Well, it's true. They've signed the law into effect allowing Alawi to declare Martial Law in Iraq.
Let's hope they make the most of it. Let's hope the civilian population continues to point out the foreign thugs who stop at nothing to return Iraq to the dictatorial state from which she struggles to emerge.
I wish I could remember who it was that said this in observation of Saddam Hussain's court apperance the other day. To paraphrase, he said that Saddam is something the Arab world has never seen before: A living Ex-Dictator. They've seen dead ones, their bullet ridden corpses all that remains after having been ousted by coup or in wars. But they've never seen one alive and in shackles, brought into a courtroom, full of impotent rage, powerless to change their state.
Just his existance challenges the status quo of the middle east and causes the sort of imported insurgency we see now. But on the converse, by seeing his impotence, his existance also seems to be encouraging the Iraqi population to take up arms against the foreign terrorists to take back their streets.
And so we now find them under the equivelent of Martial Law. Let's allow them to take back the their streets. They will. And the first thing they'll sweep from the gutters will be the Jordanians, the Syrians, the Yemenis, the Saudis, and the Iranians who falsely believed they could chase us out and re-enslave the Iraqis to protect their own dictatorships.
Posted by Mamamontezz at July 7, 2004 10:43 AM