Who is America fighting In Iraq?

Is the United States fighting al-Zarqawi? Mr. al-Zarqawi has been mutilated, blown up, assassinated, and killed at least a dozen times so, al-Zarqawi can’t be the reason.


Who is the United States fighting in Iraq? Saddam Hussein is a done deal and the Baathists are out of power. Except for a minority of Baathists that were willing to risk their lives by collaborating with the Americans, the remainder of Saddam’s party loyalists have reverted to being simple Sunni Muslims and have vanished from the Iraq horizon.

Saddam’s Iraq as we all know now, had no weapons of mass destruction, was never an imminent threat to the United States, and never had any nuclear weapons or even the means of faking the preposterous notion of procuring nuclear weapons.

Is the United States fighting al-Zarqawi? Mr. al-Zarqawi has been mutilated, blown up, assassinated, and killed at least a dozen times so, al-Zarqawi can’t be the reason.

Is the United States fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq? To date there has been no credible proof or intelligence that al-Qaeda is even in Iraq, let alone fighting Americans.

There certainly is a war being waged in Iraq. The American casualties are now in excess of 1000. The number of Iraqi civilians that have been killed is approaching 30,000. The number of Iraqi dead is a best guess estimate by the non-governmental organizations that keep track of this gruesome statistic.

As near as can be deciphered by the news reports that make their way out of Iraq, the United States is fighting your everyday and ordinary Iraqi. It seems that your regular Iraqi has taken an extreme dislike to having his/her country occupied by the United States. The only part of Iraq that is under American control is the “green zone” in Baghdad. The rest of Iraq is a ‘no go zone’ for the Americans and the coalition of the willing.

All of the humanitarian organizations that were in Iraq providing relief, aid, and some comfort to the Iraqi people have left Iraq. Their security cannot be guaranteed.

Assassinations, kidnapping, executions, and the prerequisite American military response is now what the Iraqi people face on a daily basis.

The American promise of rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure is now an empty promise and any hope of functioning electricity, drinkable water, and even fuel for cars has faded into a background of questions regarding missing Iraqi oil money. The missing Iraqi oil money is entirely separate from the twenty billion dollars U.S. that our Congress legislated and authorized Paul Bremer to use in Iraq. Bremer was head of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Bremer has long since vacated the Iraqi premises as have explanations about where 20 billion dollars might be.

The marvelous democracy that George Bush promised Iraq isn’t worth the paper the aforementioned democracy was printed on. The Iraqi people have a new dictator that was hand picked and installed by the C.I.A.

Iyad Allawi the new Iraqi prime minister hardly has any kind of majority mandate in Iraq. The Iraqi interim government can’t leave the green zone same as the Americans. Members of the interim government are prone to being kidnapped or assassinated. The promised “elections” were a panacea devised by the Bush team to convince Kofi Annan and the United Nations that America was playing by the international rules.

So what is the Iraq catastrophe all about? It isn’t the oil, the oil doesn’t flow through the Iraqi pipelines for more than a day or two before the pipelines are blown up. The only answer that makes any sense at all is that America went preemptive on Iraq for Israel.

Under the skilled if understated manipulations of Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby, Perle, and the rest of the neo-conservative posse whose loyalty and allegiance to Israel is public record, the plan for regime change in Iraq was already in place. The tragedy that 9/11/01 has become, was simply the trigger for an already loaded gun. The existing plans for regime change in Iraq, also bring into sharp focus the election of George Bush and how the office was handed to him by the U.S. Supreme Court. It all sounds very conspiratorial but in actuality, it was all a huge gamble on the part of the neo-conservatives that had taken control of George Bush and got themselves a yes man in the Oval Office. When you control the Office of President of the United States of America, you control the government. Everything else is minor detail and loose ends that are wrapped up with the wave of an Executive Order.

So come November 2004 and if the polls are open on election day, remember the significant details that are the run up to preemption on Iraq. Remember the war on Iraq and especially the aftermath of the preemptive war on Iraq. The next target for regime change is Iran and I can guarantee you that Iran will not be like Iraq, not by a long shot. America is only fighting the ghosts left from the cold war.

Don Nash - Email Mary_19107@msn.com
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