Read the poetry of Mohammed Ibn Laith. Here’s a sample.
O God! Pardon our living and our dead, the present and the absent, the young and the old, the males and the females.
I am a Muslim I am Iraki.
Do not come to me talking of your feelings. Do not come to me asking for forgiveness. Who do you think you are?
I will not ever forgive or forget what your country has done to us. I will not ever forget or forgive what your country has done my family, my city, my country, my people.
Never.
My grandchildren’s, grandchildren, will teach their grandchildren to hate America for what she has done to us. Never ever ever will I, or they, forget or forgive what your barbaric country has done to us.
Never.
Mohammed Ibn Laith
Gorilla’s Guides also has a fairly (I hope) comprehensive rundown of the last day’s event in Iraq. This site is well worth bookmarking, if you think you can handle a site dedicated to “Chronicling the war against the peoples of the Middle East.”
I don’t know if the peoples of the Middle East will ever forgive us or forget what we have done. I do know that further dilly-dallying about ending the war in Iraq is not going to help. The progressive wing of the party has essentially caved in the face of insurmountable arithmetic. The war will go on until reality begins to chip deeper into the credibility of Congress. I guess that makes it our job to hasten the chippening.
