According to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, America is changing the name of it’s Iraq mission from ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ to ‘Operation New Dawn’ to ‘send a strong signal that American forces have a new mission.’
According to columnist Fatih Abdusalam of Iraq’s Azzaman newspaper, the new name, just like the old one, bares little resemblance to the actual nature of the mission.
For Azzaman, Fatih Abdusalam writes in part:
The Iraqis have seen no “New Dawn.” What they’ve seen is rivers of blood, deprivation, hunger, displacement, a surge in the number of prisons and legislation allowing police to break into homes at night and the use of force by people in uniform or out.
A new dawn for a country on which the sun is setting. A new dawn for a country in which the number of professionals – doctors, engineers, university professors, etc. – has plummeted by more than half of what it was before the invasion.
And just as it was under the former Baath regime – even worse in fact – the essential requirement for any government job is unwavering loyalty to a certain faction.
A “New Dawn?” … They must be laughing at us; isn’t this rubbing salt in our wounds as we die a slow death?
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