A worthwhile article (also published in German) by an Iraqi Kurd that echoes past posts on our site. Excerpts:
newspaper that a German parliamentary delegation was visiting Iraqi
Kurdistan and that the head of the delegation, Herta Däubler-Gmelin,
had made critical remarks about the situation of human rights in the
region. I was equally astonished that our Kurdish politicians accepted
this criticism without protest. (…)
But Ms. Däubler-Gmelin evidently did not think for a second of the
liberation of Iraq from this dictatorship. And after 2003, it was
people like her – and so many others in Europe – that showed no concern
for the changes and developments underway in Iraq. We did not have the
impression that the terror unleashed by Al-Qaeda upon the people of
Iraq gave them any sleepless nights either. On the contrary, for years
they seemed to welcome the suffering of the Iraqis as proof that the
overthrow of Saddam Hussein had been a mistake.
Despite all this we say to such people: Welcome to the new, democratic Iraq!”
Read the whole thing. (Hattip: Joe at No Pasaran)
