The visceral anger many Iraqis continue to feel over the American invasion is expressed in this article by columnist Khalid al-Jibouri of Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper.
After having read former CIA Director George Tenet’s book, At the Center of the Storm, Al-Jibouri writes that people like Tenet should be ashamed at the inestimable damage he and others have done in pursuit of a policy that cost the lives of a million Iraqis and continues to impoverish them – simply to replace Saddam Hussein with a dictatorship more to Washington’s liking.
For Kitabat, Khalid al-Jibouri writes in part:
Isn’t your conscience stirred when you see an infant on its mother’s lap – begging? Aren’t you moved to see a small Iraqi girl “being sold off” at the market to provide for her mother and brothers? Isn’t your conscience moved to see a bereaved mother who lost her only son because he had a dispute with such-and-such party? Mr. Tenet, this is a dirty war. What reward will you reap after the land has become desolate for even the last one on it?
“Yes we got rid of a dictator, but we’re cursed with new ones who play the power game according to their whims and tendencies as if they aren’t responsible for the security and safety of the people. In Iraq, every official without a conscience has the power to kill or make people disappear. What kind of liberation is this, which Iraqis are paying for to this very day?”
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