Obama 'accomplishes' George W Bush's 'mission'
Stop the War Coalition
On 14 December 2011, President Obama addressed a crowd of US soldiers
who had just come back from Iraq. He tried to cheer them up by
declaring that they had returned home in honour and victory. Just like
Bush before him, Obama's idea of honour and declarations of victory
rest on dubious political morality, driven by the needs of an
uncontrollable death machine: a military-industrial complex that feeds
on war and destruction. Iraqi dissident and exile Sami Ramadani says
Obama, who initially opposed the Iraq war, today enthusiastically
continues the policies of the two war criminals, Bush and Blair.
Dear Mr Obama,
There is absolutely nothing honourable or victorious in blockading a
people for 13 years (1991-2003) and causing the death of half a
million of its children; invading and occupying (2003) another country
for nearly nine bloody years; killing more than a million of its
people; turning millions of its children into orphans; turning hundreds
of thousands of its adults into widows; destroying its infrastructure;
wiping out its essential public services; making millions of its young
people unemployed; impoverishing most of the people the people of one
of the world's richest countries; letting in al-Qaida-style terrorist
gangs to saw division and sectarian strife; deploying tens of thousands
of ruthless mercenaries contracted to the Pentagon; creating a
political process and a constitution that rests and feeds on sectarian
and ethnic divisions, relying on corrupt political parties and leaders;
attempting to take full control over Iraq's oil and gas reserves and
production; sending young Americans to their deaths in aggressive
military adventures; erecting a monument for US imperialist designs
under the guise of an embassy that will use 15,000 personnel in the
Baghdad's Green Zone...
Which of the above, Mr. Obama, is an honourable act or a sign of
victory? And where did you refer to the pack of lies that the US
administration used to invade Iraq, or the fact that throughout the
1980's the US backed and armed Saddam's dictatorship ?
The truth is that despite being wounded a thousand times, the heroic
Iraqi people have defeated the mighty US death machine on the soil of
Mesopotamia.
The Iraqi people, supported by the overwhelming majority of the
peoples across the world, refused to kneel before the tanks of the
occupation forces. They rose in resistance and opposition and forced a
change of direction in Washington, even before you took office.
The truth is, Mr. Obama, though you were opposed to the initial
decision to launch the 2003 war of aggression on Iraq, you are today
enthusiastically continuing the policies of the two war criminals, Bush
and Blair.
You are now preaching for war on Iran, attempting to ignite civil
war in Syria, backing Israeli suppression of the Palestinian people, and
backing Saudi and Qatari dictators to thwart and hijack the uprisings
of the Arab peoples against the assortment of dictatorships that the
US had installed or backed for decades.
The truth is, Mr. Obama, the US is now attempting to control Iraq
by using its so called embassy, tens of thousands of mercenaries,
thousands of spies and corrupt Iraqi political forces that answer to
Washington.
America aims to use the Strategic Framework Agreement to tie Iraq
to the US economically, militarily and culturally. It has tried to do
this through occupation, now it is trying to do it by stealth.
But the Iraqi people are saying no, and America will be defeated again in its latest attempt to dominate our country.
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