Baath statement concerning the President being sentenced to death
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
"A homeland built on martyrs and their blood,
The world over will be destroyed and our homeland will be not!"
Our Glorious Arab Nation masses!
Today the US and its ally Iran have sparked a bomb, whose shrapnel will harvest every plotters and every collaborators in Iraq and outside Iraq, through sentencing to death our Party Secretary general, and Iraq secretary, the President of Iraq and the general Commander of the Armed Forces, the comrade Saddam Hussein (May the Lord save guard him and deliver him from the hands of his bloodthirsty US enemies) imagining that the people of Iraq can be affected by death sentences, that the Baath would kneel and will make any compromise concerning the outcome of the Iraq liberation war and its advance towards the clear cut victory. This decision will be, God willing, and thanks to Iraq sons and daughters, the spark which will burn whatever left for the Occupation, its puppets and its allies, in Iraq! For the dignified people of Iraq has rejected and rejects every attempt to undermine the Arab identity of Iraq, who fought and will combat every one who wants to harm the symbols of Iraq and its detained legitimate leaders.
Our Party declares the following:
1- The death sentence is nothing but a US stupid attempt to stop the Resistance intensification, and in order to affect its patriotic and liberation march, when the US failed to find a personality with some weight for compromise on the Resistance Strategic Program and when they failed to infiltrate and wreck the Resistance from the inside.
2- The death sentence took place when an Iraqi patriotic global consensus has come out asserting that the return of his Excellency President Saddam Hussein to government will be the fastest and the guaranteed solution to impose security, stability and independence and dignity return for the people and for the homeland. This consensus was incarnated by more than a thousands messages sent by tribal leaders, personalities and patriotic movements who asked to release the President and his comrades and to his return to the government as he is Iraq legitimate President, plus scores of demonstrations throughout many Iraqi towns in the South as in the Center and in the North, carrying his Excellency the President portraits and shouting 'long live the President". But the Occupation and Iran which both planned to destroy Iraq in order to divide it saw that the return of security and sovereignty to Iraq, as a failure to their plans. For this very reason both Iran and the US have agreed to get rid of the President to prevent the return of security and stability and keep Iraq an arena for the death squads and gangs and give them free hands to burn every thing in the country.
3- The complete failure of the US administration and of every attempt to stay in Iraq due to the amazing intensification of the National Resistance operations against the Occupation and its collaborators, which have forced the enemy to continue deepening the tragedy of the People of Iraq and start to implement a planned fragmentation of the country, even more dangerous and whose spark will be sentencing his Excellency the President to death.
4- The death sentence comes at a time when the Armed Iraqi Revolution has completed the fundamental measures guaranteeing Iraq liberation soon... through building the national Army and get it ready on the terrain, and the announcement of a free and independent Republic of Iraq, by the leadership of the Iraqi Resistance.
5-The death sentence is a consequence of his Excellency the President refusing any compromise with the occupation, rejecting any conditional return to government which violate the sovereignty of Iraq and its national independence.. In fact the Occupation is putting into practice a threat, a US general made to his Excellency the President, to choose between the fate of Mussolini: i. e. death or that of Napoleon: i.e. exile, if he refused the US conditions.
6- The sentence is timed with the US half term legislative elections to help the Republicans in a society which takes pleasure in executions and blood, after losing any hope to prevail. This is why the timing of the sentence two days before the elections is yet another proof that it is an Iranian-US court.
7- The death sentence is nothing but a US attempts to prevent the rising of a strong united and efficient Iraq immediately after the liberation. Yes! Sentencing his Excellency the President to death before the complete collapse of the Occupation has been established on a very precise knowledge that his Excellency as a President in Iraq, will shorten highly the time to restore security, dignity and services and in a few hours... and not in years... and will guarantee the emergence of a strong Iraq participating in the destiny of the region's events as it did and affect it even more than before.. Yes indeed one of the US fundamental and essential US policy is a free, but, a week Iraq easy to control through external pressures and conditions, unable to repulse and resist the return of the US colonialism through the window, after the liberation, when it was expelled through the door of the Armed Resistance. The US plan now, convinced that the liberation is fatally coming, is to accept a weak government which lacks the necessary central polarization components to unify various positions and can take the historical and courageous decisions, due to Saddam Hussein absent influence and efficiency.
Ye Resisting Iraqis!
These objectives and these US-Iranian and Zionist Entity' axis of evil intentions, however, will never take place, for it is you who dragged the Occupation to its killer failure forcing it to back off and withdraw its project in Iraq and in the region, unless the US plunges the whole area into unending bloody wars.
Based on these facts and realities, our Party ascertains the following:
1- That the people of Iraq which gave birth to Saddam Hussein is able to produce a thousand Saddam Husseins and that Iraq is a generous fertile mother whose womb never stops giving birth with passing years… and that those who watch the Jihad battle field in Iraq, see the tens of thousands of Saddamists combating the Occupation with Saddam Hussein's mentality and courage.. These are the future of Iraq! These are the protectors of Iraq!
2- The Party will never ever make any compromise, it will never back off from Independence and liberation and from the Resistance Strategic Program principles, and mainly the paragraphs concerning holding on to the Resistance until the complete and unconditional withdrawal of the Occupation forces and the return of Iraq complete sovereignty and specially the sovereignty over its natural resources.
3- In case his Excellency the President is sentenced to death, the US must know that there will be no negotiations whatsoever and every single contact will be rejected. Leading the Party hard line to continue the Resistance until destroying the US Empire on the soil of Iraq and not allowing the US forces to withdraw, bleeding the US economically and humanly until it breaks down and until the US' utter collapse.
4- The Party will put into place a national emergency plan specially in Baghdad to complete the crushing of the puppet government, to liquidate the US and Iranian death squads and gangs and achieve its control on parts of Baghdad which are still outside its complete control.
5-The Party announces that it will tighten the blockade of the Green Zone and in every available mean to destroy the US, the CIA and the puppets tools headquarters.
6- The Party encourages the national Iraqi forces to intensify their cooperation, for the death sentence doesn't only target the Baath and its Leadership but also all Iraq and the whole Arab Nation, specially its pan Arab National identity. What is required from the national forces is to show their clear position about what happened today and to condemn it, for it is a decision against the whole Iraqi people and a step forward to establish and intensify hatred for generations...
7- The tribes of Iraq and the religious leaders are required to have a stand of honor in harmony with the messages they sent supporting the President, asking for his release and his return as the President of Iraq and the maker of its security and stability. Today is the day of the word of honor, and you must be ready and those with you, soon, for the days of the decisive victory and liberation.
8- Our Baathist comrades throughout the Arab Nation must carefully remember that their comrades in Iraq are expecting a lot from them since the last four years and above all the immediate and widest masses demonstration to support his Excellency the President and incite the Arab public opinion and the national forces in their countries against his death sentence... More important in the campaign to liberate his Excellency the President and Iraq is to cut down some of their children's bread to support the Resistance and the Party financially! Without that, we will doubt about the Baathism of those who don't help. The real Baathist is the one who expresses his Baathism today in the difficult times and not tomorrow in the days of the plenty.
9- The patriotic and National forces, the well known personalities in the Arab homeland must raise their voices against the death sentence whatever was their position concerning his Excellency and the Baath... For the question today, is not only a question of a Party or a detained President, it is before every thing else the question of the fate of a Nation subject to genocide and the stripping of its national identity. Today Iraq is being destroyed amidst the silence and the complicity of some national educated and Parties, but tomorrow it will be their turn, for if they don't rise their voices defending the President' just cause, that means they abandon clearly their national and patriotic commitments.
Moreover we must talk here about the dangerous stand of those who praise Iran and ask to defend it in the Arab National Congress, inspite of Iran being the US' claw in Iraq and its main tool to destroy it and to wipe out its people. We tell them: you can't put together God the Mercy giving and the demon in your stand, when you hear Iran officially rejoicing about the President death sentence and saying that it wished more than a death sentence.. This is nothing but an evident _expression of animosity against the Arab nation... We expect from these to take into consideration the Iraqis' feelings that lost their homeland and their citizens due to Iran crimes which is, according to their squashing majority, the most dangerous and the first tool to destroy Iraq and to change its Arab identity. Also these should remember an essential truth that Iraq is not less dear than Palestine, and that the Iraqi lives are not less important than their Palestinian brothers' and that the soil of Iraq, the Emirates, the soil of Bahrain and the soil of Al Ahwaz are not less Arab and valuable than the land of Palestine. Therefore the coming period will be a test for you concerning the Nation Causes as they are interconnected and linked vitally to each other.
It is impossible for those who defend Palestine to be sincere if they abandon Iraq as a soil and as a people for Iran's beautiful eyes and its Arab links. It is time to take the right position and make choices, for the mutual enemy, the US, Iran and the Zionist Entity didn't let us any other choice except that to confirm or deny the belonging of some to the Nation and to its destiny causes, regardless of any national or human distinction between favoring any Arab cause on the other on basis we still ignore, but try seriously to comprehend!
Ye heroes of the intrepid Iraqi Armed Forces!
Today you are the loyal to the freedom and the liberation of Iraq and the dignity of its women; its suffering people is looking towards you, for you are the generous nursing breasts of the Resistance, you are the striking force which has defeated the US! Soon, in the day of liberation, you will rise and execute the orders of your command to liberate Iraq and to be completely in control of all its soil and its security, protecting its citizens and snatching back its sovereignty. But before all that get prepared to liberate his Excellency the President as the fundamental objective to protect the liberation of Iraq from any attempt to empty it from its essence and basis which are the complete sovereignty over the homeland as soil, resources, and destiny.
Long live Saddam Hussein, a leader for Iraq, the engineer and the designer of its Armed Revolution!
Long live the Armed Iraqi National Resistance, the banner holder of the liberation of Iraq and the Arab Nation!
Long live the unity of the Mujahedeens belonging to the various organizations!
Shame and dishonor to the US which assassinated three million Iraqis since 1991!
Shame and dishonor to Iran, the US ally, murderess of thousands of Iraqis!
The Arab Baath Socialist Party
Iraq Culture and Information Bureau
Iraq - Baghdad on the 5th November 2006
* Translated by Abu Assur. al Moharer.net