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The
latest of U.S. lies: “Iraqis killing
Iraqis” |
Posted By Amina
Anderson
Iraq has indeed become a laboratory
for terrorism at the expense of the
Iraqi people.
The Time magazine, which led a
propaganda campaign in support of the
U.S. invasion of Iraq ahead of the war
in 2003, ran an article earlier this
month titled “Why They Hate Each
Other”, placing the blame for the
current bloodshed in Iraq on the Iraqi
people themselves and not the
occupation forces, totally ignoring
the fact that Iraqis never “hated”
each other before the U.S. “peace-
spreaders” invade the country.
Commenting on The Times article, Ghali
Hassan, an independent writer who
lives in Perth Western Australia,
condemns the bias of the Western media
in portraying the violence in Iraq as
an internal war going between the
Iraqi people.
For the Iraqi people, the relatives
and families of the victims who got
killed in the war since it broke out
in March 2003, the hundreds of
thousands who died and many more who
got maimed, it does not matter much
what sort of war is going on in Iraq,
but it does for the world nations who
believe in the American lies, the
propaganda machine the Bush
administration is using to spread the
fake concept of “Iraqis killing
Iraqis”.
It’s important for us to know
who’re the real killers and
criminals in Iraq, even if everyone
across the Middle East and throughout
the world knows that a full civil war
would soon break out in Iraq.
Theologically, differences among
Sunnis and Shias are fewer than those
between Catholics and Protestants.
Before the occupation and during
Saddam’s rule, you’d see Sunnis
and Shias praying together in mosques
in small Iraqi towns of mixed
populations. There had also been much
intermarriage. But since the U.S.
invaders came to the country, this
harmony Iraqis used to enjoy under
Saddam’s rule is threatening to
unravel, thanks to hidden plots by the
occupiers to sow hatred and fuel
tension between the country’s main
ethnic communities in an attempt to
ensure a smooth implementation of the
Bush administration’s agenda in
oil-rich Iraq.
Hassan criticised the Times’ article
where the writer failed to mention the
fact that daily attacks and spiraling
violence in Iraq were the creation of
the Occupation and that unrest and
increasing tension between Sunnis and
Shias in Iraq was the only pretext
left for Washington to justify an
extended military presence in the
country.
Violence had always been the tool the
U.S. resorts to in trying to get its
agenda implemented, especially in
defenseless nations. The history is
full of many examples.
Let’s look at the 13 years of UN
sanctions during which Iraq suffered
as a result of the U.S. pressure.
Violence here takes the form of
sanctions, where the a great sector of
the Iraqi nation died and suffered
starvation. Sanctions were a new
weapon the West used to kill more than
1.6 million Iraqis; third of them
infants.
If we looked at the core reason behind
the current lawlessness and
instability in Iraq, we’ll find it
to be the decision of Paul Bremer, the
U.S. Proconsul during the early phase
of Iraq war to dissolve the Iraqi Army
and Police.
A group of expatriate collaborators,
most of them known to have been
involved in crimes and acts of
terrorism against the State of Iraq,
were handpicked by Bremer to form the
‘Iraqi Governing Council’ (IGC),
that was based on ethnic and religious
affiliations.
The IGC is still operating inside Iraq
under the name of the Iraqi gov’t,
which Ghali Hassan describes as
“reminiscent of the Nazis-imposed
Vichy regime in France”.
Another example of the U.S. 'Divide
and rule' concept that seems to be
central to its strategy to control
Iraq, is the so-called Iraqi
“Constitution”, that was primarily
designed to sow tension between the
country’s ethnic groups.
Like it did in every country it
invaded, the U.S. organised and
supported militias responsible for the
current ethnic violence in Iraq.
It was the U.S.’s
“debaathification” of Iraq that
eventually let to the current death
squads, supported by the U.S. and the
Mossad agents.
In another attempt to justify its
illegal military presence in Iraq, the
U.S. is now shifting the blame on
Iraqis themselves, using racist and
violent media coverage to instigate
insurrection (Futna) amongst the two
communities, Sunnis and Shias, in
Iraq.
Suicide bombings that kill civilians,
including women and children, came
with the occupation.
What the media insists on ignoring
intentionally is the fact that the
entire Iraqi population, which lived
in harmony for centuries without
significant problems, is still united
in its rejection of the occupation.
The current propaganda campaign,led by
the United States and aimed at
distorting realities and convincing
the world that the violence in Iraq is
“sectarian”, is a desperate
attempt and may be the last resort for
the U.S. to portray its army as the
“savior” and not the killer of the
Iraqi people.
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