“The Voice of the Iraqi Citizen”
Ahmad Chalabi Speech to the General Assembly
I stand in front of you today representing the voice of the Iraqi citizen who has long suffered from cruelty within and outside his homeland. Those within his country have inflicted on him the worst kinds of torture: They have attacked his honor, betrayed his family, humiliated him, enchained him, and thrown him into miserable wars. His brothers and friends in the region not only maintained silence, ignorance, and blindness toward his catastrophe, they also criticized him and shamed him the day he dared raise his voice. And throughout the world, those that stood to benefit scrambled to trade and…
