America must be delighted at the recent attack on the Shi’a shrine and the resulting reprisal killings. Of course, I must preface all of this with the usual ‘beware of western propaganda’ line, but what they’ve wanted since they invaded might be a step closer. Everything they’ve done has been an attempt to start civil war. I don’t believe a civil war will happen. You must understand first of all that Iraqis (read Arabs, there is no such thing as Iraq, which is an artificial construct of the British empire, which handed over its power to America after its collapse post World War II) are united in their desire to see Americans leave their land.
Not that America would have had anything to do with bombing a mosque themselves to fan the flames now, would they? Muslims are not interested in blowing up mosques, of whatever denomination. Al-Qaida certainly wouldn’t back such an action. Still, for the mindless people of the world who like to go to bed at night, cosy in their preconceptions about how barbaric Muslims are, and how good any genocide of them will be, it doesn’t matter, does it?
Let’s not forget that it serves America’s purpose to see a civil war, so that they can divide and rule, whilst leaning back against the embers of a culture and history built over thousands of years, destroyed by them in a few months. They can sip a Bud and chill, while Iraq burns.
Then they can steal the country’s resources and get Haliburton et al to rebuild the country from the ashes they created.
- Who pays for the financial cost of the illegal war? The people of Iraq.
- Who has lost over a hundred thousand lives in an illegal war? The people of Iraq.
- Who lost half a million children in a holocaust started by America? The people of Iraq.
- Who suffered at the hands of a tyrant supported by America? The people of Iraq.
Whose wealth will be plundered to pay for the cost of rebuilding the country as a result of a evil decisions of an evil empire? The people of Iraq.
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Gary Monro 02.24.06 at 1:47 pm
Despite also opposing the Iraq war I find I disagree with your comments on America’s alleged involvement in the blowing up of the Shi’a shrine.
I think the splitting of Iraq is the last thing the US wants because then at least one third of that country - the bit with the oil - will eventually become a client of the Iranian regime. A partioned Iraq in fact creates three new countries and so, possibly, three new problems. For understandable reasons the US doesn’t want its problems to multiply and it is the (I believe) inevitable splitting of that country that is one of the most dangerous consequences of this war.
Muslims are not interested in blowing up mosques, of whatever denomination.
Some Muslims are quite happy to kill any number of their fellow religionists. A 3 second look on Google brings this story of 44 Shi’a worshippers murdered, apparently by Sunni gunmen, in their mosque. There are plenty of fanatics in the Muslim world happy to slaughter the innocent. They may be a tiny minority of the whole but they’re a significant minority nevertheless.
Finally, although I have no facts to back up this contention - whereas you may well have facts to back up yours - I do not believe the US’s involvement in Iraq is directly to steal, take or even secure oil revenues or supplies for themselves.
I think the intention (although not the method) is more sophisticated: to create ‘democracy’ in one state in the hope that discontented Arabs in other countries of the region demand the same systems of accountability and representation in their own countries, overthrow dictatorships and cause the emergence of stable new nations based on western ideas of freedom and liberty.
Completely potty of course because it’s a plan that exalts too highly western notions of liberty whilst simultaneously underestimates the loyalty of a people to their settled and ancient and - to them - correct - way of life. The plan also completely failed to recognise that liberating someone from oppression is on ething but is not at all the same as then requiring them to adopt some alien political credo.
de 02.24.06 at 9:52 pm
The US wants unfettered free trade in the Middle East, and thus open access to oil. When you are the richest country in the world, free trade is more efficient than stealing.