Free Iraq

Attempted coup detats by these opaque fools are not the order of the day in Iraq anymore, and I have one other thing to say --- AL SISTANI.

There won't be another Ba'athist coup, or a Sunni coup, or an extremist Islamic coup. The government now has too much international and Kurd, Shia, Turkoman and Christian backing (that's a huge proportion of the population). The new al Bakr's and Saddam's of Iraq can throw their rattles out of their prams forever --- they won't get what they want.
The international community and the Iraqis are determined to see a new Iraq work and any number of attacks by these dim-wits will not change that.

Everyone knows that these "resistance fighters" do not want good things for Iraq and merely want to obtain control of Iraqis by fear. How Saddam-esque!

What is this resistance trying to achieve and for what reason? One thing is for certain ----- killing Iraqis only block their cause and will get them nothing. The only thing it can ultimately achieve is a civil war, but with Sistani's input, I doubt that will ever happen.
I am grateful for the effect that al Sistani is having further south in the country. He sets a good example and asks his population to do the same thing. He is a kind of Ghandi in a way; respecting human life --- wanting only good things for Iraq. I am glad to say that the Shia section of the government has strong ties with him and this in the end may save Iraq from the ultimate trouble.

The WMD plug by Blair and Bush went badly wrong, but I think it was high time that Saddam and his son's got their just desserts. The UN, being the corrupt weak body that it is, was prepared to let Saddam eat more Iraqis.
Dicatatorship to democracy is painful for these poor people when it shouldn't be.

The only thing that can happen for Iraq now is for it to go forward into the unknown. It will not go backward, Saddam is finished, and a Iraq has a new dawn. Those are the facts and the sooner the thugs who are terrorizing Iraq "get it", the less Iraqis will die!
 

i once thought that resistance may be come in form of spreading arab nationalism but i cannot see arab nationalists wanting to kill inocent fellow arab (Iraqi) people. I do not know what role the iranians and syrians play in all this mess but i suspect not a small one. It would be good for iran to get islamic control over iraq. it is easier for iranians and, syrians to kill iraqis since there would be no due care there. of course, their motives, eventhough they are of different countries, could be pushed by warped form of islam.
Iraq must start having very tight border controls in order to get feel for situation. I think many people keep crossing back and forth. They come in, kill and then go back and process is repeated.
i think border control is very important. even if guerilla war continues anyway, bush will never give up as there is too much at stake.

i admire iraqi government's men and women. They put their lives on chopping board in order to make iraq advance to democracy.
i have emailed a few men of government and have have got reassuring replied. i think there are many very compassionate and well intentioned people leading iraq now that deserve a chance ( i must emphasise that they deserve a chance).

it was not right to let Saddam continue to rule iraq. why turn a blind eye to it? I agree that the UN should give ultimatum to countries such as Belarus, Syria, Burma, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Iran and others. I think their leaders should be forced out (like in Iraq) and a new government voted in by the population. If the UN fails then it should fragment and countries should then form an alliance and take charge.

i am sick of the UN and its participating countries being weak and corrupt and willing to do nothing
 

said and alladinj
Regarding your similar comments on
'killing Iraqis only block their cause and will get them nothing' and
'i cannot see arab nationalists wanting to kill inocent fellow arab (Iraqi) people.'
I assume that you do read Arabic.
Kindly refer to هل تستهدف المقاومة المدنيين ؟
 

"Some in Iraq have chosen sacrifice. These are the resistance fighters who are fighting for Iraqi independence from foreign domination.

"Some have chosen slavery. These are the collaborators who work with U.S. entities in Iraq to quell the resistance.

"The mother of all battles still rages."
 

"Some in Iraq have chosen sacrifice. These are the resistance fighters who are fighting for Iraqi independence from foreign domination"

Yes lady Evelyn, they have chosen sacrifice --- the sacrifice of ladies and children whom they have shot, bombed and sold off as prostitutes. They have also used these sacrifice lambs as human shields in places in Sunni triangle.
If they want to sacrifice themselves, I say fair enough, but to sacrifice others who just want to get on with their lives and make best of situation? I say no.

In a nutshell --- No-one has right to take someone elses life for having opposing viewpoint. This is Saddam-type behaviour and only drags humanity into pits of hell.
 

These are happy days for me since I now know that I can speak my mind and that is something I could not think of doing 3 years ago.

Evlyn you talk of making sacrfice? Many iraqi people were tired of that under Saddam. We were sacrificed every day by Saddam in many ways...mind body soul. He was of course making these sacrifices "for Iraq"....much like what you claim now about these insurgents. I was hoping you were more intelligent than that.

I am glad that Iraq is becoming brighter by the day.
 

Said & AladdinJ -
I can only presume neither of you read the article I posted.
 

Fueling rage -
"The web of intrigue, backstabbing, and espionage that runs from Washington to Baghdad and back again has to be seen against the backdrop of the rush to re-divide the Middle East in the wake of the American invasion . . . .[T]he inherent tendency of the Iraqi state to unravel is . . .undeniable. The Iranians, for their part, will gobble up the lion's share . . . with little pieces of the carcass torn off by lesser predators such as Turkey.

"There is another diner at the postwar feast, with the second-largest portion bitten off by our closest ally in the region, namely Israel. . . . [T]he Israelis long ago concluded that the war against the Iraqi insurgency was unsustainable: their "Plan B," now that the Americans have botched it, is to pour money and intelligence operatives into Kurdistan. Ostensibly undertaken to keep a close watch on Iranian nuclear facilities, this effort extends Israeli influence into the very heart of the formerly Arab world.

"Just think: If Chalabi becomes prime minister, he can keep his promise to build a pipeline from oil-rich Kirkuk, in Kurdistan, to Israel. If not, the Israelis can always push their Kurdish allies to opt for independence, in which case the pipeline could be built anyway – once the "Cedar Revolution" spawns a color-coded twin across the border in Syria."
 

Imad:

Why don't you open up your New York Times archives to about 1967 and read the part about how the U.S. Army in Vietnam started using "Rome Ploughs" (huge bulldozers) to clear the jungle to a distance of 100 feet or more on each side of the roads they were using to move their troops around. This was to help them have "persistent intelligence" on enemy troop concentrations, too.

Of course, that worked just fine until the Viet Cong figured out uncooperative little tricks like mining the roads themselves (and the parts of the jungle that the bulldozers had to plough up... did I mention that these bulldozers didn't have any armour under the driver's seat? ouch!), and until the jungle grew back (which it does at roughly a foot a day, over there).

The U.S. Army in Vietnam was also absolutely convinced that there had to be Chinese army troops assisting the Viet Cong, because of how quickly the VC were able to "keep coming at us". (Of course, in 1979 Vietnam and China ended up at war with one another, but that didn't stop U.S. intelligence from assuming the opposite for the entire 60s and 70s... remind you of any of the assumptions about the alliance between Saddam and Osama, maybe?)

You could just take a news clip from the "5 O'Clock Follies" staged by the U.S. MACV HQ in Saigon and play it on the U.S. evening news these days. Nobody could tell the difference, other than maybe for a lack of trees.
 

I keep saying this and its true ... Iraqis can get rid of the occupiers peacefully. By no means do I consider myself an expert on Iraq, but I DO know something about the US, as I born there, live there, and work there.

Most Americans started out believing that the US was accomplishing something positive in Iraq. Now, while many Americans have given up on this notion, most still believe that the US has to stay because Iraq will fall into chaos otherwise. Every new attack just reinforces that belief. Once it becomes clear that the majority of Iraqis do NOT want US troops on their soil, US public support for Bush and his mission will collapse.

It is important to understand that most of the US soldiers who are actually in Iraq do NOT want to be there. They are from poor families, and so they enlisted in the military to improve their lives. Much the same thing could probably be said about Iraqi men who have joined in ING and police. Its about money and food, not politics.

If half of the energy that Iraqis are putting into violence could be channeled toward organizing public protests, the US could be made to leave within a year or so. The demonstrators need only ask one thing: THE RIGHT TO DECIDE WHETHER THE US STAYS AT THE SAME TIME IRAQIS APPROVE A NEW CONSTITUTION. This should be coming up toward the end of the year. Plenty of time to get everything organized.

In addition to getting rid of the US, this approach offers the possibility of striking back against the Americans who actually planned, organized, and executed the attack. These people never show their faces in Iraq except under heavy guard. The cannot be hit by an RPG and blown up with a remote controlled mine. They really don't care how many Iraqis and Americans die, as long as they can convince the American public that most Iraqis want the US to stay. They care about staying in power. They care about keeping Americans scared and preserving the lie about how being in Iraq makes America a safer place. The most powerful weapon that the Iraqi people possess is the truth. Use it wisely.
 

This is our Guernica "Fallujah: a reminder that unpopular occupations will
always degenerate into desperation and atrocity."