We work hard to improve our resources, but the most important resourced of all lie within ourselves, talents, and aptitudes.  Perhaps the most overlooked resource of all is our children and young people. They will inherit the work we do. Children and young people have unbounded under-tapped energy and enthusiasm, and are often idealistic. They are impatient to "grow" and being given a way to express their concern creatively,  The young are eager to make a "difference" in the world about them, to make their "mark" upon it.

It is much easier to make a" difference "destructively" than creatively

WE CAN HELP OUR YOUNG PEOPLE  TO CHOOSE THE HARDER, BUT MUCH MORE REWARDING PATH BY LETTING THEM GET INVOLVED IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND BY ENCOURAGING THEM TO SPEAK FREELY AND BE PART  OF  PEACE BUILDING, AND THE CULTURE OF CIVILITY.

The future of our country depends on the next generation of young Iraqis becoming ready for university, work and life. Sadly, most of our young people are reaching young adulthood without the skill and competencies they need to succeed. Unemployment  is at the highest level. It is our moral obligation to make sure all Iraqis have the opportunity to succeed with higher skills and education, The youth must provide the brainpower and manpower to fuel our economy, fill our skilled jobs renew our civil life and keep our country safe
 

WOMEN LEADERSHIP IS NEEDED AT EVERY LEVEL OF DECISION MAKING

Men and women are equal, yet they are different. However, for the most part of human history and our wretched present, this difference has been understood as the inferiority of females to males. This misconception has been translated into religious, social values and laws thus, in most lands, men and women are not equal because they are different. A woman is inferior to man in the sense that she does not set out to hunt, conquer and subdue. She is not the warrior that safeguards the tribe’s property and sets out to raid those who are weaker. She is inferior in war and violence, but superior in love, and peace. Nature has blessed the female gender with motherhood; like the earth, mothers carry life and it is their role in society to nurture and nourish this new life. However, the pain, sacrifice and wisdom that come with this miracle have been left unappreciated and scorned.

Women know that there is no wisdom in war and violence but only pain, destruction and unnecessary sacrifice. We will never know how different this planet would have been, if the women was allowed to contribute their natural wisdom to the course of human history, a history of violence and pain.
 
We cannot reverse time, and all we have is the present and hope for the future. Our weapons should be tolerance, civility and love while we continue to endure violence and repression. Our battlefields should be minds of future generations, and the letter of law.

With optimism and confidence, we call all the women of this world to share our wisdom with our sons, daughters, and grandchildren in the cause for a more just, tolerant society and shiny future for all.

"The statement is sometimes made that the franchise for women would be valuable only so far as the educated women exercised it. This statement totally disregards the fact those matters in which women's judgment is most needed are far too primitive and basic to be largely influenced by what we call education."