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To: Gary H who wrote (18076)	4/22/2003 4:29:04 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80950

Gary > They might as well laugh now before the next one starts. Some would say it already has. atimes.com >>>....this is what freedom looks like to Iraqis - the freedom to preach about kicking out the infidel invaders and running their own country. From an American point of view, it certainly wasn't pretty. One would have expected the thankful Iraqis to have erected a monument to their liberation at this site - not to have organized a million-man march against their liberators. But that's the way of freedom - once you unleash it, it can be hard to control, and dangerous to try. ....the people boiled out of the mosque and headed en masse down Omar Abduaziz Street chanting and carrying signs that read, "Same Iraq, Same people" and "We reject the occupation" and "All Muslims are brothers". They were chanting, La Sin'iya, La Shi'iya, Wahda wahda Islamiya (No Sunni, No Shi'ite, Unity for all Islam.) And also, La ilaha ila Allah, America Aduallah (There is no God but Allah, and America is His enemy.) And also, La America, La Saddam, Wahda wahda Al-Islam. (No America, No Saddam, Only Islam.)<<< In fact, Saddam's old policy of Divide and Rule appears to be giving way to Unite [under Islam] and Fight. washingtonpost.com Rabbi Lieberman is clearly upset and attempts to play down the move to Muslim fundamentalism. >>>Lieberman, appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," said, " . . . Obviously, we don't want this to turn into a theocracy." The demonstrations were expressions of religious freedom not possible under Saddam Hussein and were not necessarily evidence of widespread anti-U.S. sentiment, he said. "It's only a small group that has demonstrated for what seems like an Islamic state," Lieberman said. "They may be jockeying for power within post-Saddam Iraq, themselves. It seems to me that the majority of the Iraqis . . . will not want to go back to another form of dictatorship and loss of freedoms through a theocracy. They'll want to have a democracy in which all religions, and all forms of Islam, particularly, are free to be observed in whatever way people want to observe them."<<< But, no doubt, the Prince of Darkness has some Machievellian scheme in the disguise of democracy up his sleeve. He knows better than most that Islam is hardly the friend of Israel, so why is he apparently in favor of Iraq becoming an Islamic state? >>>Richard N. Perle, a member of an influential Pentagon advisory board and a longtime advocate of going after Hussein, said he believes Iraqis will opt for freedom and pluralism after living through "a quarter of a century of brutal oppression." But if they choose to create an Islamic theocracy, the United States will have to live with that choice, Perle said. "If we want, as I believe we must, democratic rule in Iraq, then we will have to accept the consequences of freely chosen leaders by the Iraqis," he said. "That's where legitimacy lies, not in some bureaucracy either from New York or elsewhere, but in what the people of Iraq want for themselves."<<< Could all this be the reason why the USD looks so weak? quotes.ino.com