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September 14, 2006
Disparaging Remarks About Plight of Iraqi Kurds Under Saddam Hussein By Arianna Huffington
(Received via email) and considered to be a worthy post.
In an appearance last night on the O'Reilly Factor, commentator (and leftwing moonbat extraordinaire) Arianna Huffington, who runs the blog website, www.HuffingtonPost.com dismissed the plight of the Kurds under dictator Saddam Hussein. Huffington also attacked a television ad campaign by the Kurds to thank Americans for helping liberate them from Hussein's reign of tyranny.
Huffington inaccurately stated that, "I think the Kurds were free before we invaded Iraq. But how have the conditions of the Kurds changed since we invaded Iraq?"
When shown a television commercial by Mr. O'Reilly titled "Thank You America" Ms. Huffington responded by saying, "I think that spot is sad. It is sad to use people in the interests of promoting an agenda." She added that in her belief, "The Kurdistan -- the position -- the position of the Kurds has not changed one iota since we invaded Iraq. What has changed is the position of Americans, who are less safe because we invaded Iraq."
The ad in question can be viewed for yourself here: www.TheOtherIraq.com. Responding to the comments made by Huffington, Ms. Bayan Rahman, Chairman of the Kurdistan Development Corporation, made the following statement:.
"I was saddened to see the comments made by Arianna Huffington on the 'O'Reilly Factor" television show. One of the reasons we started our public relations efforts here in the United States, was to tell the story of Iraqi Kurdistan that has until now not been told."
"Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian Kurds were killed by Saddam Hussein. Over 5,000 in one chemical weapons attack against the Kurdish city of Halabja. Even after the United States and Great Britain provided air protection with the "No Fly Zone," Saddam's tanks still stood pointed at our cities and our people.
"But now the people of Iraqi Kurdistan are free. We've implemented a flourishing democracy. We are rebuilding our nation from the devastation brought about by Saddam Hussein. And now we've passed free market economic reforms to encourage American companies to come and help rebuild Iraqi Kurdistan into a vibrant bastion of freedom and success in the Middle East.
"I invite Ms. Huffington to come to Kurdistan, as our guest, so that she may learn the truth and join our efforts to help tell the story of The Other Iraq."
- Ms. Bayan Rahman
Chairman, Kurdistan Development Corporation
www.TheOtherIraq.com
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Here's the transcript from last night's O'Reilly Factor:
HUFFINGTON: I think Iraq has been a tragic disaster.
O'REILLY: OK. I want to play you a spot that's running on FOX News right now, and I want your reaction. Roll tape.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ANNOUNCER: Saddam's goal was to bury every living Kurd. He failed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you, Americ
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you!
ANNOUNCER: The Kurds of Iraqi Kurdistan just want to say thank you for helping us win our freedom.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you for democracy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you, America.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O'REILLY: How do you react to that?
HUFFINGTON: I think it's sad. I want to know who's paying for it. I want to know who...
O'REILLY: The Kurdistan government is. You think it's propaganda?
HUFFINGTON: Of course it's propaganda.
O'REILLY: You don't think the Kurds are free because of us?
HUFFINGTON: I think the Kurds were free before we invaded Iraq. But how have the conditions of the Kurds changed since we invaded Iraq?
O'REILLY: All right. So you think that's a total -- that's a total lie?
HUFFINGTON: I think that spot is sad. It is sad to use people in the interests of promoting an agenda.
O'REILLY: Yes, but the Kurdistan -- the Kurdistan government...
HUFFINGTON: The Kurdistan -- the position -- the position of the Kurds has not changed one iota since we invaded Iraq. What has changed is the position of Americans, who are less safe because we invaded Iraq.
O'REILLY: All right. I don't -- I disagree with you. I think Saddam persecuted the Kurds. I think they have a free -- and -- so what?
HUFFINGTON: So what? Our job is not to go there and save the Kurds. Our job to keep Americans safe.
O'REILLY: All right. OK. So what, the Kurds are free.
The take home message here is that Arianna Huffington, like many on the left, are poorly informed, let their political agenda get in the way of what's right with America, and do more to help the jihadists than they do their own country, by serving the jihadists "spoon-fed" propaganda to use against the U.S.
God bless Kurdistan and its people.
Cross posted from Hyscience
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Posted by Richard at September 14, 2006 8:21 PM
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Dear Friend,
today Oriana Fallaci has died.
Oriana Fallaci was an Italian writer. She was in New York (where she lived) the 9/11 and she was our best fighter against terrorist, islamofascit and the part of Europe that prefer to be antiamericnist than fight against terrorist.
I'll be very glad if you write a post to honor her.
Hi!
Posted by: Robinik at September 15, 2006 4:18 AM
Dear Bloggers! The truth is that the absolute majority of Kurds support every kind of international support, help, guidance and military present as long as that would support the freedom they have enjoyed so far. But what we Kurds do not want is to be abandon and our fate to be decided by Arabs. In my opinion now it is time to tell every single person in the world that we are not Iraqis, we are not Arab and therefore we are the only person who should and will decide our own fate. In fact it is too late and we should have done that from the beginning, when the war started in the first place. But nevertheless we could still argue and say " the only truth about Iraq is that Iraq was never, is not and will never be united". It is sad that everybody blame America and Britain for the mess in Iraq. We should realise that the reason why Iraq is a mess is that Iran,Turkey and Syria wanted to be a mess. If Turkey stops thinking about Kurdistan and if Syria/Iran leave Arab Iraq to decide their fate then we will have The Other Iraq ( two or three states beside each other)!
Posted by: hiwa mahmmud at October 14, 2006 5:59 AM
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