Where are the Iraqi protestors?

Where Are The Iraqi Protesters?
Commentary on the News
Saturday, February 15, 2003
Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor


A global anti-war coalition is planning to march in Washington, London and even in Paris and Berlin (whose anti-warrior stance has earned them nicknames like 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys' and 'axis of weasels').

The 'coalition' is mostly made up of Muslim groups, with a few groups of politically correct liberal airheads who lend their faces to the movement to homogenize its image. But one of the official slogans of the London march is "Freedom for Palestine' and is co-sponsored by the Muslim Association of Britain.

The march is taking place under the umbrella of the Stop the War Coalition, formed after Sept. 11, 2001, that consists of hundreds of organizations, from pro-Palestinian Muslims to hard-core leftists with an agenda.

They homogenize that agenda, as I pointed out, by surrounding themselves with the usual suspects; pacifists, politicians, celebrities, environmentalists, intellectuals and labor union figures.

The perfect combination of those folks who build castles in the air, and those who want to rent rooms in them.

They hope to gather together a hundred thousand protestors in London to demonstrate the HUGE opposition that exists against going to war with Iraq.

Says Lindsey German, a leader of the Stop the War Coalition, "If Blair did change his mind, Bush would find it very difficult to go to war." She noted that, "people in the United States are very reluctant to go to war without allies."

(Note to this nice lady: people who aren't reluctant to go to war without allies are soon part of somebody else's country)

That this is a collection of Islamic agitators surrounded by profoundly gullible airheads is easy enough to establish. The Stop The War Coalition has two different, conflicting goals.

The first is to advance Islamic causes, like London's official "Freedom For Palestine" slogan. Does no one else question a coalition called "Stop the War" using a war-cry for its official slogan?

Arguing this is a little like arguing that beer makes you drunk or like putting together a rebuttal paper to counter the position of the Flat Earth Society. But I'll try.

Freedom for Palestine means war with Israel, does it not?

A few dozen of these well-meaning, profoundly stupid individuals have already gone to Iraq to offer themselves as human shields against US bombs.

Among the airheads, the motive is more pure, although staggeringly misplaced. They are against killing innocent Iraqis, they say. Who isn't? But that puts them in the pardoxical position of defending the Iraqis who are already killing innocent Iraqis by the busload.

Why, you ask, am I getting so personal in my criticism of this group? Because they ARE profoundly stupid. The group hopes to get a hundred thousand people to march in Great Britain to demonstrate the depth of opposition to the war.

There are FIVE HUNDRED thousand expatriate IRAQIS (those who fled the regime of Saddam Hussein since he took power in 1968) that live in Great Britain. FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND!

These are the ones who KNOW the innocent Iraqis about to be 'massacred' by the 'invading Americans.' The Iraqis that are preparing for war are their brothers, uncles, sisters, friends, parents - -where are they?

If only one in five British Iraqi expatriates participated, the Stop the War Coalition would meet its goal and wouldn't need a single liberal airhead to show up to do it.

But the ones who actually KNOW what life is like under Saddam don't come to anti-war demonstrations. They go on American news programs to tell the world that no price is too high a price to pay to dislodge Saddam Hussein. Some of them don't want an American occupation force, some of them don't even like Americans. I've seen those guys on TV as well.

But they ALL agree to war if it means ending Saddam's regime. Have YOU ever seen an Iraqi outside Iraq testify on a TV talk show to his approval of Saddam's regime?

If the news producers at ABC could find one that didn't have ties to Saddam's secret police, you can bet they'd give him a forum. But they can't find any.

Those Iraqis who aren't on TV and who aren't cheering on the war aren't at the anti-war demonstrations. They sit quietly at home, grieving for what must come.

They know it MUST come because there are more innocent Iraqis dying at the hands of Saddam Hussein than will die in a short American war.

It is simple logic. That's why the 'castles in the air' realtors can't see it.

In a message to those taking part in the demonstrations, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Saturday: "I ask the marchers to understand this: I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour. But sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction."

He added: "As you watch your TV pictures of the march, ponder this: if there are 500,000 on that march, that is still less than the number of people whose deaths Saddam has been responsible for.

"If there are one million, that is still less than the number of people who died in the wars he started."

The fact is that Saddam Hussein has killed more Muslims in his lifetime than any Arab on earth. Millions of young Iraqi men were sent in suicidal waves against Iranian forces during the pointless Iran-Iraq war.

(Iran is also Muslim, as were it's millions of casualties in that war).

Tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers died as collateral damage from Saddam's use of chemical weapons in that war.

Thousands of Kurdish Iraqi villagers have also died from Saddam's use of poison gas in forty (yes, forty) Iraqi Kurdish villages that no longer exist.

Saddam's prisons and torture chambers have killed thousands more. Iraqi soldiers raped and pillaged and murdered throughout Kuwait, leaving no Kuwaiti family untouched by tragedy. Muslims all.

The Iraqi expatriates that aren't at the demonstrations speak volumes by their silence.

They know.

Excerpted from The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest, Volume 6, Issue 15