I want to win this war, and I believe that understanding how Iraqis see things is an important part of doing so. Which is why I am sharing this blog entry from Treasure of Baghdad. It gives me another important perspective.
These men, the Badrists, are in power now and they are using the same way Saddam did in dealing with the people. “If you are against me, you are my enemy,” is the slogan they raised for almost three years after the fall of the first dictator. No one can criticize them in public and no one is able to stop form their continuous assassinations that reached even non- criminal Baathists now. And oops, I might be killed if anyone of them discovers this post and knows who I am!
It seems clear to me that Iraq has a lot of open wounds that need time to heal, and that healing Iraq isn’t the main priority for some of the people in power. I wonder what we’re doing to mitigate and neutralize such people. Iraq cannot be a democracy without stability. Stability won’t come until we can bring some measure of peace and prosperity into the lives of common Iraqis. It’s a long road.