Felt this should be shared.
Friday, June 25, 2004
The "thing" which I supposed to be calling the Iraqi government is going to get the blessings of bush in something like a week or lessÂ…
The 30th of June is being marketed by the bush administration as THE day, the day that Iraqis are going to have their "freedom" and take their brand new free Iraq on a plate of silver as we say in Arabic, in a very similar procedure of some primitive tribes having creepy ceremonies and making tattoos on the bodies of teenagers to announce their maturity and adulthood.
Doesn't it need a bit more to announce our liberation?
The handover of the small-boring-administrative-responsibilities to some selected groups of Iraq employees (guards, policemen, ministers, president) is not going to change anything on the ground for Iraqis. The real authorities and decision makers aren't going to leave the fence of the green zone. They will send someone in the early morning of the 1st of July to change the small dirty "CPA" banner full of bullet holes outside the green zone, and replace it with a smaller one with "the American embassy in Baghdad". Unfortunately, this embassy is going to be the real government. The embushy is going to rule Iraq by small "representative offices" distributed all around the country.
If anyone thinks I am exaggerating, please come and take a look on the American embassy in Amman, and see who is ruling this country.
The handover of the authorities is a small pathetic play that shouldn't distract us from the real thing happening on the ground. When the neo-cons attacked Iraq last year they introduced themselves as liberators, and that's why most of the Iraqis and some of the American people believed them, and believed in them, but now comes the time that both of us, Iraqis and Americans, should work hard to give Iraq its freedom back, to stop building permanent military bases in Iraq, and to change this colonial strategy in keeping Iraq under the American political and economical control.
The American army is building six permanent bases in Iraq, three surrounding Baghdad, one in the south, on in the east and on in the north. The three surrounding Baghdad are Al-Habbanyya, which is an old Iraq military base and airport near the artificial lake of Habbania, the second is Ar-Rasheed base in the south-east of Baghdad, and the third is At-Taji base in the north of Baghdad, which is the larges base in Iraq, it looks like a small city. The other three bases are Ali base near Nasryya, Al-Walid base northern to Falluja, and another base in Al-Mosul. These six bases are the cancer in the body of the new Iraq.
I have a clear position towards the thing happening at the end of this month. As a secular person with national beliefs, I don't see the bush administration step at the end of this month anything more than a political trick that will add more confusion to the world about the reality of what is happening in Iraq, it will start a new chapter of what will appear as an Iraqi-Iraqi conflicts and clashes, which is in real an Iraqi American one, but with Americans hiding behind Iraqis.
This will come along with other distracting moves like starting the Iraqi Hollywood: The Saddam Trial.
The right wing, conservative administration occupying the white house came to Iraq with bad intention, and it is a waste of time to try to fix and discuss their resolutions and decisions.
Both of us, the Iraqi and the American people, need another administration with different ideologies to start rebuilding the Iraq-American (and maybe the Arab-American) destroyed relations.
Posted by: Raed Jarrar / 3:19 AM
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I can't rightly say why that felt so right at the time. 
Anyway, my feelings of annoyance didn't justify my demeanor. (Passes generously loaded peace pipe :wink: ) BTW, Sofia's post reminded me where we last discussed International Law, If you are still curious about my answers, click HERE and scroll down till you see International Law: in bold type.
