Bush Right Candidate
For KL War Crimes Tribunal
Part One:
Bush’s WMD Destroying Iraq
By Datuk Rejal Arbee
www.beritakmu.net
Though the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought untold misery to its population, with more than 650,00 deaths including women, children and the aged, with hundreds of thousands others maimed and injured, and millions others displaced, the perpetrator of the atrocities, President George W Bush, isn’t at all bothered.
He is battling the US Congress to get approval to send another 21,500 combat troops to strengthen his occupation there and to continue with the increasingly unpopular war. To top it off, he is raring to go on yet another adventure, this time to attack Iran, again on a concocted justification.
Without so much of care on the consequences of the destruction of an ancient civilisation that introduced the Hamurabi’s code, mankind’s first commitment to protection of the weak from being brutalised by the strong (500 years before the 10 Commandments) and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one the seven wonders of the ancient world, Bush is unrepentant.
With characteristic arrogance he is oblivious to what he has unleashed in Iraq saying that history will be his judge. And indeed it will. And he is about to repeat the destruction of another Muslim country, though this time he will face a more determined opposition where ignominy awaits him.
So unrepentant is he that the The New York Times reported that he drew an analogy between his war on ‘terror’ to the US Revolution as having a common aim at defending the US liberty and way of life.
Opposition
The paper said Bush even alluded to the first George W’s – George Washington - resoluteness and determination to continue the fight against the British colonialists even when on the brink of disaster to what he is currently facing with the ever widening opposition to his very unpopular adventure in Iraq. He made the comparison when laying a wreath at Washington’s grave in Mount Vernon last week to commemorate the 275th anniversary of Washington’s birthday.
Various reports have said that four years into the war, Iraq to all intent and purposes has been destroyed, its middle class has either fled the country or decimated, communal tensions bared. Mass terror perpetuated by armed gangs of extremists now occupies center stage. The broken Iraqi state has ceased to exist outside the Green Zone, the economy is devastated, and unemployment has shot up to 50 percent.
The tragedy of it all is that Bush is oblivious to the widespread opposition to his adventures just as his seemingly ignorance of how unpopular the US occupation forces are to the Iraqis.
The story of what is happening in Iraq as told by one Iraqi blogger Salam Adil is most telling. He began his blog with a clear cut condemnation of the US invasion:
“Let me clear it up for any moron with lingering doubts. It’s worse. It’s over. You lost. You lost the day your tanks rolled into Baghdad to the cheers of your imported, American-trained monkeys. You lost every single family whose home your soldiers violated. You lost every sane, red-blooded Iraqi when the Abu Ghraib pictures came out and verified your atrocities behind prison walls as well as the ones we see in our streets.
Execution
“You lost when you brought murderers, looters, gangsters and militia heads to power and hailed them as Iraq’s first democratic government. You lost when a gruesome execution was dubbed your biggest accomplishment. You lost the respect and reputation you once had. You lost more than 3,000 troops. That is what you lost America. I hope the oil, at least, made it worthwhile.”
Another blogger Riverbend famous for her ‘Baghdad is Burning’ blog at the height of the American invasion has this to say about the security situation with a new security plan under way and a major oil law being pushed through the Iraqi parliament.
"I can't understand this American mentality which obliged all world people to love what they love and hate what they hate as if they are the only perfect model on this earth and all the other people come after them.
“For four years now, I have not heard the US administration declaring any strategy to deal with its internal affairs, on the contrary, it has devoted all its time for Iraq, as if Iraq is one of the US states... but why all of a sudden when the US administration began its cowboy campaign to revenge from those who blew up the towers, the first people to begin its revenge with was the Iraqis.
“I have asked this question to a US General in Iraq, he could not give me an answer because he himself did not know why when the US wanted to fight the terror the choice was the Iraqi people and the battlefield was Iraq...
Damage
“If the matter stopped to this level, we would accept, but if any wise man takes a look about the bunch of men US picked up from the exile and brought down to rule Iraq, could feel the scale of the damage this administration caused to the Iraqis, they have chosen the worse people in the world and the best example to that was Saddam's execution... A set of sectarian politicians who could not set up such a big event in a proper way and were dancing on Saddam’s body like monkeys and moreover when they wanted to justify that, they said it was a habit by the Iraqis which was to dance on the body of their enemies, they wanted to amend their ugly picture by putting this on the shoulder of the Iraqi tradition which was nothing like that”.
Al-Ghad, a periodical first published in the United Kingdom in the 80s to expose atrocities of Saddam’s regime and republished in Iraq since 2003 shortly after the US occupation only to cease publication and again resurrected in February exposed a piece of legislation governing the production of oil and gas as part of US plans to ‘privatise’ Iraq’s oil industry.
Various other publications, including Mojo, alluded to the haste Bush wants the puppet government in Baghdad to push through the legislation providing for a lopsided production sharing agreement “giving foreign companies crazy rates of profit that may reach to more than three fourth of the general revenue."
In a detailed critique, Al-Gard said, though the US succeeded in destroying Iraq and driving a wedge between the population, its power was not strong enough to consummate its imperialistic schemes. Now the US found itself forced to find an “honourable” exit strategy from Iraq that could “save its face”.
Bush wants to achieve a strategic victory through passing a law that could lead to the end that brought him to Iraq regardless of the reasons he declared. Despite his military and political defeats, he will get his oil. Enacting the oil law and translating it into signed contracts must be a fact before the termination of his term in office.
What most Iraqis do seem to want, according to numerous polls, is for American forces to leave. Even within the current, skewed Iraqi political system, a majority of Iraq's parliament supports a US withdrawal. If we add to the mix the powerful Sunni-led resistance, including former Baathists, Sunni nationalists, and tribes, an overwhelming majority wants to end the occupation.
http://www.beritakmu.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5763
For KL War Crimes Tribunal
Part One:
Bush’s WMD Destroying Iraq
By Datuk Rejal Arbee
www.beritakmu.net
Though the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought untold misery to its population, with more than 650,00 deaths including women, children and the aged, with hundreds of thousands others maimed and injured, and millions others displaced, the perpetrator of the atrocities, President George W Bush, isn’t at all bothered.
He is battling the US Congress to get approval to send another 21,500 combat troops to strengthen his occupation there and to continue with the increasingly unpopular war. To top it off, he is raring to go on yet another adventure, this time to attack Iran, again on a concocted justification.
Without so much of care on the consequences of the destruction of an ancient civilisation that introduced the Hamurabi’s code, mankind’s first commitment to protection of the weak from being brutalised by the strong (500 years before the 10 Commandments) and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one the seven wonders of the ancient world, Bush is unrepentant.
With characteristic arrogance he is oblivious to what he has unleashed in Iraq saying that history will be his judge. And indeed it will. And he is about to repeat the destruction of another Muslim country, though this time he will face a more determined opposition where ignominy awaits him.
So unrepentant is he that the The New York Times reported that he drew an analogy between his war on ‘terror’ to the US Revolution as having a common aim at defending the US liberty and way of life.
Opposition
The paper said Bush even alluded to the first George W’s – George Washington - resoluteness and determination to continue the fight against the British colonialists even when on the brink of disaster to what he is currently facing with the ever widening opposition to his very unpopular adventure in Iraq. He made the comparison when laying a wreath at Washington’s grave in Mount Vernon last week to commemorate the 275th anniversary of Washington’s birthday.
Various reports have said that four years into the war, Iraq to all intent and purposes has been destroyed, its middle class has either fled the country or decimated, communal tensions bared. Mass terror perpetuated by armed gangs of extremists now occupies center stage. The broken Iraqi state has ceased to exist outside the Green Zone, the economy is devastated, and unemployment has shot up to 50 percent.
The tragedy of it all is that Bush is oblivious to the widespread opposition to his adventures just as his seemingly ignorance of how unpopular the US occupation forces are to the Iraqis.
The story of what is happening in Iraq as told by one Iraqi blogger Salam Adil is most telling. He began his blog with a clear cut condemnation of the US invasion:
“Let me clear it up for any moron with lingering doubts. It’s worse. It’s over. You lost. You lost the day your tanks rolled into Baghdad to the cheers of your imported, American-trained monkeys. You lost every single family whose home your soldiers violated. You lost every sane, red-blooded Iraqi when the Abu Ghraib pictures came out and verified your atrocities behind prison walls as well as the ones we see in our streets.
Execution
“You lost when you brought murderers, looters, gangsters and militia heads to power and hailed them as Iraq’s first democratic government. You lost when a gruesome execution was dubbed your biggest accomplishment. You lost the respect and reputation you once had. You lost more than 3,000 troops. That is what you lost America. I hope the oil, at least, made it worthwhile.”
Another blogger Riverbend famous for her ‘Baghdad is Burning’ blog at the height of the American invasion has this to say about the security situation with a new security plan under way and a major oil law being pushed through the Iraqi parliament.
"I can't understand this American mentality which obliged all world people to love what they love and hate what they hate as if they are the only perfect model on this earth and all the other people come after them.
“For four years now, I have not heard the US administration declaring any strategy to deal with its internal affairs, on the contrary, it has devoted all its time for Iraq, as if Iraq is one of the US states... but why all of a sudden when the US administration began its cowboy campaign to revenge from those who blew up the towers, the first people to begin its revenge with was the Iraqis.
“I have asked this question to a US General in Iraq, he could not give me an answer because he himself did not know why when the US wanted to fight the terror the choice was the Iraqi people and the battlefield was Iraq...
Damage
“If the matter stopped to this level, we would accept, but if any wise man takes a look about the bunch of men US picked up from the exile and brought down to rule Iraq, could feel the scale of the damage this administration caused to the Iraqis, they have chosen the worse people in the world and the best example to that was Saddam's execution... A set of sectarian politicians who could not set up such a big event in a proper way and were dancing on Saddam’s body like monkeys and moreover when they wanted to justify that, they said it was a habit by the Iraqis which was to dance on the body of their enemies, they wanted to amend their ugly picture by putting this on the shoulder of the Iraqi tradition which was nothing like that”.
Al-Ghad, a periodical first published in the United Kingdom in the 80s to expose atrocities of Saddam’s regime and republished in Iraq since 2003 shortly after the US occupation only to cease publication and again resurrected in February exposed a piece of legislation governing the production of oil and gas as part of US plans to ‘privatise’ Iraq’s oil industry.
Various other publications, including Mojo, alluded to the haste Bush wants the puppet government in Baghdad to push through the legislation providing for a lopsided production sharing agreement “giving foreign companies crazy rates of profit that may reach to more than three fourth of the general revenue."
In a detailed critique, Al-Gard said, though the US succeeded in destroying Iraq and driving a wedge between the population, its power was not strong enough to consummate its imperialistic schemes. Now the US found itself forced to find an “honourable” exit strategy from Iraq that could “save its face”.
Bush wants to achieve a strategic victory through passing a law that could lead to the end that brought him to Iraq regardless of the reasons he declared. Despite his military and political defeats, he will get his oil. Enacting the oil law and translating it into signed contracts must be a fact before the termination of his term in office.
What most Iraqis do seem to want, according to numerous polls, is for American forces to leave. Even within the current, skewed Iraqi political system, a majority of Iraq's parliament supports a US withdrawal. If we add to the mix the powerful Sunni-led resistance, including former Baathists, Sunni nationalists, and tribes, an overwhelming majority wants to end the occupation.
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1 comment:
Datuk Ruhanie
I would like to read the following parts and the follow ups after this article.
However, the question that hangs in the noose is the effect of the prolong occupation of Iraq to our economy.
How would the oil legislation be carried out, Dtk and how these oil installations are then guaranteed smooth productions and the products exported?
How would a strong Iranian presence shape the dynamics in the Middle-East?
What would be the economic fallout due to a UN sanctioned aggression on Iran?
How can Malaysia play an effective role in helping the Middle-East those who are trodden and humiliated learn that there is a strong hope for a better world for them here and, of course, over there?
where doed klwct fit in all these scheme of things, eh?
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