After being invaded by the previous U.S. administration based on faulty information, how do Iraqis feel about the current president of the United States winning the Nobel Peace Prize?
In the first translation on the subject we’ve had from Iraq, Abd Al Razzak Al Rabihi doesn’t spare the use of exclamation points in his understandable outburst of exasperation. He writes for Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper in part:
“In the same way that America fought Iraq ‘thinking’ it possessed weapons of mass destruction, it has now become a dove of peace because it ‘intends’ to create peace on Earth!! … In the end, the triumphant nations will always control the destinies of those they defeat!! And we Arabs and Muslims will always be ‘terrorists’ and ‘murderers!!’ And whatever they do, they’ll always be doves and birds of peace!!!”
By Abd Al Razzak Al Rabihi
Translated By Nicolas Dagher
October 13, 2009
Iraq – Kitabat – Original Article (Iraq)
News of President Obama’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize win brought to mind the last century after the October War [1973] when peace talks took place between Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Kissinger was in Cairo and attending a party organized in his honor at which the main attraction was famed belly dancer Suhair Zaki . Poet Filah Askar is said to have wondered: “If Sadat is the peace hero and Kissinger the peace prophet, wouldn’t Suhair Zaki be the peace dove?”
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