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7 àïðèë 2003, 9:45

To The Embassies of the nations of the Iraq Liberation and Disarmament Coalition

 Open Letter                                           

Îòâîðåíîòî ïèñìî íà áúëãàðñêè/The Letter in Bulgarian

 

The undersigned, a society of Bulgarian individuals who have come together, initially, via Internet, hereby wish to address you and share with you our position as presented below:

We support the actions of US- and UK-led coalition in Iraq. The regime of Saddam Hussein is dictatorial and plainly criminal, before and above all, in regard to its own people. Moreover, this regime has crossed a line beyond which its conduct has become a threat to neighboring countries and, augmented by modern technologies, to nations further afield. The present actions of the United States and Great Britain are, therefore, the only possible recourse for averting this threat. We are confident that these actions are being carried out with the utmost respect for the preservation of human life and the extant cultural and material assets. We hereby express our admiration and moral support for the men and women fighting as part of the American, British, Australian, Polish, Czech, Slovak and Danish forces, all representatives of nations which on more than one occasion in history have defended their own and other people’s liberty and human dignity.

From our own experience in a totalitarian socialist state, we are aware that Saddam’s regime and the repressive apparatus supporting it are beyond redemption and reform, and must therefore be eliminated in their entirety. With the assistance of the coalition forces, the running of the country should, gradually yet as expeditiously as possible under the circumstances, be handed over to those Iraqi political forces which genuinely represent the interests of the Iraqi people and are capable of paving for Iraq the road to normal development, economic prosperity, restoration and consolidation if its national dignity. The regime’s repressive apparatus must be placed on trial organized by the Iraqi people themselves, as a token of respect for their long-time suffering. We know from our own bitter experience that a society that has survived the hardships of a dictatorship, violence and the kind of demagoguery that stifles normal thought, is in no position to quickly organize a fair and even-handed jurisprudence. This makes the involvement of the coalition in investigating the crimes of the regime all the more necessary.

We believe that the rebuilding of Iraq is the prerogative of the coalition powers and a natural continuation of the toppling of the present regime. Justice and the creative vitality of common sense are among the most stimulating and inspiring values to those who have suffered for a long time under violence, repression and demagoguery. Only the coalition that will have liberated Iraq from Saddam’s regime will also have the moral authority to lift the embargo imposed upon it!

We are confident that the present events in Iraq carry a great potential to trigger a chain of rapid developments towards normalization and democratization of the workings of the state, that would enable the nation to benefit fully from the achievements of modern technology and the efforts for ensuring a spiritually rich and meaningful existence for the entire region, for putting an end to the atheistic politicization of the main religions and a return to their true identity. Because religion should address the soul and it is within the soul that it brings peace and meaning to human life while strengthening the individual’s sense of well-being.

All these efforts require an honest and principled approach. Therefore, it is only fair that the governments and national ruling bodies that did everything within their powers to de facto support Saddam’s regime and ensure its survival in its present form, be barred from participation in the post-war rebuilding of Iraq. These are: Russia and the current governments of Germany, France and Belgium.

We are hopeful that the Iraq liberating coalition will act with reason and resolve and will win over for its cause more and more national administrations as well as individuals, joined together by a shared effort to eliminate tyranny, violence and the preaching of hatred and enmity among peoples. Only thus will Humankind be able to face up, rationally and effectively, to the new challenges of the development of science and technology, the forces and processes that will dominate the present century!

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