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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