On the tenth anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq
(March, 2003), numerous articles appears in the American mass media reflecting
on the biggest blunders committed in the history of the U.S. by the Bush
administration. The few people who were concerned about American national
interest predicted this tragedy.
However, the major newspapers of the media began to dance to
the tune of music set by the Bush administration and the lobbyists representing
those who would benefit from the invasion of Iraq.
The American congress, which Harry Reid described as the
most corrupt in the history of the U.S., supported the invasion without
examining any evidence in support of the war.
The consequences of the invasion reflect some serious
problems, such as:
1)
The cost of the war to American taxpayers has
been estimated to exceed $2.5 trillion. All of this money was borrowed from
foreign governments, especially China. It was a war that was fought on credit
cards.
2)
More than 4,500 American soldiers were killed in
vain and an additional 32,000 were injured. In addition to the negative
psychological and emotional impact of the war on veterans is reflected in—among other things—high suicide rates, at
almost one per day.
3)
The
negative impact of the war in Iraq has been disastrous to humans, as well as
environmentally, politically, and economically. Literally speaking, Iraq was
destroyed. The U.S. government put it on a silver platter and turned it over to
Iran.
The tragedy is that
no one has been tried for these blunders, including Bush and his criminal gang.
The U.S. political system is filled with loopholes, which encourages politicians
to lie and mislead the public without consequences for this deception.
As Vincent Bugliosi,
chief prosecutor, wrote in his book ‘The Prosecution of George W. Bush For
Murder’, “the United States of America can return to the great nation it once
was again. Bugliosi believes that the first step to achieving this goal is to
bring those responsible for the war in
During the past two years, several Arab states—including Tunisia, Egypt,
Libya and Yemen— experienced massive uprisings that led to the removal
of their authoritarian regimes. The revolution is still going on in Syria,
where more than 70,000 have been killed and over a million have become refugees
in neighboring countries. The west and the east are using the Syrian tragedy to
settle their own differences.
In the mean time, some Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and
Qatar are fueling the revolution in Syria. Ironically both regimes are authoritarian.
A few days ago, the Arab newspapers reported the arrest of
167 peaceful demonstrators in Saudi Arabia. These protestors were demanding
humane treatment for their arrested relatives. Also, it was reported that the
Qatar court sentenced Mohammed Al-Ajami, a Qatar poet, for his poem attacking
the Amir of Qatar. He was given a life sentence but the court commuted the
sentence to 15 years. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are in no position to criticize
the Syrian regime because they are in an even worse governmental position than
Syria. Qatar has the highest Gross National Income (GNI) in the world—over 86,000 per person per
year—with a population of less than two million people.
Qatar
can afford to incorporate the one million Syrian refugees who are living in
tents and are deprived of basic daily needs. I do not want to give the
impression that I am a supporter of the Syrian regime, because I am not. For
the benefit of readers, the Assad family has ruled over Syrian since the 1960s,
the result of the American CIA’s military coup in 1948. That military coup
removed the freely and democratically elected Syrian president, Mr. S.
Al-Quatley. He refused to let American oil companies extend their oil pipelines
from Iraq through Syria. Since the end of World War II, the U.S. government has
been a major source of political instability in the Middle East region in
general and the Arab world in particular, which is still occurring today.
I
consider Saudi Arabia and the Qatari regimes as puppets for the U.S.
Furthermore and regrettably to say, the Morsi government in Egypt is of the
same type of government. Unfortunately, the younger Egyptian population that
initiated the January 25th Revolution to save their country from the
corrupt regime of Hosni Mubarak (paying in blood to do so) has been
marginalized by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is spreading
their political influence in every government institution at the expense of
others. They are worse than the previous regime, are ignorant, and will end up
paying a heavy price.
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