With
General Petraeus in Baghdad: Who in Iraq can Obama
trust?
Azzaman, Iraq
Whoever in Iraq Can Obama 'Really' Trust?
"We are told that Obama has three hundred advisers. But the advisers he needs are Iraqis who played no part in the Bush Administration's bitter experiment. …
They should not be from the leadership of any of the Iraqi parties …
and they should certainly not be from organs of the current, previous or future
Iraqi government."
Senator Barack
Obama: Who in Iraq - should he trust? According to Azzaman's Fateh
Abdusalam, he shouldn't trust anyone Bush has, anyone in the Iraqi
government, or anyone who leads an Iraqi political party.
Democratic candidate Barack
Obama knows that he has to confront the bitter truth of Iraq - whether he takes
charge at the White House or not. He simply had to pay Baghdad a visit to meet the
ruling class, as well as to pass through Anbar [Province] to drink tea and
familiarize himself with the Sahwa or
Awakening Experiment [The Awakening Councils] which have defeated al-Qaeda. And
he'll also need to meditate over why for five years, before the Arab tribes in
Al-Anbar coalesced, the U.S. Army failed to defeat the terrorist group.
But perhaps Obama doesn't
have the time to reflect on the fact that Iraq must have a “state” before it has
a “government.” And it has to be a state based on such factors as full
sovereignty over the entire land and its wealth - and safeguards to protect the
peoplethat are guaranteed by the state.And there must be no "uncertainty" about these protections due
to the prevailing political storm or special interests concerned only with themselves. And there must be a system that balances the
interests of the government with those of others.
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We are told that Obama has
three hundred advisers. But the advisers he needs are Iraqis who played no part
in the Bush Administration's bitter experiment. He has to find people outside
the group that provided information on the Iraqi issue before, during and after
the war began. These advisers should not be from the leadership of any of the
Iraqi parties, which have enough trouble just managing their own affairs. And
they should certainly not be from organs of the current, previous or future
Iraqi government.
ABC NEWS REPORT
ON BARACK OBAMA'S VISIT TO BAGHDAD
He must find his advisers on the
Iraqi street, in factories, on farms or next to the huts and tents of
immigrants and displaced people or perhaps in an elementary school. It is here
that Obama will be able to derive accurate information which will truly reflect
the truth. Only here will he encounter the “wisdom" that is completely
missing from Iraq's unstable political environment.
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Whether he reaches the
presidency or not, if Obama is smart he will absorb this wisdom and bring it
into play. In both cases he'll need the “wisdom and vision of the Iraqi
citizen.” Perhaps this is old news, but it isn't the wisdom and vision of
American citizens that he needs now. The Iraqi issue cannot be understood
without pure and clear Iraqi eyes. It is they alone which can reflect - directly to
Obama - what has happened, what is happening and what is expected.
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