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Five Years of
Genocide
By Zuheir Kseibat
20/03/08 "Al-Hayat"
-- - Five years ago to the day, it was the dawn of the
American invasion that carried Iraq to the endless darkness of
the occupation. The fall of Baghdad, the Arab capital which they
almost dubbed Saddam Hussein's capital, was nothing but the
onset of a massive volcanic eruption in the region; its fires
still consume the Arabs' stability and security and rewrite maps
from the Ocean to the Gulf.
The captain of the invasion, George Bush, celebrates the "first
large-scale Arab uprising against Usama bin Laden." He reassures
Americans that the costs of the invasion and war against and in
Iraq, now touching $500 billion, are petty when bearing the
"gains" in mind…notably ending "Saddam's tyranny" and lighting
the candles of hope towards "democracy."
As he celebrates the fifth anniversary of the invasion, Bush
forgets the big misleading lie about the threat of weapons of
mass destruction. The battle has turned into a front against
al-Qaeda and terrorism, and its strategic goal is to prevent
shifting the battlefield to the US. Let it then be the 100-year
war fought with Iraqi blood!
Those were five years of tears and blood. They are good enough a
price for the Baghdad government to prevent a quick American
withdrawal, which would sweep away the "achievements" realized
so far, including the reduction of death tolls and rates. The
suicide bombers, however, continue to come in waves, while
hundreds of thousands have been left dead since the invasion and
occupation began. Millions are now refugees all over Mesopotamia
and neighboring countries, announcing the worst humanitarian
"crisis" in a country that holds the world's third largest oil
reserves. Perhaps it is certainly much worse than a crisis.
Despite all this, Bush is still celebrating the liberation of
Iraqis from tyranny, and also from their blood, wealth,
sovereignty, security, stability, and unity. By all moral
standards, neither he nor his Vice President Dick Cheney feel
embarrassed when they present on their list of victories the
face of a new Iraq in which al-Qaeda is weakened and the
resources of terrorism are dried up. They conveniently overlook
al-Qaeda's students and women, the swamps of corruption drowning
ministers and officials, the impoverishment of the homeless and
the insanity of those who have been plagued by massacres and
bombings that have turned Iraq into the home of the forgotten
genocide.
The president, the captain of occupation, and his vice president
who has bestowed upon his wife an adventurous and challenging
trip to the secret base, are not ashamed of revealing the
"logical" conclusion of the extremely costly war: that no other
generation of Americans will have to be sent here to deter a
potential confrontation on American soil. And if the cost is the
blood, wealth, and unity of Iraqis, that would be their problem.
When Mesopotamia becomes the nation of unified plagues falling
upon the necks of a nation, the American president finds no
reason to apologize for his lies about weapons of mass
destruction. Only a handful of the original war architects
remain with him but mostly in hiding, while Cheney promises the
Iraqis that he would not tire. The battle still has chapters to
come, and if the Americans were to be bored by any slackness on
al-Qaeda's side, there would still be the Iranian "influence."
It is as if the vice president is taking the risk to address the
victim of murder and warn him against the murderer!
Five years of tears and blood. The deafening bombs are still
louder than the wailing of the mothers who lost their children
and the weeping of men every time they lost children and
fathers. But does any of this happen in Iraq? Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki is commending the "healing of the nation," for
Iraqis are no longer killed on the basis of their sectarian
identity! Genocide has become "fair," as it no longer
discriminates between Sunni and Shiite. To become
indiscriminate, the genocide has had to last as long as the
occupation itself. Everything that has been since the dawn of
March 20th, 2003 is a "success" according to Cheney's testimony.
According to al-Maliki's account, life goes on in Iraq. The only
obstacle that hinders "reconciliation" between the ruling forces
and the disgruntled parties is a final resolution over the oil
law to divide the inheritance of the murdered victim.
The "Iraqis were liberated" five years ago. All they need to do
is to believe the American when he offers them a medal for
defeating tyranny so they can prepare themselves for another
decade or two of war on terror, while he promises them
"strategic" military bases to guard oil facilities …and the
dead.
Cheney wonders about the Arabs and why they are so shy in front
of Iran and al-Qaeda. In the century-long war, everyone has a
role to play.
In the long night and the epic of forgotten genocide, only Bush
hallucinates about victory….All the politicians of Iraq
hallucinate about democracy-deception. It is the long night of
genocide.
© 2007 Media Communications Group
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