‘War-Mongering Leaders are Isolated from Iraqis’
April 13th, 2008 by WILLIAM KERN
Are Iraqis beginning to feel better about the the U.S.-led occupation and the state of their nation? In our continuing effort to help answer that question, WORLDMEETS.US has translated this article from Iraq’s Azzaman newspaper. Fateh Abdusalam writes in part, “In the sixth year of the new dispensation and still looking for excuses to justify its policies, Iraq’s war-mongering government is isolated from Iraqis. … Iraq remains an ever-shifting and butchered land … It has lost its dignity and turned its people into vagrants where stoves that once were used be mothers to bake their tasty bread have become furnaces in which corpses and values are roasted alike.”
By Fateh Abdusalam
Translated By Ahmed Naoual and Nicolas Dagher
April 9, 2008
Iraq - Azzaman - Original Article (Arabic)
Five years have elapsed since the invasion and occupation of Iraq began and government officials in Baghdad still feel the need bring up the former regime in every sentence they make. As a consequence, Saddam’s reign now appears to have more sway than all of their “achievements,” which range from a military operation in eastern Baghdad and another in Basra, to a third long-forgotten operation in Mosul and a fourth scheduled to strike another densely-populated town.
In the sixth year of the new dispensation and still looking for excuses to justify its policies, Iraq’s war-mongering government is isolated from Iraqis, which includes those suffering forced internal displacement and deteriorating public services and those who have been forced to live in exile. An entire generation has been destroyed. Children have been forced to leave school only to fall prey to militias, terrorists and groups with “a cause” in a nation ruled by a government without a program for political or economic development. Furthermore, it is a government hesitant to act without instructions from Washington on international issues, not least of all Iran, its nuclear status and our economic ties.
For five years, Iraqis have been subject to complete subjugation only to be rewarded by a televised thank you from “the President of the Republic” to American military commanders for “occupying the dictatorship” and “delivering” Iraqis from the regime - a word jumble meant to suit the one offering thanks and the recipient of that thanks, but no one else.
READ ON AT WORLDMEETS.US, along with continuing translated Iraq press coverage of the Iraq War.
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