In Northern Baghdad, IRAQ, Marines from 2nd Battalion 5th Marines Regimental
Combat Team Five (RCT 5) 1st MARDIV out of Camp Pendleton Claif., pause for
a routine stop during a convoy. Sgt. Justin M Harding from Trenton, N.J.
interacts with a local civilian during the convoy.
Picture: Helping hands for the Iraqi youth
Vienna - December 15th, 2003
Dear Mr. President:
FINALLY, JUSTICE IS DONE!
The dictator and tyrant Saddam Hussein is captured and is being now a prisoner, after eight months of intensive man hunting. You and the American people probably feel very relived, now that Saddam Hussein is in custody and so are the feelings of the free Iraqi people and the entire Free World. It was the best that could happen to the freedom loving world, before closing this year of 2003.
I want to congratulate you, your administration and especially the American men and women in uniform, the Allied Forces and the Iraqi people for bringing evil to a final end. Twenty years of Saddam Hussein’s regime of terror and the suffering of the Iraqi people are gone now forever.
With this important event, your administration must speed up even more to build a free Iraq. I'm hoping that the international community will be duly involved to rebuild Iraq quickly.
After you ended officially the war in April of this year, still many hundreds of American and British forces, as well as Iraqis got killed for hunting down Saddam Hussein, who was charged with the heaviest crime against his own people: namely speechless atrocities!"
In my opinion, you did right, when you gave orders to intervene militarily in Iraq, to overthrow the Iraqi regime and to free the Iraqi people.
It is amazingly sad for me to understand, how much your country still sacrifices American men and women in uniform, to protect the freedom loving world against tyrants. In the past months I noticed, how much you were criticised for having waged this war against the Iraqi regime, where American soldiers and other international forces were killed during the past months by international terrorist groups operating in Iraq. Now the world can see clearly, that the human sacrifices offered in the Iraq conflict made it possible to capture the dictator Saddam Hussein.
As long as dictators remain in power, the necessity of war will always be imminent. May the capture of the late tyrant Saddam Hussein send a clear message to all still existing dictators in this world!
Now, let’s go with even more determination to capture Bin Laden and to bring him to justice.
I also believe that the Middle East process for peace has now a much greater chance after the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year of 2004!
God bless you and this great Nation of the United States of America.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang Schawaller