Jumblat: Toppling of Saddam’s Regime Best Achievement of U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat noted on Monday that the best thing that came out of the United States’ invasion of Iraq was its toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
He said in his weekly editorial in the PSP-affiliated al-Anbaa magazine: “Despite the tens of thousands of lives that were lost in the invasion, the attack did at least accomplish one good thing and that is the toppling of a fascist regime.”
He added that the Iraqi authorities now have the great responsibility of “determining their fate by themselves, without any foreign intervention, during this fateful political moment.”
“They are obligated to construct a new Iraq that respects the diversity of its society under a new constitution that takes into consideration the minorities in the country, some of which were oppressed for decades,” noted the MP.
On Lebanese discussions on the parliamentary electoral law, Jumblat said that he will take a clear position on the matter at a later time.
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