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Title: Victim of Saddam Hussein's regime: 'Iraq was better off with tyrant Saddam in ch
Post by: Freeper on May 06, 2009, 11:21:12 AM
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sabra  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed May-06-09 12:18 PM
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Victim of Saddam Hussein's regime: 'Iraq was better off with tyrant Saddam in charge'   Updated at 12:18 PM
   

http://www.bromleytimes.co.uk/content/bromley/times/new...

A VICTIM of Saddam Hussein's regime claims Iraq was better under his rule and is calling for an inquiry into the war.

British forces officially pulled out of Iraq last Thursday, six bloody years after invading the wartorn country, but Tahrir Swift, from Orpington, claims her homeland has been left like a 'festering wound'.

She said: "This is not what the British people needed. Anybody who lives in Iraq will tell you it is worse than when Saddam was in power.

"Women cannot go out without a chaperone. There are murders and rapes happening all the time. The water is dirty and there is rubbish everywhere.

...

"I used to live on a nice street which was quite well off by the Tigress. Now everybody has gone. I say to my mother 'if you go back there you will be dead in 10 minutes'.

"The Iraqi people will never accept domination. Now the country is like Palestine, a festering wound. There should be an inquiry and not a whitewash like the Hutton Inquiry. It is easy to destroy and bomb and demolish. Rebuilding is a different story. I was a victim of Saddam. It is quite something when you can say it was better under a genocidal dictator."


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5604363

No replies yet (as of posting this) but this could get interesting.
See how long before this guy is the latest Dummyland hero.
Title: Re: Victim of Saddam Hussein's regime: 'Iraq was better off with tyrant Saddam in ch
Post by: Freeper on May 06, 2009, 11:32:15 AM
Still waiting for the Saddam support group to show up to this.  :-)
Title: Re: Victim of Saddam Hussein's regime: 'Iraq was better off with tyrant Saddam i
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on May 06, 2009, 11:39:02 AM
Still waiting for the Saddam support group to show up to this.  :-)

That's pretty much all of DU.

Long time no see, Freeper! :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Victim of Saddam Hussein's regime: 'Iraq was better off with tyrant Saddam i
Post by: Freeper on May 06, 2009, 11:40:19 AM
That's pretty much all of DU.

Long time no see, Freeper! :cheersmate:

true but some are more blatant than others.

How ya doing Ralphie boy? :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Victim of Saddam Hussein's regime: 'Iraq was better off with tyrant Saddam i
Post by: Sam Adams on May 06, 2009, 11:48:12 AM
People like to complain. And their memories tend to be short. This Iraqi woman is not thinking clearly. If you were someone who never attracted Saddam Hussein's attention, I imagine he let you go about your business. (This woman may have been one of those.) Or, if you actually supported Saddam, you were okay. Otherwise, it was into the industrial plastic shredder with ya. :(
Title: Re: Victim of Saddam Hussein's regime: 'Iraq was better off with tyrant Saddam i
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on May 06, 2009, 11:50:05 AM
true but some are more blatant than others.

How ya doing Ralphie boy? :cheersmate:

Life's good, just very busy.
Title: Re: Victim of Saddam Hussein's regime: 'Iraq was better off with tyrant Saddam in ch
Post by: Servonaut on May 06, 2009, 02:00:11 PM
Who is Tahrir Swift ?

You might be surprised who she hangs out with, or maybe not.

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https://www.indymedia.ie/article/73432

Cindy Sheehan Takes Protest Against Iraq War To DAIL


 CINDY TO BE JOINED AT PRESS CONFERENCE & PUBLIC MEETING BY ROSE
GENTLE, IRAQI’S AND IRISH ANTI-WAR CAMPAIGNERS
IRISH ANTI WAR MOVEMENT

Press Release – Tuesday Dec 13

CINDY SHEEHAN TAKES PROTEST AGAINST IRAQ WAR TO DAIL TODAY BEFORE
MEETING WITH DERMOT AHERN, MMINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

CINDY TO BE JOINED AT PRESS CONFERENCE & PUBLIC MEETING BY ROSE
GENTLE, IRAQI’S AND IRISH ANTI-WAR CAMPAIGNERS

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Casey, a young US soldier killed in Iraq
will today take he protest against the occupation of Iraq to Dail
Eireann, where she will call on the Irish government to halt the use
of Shannon airport by the US Military.


Itinerary:

Press Conference – 2pm Buswell’s Hotel, Molesworth St Dublin

Speakers: Cindy Sheehan, Rose Gentle (Mother of British soldier
killed in Iraq), Tahrir Swift (Iraqi & Arab Media Watch). The press
conference will be chaired by Richard Boyd Barrett (Chairperson,
Irish Anti-War Movement.

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http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=5731

US will rule in 'free' Iraq

 by Tahrir Swift

THE ELECTION in Iraq this weekend is nothing but a fraud. I have registered as eligible to vote, but will not be voting. What right have I, living in relative safety in Britain, got to decide what goes on in Iraq? Anyone whose father is Iraqi can vote, while many in Iraq cannot. Does this sound like a free and fair election?

And she has not lived in Iraq in quite a while.


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http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/319811.queens_sadness_at_wildfire_deaths/

Iraqi exile going home after 24 years

10:43am Tuesday 3rd June 2003

By Richard Simcox »

AN IRAQI exile who fled Saddam Hussein's brutal regime is returning home for the first time in 24 years.

Recalling the terrifying moment she fled Baghdad in May, 1979, Tahrir Swift says her two-week visit to deliver medicine will be an emotional rollercoaster.

Mrs Swift, of Ridgeway Crescent Gardens, Orpington, strongly opposed the US-led invasion and now fears her troubled homeland is being devastated by looting and lawlessness.

I'm sure she really knows whats going on in Iraq.  :whatever: