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10.04.03, 22:52
I want to talk to the French right now and the Germans and the Russians. I
want to talk to all those who opposed the liberation of Iraq. I want to show
you all something. I want to show you the joyous scene in downtown Baghdad
today.
People oppressed. Now people free. People once hopeless. Now hopeful. People
you forgot. But we remembered.
If you had things your way, they'd still be under the thumb of a dictator.
And you were fine with that. We were not. You had no problem telling
them, "live with it." We had a big problem telling them, "get over it."
Look at their faces. See their smiles. And feel their joy, their freedom and
their fervor. How do you feel now? Still sure going the extra mile for them
wasn't worth it? I don't think they'd agree.
While you were debating, they were suffering. While you were kowtowing to a
dictator you knew was an ogre, they were enduring under a dictator they knew
was even worse. They lived in huts and tenements. He lived in castles. But
that didn't bother you.
They scraped by to get morsels. You skulked by to get contracts. They
couldn't realize a penny from the oil that made Saddam rich. You didn't seem
to care, as long as it made you rich.
You opted for profit over principle and deals that made a dictator richer and
his people poorer. You argued the world had no right to interfere in a
sovereign nation. But you won't waste a nanosecond to worm your way into this
new nation. Now you want in, when for so long the masses have been kept out.
I ask you to look at their faces. Then look at your own. See the triumph of
the human spirit and the coalition soldiers who fought and died for it.