The Americans Can Never be Trusted
Daoud Shirian Al-Hayat - 03/01/07//
The mendacious mutual recriminations between US officials and the rulers of Baghdad, regarding the way former President Saddam Hussein was executed, condemns and holds Washington culpable for the timing, the way the barbaric act was carried out, and the fact that it was shown to the people. Washington could have adhered to the implementation of the new Iraqi Constitution, which stipulates that three persons ratify the death sentence, and which prohibits the execution of the sentence during holidays, but it condoned the way the Constitution was adopted, in the sense that 'we did not order it and it does not harm us', and replaced the Constitution, justice and humanitarian senses with dependence on the opinion of the religious authorities and intolerance.
The hasty implementation of the death sentence against Saddam Hussein was an urgent US demand, just as it was a lust for sectarian revenge by the al-Maliki government, and evidence that what was reported as Washington's acquiescence to growing pressure from the ruling elite in Baghdad was a mere allegation.
Washington regained its ability to steer the al-Maliki government once the sentence was implemented. The Americans intervened and prevented al-Maliki and his clique from hiding Saddam's body, and they facilitated his burial, because they realized that the absence of the body, as al-Maliki and his group wanted, would heighten the anger in the Sunni street and would turn Saddam from a leader that was executed in a horrendous way into a martyr.
There is no doubt that implying that the Americans were outraged at the hasty implementation of the sentence and that they were deeply disappointed at what they call the failure of the al-Maliki government and the recognition of its destructive behavior is a continuation of the political mendacity between al-Maliki and the Americans, and is part of the political propaganda campaign exercised by the US administration against the American people and us. Washington sought to get Saddam out of the picture as soon as possible, for domestic, historical and political reasons.
Furthermore, the elimination of Saddam was an objective in itself. Killing Saddam means crushing the thorn of opposition to the US project and burying the secrets of a conspiracy that started with the invasion of Kuwait. The US found that al-Maliki's clique shared the same desire. Al-Maliki believed that the elimination of Saddam would put an end to the Sunni rule over Iraq forever. But the result, which the Shiite officials in Iraq and the Americans did not expect, is that the brutal execution of Saddam created a state of Sunni and Arab alignment inside and outside Iraq, and increased Washington's crisis. Washington has lost, through this barbarism, the Sunni Arabs and others, who came to doubt the US vision of the communal mosaic in the region.
The positions of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan regarding the hideous execution raise serious questions. These States were at odds with Saddam Hussein, strongly supported the reconciliation process, refused to intervene in the political process in Iraq from a sectarian perspective, in spite of all the pressure, and had always conducted their relations with all Iraqi parties from a political standpoint that aims for the unity of Iraq. They also supported the plan of former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, because he did not, in their belief, represent any sectarian orientation. But they discovered in the early hours of the Greater Bairam that all the slogans that were advocated by the al-Maliki and Ibrahim al-Jaafari governments and the remaining Shiite officials were merely political misleads, and that these rulers are carrying out a sectarian project under the umbrella of reconciliation and democracy. They also discovered that the execution of Saddam Hussein in this provocative way was a representation of Tehran's determination to continue implementing its project; Tehran described the barbaric execution as 'divine justice'.
Today, with the al-Maliki government having boasted about the barbaric execution of Saddam, and the US government having given its consent to the implementation and recording of the hanging in this manner, which runs contrary to US and humanitarian values, we must stop talking about the mistakes of US policy in Iraq.
What is going on in this country is a dirty and premeditated scheme: Washington dissolved the Iraqi army, while we were busy finding excuses for US policy, which is ignorant of the region's history and the nature of the structure of the Iraqi people. The US allowed the adoption of a Constitution that cancels the Arabism of Iraq. We hailed this Constitution as an act of democracy. Then the execution of Saddam revealed Washington exercising an unprecedented savagery and its support for a handful of fanatic Shiites to replace the neo-conservatives for the implementation of the so-called 'New Iraq' project.
What kind of Iraq can we expect, after all that has happened? What kind of democracy are the US and the gang of al-Maliki promising us?
Daoud Shirian Al-Hayat - 03/01/07//
The mendacious mutual recriminations between US officials and the rulers of Baghdad, regarding the way former President Saddam Hussein was executed, condemns and holds Washington culpable for the timing, the way the barbaric act was carried out, and the fact that it was shown to the people. Washington could have adhered to the implementation of the new Iraqi Constitution, which stipulates that three persons ratify the death sentence, and which prohibits the execution of the sentence during holidays, but it condoned the way the Constitution was adopted, in the sense that 'we did not order it and it does not harm us', and replaced the Constitution, justice and humanitarian senses with dependence on the opinion of the religious authorities and intolerance.
The hasty implementation of the death sentence against Saddam Hussein was an urgent US demand, just as it was a lust for sectarian revenge by the al-Maliki government, and evidence that what was reported as Washington's acquiescence to growing pressure from the ruling elite in Baghdad was a mere allegation.
Washington regained its ability to steer the al-Maliki government once the sentence was implemented. The Americans intervened and prevented al-Maliki and his clique from hiding Saddam's body, and they facilitated his burial, because they realized that the absence of the body, as al-Maliki and his group wanted, would heighten the anger in the Sunni street and would turn Saddam from a leader that was executed in a horrendous way into a martyr.
There is no doubt that implying that the Americans were outraged at the hasty implementation of the sentence and that they were deeply disappointed at what they call the failure of the al-Maliki government and the recognition of its destructive behavior is a continuation of the political mendacity between al-Maliki and the Americans, and is part of the political propaganda campaign exercised by the US administration against the American people and us. Washington sought to get Saddam out of the picture as soon as possible, for domestic, historical and political reasons.
Furthermore, the elimination of Saddam was an objective in itself. Killing Saddam means crushing the thorn of opposition to the US project and burying the secrets of a conspiracy that started with the invasion of Kuwait. The US found that al-Maliki's clique shared the same desire. Al-Maliki believed that the elimination of Saddam would put an end to the Sunni rule over Iraq forever. But the result, which the Shiite officials in Iraq and the Americans did not expect, is that the brutal execution of Saddam created a state of Sunni and Arab alignment inside and outside Iraq, and increased Washington's crisis. Washington has lost, through this barbarism, the Sunni Arabs and others, who came to doubt the US vision of the communal mosaic in the region.
The positions of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan regarding the hideous execution raise serious questions. These States were at odds with Saddam Hussein, strongly supported the reconciliation process, refused to intervene in the political process in Iraq from a sectarian perspective, in spite of all the pressure, and had always conducted their relations with all Iraqi parties from a political standpoint that aims for the unity of Iraq. They also supported the plan of former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, because he did not, in their belief, represent any sectarian orientation. But they discovered in the early hours of the Greater Bairam that all the slogans that were advocated by the al-Maliki and Ibrahim al-Jaafari governments and the remaining Shiite officials were merely political misleads, and that these rulers are carrying out a sectarian project under the umbrella of reconciliation and democracy. They also discovered that the execution of Saddam Hussein in this provocative way was a representation of Tehran's determination to continue implementing its project; Tehran described the barbaric execution as 'divine justice'.
Today, with the al-Maliki government having boasted about the barbaric execution of Saddam, and the US government having given its consent to the implementation and recording of the hanging in this manner, which runs contrary to US and humanitarian values, we must stop talking about the mistakes of US policy in Iraq.
What is going on in this country is a dirty and premeditated scheme: Washington dissolved the Iraqi army, while we were busy finding excuses for US policy, which is ignorant of the region's history and the nature of the structure of the Iraqi people. The US allowed the adoption of a Constitution that cancels the Arabism of Iraq. We hailed this Constitution as an act of democracy. Then the execution of Saddam revealed Washington exercising an unprecedented savagery and its support for a handful of fanatic Shiites to replace the neo-conservatives for the implementation of the so-called 'New Iraq' project.
What kind of Iraq can we expect, after all that has happened? What kind of democracy are the US and the gang of al-Maliki promising us?
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