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America will not withdraw from Iraq
16.9.2010
By Mufid Abdulla |
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September 16, 2010
The Iraq of today is still a burning place for human
beings with the killing machines still continuing.
This is evident to all by solely looking at the
events of the last month in which hundreds of people
have been killed by suicide bombs and explosions.
The Iraqi government still, to date, remains
unformed since the election of March 2010, and still
the winning parties have not reached any agreements
for the setting up of this future government.
In the last American election there was a promise by
the Democrats to the voters that, if they won, the
Obama administration would withdraw from Iraq, from
a war they called futile and resembling that of the
Vietnam War. Obama’s promise to the electorate
stated that there would be a withdrawal of all
combat operation by 31 August 2010 due to the fact
that they had failed to find any Weapons of Mass
Destruction and it was believed that the new
administration had no pretext for invasion! Half of
the American soldiers have now left Iraq and gone
home. The reaction of people has been one of great
upset and confusion.
As the BBC reported on 26th August, America has been
sending computers to Baghdad to be distributed
amongst the schools. Yet, as soon as one of the
administrators heard of the American withdrawal and
their heading for Kuwait he diverted all the
computer loads to the black market and sold them
all. The Iraq of 2010 is still an unsafe place but
surely not the same as in 2006 and 2007.
Robert Fisk in The Independent summarised on the
20th August “Goodbye to Iraq.” I do not believe that
this is the correct response to the present day
situation in Iraq. As Marie Colvin of The Sunday
Times 29/08/10 put it “Al-Qaeda are sticking back
with a renewed intensity”. I do not believe that
nowadays Al-Qaeda has anything left to confront Iraq
with,www.ekurd.netconsidering
their backbone has been broken by American–Iraqi
forces. What is going on in Iraq is a war between
the gangsters and the leftovers of Saddamist
fighting for more money on contracts and business
controls. This is according to the latest reliable
sources returning from Iraq.
American ambiguity in its dealing with Iraq and the
delegacy of the Saddam regime cannot claim any
credit even by its disbanding of the Iraqi army.
Torture, corruption, and civil war are all the marks
America has left in Iraq. But if anybody thinks
America can withdraw totally from the third largest
oil exported country in the world and leave Iraq for
the thugs of Al-Qaeda must think again. America is
not heading for losing this war and in addition Iraq
will not fall victim to the oil curse.
You may reach the author at
mufid@btconnect.com
The opinions expressed in this commentary are
solely those of the author.
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