In the Name of God,
Most Compassionate, Most Merciful
Great People,
The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces,
Sons of our Glorious Arab Nation,
Friends…
As Man is part of his family and social environment in thinking, natural disposition and habits, any phase of people's development likewise constitutes part of their history temperament and customs. Albeit nations and peoples have some sort of common traits, which can be summed up and accessed, each of them has other different characteristics. They take their colours, tokens, level and profundity of influence upon oneself or upon others in the light of the disparity and kind of traits of each people and each nation, their different roles and the kind and level of development with respect to the starting-point of humanity, or the description within the context of its phase. The broader the account and distance between one nation and another is, the more strongly varied and distant are the points of separation.
Leaders and the kind of the part and task or tasks they perform play a decisive role in crystallizing the special traits, level, direction, type of action and influence. On the premise of this account, the level of humaneness or hostility of peoples and nations as well as the level of acceptability of the merits and demerits are affected by the background of these traits and the kind and rank of their historical models in the light of the description of the special trait in both field and occasion… Hence we can recourse to the interpretations of historical phenomena and many periods or even the main trends in the history of peoples and nations, among which are our people and our nation. Therefore, we go back to the past, which is relevant in one way or another to the present speech, and ask, for instance:
Why was Baghdad destroyed in 1258 A.D? Why was Babylon destroyed in 539 B.C? Yet man's spirit in both could not be totally destroyed, nor was the hope for revival anew given up… Why had Baghdad's slumber lasted for eight centuries? Why has Baghdad woken once more, yet has not stooped, twisted, ceased or bargained?
Should we answer in detail, relying upon the special traits of our people and the one who had incurred harm to it, we would find a convincing reply beside circumstantial factors. We would see that these traits explain to us the essence of the positive points being fairly recorded for our people and for whoever has caused harm to it in the past or still doing so, whenever the traits which are in common with the past generation yet associated with its history and people are summoned, or on the occasion of the Great Victory Day in which we are delivering our speech, albeit the difference in time between past and present.