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Who Are The Friendlies and Who Are The Foes In Iraq?

February 21, 2007 ⋅  E-Mail Article ⋅  Print Article ⋅ Post a comment

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has the right idea when he announced he will begin bringing his troops home. President George Bush wants to drive democracy down the Iraqi’s throat but until they try and take it for themselves they will never get it. Liberty provided is never the same as liberty earned and this is a price all free countries must pay. We cannot buy liberty for Iraq, we cannot converse liberty for Iraq, we cannot even give liberty as a gift to Iraq. They have to take it. However, it appears what we are told as a fledgling democracy in Iraq is really just a hyped up whore house version of our own Capitol Hill. Case in point, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday fired a top Sunni official who had called for an international investigation into the rape allegations leveled by a Sunni Arab woman against three members of the Shiite-dominated security forces. The politician is claiming that Shiites are abusing the system, the Shiite politicians are claiming it’s the Sunni’s who are abusing politics by trying to weaken the Iraqi government for insurgents. Regardless of who is right or wrong it should be Iraq’s problem and not ours. It’s time we line up right behind Great Britain and march right out of that cursed desert racist haven. Let politics take their normal course in Iraq and we will deal with whose left. At least if we don’t like the new government we know who our enemies will be, the way the war is now we have no idea who is a friendly and who is a foe.

It’s time we invest the wasted billions in Iraq right here in the United States. Numerous states are closing prisons while laying off state troopers, is this the legacy the Bush Administration wants to leave behind? Growing numbers of illegal aliens and criminals on the streets and a horrendous deficit in Washington? I think George Bush is better than this and I hope he shows it.

However, in stark contrast to my hopes we have the Iraqi government trying to keep President Bushs’ ear. This new government is about as corrupt as some that have been around 200 years or more. Consider that a recent statement by Iraqi leader Nouri al-Maliki provided no official reason in announcing the dismissal of Ahmed Abdul-Ghafour al-Samaraie who is the head of the Sunni Endowments. The Sunni politician was basically thrown out of government without notice because he was considered a whistleblower by fellow Shiite politicians. On the surface it appears this action is just a partisan political occurrence but when you look deeper you see that the firing of the politican belies the real problems in Iraq.

Al-Samaraie is in a leadership position with the organization that cares for Sunni mosques and shrines in Iraq. Al-Samaraie brought up allegations of Shiite rapings by prominent Shiite security members and Shiite police. The Shiite politicians took offense to these accusations and a heated behind the scenes battle began to formulate. Al-Samaraie has left Iraq and traveled to neighboring Jordan where he than spoke up by disputing al-Maliki’s right to fire him. Al-Samaraie believes that Iraq’s Presidential Council has the only legitimate authority to have him removed.

According to CNN reports, Al-Maliki’s office released what it said was a medical report indicating no signs of rape. Al-Maliki has said the rape allegations were being used by his critics to discredit the security forces and undermine a major, U.S.-led Baghdad crackdown. In exonerating the three officers Tuesday, al-Maliki said they should be rewarded as a sign of confidence in the force. Al-Samaraie said Monday the rape allegations offered what he called proof of the failure of the security push in Baghdad to protect the city’s residents…His dismissal is the latest move in a highly publicized and increasingly bitter tussle over the rape allegations, pitting al-Maliki’s Shiite-dominated government of al-Maliki against its Sunni Arab critics. The public quarrel is fueling charges by the Sunnis that the Baghdad crackdown was targeting Sunni neighborhoods and leaving unaffected Shiite areas harboring militias blamed for sectarian killings.

In his Tuesday statement, al-Maliki said the woman “had not been subjected to any sexual attack” and that three outstanding warrants had been issued against her for unspecified charges. He also accused “certain parties” — a thinly veiled reference to Sunni politicians — of fabricating the allegation.

We must remember that rape is considered as atrocious in Muslim countries, and victims usually do not report rapes for fear that they will face public scorn and a possible “honor killing” at the hands of male family members seeking to restore the family’s honor.

This is just one SNAFU in the government that has become the Iraqi government. They could probably run themselves just as bad without American presence as they do now. The only difference is we would not be breaking our countries own bank trying to finance these idiots who are most likely just in to the politics for their own selfish interests and not the betterment of Iraq as a country.

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