Iraq After Four Year of Constant Killing

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Iraq After Four Year of Constant Killing
M. Taqi::independent freelance writer, Iraqi League

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March 24, 2007

It was not supposed to be like this. Iraq was not supposed to end up like this four years from the start of the invasion. By now, Iraq was supposed to be the most peaceful, most stable and most prosperous state in the region, if not the whole world. That is what US President Bush and the coalition of the blind followers prophesied to their respective tax-paying people as they sought their support for what can now only be called the stupid war. The picture is very different now of course from that prophecy; Iraq is drenched in blood as the occupation baby-sits a sectarian civil war to say the least. Death, grotesque public execution, criminal torture, hideous terror, immoral ethnic cleansing extreme poverty and hunger, and strange diseases have all swept the land of Iraq. The future is very grim, and the picture very depressing. Four years on, and US President Bush is still saying Baghdad security will take months. He must be the only one who believes he can achieve in months what he could not achieve in years!

For years, the US has been working tirelessly with in the realms of power in Washington and with international criminals masquerading as 'opponents of the Saddam regime’ for a convincing pretext for what remains be an illegal invasion of sovereign Iraq. For the tax-paying western public, it was weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and terrorism as part of the process of warmongering through scaremongering. For the people of Iraq, it was food and medicine; and liberty, justice, democracy and human rights. They call it horses for courses, or more precisely in this case, any course to make the horses march on behind the dogs of war! The so-called Iraqi opponent of the Iraq regime were used as instruments by the invaders-turned-occupiers prior to the invasion and primarily to pull wool over the eyes of their respective people and the people of Iraq as they sought their support for the stupid war and deranged plans.

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Whether pretext for the western tax-payer or the local Iraqis, events that followed the invasion which had turned into a vicious occupation, have proven all the war pretexts to be false: damn lies. It is no surprise that in the west, anger against the warmongers is constantly rising; paralleled by the free-fall in the war leaders reputation/popularity. Whilst suffering daily killing, public execution, torture, terror, ethnic cleansing, poverty, disease and hunger, it is no surprise the ordinary people hate their occupiers for turning their lives into a living hell. They also blame their misery on those who helped the occupation with the invasion, arrived in Baghdad on US tanks and have subsequently been installed to power in Baghdad; they call them the lap poodles of the invasion-turned-occupation.

Four years of occupation has resulted in 665,000 Iraqis innocent deaths, other reports put the figure to over a million; over 3,000,000 injured; and more than 4,000,000 refugees now living in make-shift shelters and tents as they seek refuge in unwelcoming neighboring countries from the life of hell and terror under occupation and the sectarian civil war raging in Iraq. This war alone is now claiming the lives of hundreds of ordinary Iraqis on a daily basis. One recent survey in Iraq shows that at least one in four Iraqis has lost a family member to the terror that has swept the land under the gazing eyes of the occupation, one in five Iraqis has had a relative kidnapped, and one in three Iraqis has had a sibling escape Iraq because of fear and to the relative safety of the unwelcoming neighboring countries.

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