Dictator wanted for Iraq

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The US autocrats, President George Bush jr. on top, have been explaining the invasion of Iraq in March 20, 2003 for four years and four months now. They have been explaining it in speeches lacking credible arguments and in made up reports, ceaselessly playing the authors of Iraq's democratization. But the play is very poor and today they can fool just an insignificant number of naives or constants fans of the Texan man in the White House. The US boasted about grabbing Saddam Hussein, the ex Iraqi President, in December 12, 2003, describing the event as the great American victory driving Iraq on the way to democratization. The fuss continued by masquerade trial, with the Baghdad Justice dancing on the Washington tune and it culminated in the hanging of the dictator in December 30, 2006.
In the meantime, the Sunni majority who had helped Saddam Hussein dread the population for almost a quarter of a century started the insurrection against the Shiite majority who had taken over the political arena in Baghdad right after the war. The suicide bombing, the kidnapping (some real, some faked) and the beheading of foreigners and Iraqis suspected of supporting the coalition turned into custom. The number of Iraqi civilians killed on behalf of the democratization will probably remain unknown. Not even an approximate number will be released.
The US military lost 3,670 soldiers by early this week. The Democrats and most Americans have been tenaciously pleading for the withdrawal of soldiers from Iraq as soon as possible, but the US representation in this country is now a record: 162,000 people.
Three days ago the US and the Iraqi forces killed about 30 people in raids on the Shiite district of Sadr City, Baghdad. A communique by the US Army announced the victims were Islamist militants, but it mentioned no word about the difficulty of making a difference between terrorists and civilians when you are on a flying helicopter or about the risks involved in an air raid against a district of civilians.
Claiming the military action was meant to help the Iraqi people and free them from Saddam Hussein's Sunni dictatorship, they started a war actually motivated by oil, fishy business, political propaganda interests and pride. Some of the Americans are not paradoxically concluding that a new dictatorial system would be the only means to settle the continuing crisis in that country. Or at least this is what a lobby group is proposing. The group is led by Michael Oppenheimer, a head of the Global Affairs Center in New York University. His opinion is that dictatorship is right now the likeliest solution to save Iraq, since there is now authoritative, rather 'unconstitutional' person to rule the country. Oppenhaimer's lobbyists aren't only supporting the US public opinion's stronger and stronger appeals that US troops should withdraw, but they also think three more years are needed for settling an 'efficient' dictatorship there. They have even thought that a 'good' dictator should be identified in the first or second level of the Iraqi army.
It is essential that Bush shouldn't appreciate the idea. Or he would arrange some bluff so that the dictator would take over and he has someone to sack in the last year of his mandate, unless he manages to open a small war against Iran or North Korea.

Ileana Cornea
Ziua sambata 11 auguste 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english