The General and the Ambassador!

The General and the Ambassador

Washington D.C.

Through 17 hours of grilling testimony at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senate Armed Services Committee, House Foreign Relations Committee and House Armed Services committee General David Petreaus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker kept their cool.

The Senators and Congressmen and Congresswomen changed, the audience changed, the days and rooms changed, but there was one consistent section in attendance at all the hearings.

It was the Assyrian Christians!

The Assyrian Christians are the original people of Iraq – the people of Nineveh of Jonah the Whale fame.

Most people don’t know that these people who still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus were the first group of people to accept Christianity.

The long hours of sitting through endless and repetitious testimony paid off for the hardy Assyrian Christian section – they were rewarded with a chance to speak with both the General and the Ambassador . . . twice!

`We were able to speak with both General Petreaus and Ambassador Crocker twice, to thank them for all they have done for Iraq and present them with a map of the Assyrian Province in Iraq and information on our people` said one of the members.

Why are the Assyrian Christians important?

In the broad developments in Iraq, it may seem that they are just one small group – barely 2.5 million people out of a population of nearly 25 million according to the Foreign Ministry under Saddam Hussein with an additional nearly 3.5 million diaspora worldwide who like the Jews with similar numbers long for their `homeland`.

They are often ignored in the daily grind of `Shia, Sunni, Kurd` information that pours out of Iraq, but in fact they are really the most important.

The Assyrian Christians attending the 17 hours of hearings in Congress also passed on an important piece of information to the General and the Ambassador.

`We were able in addition to giving them a map of the Assyrian Province in our homeland in Northern Iraq, tell the General and the Ambassador that we were able to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki and he promised to support an Assyrian Province in our homeland, payments to the over 500,000 Assyrian Christian refugees and payment for them to return home.` commented a team member.

The reaction from the General and the Ambassador?

`They were very happy, particularly to hear that the Iraqi Prime Minister supports our Province and assigned us a staff member to follow up with. ` He continued.

While the General and the Ambassador dominated the news while they were in Washington, it was the Assyrian Christians, the `canary in the mine` of Iraq who touched their hearts.

Will Iraq succeed? Will things get better for the longsuffering Iraqi people? A large amount of the responsibility for that success or failure rests on the original people of Iraq.

The Assyrian Christians are considered the `soul` of the nation and many Iraqis, including the Prime Minister consider the most `loyal and best citizens. `

The Assyrian Christians want just one thing. They want what is known as `The Biden Plan`, named after one of their big supporters, Senator Joseph Biden, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

This envisions moving Iraq into a United Kingdom type division where the areas of Iraq - `Shiastan` in the south, `Sunnistan` in the middle, `Kurdistan` in the northeast and `Assyria` in the northwest are allowed to develop much like England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

With the Iraqi Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Congress and the General and the Ambassador on board things are looking up for the first Christian nation.

`God is with us. He has given us favor with the Iraqi Government and the American Government. We believe that the Prophecy of Isaiah 19 which tells us we will have our homeland is about to happen. ` The team leader commented.

Will the General and the Ambassador do what they promised? Will the Iraqi Prime Minister come through?

At least one group of people is pulling all the strings they can to see it happen so the 500,000 of their people languishing as refugees can finally go home and a very old Prophecy can finally come true.

Ken Joseph Jr