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It is now time for the
Iraqi people to realize the wonderful opportunity they have been
handed. |
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The Iraqi people must now stand up for the
rights and liberty provided by the US-led coalition. Iraqis must
form a government. They must then accept that their government is
not perfect, but allow it to function. Iraq needs to build its
economy and become a nation. |
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The problems that so many other
nations have -- a lack of financial resources -- will not plague
Iraq. Iraq has the world's third largest proven oil reserve. The
Iraqi people need to prove that they are worthy of the multinational
sacrifices. |
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The clue that the Iraqi people may
not be worthy -- or want to be free -- was subtle on April 9, 2003,
the day Baghdad was liberated. There was little welcoming of the
liberators in Baghdad or across Iraq. Since that
day, the Iraqi people fail to understand what
freedom is. Nor do they appear to know how to apply their new-found
freedoms. There are not millions of Iraqis cooperating and working
to build a new Iraq. |
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Three years after the Iraqi people
were liberated and Saddam Hussein's regime was removed, Iraq
continues to operate like a banana republic. But instead of selling
bananas, it is selling oil. It is too bad that Iraq cannot sell oil
as efficiently as some banana republics sold bananas. |
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