Speaker of Syrian People’s Assembly to US: “If You Bomb Us, Shall We not Bleed?”

 

In a passionate letter, dated September 4, 2013, the Speaker of the People's Assembly of the Syrian Arab Republic Mohammad Jihad al-Lahham wrote to Speaker of the House John Boehner and asked that he read it before the Congress.

In the letter, al-Lahham pleaded with the United States Congress to listen not only as "fellow Parliamentarians," but also as "fathers and mothers….human beings" asking, "if you bomb us, shall we not bleed?"

The Speaker also pointed out that many innocent people would be harmed in such an attack. "Local tragedies become regional wars that led to global conflict because of the lack of communication among nations," al-Lahham writes. "We urge you to communicate with us through civilized dialogue rather than the language of fire and blood."

The Syrian Speaker says that Syria and the United States have a common enemy in what he refers to as the "Wahhabi Jihadist Ideology." In fact, he states "the hatred Wahhabi Jihadist Ideology adopted and financed by Saudis" was "the main factor of 9.11 attacks."

Al-Lahham pointed out that Syria is the "last living genuine secular state in the Middle East" and that it was the "first country that faced fundamentalist fanatic terrorism in the late seventies." His country is now facing "tens of thousands of none (sic) Syrian jihadists."

He then quotes President Franklin D. Roosevelt,

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."

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