IRAQ ELECTION SLAPS U.S.

 

 

 

Dorothy A. Seese
February 15, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

Perhaps this newsgazer doesn't have the proper sense of humor to appreciate the administration's latest request to Congress for more "war" funds (about $80 billion plus or minus a few). Or perhaps the fact Iraq's recent elections, in which the U.S. designated prime minister got barely fourteen percent of the vote, the overwhelming plurality going to the Shi'ite Muslims, isn't regarded in Washington as a slapdown at the United States' war, its intervention, its so-called liberation, and its continued liberation-minded presence.

In a way, if I were in Congress, I would have laughed and replied, "are you kidding? Didn't you get the message? They don't want us there! We've just spent billions to get rid of one tyrant and put the Shi'ites in power, you know, those guys who hold the power in Iran, blow up Americans and have nukes. This some kind of joke? What you guys smoke up there in the White House -- or are you just delusional by nature?"

Bush's great war on the world to liberate it from tyrants while elderly Americans get poorer, jobs continue to go overseas, and the MIC bigwigs continue to get richer should have the American people in an uproar equaled only by the irate mood that preceded the French Revolution in 1789. But instead of building guillotines, our media is treating the present insanity as normal business by the government of a sovereign nation, because $80 billion isn't all that much (except in human lives and worldwide growth of disdain toward America). Yes, we are a sovereign nation. We are conducting an occupation that followed an undeclared war that amounts to an incursion of one sovereign nation by another, and that on false pretenses.

And there's no outrage?

There is outrage, but not by those who have the general public's ear. Our bought and paid for major managed media isn't whipping up any frenzy to "throw the bums out" and get a national referendum in place to pull down the deficit-minded (or mentally deficient) hierarchy occupying the nation's capital and deport them to some island where their supplies could be dropped to them by helicopter now and then. (More civilized than the guillotine, besides, I get ill at the sight of blood.)

The January 30, 2005 elections in Iraq clearly affirmed the Muslim, not secular, nature of the people of Iraq and those who have leadership abilities in particular. That affirmation of a Middle Eastern political and religious culture means that any meaningful "democracy" or federal republic may be a futile dream in the minds of the western nations, and especially the liberation-minded United States' leadership. Some people don't mind selling blue sky, only idiots buy it.

What have we heard? Quite succinctly, "go away and don't come back." That's the general attitude of most of the Arab nations toward the US. We may be their largest oil customer, but that doesn't make them like us, it makes them contemptuous of a nation that has its own natural resources and won't utilize them because it might endanger one or more species of caribou or reindeer. Okay, then we pay OPEC's price for oil because we let ecology whacks lobby for keeping us dependent on oil, something they also object to but that one falls on deaf ears because our leaders have more than a passing interest in oil. They apparently haven't figured out a way to handle the control and distribution of sunlight, but are doubtless working on it.

If I were assured that my presence in a foreign country was that of "persona non grata" then I'd leave. It is becoming increasingly obvious to the world at large that Americans are as deluded as were the Germans of 1933 when they thought their elected leader was someone with courage and brilliance, and found to their regret and at the expense of many human lives and misery that he was only a maniac with delusions of grandeur.

Iran and Iraq have been enemies, but they will now be in a position to combine forces against the United States which they view as their mutual enemy. The US has made some dreadful political and diplomatic (or undiplomatic) errors during the past four years, and apparently rather than retracting some of the statements made and following a policy of non-intervention in foreign affairs unless our security is in clear and present danger, the nonsense will continue.

Our soldiers will continue to die on foreign soil but not for American freedom and not for the kind of liberty this administration visualizes, a "liberty" that is rapidly vanishing from the homeland scene. The term "homeland" wasn't even in general use in government or public parlance until after Nine-Eleven. Now it's a lumbering giant of snoopology on American citizens and anyone else it chooses to target.

The US leadership, if it really views these wars as wars of liberation, is deluded and unfit for office. It is more likely that they view it as opportunity to grab oil power and reserves and guess what? The US has already lost the war in Iraq. Pulling down a statue of Saddam Hussein and throwing him from one spider hole into another only unleashed the reality of life in the Muslim cultures of the Middle East, theocratic/totalitarian rule.

We don't have to like it, but we do have to keep our military and our political noses out of their business unless and until they become such a threat to our true national security that they earn a scorched earth medal, courtesy of the United States military, or what is left of it after this stupid boondoggle in the Mesopotamian desert.

By taking sides with people like Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tx) and the far right paleoconservatives, I've been branded a radical by some former friends. Too bad, I stand where I stand, and I'm not going to sniff up some kickapoo joy powder to make me feel that all is well with America and our military is fighting for our freedom. Whatever it has been fighting for got lost in the insurgency and now it's time to pack up and get out before things escalate to a point where we are playing nuclear tag. I'm not even sorry it might cost some of our billionaires a few bucks, they have too much anyway. Let them live on the average Social Security check received by millions of retired American workers who can't afford those luxuries that the elitists feel is their just due.

If we had to have a Bush in office, it probably should have been Jeb. It would have been far better if the American people as a voting whole had discerned that what was offered to it as presidential candidates in November, 2004 were both unfit for the office and voted third party. They were afraid of wasting their vote.

Yet that's just what they did.

They wasted their vote returning to leadership the very cabal that cost American lives on foreign soil before the election and continues to do the same, killing our military men and women at taxpayer expense to meddle in the affairs of Muslim peoples who despise us.

The only money that should be spent now is to bring our troops home and end this war, allowing Iraq to do whatever it pleases. The mission was indeed accomplished when Saddam was deposed, if it was any of our business in the first place (and it wasn't).

The election was a total repudiation of American policy with regard to Iraq. What's so hard to understand about that? Or is it just that Israel keeps prodding this administration to protect their interests at our expense? It may be a startling revelation, but the US doesn't really owe Israel anything but a kick in the rear.

That's all folks.

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