Bringing Freedom

July 8th, 2008 - 1:00 pm

I repeat, from earlier:

“We will not accept any memorandum of understanding if it does not give a specific date for a complete withdrawal of foreign troops,” national security advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubaie told reporters in the holy city of Najaf.

And the US response:

“The US government and the government of Iraq are in agreement that we, the US government, we want to withdraw, we will withdraw. However, that decision will be conditions-based,” State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said.

So basically, let me see if I have this straight, we wanted to bring freedom and self-governance to Iraq, and now that they seem to be set off on the right direction, we are dictating to them how they run their own country. Or put more bluntly, the US says to Iraq “F*ck you! You’ll be free when we say you are free and on our conditions!”

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4 Responses to “Bringing Freedom”

  1. on 08 Jul 2008 at 1:36 pm   Ekim

    I work with an Iraqi who tells me that he cannot go home because he is educated past the level that they will allow to leave the country again.

    So yeah, freedom.

  2. on 08 Jul 2008 at 1:39 pm   Orb

    Well, they can’t seem to create the kind of freedom they would like to create here (do what we say and only what we say), so they are off in Iraq trying t create their perfect idea of freedom, I guess. There isn’t much I have been hearing out of Iraq that sounds much like freedom. I mean, I have studied a lot of history, and to me it sounds an awful lot like an occupation.

    But don’t use that word when describing it, of course. I believe we are still saying it isn’t an occupation.

  3. on 08 Jul 2008 at 10:57 pm   John

    “You’ll be free when we say you are free and on our conditions!” As in pumped dry.

  4. on 09 Jul 2008 at 8:14 am   Orb

    Of everything we want, of course.

    They are going to have to stand on their own eventually, and they want to do so. The right thing to do is to freaking let them run their own country, for better or worse. They aren’t children. Their leaders are at least as educated as ours are.

    Sure, they may make mistakes and they may not do what WE want them to do, but it’s THEIR country we said we wanted to bring freedom to. So what kind of freedom do they have if they say they want us to leave and we say we’ll leave when we went to? Sorry, but the US government wouldn’t stand for being treated like that, and no other “free” country would either.