“We have not believed this in the past,” said Hamid Saddar, one of the two Iraqis surveyed, “but I now believe that the war is going very well; and I believe that the country is on the right road to being stabilized; and I believe that it is turning into a representative democracy that will be a model for the Middle East.; and I very definitely believe that the surge strategy that deployed an additional 20,000 troops in Iraq has caused these changes.”
“I too believe the war is going very, very well,” said his brother, Muhammad. “I also believe that the country is very much on the right road to being stabilized; and I too believe that it is very much turning into a representative democracy that will be a model for the Middle East; and I most very, very definitely believe that the surge strategy that deployed an additional 20,000 troops in Iraq has caused these changes. Most certainly that is what I believe.”
“I also believe that we were not paid enough to say this,” said Hamid. “There are some very bad people out there who will kill people who say things like this if they find out. I hope they do not read any report of this because if they do they will probably kill us. Even though I did not give my true name I think we are taking a big risk. It was a lot of money, some might say, but not really enough.”
“I too believe we were not paid enough,” said Muhammad. “It is very dangerous and we were paid not nearly enough. Most certainly we were not paid enough. There are more and more very, very bad people out there every day who could kill us. But perhaps we will not be killed, and there will be other things that need to be said and perhaps next time we will be paid enough when we say those things.”
“But probably not,” said Hamid.
“Yes, I agree, probably not,” agreed Muhammad. “Most certainly probably not.”
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With results like that, who can argue?
I just hope it's not too late for a new law that allows a re-election of the US president that helped teach the crusadees so much.
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