- The puppet PM of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, his sponsors, President
Bush and VP Dick Cheney are all lying to the American public about the
real situation in Iraq. They say things are getting better, that most of
Iraq could vote in an election tomorrow and that "democracy and freedom
will prevail, without a doubt." Nonsense! Out and out lies.
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- The Sunni Triangle, Sadr City, Najaf, Ramadi, Karbala,
Mosul, Samarra-all of these important centers, even Kirkuk, which once
seemed safe in the hands of the Kurds, have all become no-go zones for
the American troops and the small number of Iraqis who dare venture in
to be shot. America is bombing all of these places on an almost daily basis;
thus, antagonizing more and more Iraqis and more Muslims throughout the
world. As I said in an article months ago, America and its puppets around
Allawi have succeeded in doing something that could not be done since the
700s, they have united the Sunni and Shi'a against America and its occupation
army.
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- America and Allawi keep speaking about a "civil
war breaking out" if America leaves. But from polls taken, most
- Iraqis say they will take that chance, and all their
leaders have made clear that they want the Americans out so they can pull
their country together. This hardly sounds like "civil war."
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- Bush and Allawi continue to lie, day after day, to the
point that the American public, hearing these lies from the U.S. media
now believes them. But, those on the ground who know enough to distrust
the words of Allawi, know better. Finally, today, on MSNBC, the Baghdad
chief of bureau for Newsweek, a Mr. Nordland, said, "Things are very
bad, and many of the places that Mr. Allawi said are safe, are places I
would not venture into." This helps contradict Bush, Allawi and the
sycophants who hang at the hotels and repeat Allawi's words to the American
media outlets for whom they work.
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- As anyone who has spent time in the Arab or Muslim world
knows, you can tell a man's honesty by his eyes; I've spent that kind of
time there as has Robert Fisk and Patrick Cockburn and some others. They
know what I know, Allawi is a big liar, not to be trusted about anything
he says. He's a cheap Arab con-man who may be useful to the neo-cons in
D.C., but not good for the Iraqis. He was in exile for good reason, no
one in Iraq wanted him there, neither Saddam or the religious leaders nor
the people of Iraq. The only group that wanted him was the CIA; used them
and they used him, now we have a mess on our hands with Allawi making it
worse. I personally don't think he'll last that long, especially if he
wanders outside of the American protected "green zone."
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- Today, Ayatollah Al Sistani criticized Allawi for his
double dealing and said that the way things were going there could not
be a legitimate election in Iraq. He also criticized the U.S. and Allawi
for going back on their word and raiding the headquarters of Moqtada Al
Sadr. Sistani said this will cause more resistance and fighting in Iraq
not less.
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- The other contradiction this week that has not gone down
well with honest critics of the Iraq situation is the Bush statement that
"There are only a few hundred insurgents."
- Allawi later said, "There are thousands of foreign
fighters coming in across the borders to fight in Iraq." Add to this
that many of us who know the Iraqi culture know for a fact that there are
thousands of Iraqis who are fighting against America and Allawi because
of the arrests of their relatives, the wounding and killing of family members
or the destruction of their homes by American F 16s or Apache Helicopters
or U.S. tanks. I'm sure by now, the Iraqi resistance fighters number in
the hundreds of thousands, not simply a few hundred or a few thousand.
Remember, as I have said before, people in a traditional society have long
memories and close extended families who will seek revenge for those abused
by Allawi or by the American troops.
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- Add to this the thousands of Muslims from around the
world, from China, from Pakistan, from Afghanistan, from Uzbekistan, from
Indonesia, from Egypt, from Syria, from Lebanon, who want to get to Iraq
to fight the occupiers of their fellow Muslim country--and you can see
that things will get worse rather than better in time.
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- Thus, clearly, things are worse in Iraq today than any
time in the past decades. There is no clean drinking water in Iraq according
to even NBC News; there is very little electricity (this from an expert
from Qatar who went to help the situation a month ago); there is little
security because a person may be killed while asleep from a U.S. rocket,
a tank shell or bullets from an F16, or may be caught in a crossfire between
resistance fighters and American troops.
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- As to the Iraqis becoming a security force-you can forget
about that. They do not want to kill their neighbors or their cousins,
or anyone else's families for that matter because they know this will cause
a blood feud with another family or tribe. One could see this when the
"Iraqi Army" went over to the Iraqi resistance side and refused
to fight their cousins or other Iraqis; the same was true in Najaf, in
Sadr City and will be the case in other instances. The Iraqis will not
fight for the Americans or the puppet Allawi.
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- They also know that when push comes to shove, the Americans
will leave and they will be left alone to face the music; they also know
that Allawi will not last that long either.
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- We have made a mess of Iraq; there is no freedom, no
security and no democracy there. America has substituted a minor Saddam
for the previous brutal Saddam and in the process has killed and maimed
thousands of the populace with no apologies or regrets.
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- America is not welcome now, nor will it be welcome in
Iraq for many decades to come. This is the truth; what Bush, Allawi and
Cheney have to say is but a sack of lies.
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- It is time that the media started calling Allawi what
he is, a Vichy style puppet for the Bush regime. They must also start calling
Bush and Cheney what they are, liars. Unless the media does this, they
will be as guilty as Bush when the house of cards and lies in Iraq comes
crashing down on our troops, on our economy and on our integrity and reputation
in the world. As it is, the Arabs and Muslims are sick of us. It won't
be long before the rest of the world joins them in disgust and disrespect.
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- To sum it all up, America is in deep trouble. We have
a president and vice president who consistently lie to the people, using
their "war on terror" as an abstraction that allows them to have
a war without end to allegedly "protect us."
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- In the meantime, they are taking away Constitutional
and legal rights in America, just as Hitler did in Germany, "to protect
our nation."
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- They have installed in Iraq, Allawi, an exile who is
their puppet and is no more legitimate than the Vichy government that Hitler
installed in France in WWII.
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- The resistance fighters in Iraq who are defending their
families, their homes and their country are called "terrorists,"
but our troops who bomb civilians with F16s, tanks and Apache Gunships
are called "freedom fighters." Somehow, up is down and down is
up and our media is doing little to help the public see the honest truth.
We are in Alice in Wonderland.
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- Most media people do as Jim Lehrer of The News Hour on
PBS does, they fawn over the Bushites and Allawi, treating them as if they
are honest and honorable people who speak only the truth. I hope the American
people wake up to the truth, but I may be an idealistic optimist. But I
see no other way to save our democracy than for us to speak up to as many
as we can. I hope you will pass this article on to others so that they
may know the truth as well.
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- If we don't have a major change in this election, I fear
that if Bush is allowed another 4 years we won't recognize our country
by the time Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld,Rove, Feith, Wolfowitz, Perle,
Hastert and Frist are done with it.
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- Sam Hamod writes on world affairs; he is the former editor
of 3rd World News in D.C., the former Director of The Islamic Center in
D.C. and President of the American Islamic Institute. He may be reached
at shamod@cox.net Look for his Essays In Times of War in 2005 (Ishmael
Reed Publishing Co.)
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