Their days will continue to be glorious and their past and future will continue to relate the story of a faithful, zealous, and patient people who believed in the will of God and in the values and stands accepted by the Almighty for the Arab nation in its leading role and for the Islamic nation in the essentials of its true faith and how they should be.

          These values which had their effect in all those situations offered the sacrifices they had offered in the struggle, and symbolized the depth of the faithful character in Iraq will continue to leave their effects on the souls.

          They will continue to reap their harvest, not only in terms of the direct targets represented in the slogans of their age whether in the conflict between the oppressed poor and the unjust and opportunist rich, or between faith and blasphemy, or between injustice, deception and treachery on the one hand and fairness, justice, honesty and loyalty on the other but also the indirect targets as well.

          This will shake the opposite ranks and cause them to collapse after everything has become clear. This will also add faith to the faithful now that the minds and eyes have been opened and the hearts are longing for what the principles, values and stances should long for and belong to.

          The stage that preceded the great day of the call on 2nd August 1990 had its own standards, including dealing with what is familiar and inherited during the bad times, whether on the level of relations between the ruler and the ruled or between the leader and the people he leads.

          The relations between the foreigners among the ranks and infidelity and oppression and among the region's states and the world had their own standards, effects and privileges that were created by the Arab homeland's circumstances, and which were facilitated by propaganda which no one could expose more than it has now been exposed.

          The conflict was exacerbated by the vacuum that was created by the weakness of one of the two poles that used to represent the two opposite lines in the world.

          However, after the 2nd August 1990, new concepts and standards were created. This was preceded by a new outlook in all walks of life in relations among peoples, relations among states, and the relations between the ruler and the ruled, and by standards of faith and positions: patriotism = pan Arabism, and humanitarianism: Jihad, faith, Islam, fear and non-fear' restlessness and tranquility; manhood and its opposite; struggle, Jihad, and sacrifice: and readiness to do good things and their opposite.

          O valiant Iraqi men, O glorious Iraqi women, Kuwait is part of your country and was carved from it in the past. Circumstances today have willed that it remain in the state in which it will remain after the withdrawal of our struggling forces from it. It hurts you that this should happen.

          We rejoiced on the day of the call when it was decided that Kuwait should be one of the main gates for deterring the plot and for defending all Iraq from the plotters. We say that we will remember Kuwait on the great day of the call on the days that followed it and in documents and events some of which date back 70 years.

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