saddam apologists willing to die for the despot—but they left
Iraq weeks later with changed hearts and a determination that Saddam must
go. Many of the human shields who had arrived with much fanfare to “stop”
the United States and Britain were swayed by the strongest supporters of
Saddam’s ouster: the Iraqi people.

Particularly powerful is the story of an American group from the Assyrian
Church of the East, who went with a Japanese human shield delegation and
recently crossed over into Jordan with 14 hours of uncensored video footage.
Out of the presence of Iraqi secret police, Iraqi people talked about how
desperate they were for the U.S.-led war to begin. Rev. Kenneth Johnson told
United Press International that Iraqis he interviewed on camera “told me they
would commit suicide if American bombing didn’t start. They were willing to
see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam’s bloody
tyranny.”

After talking with the Iraqi people—not the propagandists on Saddam’s
payroll the outside world sees—Rev. Johnson realized that Saddam is “a
monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler.”
He explained: “Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as
people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so the
[torture masters] could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot
to head.”

Showing that Rev. Johnson’s group was not alone, a self-described “23-year-
old Jewish-American photographer,” Daniel Pepper, detailed his conversion in
a column in The Daily Telegraph of London. He wrote that he, like the other
human shields, was “less interested in standing up for [Iraqis’] rights than
protesting against the U.S. and U.K. governments.” But five weeks in Baghdad
and repeated contact with ordinary Iraqis left him with “a strong desire to
see Saddam removed.”

What caused this former do-gooder to see the light? The same thing that
shocked Rev. Johnson’s group back to reality: conversations with the Iraqi
people. Pepper recounted a conversation he had with the taxi driver who took
him and five other former human shields to Jordan. Free to speak his mind
without fear of reprisal from one of Saddam’s omnipresent secret agents, the
cabbie understood perfectly what the young idealists originally did not: “Of
course the Americans don't want to bomb civilians. They want to bomb
government and Saddam’s palaces. We want America to bomb Saddam.” Pepper and
his pals were stunned. “It hadn’t occurred to anyone that the Iraqis might
actually be pro-war,” he wrote.

War in Iraq has not been solely about liberation of the Iraqi people—
disarmament is a key driving force—but to them, that is what matters. And it
matters to the rest of the world, too. For if Saddam were to stay in power
indefinitely, there is no telling when he would turn against the world. Look
at Stalin, the man upon whom Saddam has modeled himself, right down to the
creepy moustache. Although he had never directly engaged America, scholars
now believe that shortly before his death—which many suspect involved foul
play—“Uncle Joe” intended to start World War III. Had he done so, untold
millions would have perished—and the world would be a radically different
place today.

Soldiers fighting in Iraq are fighting for nothing less than our freedom—
and our children’s freedom. They are fighting to topple a man who
ritualistically tortures his own people, who has used weapons of mass
destruction, and who had invaded two of his neighbors. Because he refused
numerous opportunities to disarm or simply choose exile, this is a war of
Saddam’s choosing—and the brave men and women from America, Britain, and
elsewhere have not backed down from the fearsome challenge. They have not
just the prayers and support of their countrymen, but of the Iraqi people as
well. As the Iraqi taxi driver told Pepper, the former human shield: “All
Iraqi people want this war.”


www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/jm20030326.shtml
    • shanti My tu mamy juz amerykanska propagande po polsku 27.03.03, 09:31
      wiec nie wciskaj nam tu jej wiecej po angielsku
      • Gość: magiczny Re: My tu mamy juz amerykanska propagande po pols IP: *.echostar.pl 27.03.03, 10:30
        shanti napisał:

        > wiec nie wciskaj nam tu jej wiecej po angielsku

        z powodu Twojego lenistwa nie bede sie bawil w tłumacza
        • shanti nie jest mi potrzebne- tekst az sie przelewa od 27.03.03, 10:36
          purytanskiej obludy
          poczytaj sobie Klemperera i Orwella o jezyku propagandy
    • Gość: AdamM Dobry tekst!!! nt IP: *.icpnet.pl 27.03.03, 09:32
    • shanti cos dla ciebie propagandzisto wojenny: 27.03.03, 11:06
      www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2003/03/26/1048354635272.html
      • Gość: magiczny Re: cos dla ciebie propagandzisto wojenny: IP: *.echostar.pl 27.03.03, 11:12
        doceniam powściągliwość wyrażenia - ludziom prezentującym odmienne od Ciebie
        poglądy oberwalo się znacznie mocniej w innych wątkach smile "propagandzista
        wojenny" to tak subtelnie smile
        • shanti Re: cos dla ciebie propagandzisto wojenny: 27.03.03, 11:15
          to nie akademicka debata ani dyskusja oxfordzka- tam bombardowani sa zywi
          ludzie, palancie-oni gina umieraja cierpia bo kretynom zapachniala kasa ropa i
          wojenka
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