In the name of God the Most Beneficent the Most Merciful
The Arab Baath Socialist Party
One Arab Nation, with an eternal mission
Unity, Freedom, Socialism
Changing the flag of Iraq is targeting its patriotic and national identity
Our glorious Arab Nation' sons and daughters!
Nearly five years have gone by since the loathed occupation took place, and from the very beginning the US occupiers and their traitor stooges do whatever they can to achieve the US, Zionist and pagan Persian plan to wipe out the patriotic, the national and the Islamic identity of Iraq in order to divide it on sectarian and ethnic basis. It is for this very reason, that the Occupiers' evil agenda targeted Iraq as a soil, as a people, and as a civilization, plundering its economic infrastructure, destroying its State apparatus, disbanding its heroic army and uprooting its dignified people through uprooting its Mujahid people vanguard, and targeting even its cultural and law institutions. Furthermore, the US, Zionist and pagan Persian hatred' thirst wouldn't be quenched by the material destruction they undertook against Iraqis; they targeted also the history of Iraq, the civilization of Iraq and the antiquities of Iraq... Now they are pouring the poison of their hatred against the flag of Iraq, the symbol of its sovereignty, its patriotic and its national and Islamic identity... The bloodthirsty US occupiers-thugs have designed a traitor-in-the genes and a descendant of a dynasty of traitors, the US, Zionist and Iranian' stooge Mazut Barazani to do this filthy job! This backward ordered not to rise high the Iraqi flag in northern Iraq (the autonomous region) and went on insisting to modify this proud flag... Barazani the puppet who suckled the filthy milk of treason, was backed in his shameful endeavor by a gang of Shu'ubi who decided in their (parliament) on the 22nd of January 2008 to change the flag of Iraq and take away its three stars which represent the symbol of the Arab nation unity, its liberation and its progress.. The stooges' hatred against the leader martyr Saddam Hussein led them to target Allah Akbar (God is the Greatest) expression written by the martyr's own blessed hands, thus betraying the values of Islam, insulting the holy name of the almighty God, and trying hard and with utter perfidy to bury the patriotic, national and the Islamic identity of Iraq.
By changing the flag of Iraq, they target the banner of its pride, its dignity and its sovereignty. Yes! Indeed! It was under this banner that the Iraqi heroic army fought to defend Iraq and the Arab nation in battles and wars against the hideous Zionist usurper enemy, the Iranian aggression, the thirty countries aggression in 1991 and the last aggression in 2003 which led to the loathed occupation. With their criminal act the stooges don't want only to do some formal changes but to suppress the flag of Iraq and replace it by a hideous rag for one year in an immoral and unpatriotic unprecedented move, never seen before..
Our intrepid people sons and daughters!
The traitor, treacherous and Shu'ubi clique, servants of the US' occupiers and of their Zionist and pagan Persians masters, reckon, in their aggressive and filthy brain, that changing the flag of Iraq will be a mine to piece apart the Iraqi national unity and divide Iraq.. Their attempt, however collapsed when our people dignified sons and daughters rejected this criminal move in the day light as we saw it on TV channels! They raised the genuine flag of Iraq on their homes' roofs, windows and on their cars windscreens... The People of Iraq considered this move as a red line not to be crossed! Yes! The flag of Iraq is the symbol of its sovereignty, and the title of its glory. On the other hand, the stooges, drunk and drugged with their hollow arrogance and complexes consider replacing the flag with a rag as a great achievement during the Arab parliaments' meeting in Arbil. This is a real insult against every Arab and every Arab parliamentarian! Those who replaced the Iraqi flag howl publicly that they changed it because its three stars represent the Arab identity of Iraq, its patriotic and its national and Islamic identity! Rather, the Arab parliamentarians should boycott this meeting, and reject to meet under such a rag... Their Arab conscience should require them to ask for the real, genuine and pure flag of Iraq and tear down the stooges' rag... This would be the minimum they can do to prove their belonging to the Arab Iraq and to the great Arab nation... Those who don't, have absolutely nothing to do with Arabity.
Our battling people' sons and daughters!
Our Mujahid Resistance!
The real response to such a criminal act is to continue your blessed Jihad under the banner of Iraq's Allah Akbar (God is the Greatest)! Go on! Inflict the bloodthirsty US' occupier enemy and their servile stooges, the enemies of Iraq and of the Arab nation, more and greater losses until reaching your objectives and fulfilling your desire to liberate Iraq and achieve its full independence and raise its flag in the highest with its colors, beautiful and pure, by the will and the victory of the Lord!
God is the greatest and victory for Iraq and the Nation!
God is the greatest! Long live the flag of Iraq flying high, beautiful and pure and hovering over the plains, the hills, the mountains, the marshes and the waters of Iraq!
Go ahead glorious Resistance towards achieving our Nation objectives in unity, freedom and socialism!
God is the Greatest!
Debased be the abased!
Iraq Leadership
Iraq Culture and Information Bureau
The Arab Baath Socialist Party Baghdad,
Iraq, end of January 2008
Baghdad, Martyr Saddam Hussein's Capital City
* Translated by Abu Assur. http://www.al-moharer.net