Knee Deep in the Hooah!

Awesome read that I found on Michelle Malkin’s site. This is quite timely as Congress continues to play the budget games with our military funding.

Be Our Guest

By MOHAMMED FADHIL

Thursday, May 10th 2007, 4:00 AM

I wasn’t surprised when I saw Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appear on Al Jazeera to announce America’s defeat last week, not long after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did. Zawahiri claims Al Qaeda has won, and Reid claims America has lost.

But from here in Baghdad, I see only a war that’s still raging – with no victory in sight for Al Qaeda or any other entity. In fact, I see Al Qaeda on the ropes, losing support among my fellow Iraqis.

In the midst of such a fierce war, sending more wrong messages could only further complicate an already complicated situation. It would only create more of a mess inside Iraq – a mess that would then be exploited by Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia for their own purposes: more iron-fisted control of the peoples and treasures of the region, more pushing the Middle East to crises and confrontations, and more spreading of their dark, backward ideologies.

And so, as an Iraqi, I say without hesitation: the American forces should stay here, and further reinforcements should be sent if the situation requires them. Not only that, these forces should be prepared to expand their operations whenever and wherever necessary to strike hard at the nests of evil that not only threaten Iraq and the Middle East, but seek to blackmail the whole world in the ugliest way through pursuing nuclear weapons.

It is up to us to show tyrants and murderers like Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah, Syria’s Bashar Assad, and their would-be imitators who seek to control Iraq’s people and wealth that we, the people, are not their possessions. They can’t take out our humanity and they can’t force us to back down.

The world should ask them to leave our land before asking the soldiers of freedom to
do so.

excerpted: link to entire article

Also, please visit Fadhil’s blog, Iraq The Model.