VETERANOS DE AYER

"A WOUND CALL IRAQ"

How 25 years after the Gulf War, that marked the beginning of a reality of instability and horror that has no pause

By Charles H. Slim and Javier B. Dal

It has been more than clear that both in life and in politics no one can escape the consequences of their actions. If  you doubt that the case of Iraq, is one of those cases. We could say without error to mistake that the suffering of this ancient village remains a festering result and very uncomfortable for Washington. Do not forget that Saddam Hussein and the Baath party and close associates were allies of Washington during the decades of the seventies and eighties all, something that usually to forget Anglo-Saxon revisionists and the neocons conspicuous means. That was how, when he no longer served more for their purposes were eliminated. They have 25 years of that well planned and early military adventure which brought together about thirty-one navies of the world after US forces aligned planted the disaster at the last Arab country. Despite the loss suffered horrific suffering, the tragedy for Iraq had just begun.

After thirteen years of shameful and ruthless policy of embargo, Washington felt it was time according to the schedules that had laid their Think Tanks- to give Iraq the "coup de grace" and eliminate it as a sovereign state. To do so, the appellants arguments concerning the "tyrant Saddam," "the weapons of mass destruction" and the ridiculous links Baghdad with "Al Qaeda" at 11 / S, began to be bombarded by the Anglo-Saxon media apparatus essential part machinery Pentagon psychological warfare and federal intelligence agencies like the CIA. You could see then, that despite the pressures and influences exerted Washington in organizations like the United Nations and the Commission inspectors of WMD by Hans Blix (v. Http://elpais.com/ daily / 2002/12/17 / international / 1040079613_850215.html) was very difficult for Americans to argue with solid and convincing evidence of the alleged malevolence "Saddam and his regime". Similarly, unilateralism and violence were imposed by false evidence and dirty propaganda.

To argue the "benefits" of a removal of Saddam and his government, it was said that Americans would come walking without resistance and even Iraqi citizens, especially the south- Shiites would launch them flowers and they will kiss the cheeks. Sometimes when listening to such comments, one could wonder can be so naive to believe an American congressman such a story? Or could they even ordinary citizens Americans believe such a hypothesis? No doubt that these versions that mass media amplified in time and size, were far from the reality of what was happening in Iraq before the military occupation. Thousands of children died for lack of medicine, food and poisons that had left their weapons on the ground in the continuous bombings of 1991 and which continued to develop throughout the period of the embargo. The policy bloody bombs and death was not only a push of the "Bush" or "Republicans"; It was also, and to a degree quite pitiless- a policy followed by Democrats led by Bill Clinton deconstructed and lewd and his government, who did not hesitate in ordering bombings of Baghdad and other urban centers to divert attention from their "sexual affairs" with Lewinsky intern.

With this background, believe that Iraqis would see some good in the US, it is certainly a boyish look. In the aftermath of invasion from the White House and in the media spoke of "liberation" and that the main beneficiaries of this would be the Shiite and Kurdish minorities. We just need to wait for the first American tank set foot on Iraqi soil for the government and much later the American people to realize how much they wanted Iraqis. Some chronic battle group consisting of civilian volunteers who were trained to defend the homeland of this aggression, described as by the most varied tactics, they managed to undo platoons of Marines who believed that resistance would not exist.

That adventure that George W. Bush and his supporters called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" became an endless slaughter seemed endless. Beyond the price never recognized by officialdom in Washington and abetted by the Anglo-Saxon media machine, the brutal landing with ambitions to establish a puppet regime in charge of the dirtiest tasks that had to face the invaders did, failed from the first instant. In spite of that the first and presumable successful raids of Americans on Baghdad made them believe they had done with the full control of the country were very few who wanted to bring to light, evidence and traces that something strange was He is beginning to take shape as soon as their boots trod territory.

Embarrassed and even confused, US mechanized units and British royal marines ran into fortifications that appearances were willing to fight, but as soon decided they were assaulting found that in addition to being empty, riddled with booby traps. The same about thousands of commands the Republican Guard that went up in smoke on the outskirts of Baghdad and they let the Americans before being ambushed by endless siege groups besides being persistent and very motivated, they had no uniforms. It was undoubtedly the first sign of the beginning of a fierce armed resistance that did not distinguish between Sunnis, Shiites and Christians.

Paul Bremer

This particular point is important to emphasize since, those who still seek to argue some semblance of legality to this great global crime that armed resistance occurred because of the measures implemented by the puppet authorities placed by the civil administration occupant speak by Paul Bremer, who also proved deeply corrupt brutal with his own brothers. These "researchers" often argue that, by Saddam's army had dissolved and banned the Baath Party, thousands of "men without pay" without ideals, were the reasons that gave birth to the resistance groups (v. Perry Cammack associate in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace). Simply  inaccurate besides these arguments are false. And precisely one of the best arguments to counter those misleading assumptions are based on that besides brute force, the occupants spent millions of dollars to buy the most important Iraqi army officers.

According to the study of some researchers as Cammack, they made public that Washington spending on the Iraq fiasco nothing more and nothing less than a whopping "three trillion dollars", many of which-is that you need  remark- were to the bags of US military officers, CIA agents and collaborationist thugs working for them. At this point where it can be seen that the US led Iraq one of the innate qualities to its system of government and that is nothing more and nothing less than corruption.

They were undoubtedly years terrible for Iraqis, but were even more intolerable for the invaders who, beyond the propaganda media such as CNN, FOX NEWS and others who were trying to paint a fictional reality on "a new and prosperous Iraq" there was a continuing wave of arrests, killings, attacks very strange, all under the protection of US troops who controlled the key points of the country. And if that was not enough, there was a network of kidnapping and prostitution of Iraqi women administered  by US troops who, together with contractor personnel services operating across the country, made the rounds without there being law can to protect these women (.v. http://www.iraqsolidaridad.org/2004-2005/docs/cronica_25-10-05.html)

iraqi civilians killed by US troops in Baquba

Another running tactics that put both the Americans and British hired thugs, was simply taking a high position on the outskirts of a town and the disposal of thousands of ammunition, shoot indiscriminately at anything that moved. According to intelligence sources at the time, that was part of one of the first phases of psychological warfare to keep terrorizing civilians and in many cases, by killing a passerby, blaming deliberate insurgent fire.

Undoubtedly, as pointed out by researchers and critical analysts of achievements against Iraq, which was perpetrated against Iraq and all the lies about "democracy" and "freedom" has just been a great fiasco of US policies, without distinction between Republicans or Democrats these days is crowned with the suspicious and sudden appearance of the "Islamic State of Iraq and Sham" (ISIS) in the midst of the revolutionary process of oppressed populations northwest among other claims, are the banishing government corruption led by the collaborationist den Baghdad.

Although both squandering of military force, the assembly of a scaffold sinister struggle "against insurgent" which included, torture, abuse, rape, murder and eliminations- prepared and executed by the then General David Petraeus and Cia still is not achieved calculate what cost, resistance is never stopped. When the Americans withdrew, they left the repressive forces of "Al Maliki" who -under the military advice and discreet elements of the CIA continued the dirty work of their American masters. In short, Iraqis received nothing positive; and certainly nothing good can come from an invasion and a bloody occupation that cost this town more than a million and a half people dead and missing. Will there be any day in the United States a critical trial for these crimes?