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This is how the progressive press in Russia and Ukraine sees President Bush. The photo says: Bush - Hitler #2 |
FROM PRAVDA.RU
When the US marine covered the face of Saddam’s statue, with the American flag, while helping the few that gathered there to cheer in bringing down the Saddam’s statue in Baghdad, the Al-Jazeera TV commentator said, hereafter everything in Iraq will have an "American smell." Nothing can be more close to the truth than this symbolic gesture and the comment that followed. As the phases of this "liberation of Iraq" emerge day by day, the true picture of the USA global policy is becoming more and more clear. With the recent warnings leveled at Damascus and Teheran, one could not help feeling the "American smell" of the plans that are being "cooked" behind closed doors in Washington.
As part of the orchestrated background preparation, it is now being said that the WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction) that the USA could no find in Iraq, have been shipped to Syria. Washington also warns Iran of the consequences if they harbor elements of Saddam’s regime in Iraq. On the same tone, Washington claims that they have been keeping a close eye on all the members of the countries, that they named as "axis of evil", including Syria and Iran. It has been the style of the US administration to throw "punches of accusations" and "warnings" at any country opposed to their policies. When challenged to prove the "accusations" USA fails to provide "convincing evidence."
This is exactly what happened in the case of war on Iraq. In spite of the many false claims and rejected attempts USA gravely failed to make a convincing case against Iraq in the UNO Security Council. No amount of dossiers, or hues and cries by Bush, Blair, Powell, Rumsfeld managed to convince the world to justify the war against Iraq. Even after all these days (22 days) of war in Iraq, after hundreds of deaths and injured on both sides the USA still has failed to make their case.
Whether it is the Iraq’s threat of WMDs, or Iraq’s alleged link to Al Qaida and Bin Laden, or Iraq’s direct threat to the US itself, UK or Australia, the coalition has failed on all counts. The war in Iraq has not diminished the threat of terrorism in the world, on the contrary, this war has provided the nourishment to terrorist breeding grounds.
Basking in the "glory" of the "easy" win against the 36 years old dictatorship in Iraq, the USA seems to be very keen on continuing their self-imposed global mission on importing "liberation" into other countries in the region.
It is amazing to see how, any trick, lie and deception can go down well, in a country like the USA. In the most technologically and scientifically advanced country like the USA, a hoax like John Edwards over their TV channels, continues to make millions of dollars by convincing millions of Americans that he has the ability to communicate with the dead. His well-orchestrated TV show "Crossing Over" has enjoyed good ratings in the US. One would wonder as why the Pentagon did not hire him to communicate with "Chemical Ali" to retrieve important information about the Iraq’s WMDs. Probably John Edwards does not understand Arabic. This amazing American gullibility is quite evident in the political consciousness of the American society as well. The American propaganda feeds and nourishes on this gullibility and too simplistic world outlook of the society. For most of the Americans there are only two ways of life: "The free American / Western way or Anti-American evil way". "They hate us because we are free, rich and powerful and therefore we have to go and make everybody follow us."
One is amazed at the extent of misinformation and deception that the USA / Pentagon administration have resorted to. In the events leading to the long planned aggression against Iraq, the people like Colon Powell, degraded himself to incredible level of deceit. He assured the UNO Security Council that he has strong evidence to prove that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, movable chemical weapons, factories and others. Having waged the war in Iraq for 22 days, the coalition had not yet found or to be able to produce one iota of evidence. It is only logical to think, that instead of suicide bombers, Iraq could easily resort to using WMDs, if they had them. Specially when faced with inevitable defeat and there was nothing left in Iraq for them, they could resort to the desperate last measures of using the WMDs to inflict maximum casualties on the coalition forces.
Political analysts and experts on the USA said all along that this was not a war about WMDs, but about dominance and oil. The concern was always on a regime change to facilitate easy access to oil rich areas in the north and south of Iraq. From now on their task will be to maintain some sort of controlled outbursts of violence and trouble to justify their long-term presence in Iraq to safeguard the USA interests in Iraq.
Long before first references were made regarding possible military action against Iraq, and even before the first introduction of Resolution 1441 in the UNO, US had been busy organizing, financing and training Iraqi exiles in US and Europe, plus in a camp in Hungary to form the so-called FIF forces. The FIF training camp was fully funded by the CIA. Soon after the beginning of the war General Tommy Frank, arranged for the FIF force of 1000 to be dropped into Northern Iraq, with the future leader Ahamad Chalabi. This Chalabi had not been in Iraq since 1950s. He was in Jordan but there he was sentenced for financial frauds. Somehow he managed to escape and settled in the USA and won the "heart and mind" of the CIA to get trained and emerged as the candidate for the presidency of Iraq. Washington does not mind him doing the "dirty work" for them.
The "American smell" has already started to influence the mass movement for a new Iraqi government. Chalabi has a new "competitor" a retired US Army General Garner who has been recently airlifted to the scene of the looming power struggle. Famous for his pro Israeli attitudes, this US General Garner is Bush’s most preferred candidate.
Despite all these "imported and airlifted" leaders, the Iraqi people have expressed that they will not accept people imposed on them from abroad. The proposed marriage of these "imported strange bedfellows" will lead to failure. It would be prudent to say that there will be attempted assassinations and ugly tricks of the game of power struggles, will soon be staged in the open. There are already signs that Iraq will be turned into a dangerous battleground of various camps and power brokers of power.
Iraqi people have to overcome their many differences, many obstacles and many wounds to heal. They value and treasure their heritage, dignity and friendship and brotherhood in the region. One thing that they do not need is the "outside" Western power broker, to have their say in the new government of Iraq.
Mithra Fernando
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This is how the progressive press in Russia and Ukraine sees President Bush. The photo says: Bush - Hitler #2 |
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