List Saddama Husseina do Amerykanów.

Saddam Hussein został skazany na śmierć 5 listopada 2006 roku. Egzekucję wykonano 30 grudnia i internet natychmiast został zalany najpierw zdjęciami a następnie filmami nakręconymi podczas egzekucji i zaraz po niej. Poprzednie kilka lat byliśmy przecież informowani w każdym dzienniku telewizyjnym jakim potworem i dyktatorem jest Hussein. Gazety publikowały reportaże o jego synach zabijających i tortutujących kogo popadnie, o terrorze panującym w Iraku… Po inwazji wojsk USA i ich sprzymierzeńców widzieliśmy wiwatujące tłumy na ulicach.

Tyle jedna strona medalu. Malezyjski portal Malaysia Sun zamieścił niedawno list napisany przez Saddama pół roku przed egzekucją. List został przekazany obrońcy Husseina, którym był Rumsey Clark, i poza natrętnym używaniem zwrotu “esteemed ladies and gentelmen” zawiera opinie i fakty, które warto poznać:

People of America, it still seems to me that the officials in your government are still lying to you and are not giving you true explanations of the reasons that led them to embark on their aggression against Iraq. In what they have said about the reasons they have deceived, from the starting point, not only the international community, and in particular the European Community but also the peoples of America themselves, knowing beforehand that the facts were contrary to what they were declaring. Untrue is what they said, after their lies were exposed, about having been deceived by their intelligence agencies and by the stooges that they brought along to serve as their puppets in Iraq, just as old imperialism and the old empires of the 19th and 20th centuries used to do.(…)

None of the Americans asked their government before the war how Iraq, a country that had still not emerged from backwardness, could threaten the security of a country like America across the Atlantic. And for that matter why would Iraq want to threaten America, which at that time had not violated the territory of Iraq.(…) Furthermore, who has authorized America to make the countries of the world tailor their policies to America’s measurements, and if they don’t oblige, then war should be waged against them? How can one understand America’s call for democracy if it does not permit a difference of opinion even in issues of a regional character, to say nothing of international ones?(…)

Do you know, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, that I asked one of the American officials who talked with me perhaps two weeks after my arrest, just what was it that you based those false charges on? He said that as far as the weapons of mass destruction were concerned, “we didn’t have anything to confirm what you were saying.” And as for the links to terrorism, he said, because you, Saddam Hussein, did not send a letter of condolence to President Bush after the incident [of 11 September]. I smiled bitterly and told him: (…) And at that time when American planes were striking targets in Iraq and destroying public and private property, killing Iraqi citizens including women and children for no reason and imposing on Iraq their unjust embargo, prohibiting Iraq from importing even pencils for children to use in primary schools, what exactly is it that should obligate Saddam Hussein to send a telegram of condolences to the president of the state whose officials have committed all those crimes, unless it be out of hypocrisy and weakness? (…)

Are the great states so deluded as to imagine that whoever does not send a letter of condolence deserves that war should be waged against him, his country, and his people!? Here you see how the American officials used even your own blood to promote their reckless, aggressive policy. Is this the kind of morality that people should have? Or men? Or officials? There is nothing graver than for disasters to ravage people who have been stricken by delusions, committed wrongs, and wantonly despised the roles of others. The worst disease of the American officials who involved the Americans in war against Iraq is this.

List jest dość długi, ale sądzę, że powyższe fragmenty będą wystarczającą zachętą, żeby się z nim zapoznać. Ponieważ nie wiem jak długo Malaysian Sun trzyma swoje strony online, pozwoliłem sobie skopiować na wszelki wypadek całość i wrzucić tutaj. Miłej lektury!

~ przez Kub w dniu grudzień 1, 2008.