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by Ayman El Hakea | |
Published on: Mar 30, 2003 | |
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Type: Opinions | |
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=1146 | |
Our world, through its history has seen massacres, bloodbaths, terrorism, genocide, injustice, slaughtering and torture of innocent women, children and elders. In each era, the positions of leader of our world has gone to the most prosperous, the most systematic, the most religious, the most hard-worker, and sometimes the most vicious and violent…. What is happening now on the land of Iraq, is by all means an uncivilized large-scale atrocity, committed by those who consider themselves as the legal protectors of liberty, justice, freedom, and human rights. What does it mean if the “most free country” is giving its army the permission to kill children in such a way, under whatever reason? What if that “whatever reason” is “the Freedom of Iraqi people”? What can Mr. Bush say to his American children if he is asked why is he very happy while his troops demolish a whole country with cruise missiles, and MOAB bombs? Yes, Saddam is bad... but the worst is the way in which Mr.G.W.Bush wants to replace him, which can be summarized as bombing and brutalizing civilians to encourage them to revolt against Saddam by "thinking" that what is happening to them is because of Saddam's previous mistakes... If Saddam killed people through his long history of leadership under the title of "protecting the Iraqi national security", then Mr.George W. Bush continues to spoil lots and lots of human lives in his short period of leadership, under many titles: "preserving world peace," "limiting weapons of mass destruction," "combating terrorism," and "liberating Iraqi people"! Could it be reasonable now to say that Saddam Hussein is more merciful for the Iraqis than his master in torture, Mr.George Walker Bush? Why didn’t the Iraqis welcome the U.S. heroic troops, while they did no more than killing Iraqi children, burning people alive in crowded markets of Baghdad, shelling provision warehouses in Basra, exploding some “Tomahawk fireworks” upon the heads of Iraqi civilians, attacking Iraq bilaterally with “GREAT” Britain without U.N. permission, derailing homes, hospitals, schools, and orphanage residences? What on Earth are these Iraqis? Terrorists? Fanatics? Well, Iraqis are definitely war criminals; they defend their land from a “liberation army,” they didn’t welcome their liberators, they commit suicide-bombings and they broke the Geneva Conventions on prisoners-of-war. The coalition forces are definitely a liberating army; their fighting is "legal", and in breach of the UN resolutions and the International Law, they want to establish the "Oil-for-BLood" program, they use Napalm, Self-Exploding bombs, "Mother-of-Bombs," which are all O.K. and legal, and they hold a "clean war"... Enough irony now... I need every reader to remember who first broke the Geneva Conventions in Guantanamo, who first attacked Iraq with a full neglect of the U.N. Security Council, and who first had the historical honor to use weapons of mass destruction in Japan. Do you think that a new Iraqi puppet regime that "must" support the American atrocities against Iraqi people in this so-called “war of liberation” would be accepted easily by the Iraqi people? Clearly, I do not defend the Iraqi regime, but my concern is Iraqi people. Imagine that the daily expenses of this war, which are $3.2 Billion US, were instead, used in combatting poverty, diseases, and in developing poor regions of the world. I ask every reader to be positive rather than being a simple spectator of this tragedy. Those who agree with me, please continue to send emails to all U.S., British, Spanish, Australian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Ukrainian, Slovakian, Portuguese, and all other embassies of that coalition. To know more about different embassies' emails, go to the website, www.embassyworld.com. « return. |