[Peace-discuss] the new dictator

[Dlind49 at aol.com]

and in America freedom is dead and abraod we are now the new dictator!

do what I / america says or die......

this must stop!!!!!  I fear Abe Lincoln's greatest warning has occurred;

Government of the people, by  the people, and for the people has perished 
from the earth! 





U.S. Commander Warns Iraqi Insurgents
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 
Filed at 5:59 a.m. ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq on Friday urged Saddam 
Hussein's loyalists to lay down arms and ``embrace the future,'' of a sovereign 
Iraq, saying they will otherwise end up either dead or in custody.

``We will be relentless in the pursuit of these targets,'' Lt. Gen. Ricardo 
Sanchez, the commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq, said at a news 
conference.

The U.S. military has captured or killed all but 13 of the 55 most wanted 
figures from Saddam's regime, including the ousted dictator himself. Since 
Saddam's capture on Dec. 13, the U.S. military says attacks by insurgents have 
fallen to about 15 a day compared to a few dozen previously.

``The timing is perfect for the anti-coalition forces and former regime 
elements to make a decision that it is time to embrace the future,'' Sanchez said.

``The former regime is never going to come back. We are focused. We are 
effective in the pursuit of these individuals. We are going to capture them or 
kill, as is our mission,'' he said.

The U.S. government intends to hand over sovereign power by July 1 to an 
Iraqi government appointed by a provisional legislature to be selected by regional 
caucuses.

The security of the country also is being gradually passed on to Iraqi troops 
and police being trained by the U.S. military, Sanchez said, adding that 
tactical control will, however, remain with U.S. forces.

``Those (insurgents) that remain at large, and given the pace that we are 
moving toward sovereignty, it is time for them to lay down their arms ... we have 
to embrace the future,'' he said.

After the capture of Saddam, the most-wanted man on the U.S. list is his 
lieutenant, former Vice President Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.

U.S. troops captured four of his nephews on Wednesday, two of whom are 
believed to have been helping him hide and keep one step ahead of his American 
pursuers.

Sanchez said with a smile: ``We will get him. We are gonna get him.''