The U.S. is Bad, Iran is Worse, and They Work Hand in Glove
"The secret relationship
between America and Iran is beginning to emerge. America the occupier has
undertaken nothing beyond the occasional public relations operation, the most
recent of which was President Obama's statement after the victory of America's
darling, Ahmadinejad."
I don't understand the
silence of the Arab and Iraqi media in the face of the crimes committed by
Tehran's rulers and agents in Iraq. Is this silence one of appeasement or fear?
Only Allah knows. Some satellite channels and official newspapers and Web sites
do actually show and write of what these criminals that claim to be good
neighbors of Iraq have been up to. And at a time when we as a community of
journalists and media in my country of Iraq and our brothers in the Arab world
should be exposing these criminals - I know there are many ignorant people
rolling up their sleeves to defend our so-called loving neighbor of Iran.
The story of our Iraqi people
and those in neighboring countries is a long and sad one. For generations,
Iraqis, under different political and ideological systems, have opened their
arms to both governments and peoples, oppositions - and oppositions to
oppositions - rich and poor, Arab, Asian and African Arabs, arabized and
arabizing Arabs, nationalist and Communist Arabs, Shiite and Sunni Arabs. They
opened their doors to all countries without exception. There's a long list of
sons of the Arab nation that have found refuge only in Iraq. When someone
became a martyr in Palestine, Lebanon, the Golan Heights, the Arab Gulf, Egypt,
Eritrea, Algeria or Somalia, Iraqis would always make a big issue of it and
instinctively go to the streets and squares of Baghdad to denounce the enemies
of Arabism. If an Arab football team defeated a non-Arab one, the people of
Baghdad, Basra, Al Anbar, Mossul and Nassiryah would fire their bullets in the
air. When an Arab is attacked by a foreigner, imams at their pulpits in Najaf,
Kerbala, Saladin, Meesan and Kut would call on Allah, begging him to bring
victory to the Arabs. Go just once to the cemeteries of the martyrs in
Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, the Arab Gulf and areas of Morocco,
and you'll find the sons of Iraq buried beneath the soil of the great Arab
Nation, who fell to defend their religion and Arabism.
Yes - this is the
story. And in all that time, no imam or Muslim jurist ever called on Allah to
support the people of Iraq or bring them salvation from their strife. From the
most pure of pulpits, the true pulpit of guidance and faith, the pulpit of the
Arab Prophet Mohammad - May Peace Be Upon Him - no one
ever mentioned them. The imams in Mecca, Medina, the Al Aqsa
Mosque, the Arab Gulf, Al-Azharand and Damascus all
race to support Muslims in Tora Bora, Kandahar,
Chechnya, Bosnia Herzegovina, Darfur, WacWac land, and the North and South Poles - but not even
a prayer for the Iraqi people. The Americans wiped Hiroshima and Nagasaki off
the map in 1945, killing, maiming and turning into refugees hundreds of
thousands of Japanese. During World War II, when Germans and Allies killed one
another by the millions, Europe got burned so badly that its green areas turned
brown and its blue rivers ran red. But after a few years they forgot all about
it and began building a new world and a united Europe, all while being of
different races, religions, beliefs and cultures.
Iraqis are now at a loss for
explanation. Their great, young, green and water-rich country is tortured by
the Americans, who turned it into a fateful avenue for their struggle with our
"beloved" neighbor Iran, which is eager to withdraw from Iraq,
putting all of its weight on our eastern border to resolve the confrontation at
any price. [Author seems to believe that with the U.S. withdrawing, the
Iranians want to pull their "covert" invaders out of the country,
while boosting their official presence].
Iran can hardly find enough hand grenades or bullets to
kill the largest number of Iraqis, while the Americans help Iran in the task by
dropping chlorine bombs and thousands of tons of explosives!
Iraq is now
beyond the stage of being polarized and has begun to oxidize [rust?].
Physicists and chemists tell us that oxidization is a long process that could
take centuries. But if we know the oxidizing agent and how to remove it, the
world will witness the cleansing of Iraq. Its people will rest and the only
elements that will need to be removed will be the non-Iraqi extremists. Iraqis
will be relieved of the armies of imams and pretenders looking for paradise
regardless of the price.
The secret
relationship between America and Iran is beginning to emerge, after the bloody
massacres that have occurred and continue to occur in my country of Iraq.
America the occupier has undertaken nothing beyond the occasional public
relations operation, the most recent of which was President Obama's statement
after the victory of America's darling, Ahmadinejad. It's puzzling that so many
doors are knocked and windows opened and yet no one bothers to reply!
[Criticism of Obama's failure to condemn the Iranian president after the
contested election of June 12. When he mentions "doors knocked and windows
opened," he refers to Iranian protesters after the vote. The author
believes America wanted Ahmadinejad to win].
Several years
ago, many noble and patriotic scientists, imams, intellectuals, historians and
average people warned of a dangerous phenomenon - something that was supposed
to be deepening and spreading [the Iraqi identity] was instead diminishing.
Here I speak of Iranian interference in Iraq with the acquiescence of the
American occupier. We should stand firm in the face of all the ever-emerging
dangers and warnings about the extinction of all that is good in our country.
There seems to be no shortage of reasons for Iraq to allow neighborly Iran to
interfere in every nook and cranny and destroy our beloved country.
To the alarm
raised by concerned Iraqis has been added the noble voices of brotherly Arabs
and friendly foreigners, who have submitted copious reports and statistics on
[Iran's] ambitious plans to eradicate the Iraqi identity from the political
arena - or at the very least, obtain hateful goals that have been planned for
decades. It wound make sense for America to close Iraq's border with Iran if it
were willing to keep this frightening monster at bay. Every concrete barrier
should be removed from the streets of Iraq and put on the Iranian border.
Finally, I would
like to suggest to Iraq's leadership to stop engaging in Tehran's game and
instead find fresher ways to get Iran's invading forces to leave before the
Americans - because Iran today is far more dangerous than the occupying forces.
I wonder why so
many Iranian consulates have been opening in Iraqi cities? I'm just asking the
question.
