Iraqis mark referendum day

Baghdad, INA

Iraqi people all over the country mark the Referendum day. The 15 October referendum is marked by Iraqis as the Day of the Grand March.

Preparations were organized for the occasion, expressing the wholehearted relationship between President Saddam Hussein and the people of Iraq.

In this day, Iraqi people express love and loyalty to President Saddam Hussein and declare readiness to keep on building Iraq, confronting aggression, breaking the unjust embargo.

The 15 October referendum reminds everyone in Iraq of the historic, patriotic and humanitarian role of President Saddam Hussein and his heroic stands to defend issues of the Arab nation.

The referendum this year, particularly in these circumstances, will be a message to the entire world, confirming Iraqi people’s trust and loyalty to President Saddam Hussein, and their victory on enemies’ failed schemes.

It is natural for the people of Iraq to back and rally behind President Saddam Hussein who created opportunities for democracy to be practiced. The democratic practice was widened in holding a referendum in 1995 when the Iraqi people for the first time freely and directly elected Saddam Hussein a President of the Republic of Iraq. The 15 October, 1995 referendum is marked by Iraqis as the Day of the Grand March.

As if all the democratic avenues were not sufficient for the people to voice their desires and express their views to him, President Saddam Hussein has been keen to keep direct contacts with them: listens to them feels their suffering, solves their problems and makes sure that the state renders the services they need. It is a historic leadership that plays an active role in bringing about a radical change for the betterment of his people in all fields, a leadership creative in both intellectualization and application and unique in all aspects. Any state cannot achieve progress and prosperity without a historic leadership that would exert efforts in this direction.

Under President Saddam Hussein’s wise leadership, the people of Iraq confronted the U.S-led aggression and frustrated all enemies’ ill-intended schemes. Iraqi people could rebuild their country and bring relations with friendly countries back to normal despite the daily US-British aggression and the decade-old unjust embargo. Iraq faced economic sanctions unilaterally imposed by U.S.A in February 1990, then in the name of the Security Council on August 6^th 1990. Under the leadership of President Saddam Hussein, Iraq courageously confronted the Zionist-Imperialist conspiracy of not only an economic blockade but also of a naked military aggression by more than 33 states led by U.S.A lasting for more than 40 days: from January 17 to the end of February 1991. Though military operations came to a halt, the aggression continued intermittently in the form of missile offensive, military intervention depriving people of food and medicine, endangering its political stability and hindering its progress.

President Saddam Hussein has initiated and administrated the all-out reconstruction campaign with a purely national effort and in a record time, thus capacitating the state to confront the enigmatic problems of the severe embargo and subsequent difficult circumstances so as to serve the people suffering the resultant harsh conditions. He has directed the party and the state orientation towards lessening the harmful effects psychologically and ensured food and social security for all people.

President Saddam Hussein has provided all the requirement for the people and the state to carry out the formidable task of heroic resistance and to ultimately win victory.

The most creative efforts were exerted by a leader who felt the suffering of his people, shared their aspirations, fought against imperialists and cherished the heroic deeds of great Iraqi leaders. Since early years of his youth, he joined the national pan-Arab current. It was leader Saddam Hussein who joined in the fifties the Arab Ba’ th Socialist Party, unified its ranks and prepared to assume power in July 17, 1968. He was also behind all the measures that have consolidated the authority of the Revolution and its central power in addition to political stability.

Due to its strategic position, natural resources and glorious ancient history as a cradle of civilization and center for enlightenment and cultural radiation, Iraq was, and is still, threatened by enemies. President Saddam Hussein has always called for Arab solidarity, cooperation and support to defend the Arab nation against imperialist schemes that aimed to dominate the Arab world and exhaust its resources.

On the international plane, President Saddam Hussein outlined Iraq’ s policy and stances to enhance friendly relations with The Arab and foreign states, besides activating Iraq’s role in the nonalignment movement. As for the relations with western countries, Iraq’s policy is based on the principle of independence and within the framework of cooperation and mutual interests.