May 17, 2004

Wise Words

The leader of the Fallujah Brigade, Retired Maj. Gen. Mohammed Abdul-Latif, had plenty to say about U.S. troops in his country:

We can make them (Americans) use their rifles against us or we can make them build our country, it's your choice.

He went on to tell Fallujah leaders,

They were brought here by the acts of one coward who was hunted out of a rathole — Saddam — who disgraced us all. Let us tell our children that these men (U.S. troops) came here to protect us.

As President Bush said, they did not come here to occupy our land but to get rid of Saddam. We can help them leave by helping them do their job, or we can make them stay ten years and more by keeping fighting.

He also had this to say about the insurgency:

Those bullets that are fired will not get the Americans out, let them finish their job here so that they can return to their country.

Our country is precious, stop allowing the bad guys to come from outside Iraq to destroy our country.

Few war backers want U.S. troops to be in Iraq any longer than needed. However, troops can't leave to allow Iraq to implode. That would only turn the country into a place where Islamist terrorist could plan attacks against the U.S. Stability is necessary, but planting the seed of freedom in the Middle East is paramount. For the sake the people there and the future security of the U.S. regimes of liberty must be given a chance.

The CPA should plaster Latif's words on billboards and buildings. For fed up Iraqis it's realism with a foreseeable end to the occupation.

"Iraqi General Urges Support of U.S. Troops" [via The Command Post]