Handwritten letter from President Saddam Hussein to the American people. July 7, 2006. Lettera manoscritta del Presidente Saddam Hussein al popolo americano -7 Luglio 2006- from:
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the American people: / To the American people:
Peace be with those who believe in peace and desire it, and with it also have God's mercy and His blessings.
I address you with this letter from the place where I am a prisoner, in an effort dictated by my responsibility 'moral, humane and constitutional, so that' you can not say that no one has' turned to you with a message of peace after the war began, and has not refuted the causes and desired peace both for yourself and for our people, straight, true and heroic.
And I say this 'knowing whether my brothers and comrades outside the prison led the resistance is being brought into contact with you,' cause of my arrest until now your leaders have "democratically" prevented me some news reached through print, radio and television, complete isolation from the world and isolating the world from me, that 'I could hear or see anything of what' is happening outside of my prison.
E 'this the true face of democracy and human rights of America's much-ballyhooed out? Or those who command you lied about them? I refer to people killed in prisons, some of them from the guns of the same American investigators. Or all this - or any other details that would make hair stand on end - and there 'was hidden from your leaders, never to know the truth'?
I appeal to you, however, with this letter hoping that it reaches you and that you read or listen. And this 'cause I feel obliged to bring the facts to the attention of the people, whatever their color or their nationality,' because 'this is our duty towards it, so' as it has a duty to us not to accept the bad.
I write 'cause I suggested it to my lawyer, the eminent lawyer and Professor Ramsey Clark. Both he and his colleague Professor Curtis Dobler is an example of great humanitarian and I had a personal impression of them very positive. I rather take this opportunity to pay tribute to their courage, 'cause they offered to defend myself spontaneously despite knowing the risks they face in carrying out their task, in particular after criminals have already' murdered four lawyers who defended me.
American people: I still feel that your rulers are still lying there and they have not told the real reasons that led them to attack Iraq. From the beginning they have deceived not only the community 'internationally, and particularly that of Europe, but also the peoples of America themselves, knowing beforehand that the facts were the opposite of what' they declared. False and 'even as they said after their lies came to light, and that means' who had misled the secret services and their stooges who were brought to Iraq as their puppet, just as they always have the old imperialism and the old empires of the nineteenth and twentieth century. This' I am saying is based on several facts. Here are the main
1 - The commission of inquiry. They came to Iraq in the name of the United Nations and even private homes were searched, as well as government offices, presidential palaces, and to inspect government documents. Those committees were well aware that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, 'cause many of their major components were American and British spies and agents in addition to having volunteers of other nationalities'. All these people have sifted the whole Iraq from end to end and have not found anything different from what the representatives of the Iraqi government had told them.
These inspections lasted more 'for seven years, and have been made not only by means of committees who have turned in the car and on foot, even with spy planes, helicopters, satellites and spacecraft. The American and British officials saw this as their historic opportunity to strike Iraq and destroy its legitimate aspirations and valuable cultural and scientific achievements which it was received in 35 years. To do this they used the information gathered by spies who had entered in the commissions of inquiry and have used the so-called war on terror began after the September 11 that shook America. They cheated the cards to reach the goals that already 'had set, and these goals are not what they had publicly announced at the beginning. They
had established that the unjust embargo had not destroyed the free will 'of Iraq will' shut down its legitimate aspirations to develop from an economic point of view, culture and science, and as civility 'in a situation of new independence. They thought at that time Iraq was close to circumvent the economic embargo with the help of those who cooperated with Iraq on the basis of mutual benefits and feelings of the Arab national brotherhood. The rulers of your country, then they thought it was time to impose their will 'to the world through control of oil in the Middle East and its production and trade by new views and new purposes (those of which we discussed in 2003 and before) in addition to reaching one of their Zionist goals and win votes in elections. Iran and its lackeys' have also played a dirty hand in painting the attack as a seductive and facilitate its implementation.
2 - After the pressure on them had increased, the U.S. officials went, but states' that the facts were the opposite of what they had claimed before the invasion of March-April 2003. If they had honestly stated that they were misled on the information received and that they had used as cover for the invasion, and that, as they said, enough to justify (saying at the time that this 'risk to U.S. security), if they had this honest' - I say - after they had discovered that the information was false should go, with apologies for what 'they had done against the heroic Iraqi people, the American people, and peoples around the world.
No American has ever asked his government before the war, as a backward country like Iraq could still threaten the safety of America across the Atlantic, it 'cause you would never threaten, jackets' America did not still violated the territory of Iraq. If American officials wanted to assert the claim that Iraq's threats related to the opposite attitude of Iraq and American employment Zionist occupation of Palestine and other Arab territories, one might say that Iraq is not 'the only one Arab states and the world at this point to have an attitude opposite to that of America. Besides, who has authorized America to compel other countries around the world to adopt a policy on the extent of America, and if you do not obey them in trouble, 'cause it will make' their war? Who can 'lend credence to the calls on American democracy if America does not accept opinions other than his points even on a regional, let alone international ones?
Another lie of the American government were the alleged links Iraq with what 'it calls terrorism, Blair said even if very clear that Iraq had no link with the so-called terrorism and had no internationally prohibited weapons, forcing 'Bush to declare the same thing. Despite albeit that 'none of the personality' American view has asked Bush about what kind of rational analysis or what specific information such claims were based.
Ladies and gentlemen, you know 'cause they have not asked? Why ' some of your personality 'in view of their actions are influenced by hidden forces that distorted the image of Iraq that you have received. These forces have prepared the groundwork for years to facilitate the attack on Iraq from the beginning. So 'no one has asked the American officials, for example this: why no Iraqi took part in the events of September? And if the participation of individuals to attacks on American targets is not considered proof of the involvement of states with such facts, 'cause then accused of relations with the so-called terrorism a state like Iraq, where the political system and' know? How can you accept this accusation as one of only two, and on the basis of which 'was launched aggression against the people of Iraq that has destroyed his possessions and his achievements and the lives of its citizens subject to daily and direct threat?
You know, dear ladies and gentlemen, that a couple of weeks after my arrest, I asked one of the American officials with whom I was talking about what they were based on these false accusations? As for weapons of mass destruction, his answer was: "we had nothing that would confirm what were saying." And as for links with terrorism, he said that the allegations were based "on the fact that you, Saddam Hussein, you have not sent Bush a telegram of condolence to the eleventh September.
to this' bitter smile and said: "About your claim that you did not have confirmation of what 'we said, it seems that your officials lie and imagine that those in the rest of the world do not tell the truth' or which does not tell you the many who have sex with you it 'when it is against your policy' when they are in favor of it. And the fact that nobody in the world says America 'this is a mistake' or 'this is inaccettaile' is very dangerous not only for the peoples of the world but to America itself. "
" And in the when American planes bombed Iraq and destroyed, killing its citizens - including women and children - for no reason, and even your embargo prohibiting the import of pencils for elementary schools, because 'Saddam Hussein would never have sent a telegram of condolence to the president of a state whose emissaries committing such crimes, ammenoche 'it were not for hypocrisy and weakness? If you do not have the mandate and 'cause I'm not a hypocrite' weak. But I did send one on behalf of the government, by Comrade Tariq Aziz Deputy Prime Minister to our friend Ramsey Clark and through him to the bereaved families. "
great nations are so 'in error to imagine that if one does not sends a letter of condolence deserves that face the war to him, to his country and his people? From this you can see how the U.S. rulers have used Financo your blood for their reckless, aggressive policy. Is this the morality 'that a man or an officer must have? And nothing 'more' serious disasters that devastate nations because of deceit, injustice and arbitrariness'. And this is' just the worst disease of American officials who involved the Americans in a war against Iraq.
3 - After my arrest they made vain attempts to threaten and intimidate. One of their generals directing these threats and intimidation, and seeking 'to bargain with me by promising to let me alive if I accepted sign and read [on television] a statement already 'prepared to show me'. With this stupid statement I had to invite the people of Iraq and the courageous Resistance to lay down their weapons. My partner told me that if I refused my destiny was to end up shot just like Mussolini. But as you know, and as I know, I refused with disdain and would not even touching that dirty document with a finger. And I told them that if I could turn to my people I would say even to resist even more '.
After seven days, maybe more 'courage, sent to speak to a group of people. They said they had a university 'American and wanted to have with me a frank exchange of ideas. I agreed and I confirmed to them that Iraq had nothing of what 'the American officials said, adding that I counseled Americans to leave Iraq quickly after their apologies to the people, warning that otherwise would go to meeting to what they are facing now and they are stuck, and that the two halves' of Iraq they would be overwhelmed and could never leave him with weapons and baggage. And overwhelm them, God willing, 'cause our people have a solid foundation and knows her. And the people also know that our liberation can 'take place in a clean and complete only with the unit', that tolerance should be the basis of its guidelines, and that the wounds should be bandaged and not already 're-opened.
Well, then I told them this, but have not changed their methods have not changed the keys of their falsehood ', and knocking on the doors instead of the error groped those of legitimacy', but now they know how they are things. By the way: I enclose with this letter a few verses of a long ode ... [snip].
4 - Is not 'it' reasonable or 'convincing that a country like America, which have been opened all the doors of the secret services of many Eastern and Western ones, did not know the truth' and not was able to meet you. Although I believe and I believe that many countries have an interest in war or wars in general, the United States is not among them, although they may believe that they have this interest. Things, in fact, are just the opposite.
America and 'a big country in the dilation' of the Atlantic that has achieved unparalleled power, and I think that they are 'people who think being on the road to become masters of the world and make the world an empire of their own. Have they learned their lesson from the Vietnam War? The West used to support the idea that world Communism and the Soviet bloc threatened their interests and also the security of all the West, but despite this argument was just a thin cover. And yet the Americans have used and if they are wrapped until 'the heroic Vietnamese people expelled them by force.
As to their invasion of Iraq, you know 'in a situation that made it easy the first paso from the standpoint of the reaction of the community' internationally through the international balance of forces. But it 's also a situation that could make this invasion more' expensive than the Vietnam War, and this because 'when America was expelled from Vietnam did not lose the esteem of the people, or we can say that he lost only a small part. But once expelled, and in defeat Iraq will have 'lost the fundamental basis of the overall estimate.
America, in fact, has already 'lost the basis of this estimate, and his reputation began to decline. It is not 'more' able to wield the big stick that first threatened to use, and it was more 'threats to use force to use it effectively. And I want to add that after the war in Iraq that does not scare most stick 'as the people, and America' reached the point of needing silence even more of the countries' small and simple, and try to ingratiate himself to make them feel good despite his crimes and his deviant and reckless policies.
First, several countries the world did the court to the United States is the most 'of them, except a few, feared their threats or circumventing discussions with defense. But now Mao Zedong (of blessed memory) laughing in his grave, 'cause his prediction about America - a paper tiger - and it' true. And thanks to the will of the Almighty and those of his agents on earth, as the heroic Mujahideen of the glorious, virtuous, militant holy war Iraq. God bless the heroic people of Iraq, and God bless the jihad and the mujahideen!
Ladies and gentlemen of the peoples of America, gone are the days when the most 'big and better equipped armies could mess up the formations armies of opponents and hasten the end of the war. Now you see our courageous army, our heroic people, and our Mujahideen replacing the system of organized formations with a new kind of war. And when the Americans are on the ground targets of the revolutionaries, who attack them as human bombs with nothing more than their bodies filled with faith in God, the superiority of 'American wears out sooner than expected, and as soon as this superiority' will become 'a burden which will be' hard to ignore.
Then, they hear 'America the voice of rationality' and logic suggests that to preserve what 'that still remains, or Satan the deceiver and the hate-filled supporters of Zionism will continue to push forward the Americans until the waves swallow them and plunged into the sea? Who, after all, has asked the U.S. government of being a policeman of the world, to shape the world according to his tastes, and to issue orders to the nations of the earth?
Saddam Hussein, ladies and gentlemen, and 'an honorable patriot and an honest man, a man was decided to enforce the law, just, but benevolent, who loves his people and his nation. He and 'frank and loyal, not a double game and not misleading. He says the truth 'even if v' itself. Like these at the tyrants like Bush? If he had a person as a de Gaulle or even like Reagan, perhaps understand, or at least not abhor. But I tell you, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, that your country will discover 'more': finds out 'that has lost its reputation and esteem of the people. And the American who ran the world, respected, safe, well-received everywhere, now can not 'take a step outside America without taking along a mine detectors, and the Department of State emits continuous warnings about parts of the world of life-threatening Americans.
This atmosphere of anti-American hatred in the world have created the American officials with their arrogant behavior, their haughty aggressive attitude, their contempt for international law and the security of the world (including my Arab nation, with the support they give to the Zionists in Palestine), as well as other world and human problems.
Today you are in a bad situation with the world, and nobody can 'tirarvene out except yourself. If correct, will open 'for the world and for yourselves a new opportunity'. But if you're not careful ... they are your own business. This 'of which you have need for your safety and' a world free competition and free, and peace.
The years after the eighteenth century were already 'spent some time when the invaders are back in the Middle East to awaken memories of things which it life and had given it had raised. The Middle East and the Arab lands in particular, and 'the cradle of prophets and messengers of God's land where the prophets are buried in their graves and' perhaps now the home of devils and their illusions, that of malicious invaders?
we believed, and our faith was made for us.
Then came the Zionists, led by a demon.
We were attacked as invaders, unjust.
not have stopped their advance they 'have stopped.
Their diabolical patron has prepared their plan. But we
protector for the merciful God.
People of America: despite the crimes your government has committed against us, against our Arab nation and against humanity ', the people of Iraq (and I mean the true Iraqis, not the dual face that prefer to serve foreigners instead of their people), the freedom of people' Iraq, even in our times not only cares about his fate, but also that of others, and when 'can find a solution for a painful problem.
On this basis I have already said 'some Americans, in my prison,' cause there agreed with the Resistance to designate a country that has legal capacity and authority 'that the Resistance can hand over American prisoners captured instead of justice, as says that to happen? In fact, the extent to which the resistance does this not 'know, but people objectively knows that America does not follow in its activities' in Iraq to international law, including the Geneva Conventions regarding prisoners of war and prisoners. The resistance in Iraq has no safe place to keep his prisoners, so that ', which is solely responsible for what' is the resistance, or that they are third parties that have no relations with it, the fact remains that it did not a safe place to keep prisoners.
Therefore, in order to fulfill humanitarian needs and remove any justification for the killing of prisoners, I make this proposal - and the best of intentions - much to you that the Resistance and to anyone who can relate to. If the accept and abide by the Geneva Conventions, there will be no more 'excuses for those who kill the prisoners. However, if your government will not accept ', it will be' responsible for the refusal and the consequences it will have 'for our people and our heroic resistance resulting from a failure by your government of international law. And this will be 'particularly important in the future there will be' an increase of American prisoners, and I think that will increase. Or maybe your government opens its eyes on things only when touched by hand?
Dear ladies and gentlemen: and 'now that your government begin to consider all people as equal before international law regardless of the size of nations to which they belong. Anyone who violates the international law with its policy and with the conduct of his army he alone must bear the consequences. And if his policy does not follow the dictates of international law, has no right to ask others to respect its rights under these laws.
Dear ladies and gentlemen and those who 'missed the opportunity to take action to avoid war, it still has a chance' to try to end it and to return to Iraq for peace and freedom 'second choices that his people will do 'and without foreign interference anyone.
American people: I turn to you because of weakness or as a supplicant. I, my people, my brothers and comrades, and my nation, we turn to you based on our responsibility 'moral and human. I repeat that your rulers, and in the first place your President, you lied and you have deceived and cheated by using the media that portrayed Iraq as incorrigible, and Saddam Hussein as a hateful dictator, hated by his people and which it could not wait to escape. Some of these media have pushed their lies far as to state that the Iraqis would greet the invading armies with roses and celebration.
I know that many people do not stop to quibble, and that it has no 'time it' chance 'it' the will, when Ammannato false information, make inquiries to find out the truth '. As just one example, the Americans have not been able to verify this: why, if the Iraqis hated Saddam Hussein so much, he had managed to defeat the Iran of Khomeini after eight years of a war of aggression imposed on us by him with the slogan of exporting the revolution beginning with Iraq? Americans: the victory of Iran and Khomeini 'was a quick affair, but it' came only after eight years of harsh military operations in which they fell thousands of Iraqis and hundreds of thousands of Iranians.
And then, if Saddam Hussein was a dictator, why in 1980, during the war, stable, 'a parliament in Iraq with regular elections when there was one from 1958? If he and his government were dictators, how could he visit schools, universities ', cities' and villages, and spend nights with his people after sundown? How could travel and go to the front at night and day and in the trenches in a war zone between the Muslim soldiers?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, your government has just deceived, and you, or rather many of you, have not been able to discover the truth ', or by you or by others, because' the lobby Zionist who advocated the war together with some of the centers of power you cheated and you cheated, hiding the truth in your eyes' and replacing the true facts falsified or misleading information. And one more thing: If Saddam Hussein was a dictator hated and despised by his people, why this and why it has endured 'chose him as president in a referendum?
People of America: the misfortunes that have struck (including the collapse of the esteem and reputation of America) and have hit our Arab nation and our heroic people, were solely caused by the reckless behavior of your government and the pressure of Zionism and power centers, which have influenced urging him to commit those crimes and scandalous actions for those specific reasons that have nothing to do with the interest of the American people. The massacres and blood that is flowing in torrents in the streets and countryside of Iraq, the head before anyone else, and 'America.
You know, or maybe you have now begun to understand that 'minions that the American armed forces have brought with them on the air or on their tanks as a shameless gift, it' Iran, which has led and continues pushing forward those who support them and who they support, they could lead to bloodshed and destruction of property and honor 'of our people of our state and if America had not undertaken the aggression and invasion, and given their instructions, and the so-called Green Zone, it will be 'still. So, 'who bears the burden of all these crimes and the violence and' America. So: you want to stop what is happening using the methods of the truth 'direct without detours and evasions or would like the machine of death continues to kill Iraqis and Americans do nothing to solve the problem?
This is 'your responsibility' in the face of history, ladies and gentlemen. If you repent, you can save what remains of the esteem and reputation of America and its interests, if you do nothing, will want to 'say that you remained silent in the face of evil: "Oh Lord, grant us the perseverance and makes' die as Muslims." [Quran 7:126].
American people: the wars that your government promotes in the world, including that of Iraq, under the influence of certain power centers that you know better than me, do not make the interest of the American people. You know better than anyone how much blood have paid to free from British colonialism and after that 'as the United States are united, and more blood what' it cost. So, ladies and gentlemen, as you can accept this dissonance that degrades more ' America than degrade Iraq? As you can accept not only the invasion, but to smear in the internal affairs of Iraq? A land of prophets, messengers and figures straight, Baghdad, the fourth city 'holy of Arab land (after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem), under the eyes of the whole Islamic world and the whole Arab nation. How can you think that Iraq would accept a new colonial government, although this now comes under a different name and with other slogans? Save your country and leave Iraq!
Peace.
"God and 'great'.
signed:
Saddam Hussein,
President of the Republic of Iraq and Commander in Chief of the Mujahid Armed Forces.
July 7, 2006.
