The only way for Iraq is to look ahead [Archives:2004/761/Letters to the Editor]
Jordon A.
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Agreeing it is too late for blame and accusations, I think the productive route is in looking to the future. In thinking in Iraqi's future 2,3,5,10 years down the road I don't see the overshadow of unanswered questions. I see a country having already been deeply scarred persevering, fighting new battles with scrapes and bruises. To compare old wounds to new wounds and what goes deeper…… What is hope? Do you think it better to live with none? Is it better to have to believe the dreams you have for yourself and your family are a foolish fantasy? Does the opportunity to make life better for yourself and future generations have any value?
WMD's, faulty intelligence, manufactured intelligence whatever it was, will never change what is now. The only positive productive focus for the Iraqi's is to look ahead. Unanswered questions will take a back seat and fade away as they always do. The beauty of time is it makes things fade. What the world will see is unwanted extremists standing in the way of a new democracy and the country they thought they were standing up for, turning on them. As Iraqi's go off to the voting poles year after year they will be making their own laws, policies and future. Will they ever forget what was gained during the American occupation? No. Will they forget what was lost? No. Will they remember what they gained without Saddam Hussein? Yes. Will they remember what they lost with him in power? Yes. Who do you think will cast the biggest shadow?
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