Today is the third anniversary Iraq Freedom day, that infamous day when the statue of Saddam was toppled in what was later discovered to be a shameful American Military propaganda event.
On this day, Iraqis are:
- free to think they'll continue to be occupied by coalition forces for years on end.
- free to get blown up by suicide bombers when they venture out to shop.
- free to stay at home, where their safety is just as tenuous.
- free to be attacked when they gather at their mosques.
- free to be killed if they stand in line to sign up for the police force.
- free to wonder when they'll have clean water.
- free to ask why they have so little electricity.
- free to fret every time their children step out on the street, knowing they might not make it home.
- free to abhor the deplorable conditions in their hospitals.
- free to pay exorbitant gas prices.
- free to guess when their oil wealth will benefit their population.
- free to be shot on their way to the Baghdad airport.
- free to mourn the thousands of fellow countrymen they've lost.
- free to live under a divided government that seems loath to unify.
- free to be pummeled by Pentagon propaganda that tells them just how "free" they are.
- free to live in fear of being kidnapped every day.
- free to become even more distrustful of so-called western style democracy.
- free to watch American civilian contractors being paid ridiculous amounts of money for jobs their fellow Iraqis could do.
- free to be tortured and abused in coalition prisons.
- free to wonder where their friends and family members have disappeared to.
- free to live in a country they no longer recognize.
- free to live in staggering hopelessness and helplessness.
Yes, that is Iraqi Freedom today.
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