The World's View Of The United States In Iraq

   More comments on the question  posed by Al Jazeera:

           Original Article

Police arrested more than 100 Iraq war protesters in San Francisco and New York City on the fourth anniversary of the US invasion, as George Bush asked in a televised statement for more patience over his strategy in Iraq, saying that US success ‘will take months, not days or weeks’. What will be the future in Iraq and will Bush’s strategies make any difference?     Published: Monday, 19 March 2007

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Added: Tuesday, 20 March 2007

I was one of the 10s of thousands of very determined Americans who marched on the Pentagon on March 17. It is my most sincere hope that Saturday marked the beginning of the end of my country's illegal occupation of another nation. I ask all our brothers and sisters in the Middle East not give up on this country, please. Don't judge me by that fool residing in the White House. In 673 days from today, Bush will be gone from office and an adult will be in charge of our nation, and hopefully we will be able to rebuild some burned bridges when that happens. Peace.

Curlew, Washington DC, USA

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     First, there were no weapons of mass destruction. Second, Bush attacked Iraq instead of finding those guilty of 9/11 massacre. The idea was to destroy Iraq so that Haliburton could rebuild and make a lot of money, and get control of the oil. It was the decision of the president to lie to his government, his people and to other countries, to spy on his own citizens, to approve secret prisons, to approve torture, to use fear to control the American people. Shame on Bush indeed. As the Truman expression goes - the buck stops here - which means that a president does not 'pass the buck' to anyone else but accepts personal responsibility for the way the country is governed.

Evie, Montreal, Canada

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Added: Tuesday, 20 March 2007

Let's face it: America is undermining Iraq because of the oIL. It's about the oil. As per US intelligence community foresight (stragetic statecraft a.k.a. 'US energy security') nothing has gone wrong; to the contrary, everything is unfolding exactly as planned. After all, why kill the Iraqis when we can set them up to kill each other? As long as there is instability and insecurity in the Middle East, Iraq as well as other Arab nations will have to sell oil to Western markets. Did you really think this mess was 'unplanned'?

address the issues, Denver, USA

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Added: Tuesday, 20 March 2007

World events during the last few centuries, have continuously reinforced the generally negative image of the Caucasian white colonizer, slavemaster, plunderer and invader, whose moralility is subjective and easily compromised in self interest, when in a particular situation, prone to procrastinate, selfish, greedy, lustful after lands and treasures belonging to others and having the most corrupting influence, in the eyes of the non white/European communities. Of course this is stereotyping. Unfortunately, recent and current warmongering and associated activities of Bush and Blair do nothing to negate the above impressions.

azzi, mumbai, India

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Added: Tuesday, 20 March 2007

Daneellaw makes a good point. Peace doesn't suit the 'Axis of Greed' either in Iraq or in Palestine. They will keep the pot boiling for as long as there is profit in it. When the situation is played out, they will move on and stir up trouble somewhere else with high potential. Probably Iran. The Iraqis (and Iranians), like the Palestinians, need to get media savvy and take on board western-style news management and broadcasting skills to educate western viewers and listeners.

Inswinger, Cambridge, United Kingdom

 

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Early Morning News

   Iraq's former vice- president ( Taha Yassin Ramadan ) got the noose early Tuesday ( 3:05am ) For his part in the killing of 148 Shia Iraqis in Dujail, according to an official in the prime minister's office.

    Ramadan was originally sentenced to life in prison for murder, forced deportation and torture back in November but an appeals court said that the sentence was to lenient and passed the case back to the High Tribunal and demanded that he be sentenced to death.  Source

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   Here is one more of the signs of progress that the Bush administration says we are seeing in Iraq.

    Police in Baghdad say that they have found bodies of some 30 people who were shot in various Baghdad districts.    Source

   Here are a few thoughts from the Iraqi citizens on things since the U.S. began it's occupation of the country.

Reuters Alertnet

* "We have faced terrorism on a scale we didn't know existed in the past four years. Everybody has lost someone close but we can always remain optimistic that everything will improve once everyone agrees using violence for political gain is wrong." - Ahmed Riyadh, 28, barber.

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* "After four years I can say that the country is lost. We never expected this would happen. We were hoping to live like a European country, not to be living like this." - Salih Abu Mehdi, 43, security guard and father of six children.

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* "The Americans came to rob Iraq and to end the Islamic religion... They rebuild what they destroy and we have no security." - Mohammed Ameen, bookshop owner.

* "Are they serious in bringing us democracy when they have lost their own democracies. I watched anti-war protestors in Washington being arrested by police. The Americans have not benefited Iraq and whoever says the opposite is like an ostrich with its head underground." - Marwan Abdul-Karim, 27, works in a mobile phone store.       Read More Here

 

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