Iraqis optimistic about Iraq

Americans aren't the only ones optimistic about Iraq. Sunnis, Shias and Kurds in Iraq are increasingly so about both the security situation and life in general (Okay, increasingly being the key word!).

Richard Perle's piece in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph is worth a gander as well:

"For a government fighting an unpopular war, five years is an eternity. In the sight of history, it's just a blink, far too short for considered judgment or a balanced accounting. But judges and accountants won't wait, so the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq has renewed the debate about that action and its consequences - a debate dominated by the terrible costs, with almost no assessment of the benefits."

Comments

[Steevo]

Samuel, you and Tim must feel a bit lonely in the UK as to where your hope lies here. This news isn't new to many Iraqis and those of us following events there and its more positive each month. A story I read recently had a local church destroyed by terrorists and both Sunni and Shia clerics condemned the action. The locals who are mostly Muslim attended the ad-hoc services of the Christians in the shattered building. They are all chipping in to rebuild.

[rightsideforum]

Of course there is more positive news from Iraq but the despicable anti-American anti-Semite Stalinist scumbags at the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 would rather spend the week showing documentaries telling us all about those big bad Americans and their British poodles.

MaY each and everyone of those involved in the propaganda we have endured for these past few years burn in hell for their part in the difficulties Iraq has faced and their efforts to undermine confidence in our forces and the crucial war on terrorism.

[Tony Makara]

The Iraq war has dragged on for so long now that people are beginning to forget why there was a war in the first place,or who the enemy is, was, or will be. This has uncanny parallels with George Orwell's 1984. The wish of many NeoCons to extend the so-called war on terror to Iran will confuse the issue even further. No matter how the war in Iraq is dressed up the reality is that it has been a bloody debacle. My most striking memory of this war stems from the early days of the conflict when in the hours of the Iraqi dusk TV carried live signal of public prayers from Bagdad. The TV anchor asked an expert what the prayers were saying and he replied by adding "They are praying for the lives of their children" That, more than anything is the bloodstained legacy of Tony Blair's moment of history. It would be apt and just if the spirits of those dead children go on to haunt that man's conscience for the rest of his days.