Are Iraqis Capable of Building Their Nation?: Kitabat of Iraq

Is President Bush being wrongly blamed for the faults of Iraq’s people? It is a provocative thing to suggest, especially for an Iraqi. But in this article from one of Iraq’s most controversial columnists, Khadir Taaher, it is Bush who is praised and Iraqis who are trashed for their failures.

For Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper, Taaher writes in part:

“The administration of George W. Bush relied on accurate, rational and reasonable calculations when it liberated Iraq from the oppression of Saddam’s criminal regime. He relied on accounts that the Iraqi people, who suffered from oppression, repression, war, murder and the squandering of their wealth, would, according to logical and scientific expectations, welcome liberation and take advantage of this opportunity to tend to their wounds and begin building themselves up politically, economically and scientifically. … But what the brightest strategic minds couldn’t imagine was that Iraqi society is only capable of going wrong and never going right.”

By Khadir Taaher

Translated By Nicolas Dagher

December 1, 2008

Arabic – Iraq – Original Article (Arabic)

Can Iraqis build their nation? For the present and future, after the catastrophic losses and destruction that have accompanied Iraq’s modern history, this is the most important question. It is imperative for the Iraqi mind to confront itself with this existential question without justifications, slogans and evasions of personal responsibility and by blaming outside factors.

The administration of President George W. Bush relied on accurate, rational and reasonable calculations when it liberated Iraq from the oppression of Saddam’s criminal regime. He relied on accounts that the Iraqi people, who suffered from oppression, repression, war, murder and the squandering of their wealth, would, according to logical and scientific expectations, welcome liberation and take advantage of this opportunity to tend to their wounds and begin building themselves up politically, economically and scientifically.

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