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IRAQ:
BUSH's
QUICK VICTORY and now it appears
SLOW DEFEAT
by Iraq monitor
1. Iraq could not fight a conventional war
against a superpower
i. but Saddam refused to surrender
2. Saddam was the biggest supporter of
Palestine
and gave charitable
donations to the families of
martyrs.
3.
Israel
knew that SADDAM had changed and
had become more and more of an
Islamist.
i. The Israelis knew that Saddam would never
betray Palestine.
ii. The Israelis knew that a puppet
"Palestinian entity" could not be
created as long as Saddam was in power.
4. The U.S., probably at Israeli instigation,
tried to kill Saddam 60
times (1991-2003) but failed.
5. THERE ARE NO WMDs. It was just the excuse
for invasion.
6. There are many graveyards in Iraq from:
i. The
Iran-Iraq
War. Here Iraq was wrong and
was being used by the
U.S.,
Saudi
Arabia
and Kuwait. The Kuwaitis gave Saddam
$1 billion PER MONTH to
fight Iran for 8 years.
ii. The Shah of Iran instigated the Kurds to
rise up and then abandoned
them.
iii. In 1991, the U.S. instigated the Kurds
and Shias to rise up and then
abandoned them. Thousands were killed. Civil war
is always terrible.
iv. The U.S.-U.N. imposed sanctions and
embargo on Iraq 1990-2003. More
than a million Iraqis died a slow death, among
them large numbers of children.
v. Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians were
killed in the U.S. bombing of
Iraq in 1991.
[See
THE FIRE THIS TIME
by Ramsey Clark.]
Thousands of Iraqi
troops were killed by the U.S. army as they
withdrew peacefully from Kuwait,
with their guns in the non-combat position.]
vi. Final figures on Iraqi civilian deaths are
not yet available for the
2003 assault but latest figures indicate
7,000 Iraqi civilians killed in U.S. bombing.
[The U.S. dared not call for an investigation of
human rights violations in
Iraq as long as Saddam was there to reply.]
7. BUSH IS NOW IN TROUBLE IN IRAQ BECAUSE:
i. Saddam survived attempts to kill him.
ii. He seems to have had a guerrilla warfare plan
for the post-invasion era.
iii. The majority of Iraqi SHIAS are not
cooperating with the U.S. Those
Shias who are cooperating are being discredited.
iv. Islamic fighters from all over the Muslim
world seem to have entered Iraq
to fight the U.S.
v. Ansar al-Islam, Kurds, seem to have survived
the bombing and are
organizing against the U.S.
vi. The general Iraqi population can now see that
Saddam kept the electricity
on, rations, though meager were available to all,
law and order was well
established.
vii. Iraqis are politically very advanced and see
themselves as humiliated
with the imposition of an American administrator.
viii. The destruction of Islamic libraries, the
burning of Hazrat Ali's
Qur'an,
the looting of all of Iraq's wealth, the
looting of the museum have
alienated thoughtful Iraqis. The Mosque of Imam
Abu Hanifa was hit by the U.S. The
mausoleum of Abdul Qadir Jilani was also damaged.
ix. Ordinary Iraqis see that Americans do not
respect the Islamic way of
life, mistreat women, disregard family privacy.
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