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The latest of U.S. lies: “Iraqis killing Iraqis”
Posted By Amina Anderson
Iraq has indeed become a laboratory for terrorism at the expense of the Iraqi people.
The Time magazine, which led a propaganda campaign in support of the U.S. invasion of Iraq ahead of the war in 2003, ran an article earlier this month titled “Why They Hate Each Other”, placing the blame for the current bloodshed in Iraq on the Iraqi people themselves and not the occupation forces, totally ignoring the fact that Iraqis never “hated” each other before the U.S. “peace- spreaders” invade the country.
Commenting on The Times article, Ghali Hassan, an independent writer who lives in Perth Western Australia, condemns the bias of the Western media in portraying the violence in Iraq as an internal war going between the Iraqi people.
For the Iraqi people, the relatives and families of the victims who got killed in the war since it broke out in March 2003, the hundreds of thousands who died and many more who got maimed, it does not matter much what sort of war is going on in Iraq, but it does for the world nations who believe in the American lies, the propaganda machine the Bush administration is using to spread the fake concept of “Iraqis killing Iraqis”.
It’s important for us to know who’re the real killers and criminals in Iraq, even if everyone across the Middle East and throughout the world knows that a full civil war would soon break out in Iraq.
Theologically, differences among Sunnis and Shias are fewer than those between Catholics and Protestants.
Before the occupation and during Saddam’s rule, you’d see Sunnis and Shias praying together in mosques in small Iraqi towns of mixed populations. There had also been much intermarriage. But since the U.S. invaders came to the country, this harmony Iraqis used to enjoy under Saddam’s rule is threatening to unravel, thanks to hidden plots by the occupiers to sow hatred and fuel tension between the country’s main ethnic communities in an attempt to ensure a smooth implementation of the Bush administration’s agenda in oil-rich Iraq.
Hassan criticised the Times’ article where the writer failed to mention the fact that daily attacks and spiraling violence in Iraq were the creation of the Occupation and that unrest and increasing tension between Sunnis and Shias in Iraq was the only pretext left for Washington to justify an extended military presence in the country.
Violence had always been the tool the U.S. resorts to in trying to get its agenda implemented, especially in defenseless nations. The history is full of many examples.
Let’s look at the 13 years of UN sanctions during which Iraq suffered as a result of the U.S. pressure. Violence here takes the form of sanctions, where the a great sector of the Iraqi nation died and suffered starvation. Sanctions were a new weapon the West used to kill more than 1.6 million Iraqis; third of them infants.
If we looked at the core reason behind the current lawlessness and instability in Iraq, we’ll find it to be the decision of Paul Bremer, the U.S. Proconsul during the early phase of Iraq war to dissolve the Iraqi Army and Police.
A group of expatriate collaborators, most of them known to have been involved in crimes and acts of terrorism against the State of Iraq, were handpicked by Bremer to form the ‘Iraqi Governing Council’ (IGC), that was based on ethnic and religious affiliations.
The IGC is still operating inside Iraq under the name of the Iraqi gov’t, which Ghali Hassan describes as “reminiscent of the Nazis-imposed Vichy regime in France”.
Another example of the U.S. 'Divide and rule' concept that seems to be central to its strategy to control Iraq, is the so-called Iraqi “Constitution”, that was primarily designed to sow tension between the country’s ethnic groups.
Like it did in every country it invaded, the U.S. organised and supported militias responsible for the current ethnic violence in Iraq.
It was the U.S.’s “debaathification” of Iraq that eventually let to the current death squads, supported by the U.S. and the Mossad agents.
In another attempt to justify its illegal military presence in Iraq, the U.S. is now shifting the blame on Iraqis themselves, using racist and violent media coverage to instigate insurrection (Futna) amongst the two communities, Sunnis and Shias, in Iraq.
Suicide bombings that kill civilians, including women and children, came with the occupation.
What the media insists on ignoring intentionally is the fact that the entire Iraqi population, which lived in harmony for centuries without significant problems, is still united in its rejection of the occupation.
The current propaganda campaign, led by the United States and aimed at distorting realities and convincing the world that the violence in Iraq is “sectarian”, is a desperate attempt and may be the last resort for the U.S. to portray its army as the “savior” and not the killer of the Iraqi people.
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