"Iraqi to detail life under 'occupation' in Osaka suit against SDF dispatch"
Today's ill wind comes to us from the pages of the Japan Times published on Feb. 24, 2005.
NOT ALL Iraqis are heroes with purple-tipped fingers. Here in Japan we are subject to nearly daily rants by "peace" foreigners, invariably sponsored by one of our kook NPO/NGOs. The latest indignity we have to suffer is extensive newspaper coverage concerning one Hassan Ali Hassen, a, well, who knows what hell he is, other than he, according to the Japan Times, holds a master's degree from Gifu University. Don't be deceived, Gifu is in Japan, not some seat of higher learning in the Middle East, and that he has ''submitted articles to the Chunichi Shimbun'' (a second-tier newspaper). For the record they call him an Iraqi journalist. Anything's possible, I suppose.
So what's the deal? Hassen was to testify before the Osaka District Court on behalf of a horde of Japanese pacifists. He will tell the court what a horrible idea it was to send the Japanese Self-Defense Forces to Iraq to provide clean water and upgrade infrastructure in the southern city of Samawah.
According to his Japanese handlers, Hassen will also tell the court how deplorable conditions are in Baghdad and life in general is just the pits for everybody. Precisely what conditions in Baghdad have to do with Samawah where the SDF is working is unclear.
Japan is just awash in these peace-before-liberty NPO creeps. Remember the Japanese ''human shields'' bravely risking their lives to protect Iraq from the coalition's violence prior to the start of the war? Remember how they whined for the Japanese embassy to get them out when it looked like a bomb or two might actually land within 50 kilometers of them?
Hassan, predictably, spouts the required nonsensical socialist cant: "People see Japanese in military uniforms as occupiers.'' He goes on to say – in so many words – that it would be so much nicer if Japan pulled out its troops and sent kind, NPO types clad, presumably, in pink bunny suits. He's right about one thing, the crippled and Saddam-tortured that crawled to the polling stations to vote for a free Iraq would not see them as occupiers. They would see them for what they are: useless cowards ready to bug-out at even a hint of danger.
