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The
undersigned, a society of Bulgarian
individuals who have come together, initially, via
Internet, hereby wish to address you and share with you our
position as presented below:
We
support the actions of US- and UK-led coalition in Iraq. The
regime of Saddam Hussein is dictatorial and plainly criminal,
before and above all, in regard to its own people. Moreover, this
regime has crossed a line beyond which its conduct has become a
threat to neighboring countries and, augmented by modern
technologies, to nations further afield. The present actions of
the United States and Great Britain are, therefore, the only
possible recourse for averting this threat. We are confident that
these actions are being carried out with the utmost respect for
the preservation of human life and the extant cultural and
material assets. We hereby express our admiration and moral
support for the men and women fighting as part of the American,
British, Australian, Polish, Czech, Slovak and Danish forces, all
representatives of nations which on more than one occasion in
history have defended their own and other people’s liberty and
human dignity.
From our own experience in a totalitarian socialist state, we are
aware that Saddam’s regime and the repressive apparatus supporting
it are beyond redemption and reform, and must therefore be
eliminated in their entirety. With the assistance of the coalition
forces, the running of the country should, gradually yet as
expeditiously as possible under the circumstances, be handed over
to those Iraqi political forces which genuinely represent the
interests of the Iraqi people and are capable of paving for Iraq
the road to normal development, economic prosperity, restoration
and consolidation if its national dignity. The regime’s repressive
apparatus must be placed on trial organized by the Iraqi people
themselves, as a token of respect for their long-time suffering.
We know from our own bitter experience that a society that has
survived the hardships of a dictatorship, violence and the kind of
demagoguery that stifles normal thought, is in no position to
quickly organize a fair and even-handed jurisprudence. This makes
the involvement of the coalition in investigating the crimes of
the regime all the more necessary.
We
believe that the rebuilding of Iraq is the prerogative of the
coalition powers and a natural continuation of the toppling of the
present regime. Justice and the creative vitality of common sense
are among the most stimulating and inspiring values to those who
have suffered for a long time under violence, repression and
demagoguery. Only the coalition that will have liberated Iraq from
Saddam’s regime will also have the moral authority to lift the
embargo imposed upon it!
We
are confident that the present events in Iraq carry a great
potential to trigger a chain of rapid developments towards
normalization and democratization of the workings of the state,
that would enable the nation to benefit fully from the
achievements of modern technology and the efforts for ensuring a
spiritually rich and meaningful existence for the entire region,
for putting an end to the atheistic politicization of the main
religions and a return to their true identity. Because religion
should address the soul and it is within the soul that it brings
peace and meaning to human life while strengthening the
individual’s sense of well-being.
All
these efforts require an honest and principled approach.
Therefore, it is only fair that the governments and national
ruling bodies that did everything within their powers to de
facto support Saddam’s regime and ensure its survival in
its present form, be barred from participation in the post-war
rebuilding of Iraq. These are: Russia and the current governments
of Germany, France and Belgium.
We
are hopeful that the Iraq liberating coalition will act with
reason and resolve and will win over for its cause more and more
national administrations as well as individuals, joined together
by a shared effort to eliminate tyranny, violence and the
preaching of hatred and enmity among peoples. Only thus will
Humankind be able to face up, rationally and effectively, to the
new challenges of the development of science and technology, the
forces and processes that will dominate the present century! |
