Robert Fisk: The Iraqis Don't Deserve Us-Because They Are NOT Doing What We Want Them To Do

[kpete]

Robert Fisk: The Iraqis don't deserve us. So we betray them...
Published: 23 August 2007


Now we are at work in Iraq. Those pesky Iraqis don't deserve our sacrifice, it seems, because their elected leaders are not doing what we want them to do.

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Then there was Nouri al-Maliki, a man with whom Bush could "do business"; loved, supported and loved again until Carl Levin and the rest of the US Senate Armed Forces Committee - and, be sure, George W Bush - decided he couldn't fulfil America's wishes. He couldn't get the army together, couldn't pull the police into shape, an odd demand when US military forces were funding and arming some of the most brutal Sunni militias in Baghdad, and was too close to Tehran.

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And now, get rid of Maliki. Chap doesn't know how to unify his own people, for God's sake. No interference, of course. It's up to the Iraqis, or at least, it's up to the Iraqis who live under American protection in the green zone. The word in the Middle East - where the "plot" (al-moammarer) has the power of reality - is that Maliki's cosy trips to Tehran and Damascus these past two weeks have been the final straw for the fantasists in Washington. Because Iran and Syria are part of the axis of evil or the cradle of evil or whatever nonsense Bush and his cohorts and the Israelis dream up, take a look at the $30bn in arms heading to Israel in the next decade in the cause of "peace".

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These creatures - let us use the right word - belong to us and thus we can step on them when we wish. We will not learn - we will never learn, it seems - the key to Iraq. The majority of the people are Muslim Shias. The majority of their leaders, including the "fiery" Muqtada al-Sadr were trained, nurtured, weaned, loved, taught in Iran. And now, suddenly, we hate them. The Iraqis do not deserve us. This is to be the grit on the sand that will give our tanks traction to leave Iraq. Bring on the clowns! Maybe they can help us too.

more at:
http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2886358.ece

[seemslikeadream]

1. What is wrong with these people?

I thought they liked dictators

[slipslidingaway]

2. K&R n/t

[Robbien]

3. No the Iraqis don't deserve us

No one could have done anything bad enough to deserve the raping, pillaging and plundering which is becoming the trademark of US preemptive foreign policy.

[kenny blankenship]

4. Kicking & recommending because THIS is what is really happening over there

we are now playing one faction in a civil war off against the other, straight up DIVIDE & CONQUER Imperialism. Bush has the Democrats eating his "finish the fight against Al-Qaida" bullshit. Meanwhile, we are actively subverting the government that we SAY that we are over there in Iraq to stabilize and provide security for. We are subverting the government that 3700 plus Americans have died to create and protect. The narrative the Democrats have bought-in to is, once again, a gigantic lie, on the scale of Reconstituted Nuclear Program and WMD's and invisible traveling bio-weapons labs on wheels.

The Democrats tell us that they oppose Bush's policy in Iraq, but they refuse to challenge his version of the story. Did they hold him to account for the WMD lies? No. Will they hold him to account for arming Sunni militias who are sworn enemies of the Shia led majority government? They haven't so far - not so much as a peep. As long as the Democrats continue to let Bush introduce all the players, and describe the scene and the conflict in the way that he prefers people to see it, the story can have only the ending that he chooses for it. The Dems play at resisting the war but in they always end up directed by Bush since they use his script to read from and have none of their own. Now we're hearing Bush has written a climactic Act V in which we expand the war in the ME by bringing Shock & Awe attacks to Iran. Can't wait to see those Dems line up and salute!