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unhappycamper

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Sat Aug 30, 2014, 07:46 AM Aug 2014

American Hypocrisy in Iraq

http://watchingamerica.com/WA/2014/08/29/american-hypocrisy-in-iraq/

American Hypocrisy in Iraq
Published in Al Thawra (Syria) on 16 August 2014
by Aida Aam Ali
Translated from Arabic by Nathaniel Taylor.
Edited by Emily Chick.
Posted on August 29, 2014.

It is now clear that the West’s sickening duplicity has become a kind of political schizophrenia, as they harp incessantly on some important issues while blithely ignoring others.

The sudden interest of the French, alarm of Europe, and the push by the Security Council to establish a humanitarian corridor in northern Iraq; it is all to protect Western interests. At the very least, what the Americans have done was done in order to maintain control over oil reserves. The American air raids were an exercise in hypocrisy, and the sending of 150 military advisers to Kurdistan under the guise of “anti-terrorism” and “protection of minorities” was nothing but an excuse for the Obama administration to portray itself as a savior.

Western aid to protect Irbil isn’t for defending civilians or human rights, it is due to the realization that the Islamic State-virus’s closing-in on Irbil, and with it their mission to defend the Zionist plot known as “Kurdistan,” threatens to end the Israeli scheme to strike a fatal blow to Iran and a unified Iraq. It also sends a message to the Islamic State terrorists, who are supported by Washington and the West, to stay away from Kurdish areas and turn their attention toward Syria and Baghdad. This sews corruption, disunion, and bloody chaos with the aim of dividing and destroying these nations.

The American administration’s quick decision to intervene so as to curb and restrain the Islamic State and its threats to their oil and security interests in northern Iraq proves the hypocrisy and lies about what is supposedly about stopping massacres and protecting the rights of Iraqi minorities. It is a matter that makes us wonder about Western and American inaction regarding the massacres that violated the rights of the Nineveh Christians. Where was America’s concern about the executions and beheadings in Syrian territory?


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American Hypocrisy in Iraq (Original Post) unhappycamper Aug 2014 OP
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