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Iraqi-American Fawaz Saraf emails:
In an interview [on December 5th] with Al-Arabia TV, Mr. Hakim, leader of an Iraqi Shiite political party, and a party with perhaps the largest popular base in Iraq, made the following unequivocally clear statements on his thoughts on the “occupation” and the “resistance”.
Asked by Al-Arabia if he considered the presence of the coalition forces in Iraq an Occupation, Mr. Al-Hakim responded by saying that the presence of foreign forces in Iraq is not an occupation. These military forces are in Iraq in accordance with UN resolutions and at the request of the elected government of Iraq ( and only elected government in the Arab world, “my words here” ). When the elected government of Iraq asks the coalition forces to leave and if the coalition forces refuse to leave then and only then the presence of such military forces in Iraq could be called an occupation.
Asked by Al-Arabia about the final communiqué at the Cairo Conference and wherein an allusion was made to the legitimate rights of the “resistance”, Mr. Al-Hakim stated that Baathist and Saddamist murderers, terrorists led by Zarqawi, and those who kill Iraqi babies, women and children are not a resistance and that the statement in the communiqué was a general reference to the right of any people to resist an occupation. In Iraq this would not apply since there is no occupation, instead there is a UN sponsored coalition force that is protecting a political process to build democratic institutions and what we have is a group of murders and terrorists who kill and commit massacres in their effort to derail a political process supported by the majority of Iraqis. If there is an Iraqi resistance, then let them show their face, let them join the political process and then ask the coalition forces to leave. These murders are not a resistance. When we were in the resistance when Iraq was occupied by the Baathists and Saddamists, we did not hide our faces, everyone knew who we are and we did not go about murdering Iraqi babies.
