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America’s ‘Senate of Fools’
How do Iraqis feel about the Senate’s recent non-binding resolution to partition their nation? This op-ed from Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper expresses popular Iraqi rage not only over the Senate resolution, but the entire enterprise of invasion.
“The Americans were remarkable and even creative in their zeal to introduce policies of unmitigated stupidity, and once it began, the folly kept on coming … the virus of stupidity has begun to spread to the U.S. Senate, which has broken its long silence on Iraq to speak impertinently of dividing the country.”
By Mahdi al-Waili
Translated By James Jacobson
October 5, 2007
Iraq – Kitabat – Original Article (Arabic)
A Hollywood image of the United States of America was once painted in the minds of the Iraqis – that America is a great country of scientific and technological progress; huge military power; the oldest democracy; a country with an advanced educational system that produces huge numbers of scientists and analysts who roam the world providing advice on affairs of state; a country with legendary intelligence services that know something about every human being on the globe; in addition to being a beacon of human rights and freedom. Such were the perceptions – apparently made of glass – that were produced for us by the Western media and the Hollywood giant’s cinema machine.
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3 Responses to “America’s ‘Senate of Fools’”
[...] Oct 8th, 2007 by Michael van der Galiën I would be angry too if the US Senate thought it had the right to adopt a non-binding resolution to partition my country. [...]
It seems reasonable to me that we make it a condition of our continuing investment that they take the shortest path to reduced violence. They can reconfigure their government as they wish after the USA is no longer paying the price of their chaos.
This Congressional term has enjoyed pasing several creative and useless rrsolutions, and it’s hard to rank them. This, the partition one, is right up there , though.
Didn’t we say that Iraq was a sovereign country?
A ;likely resolution in the works could be naming new members to their Parliament .