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SAME SONG- DIFFERENT VERSE!

August 28, 2004

The death toll in Najaf is now 105 and it will go higher. More than 140 people have been injured. And the key among those dead, and probably the target, was Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim. He was the leader of the Shiite Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution.

As night fell on Najaf, gun fire, explosions, and rioting could be heard throughout the city. Who did it? Was it the Sunnis, outside terrorists, or some of Saddam’s old cronies? No matter, what’s done is done and here’s what’s being spoken throughout the city.

We’d rather live under Saddam than live like this!

It’s the same rhetoric that Moses heard from those that he was leading out of Egypt thousands of years ago. They wanted to be delivered from hard labor (making bricks without straw); however, when you have lived under a slave mentality all your life, it’s hard to adjust to freedom.

Of course all this violence is being conducted just for the purpose of driving the people back to wanting slavery. Freedom sounds nice and it’s a concept worth living and dying for; however, it doesn’t happen overnight. It doesn’t happen in a few months. It won’t happen in a year. It didn’t happen in America over night and it took a Revolution with thousands of deaths to bring it about. So, what makes us think we can transform Iraq into a democracy overnight?

If anyone thought that, the last few days are quickly changing that paradigm.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary 

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