(Wall Street Journal)Oriana Fallaci - I often say to myself: "How good if the Iraqis would get free of Saddam Hussein by themselves. How good if they would execute him and hang up his body by the feet as in 1945 we Italians did with Mussolini." The Italians, in fact, could get free of Mussolini because in 1945 the Allies had conquered almost four-fifths of Italy. I know war very well. I know what it means to live in terror, to run under air strikes and cannonades, to see people killed and houses destroyed, to starve and dream of a piece of bread, because, as a member of the Resistance, I was myself a soldier. At the same time, I don't accept the slogan, that "All wars are unjust, illegitimate." The war against Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito was just, was legitimate. When peace stands for surrender, fear, loss of dignity and freedom, it is no longer peace. It's suicide. This war should not happen now. It should have happened one year ago. One year ago nobody questioned that another Pearl Harbor had been inflicted on the U.S. and that the U.S. had all the right to respond. In 1991 the Iraqi army disintegrated so quickly, so easily, that even I (as a war correspondent) captured four of its soldiers. I was behind a dune in the Saudi desert, all alone, when four skeletal creatures in ragged uniforms came toward me with arms raised. I delivered them to the Marine in charge. In Europe your enemies are everywhere, Mr. Bush. What you quietly call "differences of opinion" are in reality pure hate. Europe is no longer Europe. It is a province of Islam, hosting almost 16 million Muslim immigrants. It lodges thousands of Islamic terrorists whom governments don't know how to identify and control.
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