BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraq will hold a two-day conference of all political groups starting on Tuesday to promote national unity and help defuse sectarian tensions, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Saturday.
This is how you build a free and tolerant democracy from the ashes of a blood-soaked sectarian police state dictatorship that raped, tortured and murdered dissidents. It won’t be easy or quick, but it can happen if men of good conscience will it.
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I love that trackback from the guy who snottily suggests we weren’t greeted as liberators–which, of course, we were. With flowers, no less. But you can’t let the facts get in the way of a good narrative, especially with people afflicted with BDS.
Yeah, in 2003 the Shia and Kurds were unquestionably happy to see us. Everyone forgets the cheering and the statue going down.
And more recently, the Sunni Sahwa movement has been greeting us as liberators from AQ for the last year or so.
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