ABOUT SCHOOLS

  And as the Mongols and Tatars had burned books of science and knowledge, murdered the scientists in Baghdad and wasted the Nation's opportunity for a long time, some of the backward too pushed by their destructive force and backsided by their evil intents have thought that they are capable of killing men of knowledge and tokens of pen, wisdom, sword and banner in Baghdad, which is rising higher and for the better.

  Based on the knowledge of more than eight thousand years of civilization and eternal heritage of our nation, we state (quoting the Quranic verse): "Go, both of you to Pharaoh and speak gently to him.

  Brothers, when Iraq emerged victor on that day, it had, before that, defeated jugglery and imposture with certainty, loss with faith and the cause, disunity with unity, aversion with piousness, grudge with tolerance, hatred with love, egoism with altruism, loneliness of isolation with company and collective work, darkness with light, introversion with extroversion, feeling of weakness with invocation of factors of capability inside oneself, hesitation with decisive resolution, indifference with seriousness and clear stand, laziness with perseverance and work, arrogance with modesty, exaggeration withexactness, igwith knowledge, unbalanced haste with accuracy and patience, negligence with alertness and presence of mind, disruption with continuity, pessimism with optimism, slowness with speed, quantity with the faithful quality, lies with honesty, honesty, and honesty, vagary with truth, fear of foreigner with fear of God, obedience of foreigner with love of our people amidst the Nation and humanity, with full trust in the people and in oneself, after our trust in God.

  Hundreds of bridges, churches, mosques, colleges, schools, factories, palaces, hotels, and thousands of private houses were destroyed or damaged by the American and Western bombardment, which is ongoing even today against Iraq.

  It is not wise that any of the Nation's sons should forfeit the trust of the People and Nation except, without regret, the despicable traitor albeit what treason brings to a Nation known to be faithful to God, His holy books and messengers, a Nation which has played a leading role in conveying faithfulness, love, peace, justice and fairness to the whole humanity.

  Most of you are military men, or at least have a certain knowledge and experience in this domain, this is why I say: just as armies try in the battlefield to separate the infantry from the armored forces are the frontline forces from the others in order to weaken their performance and effect and consequently easily defeat them, in a similar manner, those who want to exploit us, resort to making the rulers afraid of their people, or making them seem weak in the eyes of their people in order to weaken both sides or anyone of them. :: 020422.

  On the path of Ba'ath struggle in Iraq, many have died martyrs in the cause of this banner since we were students in preparatory and secondary schools.

  Our noble call has been well-received by some Arabs (and appeared in their statements) who have a fair amount of knowledge about Iraq and its leadership. :: 980117

  People's tongue is a book written on the ground. Do not neglect reading it, but do not believe everything you read in it. :: vic.

  Shall we say that a great number of our Iraqi people were barefooted, and only few of them thought that their life would be better the next day? Should we compare the number and the level of students in schools now and before? Should we talk about what we used to manufacture and how and what we used to import, from which countries and how? Or should we count down the number of workers in the countryside, and in the industrial and services sectors compared to their numbers now despite the unjust blockade?!. :: rev

  The radiation of its eyes over the nation and humanity has set down, after the water of Tigris was dyed with plentiful blood along with the ink of its books which were filled with science and knowledge, and which were thrown into the water in the year 1258, as a punishment for a history whose soul departed its body and for a civilization whose faith and guards disappeared.

  There are still some Moslem rulers, including some Arabs, who say that they are Moslems, representing their people and believing in the divine book, the Holy Quran, but they do not feel, in spite of this, any embarrassment or deep wound in their hearts and chests as a result of the occupation of Al-Quds by the Zionists by means of injustice and aggression. :: 980717

  Why do even the religious schools there not teach the history of the Islamic State and its jurisprudence at the time Iran was part of it? By corollary, how and why did Iran launch aggression against Iraq? The war subsequently broke out and lasted for eight years.