More Good Sense From Iraq

And guess what? This time it comes from the Iraqi Government through Dr. Salih, the Deputy Iraqi Prime Minister. Whatever you might say about the interim Government, and there are many who are keen to tar its reputation with a relativist's broad brush (this link is to a report about a seemingly important incident of abuse- what's wrong is to draw too wide an inference based on one event), it's difficult to argue with this:

'The terrorists' claim to be fighting occupation has not been accepted by the Iraqis from the start, since we have known that their goal is in fact to revive the hateful dictatorship of Saddam Hussein or to set up another kind of dictatorship, or at least to prolong the occupation as a means of continuing their malicious efforts to take control of Iraq, to exploit all of its resources for their own interests, and to prevent us from building a stable and safe country and from bringing justice to the people which has suffered oppression without precedent in modern history.'

(thanks to John B. for pointing the way to one of the links)