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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Good morning...
The formation of the new Iraqi government was announced, after more
than five months of negotiations between the various rivals who
participated in the elections, to reach the least minimum level of
agreement.
The Interior and Defense Ministries remained without announcing the
names of their respective ministers, as the debate still goes on, to
choose professional characters, unbiased to their Parties, like what
happened in the former Interior Ministry, with the Minister's
partiality to his Party, and the sect he belongs to. And many
transgressions and assaults took place against another sect. And
whenever he was asked, he denied his knowledge of the crimes committed
by the personnel of his Ministry, saying; these people do not belong
to the Ministry, even though they wear the official uniforms of the
Police force, and use cars and the official mobile phones of the
Ministry. And so was the case when the scandal of the cellar belonging
to his Ministry was uncovered, with detainees in it, and he promised
to carry out an investigation, but we didn't hear a thing.
And the good news here is; that this Minister, with all his bad
reputation now in the hearts of Iraqis, will receive another
Ministerial portfolio in the new permanent Ministry, as if nothing
happened.
So; why do they say Saddam Hussein killed the Iraqis, and it is time
to get even with him?
On the same scale, why don't we question these new killers in Iraq?
Why is the Iraqi blood so cheap to them?
People are being slaughtered on the streets day and night, but no body
stops the bloodshed; neither the occupation forces take the subject as
a priority, nor the interim former governments gave the issue much
care.
And now, all the complicated, difficult agendas, which found no one to
solve seriously for the past three years, are being thrown over the
shoulders of the 4-years-elected Iraqi government, to untangle all
these accumulations, destruction, corruption, and ruin.
What magical capabilities they possess, to solve all these calamities?
They will either give all their efforts, but will fail in pulling Iraq
out of the swamp in which it sank, and then will fail to gain the
trust of the miserable Iraqi citizen who has been waiting for three
years. Or, they will succeed, and that's what I wish, with all my
heart, as every Iraqi who loves his country, would.
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But at the same time, I say- experience taught us not to be dreamers,
making wishes only. But to look at the ground, see reality, and
analyze it, to find out what are the expected percentages for the
success of the elected Iraqi government, in order to be able to solve
the problems of Iraq, by the light of the existing conditions on the
Iraqi field, and by the light of the prospects and the authorities of
this government.
We should not forget that this elected government is not the highest
authority in the country; there is an occupier, and he is the higher
authority in Iraq now.
The military and political command is in the hands of the occupier.
Then what command is in the hands of the government?
In my opinion, the present government should solve, or patch up, the
disasters that the occupier brought into Iraq; by trying to control
the sectarian leaderships who own armed militia, which are racking
havoc in Iraq for more than three years now, waging a war which is
sectarian on the face, but political in the core, to enforce the idea
of federalism in Iraq. These leaderships are entangled in stories of
administrational corruption, theft of the public funds, the illegal
smuggling of oil and selling it to neighbors, and cashing millions of
dollars into their pockets, while the people suffer the lack of
security and main services, the lack of jobs, and the increase of
unemployment and poverty rates... or the calamities committed by the
occupier himself, like destroying the infrastructure of the country.
Very well; if you came to remove the dictator, why would you destroy
the country's infrastructure?
And many more disasters; like disbanding the Iraqi Army, thus leaving
the boarders loose for anyone to enter; the intelligence forces of the
neighbors, from Iran to Israel, in addition to the CIA who came with
the occupation, the private American security institutions who work
for other formations there, like the Ministry of Defense and others,
plus- suicidals who want to get revenge against the American
occupation. That is in addition to strange, weird organizations, from
which God and Islam are innocent; organizations that kill, slaughter,
and put films on the Internet and Al-Jazzera Channel, to deform the
image of Islam, and that of the Iraqi resistance against the
occupation. God only knows who invented them, or who finances them,
and they are, all the while, the furthest possible as can be from Iraq
and the Iraqis. But at the end, they land at the occupier's benefit;
because they justify its existence. Rumsfeld always justifies the
presence of armies in Iraq to push out these organizations, like the
imaginary Al-Zarqawi, who was shown in a video recording walking about
in some desert. Who knows where was he walking; in an Iraqi desert, in
Nevada, or in Colorado? For he is a doll that was invented to justify
keeping Iraq occupied. And the Iraqis inside touched no real trace of
the existence of these weird, fantastic organizations in the reality
of our lives. Even thought the former Iraqi interim government used to
support the occupation's viewpoint, saying from time to time that they
caught some cell belonging to al-Zarqawi, but who believes that
miserable government, that killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein did?
The occupation, and the government that came under its canopy, have
common interests; so, there is also a common speech. But that speech
is full of lying and falsehood most of the time, as we saw in the past
years.
For example; the story of the attack on Al-Adahmiya District some two
months ago. All the residents there agree to one story: they were
attacked at night, by men dressed in the uniforms of the Interior
Ministry Police. There was random shooting, and the young men who were
present as night watch groups were assaulted. The attack lasted for 9
hours, until the occupation forces came along (how lovely!), and
stopped the engagement.
There is a collusion between the former, corrupt government and the
Interior Ministry, and the occupation forces.
And that collusion became more evident when the official statement
about the incident was issued; the official statement was issued by
both the government, and the occupation, each- separately, but with an
identical viewpoint, as they say. The cover- up letter of the story
was one.
The official cover- up letter said: A group of insurgents in
Al-Adahmiya attacked the governmental Police station, and the police
answered their fire back.
Now; if you lived in that same district, and saw that incident with
your own eyes and ears, but the media sent a totally different story
from reality, what would you say?
This story is but a small example of what has been happening in Iraq
for three years and more. Meaning that someone living in Baghdad,
doesn't exactly know what is happening in the different districts of
the same city. And if he goes to read newspapers, listen to the local
radio, or to the governmental TV stations, he will hear explanations
formed by the government together with the occupation. And with time,
the miserable citizen will lose his trust of the government, and turn
into anger and indignation, and probably into negativity and
hopelessness, so he would no longer hope for the good in what is to
come...
I do hope, as other Iraqis do, that the performance of the elected
present government shall be better, and more elevated than the
previous ones.
Even though I know that some 80% of the present government's symbols
are corrupt, supporters of the occupation, and nothing good is hoped
from them to Iraq; for they think only of their interests. But I know
there are some 20% of honest, national people, who will do all their
best to correct the devastation that had befallen the country.
There is hope... but a small one.
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And Blare came on to bless the elected Iraqi government, and to say
that this step makes him happy, and supports his viewpoint that he was
right when he decided to wage the war on Iraq, and topple the regime.
And so stood Bush and his wife, with the fireplace behind them,
feeling happy. And Bush said that this government proves the success
of the idea of war on Iraq, and toppling the regime.
The Iraqis like me look at these losing criminals, and understand how
opportunist they are; living in their luxurious houses, in safety with
their families. As for us; we either immigrated and left our houses,
after the violence, the panic, and the terrible stories we lived
through, or we remained, living in patience to the kidnapping of our
children, the killing of our loved ones, through the shortages of
services- the water, the electricity, the fuels, through the daily
terror of random shooting in streets and cities, the trapped cars, and
the exploding bombs. We lived the daily terror of hell for more than
three years.
And what did Bush and Blare give us to ease the daily hell?
The occupation forces riding on tanks?
And now, with every step full of Iraqi blood-shed, while we want to
build a better future for us and our children, Bush and Blare come
along to invest in the Iraqis' anguish, saying with all insolence: I
was right when I decided on the war against Iraq.
Have you seen the Iraqis happily picking flowers, you fool, and came
to boast that you are the donator of this achievement?
The Iraqis now are blinded by pain and sadness; they want to get out
of the war's calamity, and what negative aspects it exuded to the
society, and to the country's future. Iraq now is but a heap of
rubble, a ruin. We want to know where to start? Thousands of
complicated problems need solving in Iraq.
We need time, efforts, and money to repair the dumb calamities that
Bush and Blare are responsible for.
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The day will come, when Bush, Blare, and those who joined them in
their war on Iraq, will pay the damages; for every side walk their
tanks destroyed in Iraq, for every building, every street, every
bridge, hospital, school, state office, and camp. For every house
destroyed, and every human killed or wounded by the occupation forces.
That day will come, after the Iraqis will go out of the whirlpool of
destruction and ruin, into which they entered because of this war. A
war in which the advantage of the Iraqi people was the last item, at
the bottom of a long list, full of advantages to imperialists,
capitalists, thieving business and wealth men from all nationalities,
to various companies, leaders who are thieves and criminals with
militias, and many, many more, of which the long list is full.
And, as a last item at the bottom of the long list, perhaps they
added: the advantage of the Iraqi people.
This is what we perceived on the ground, after three years of the war
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