“THE DEMAGOGY OF IRAQ”

Anything outside of democracy is what governs the Arab country. Who really rules in Iraq?

 

By Ali Al Najafi

Today more than ever Iraqis realize that the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 did nothing but bring the perpetual calamity and the end of the social peace that they had enjoyed until the arrival of the Westerners. Many will be able to argue all kinds of questions against Hussein and the Baath Party but, in addition to having been a legitimate government and adapted to the idiosyncrasies of the Iraqis, they could never find a single antecedent in its entire period, which reflects the permission of anarchy, the progress of organized crime and much less obscene political corruption such as that which from April of that year to the present has plagued the spoils of what was a model of Arab development.

Washington never had in mind to promote democracy or anything like that, and that was experienced firsthand by the Iraqis themselves. Even more. They speak rather of being under a "dimaghujia" (ديماغوجيا) "Demagogy", than of the much promoted democracy.

The US believed that by cleaning up opponents of its presence and putting in local collaborationist politicians, paid for from black CIA budgets, it would build a pro-Western Iraq and completely controllable from Washington to prevent it from being absorbed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. But the calculations were wrong and despite the carnage orchestrated against the entire population ("Shock and awe"), the support of an administration made up of representatives of criminal groups with no merit other than serving the invaders, the Iraqis in support they bowed. What then was the next step taken by the Americans? Further foment internal discord, creating the political and social conflict between the Shiite and Sunni parties that would end up justifying the appearance of the pseudo-Sunni hoax of "Al Qaeda-Iraq" and later replacing it, the "Islamic State".

By means of this lie, Washington played two points with the famished stability of Iraq, taking advantage of the misery and access to information sources outside the occupation, created by its intervention and the great discontent of the Sunni populations that were being brutally oppressed by the regime collaborator from Baghdad. Thus, the media such as CNN intermittently brandished reductionist and misleading slogans that would be summarized as "good Shiites, bad Sunnis." But the lie did not last long and it was there that large masses of Iraqi Shiites, adherents of Moqtadar Al Sadr, went on to fight the occupation and its collaborators of the "Dawa" Party.

Not only did the Sunni mosques become forums for denouncing the invaders and their puppet government; Al Sadr's Shiite clerics became as insidious and combative as their Sunni brothers and soon began to suffer fierce persecution from the occupying forces as well as the collaborationist Shiite brigades. Even the failed assassination attempt by the Americans against Moqtada Al Sadr further strengthened the opposition of his followers to the regime.

From the press, it was made known to the public that Washington supported the unpleasant –but necessary- regime of the “Dawa” party led by Nouri Al Maliki, but behind the scenes their efforts were aimed at trying to establish new ties with former members of the Baath Party who they were scattered and operating in armed groups throughout "Al Anbar" in northwestern Iraq and especially in the "Sham" region. How could it be otherwise, US intelligence would rely on its Saudi connections and its cells of pimps on the ground who had already been working in Syria to undermine the "Alawite" government of Bashar Al Assad.

In short, while Barack Obama clapped his right hand on the back of Al Maliki, he extended his left hand to the opposition that had already risen in 2011 in a great revolt that threatened the Status Quo of Baghdad. Once again, Washington would manipulate the anger and despair of the Iraqi Sunnis to manipulate them with false promises and then use them with the sudden appearance of "ISIS."

For John Kerry's State Department, keeping the factor of sectarian hatred as the visible element of what was happening was essential to cover up what they were really looking for. In this sense, the work of the great media emporiums such as CNN, FOXNEWS and the large graphic media, was transcendent to disseminate this story that sought to cushion the effects and psychological impact on public opinion of what was to come.

During the nineties George H. Bush and Clinton secretly supported the Iraqi parties of Shiite extraction and of course the Kurds of the Barzani Clan, fomenting and supporting the insurrection against the government of the Baath Party led by Saddam Hussein. And not because Washington aspired to build a democracy but, to establish a strategic point to project against Iran and of course, control the oil resources of Kirkuk. For this, billions of dollars were used to finance CIA operations for the recruitment of deserters, corrupt officials and criminals of the most varied kind who would be in charge of the purchase, trafficking of weapons and explosives that would later end up killing others thousands of Iraqis.

From these black efforts came those who would be the administrators of the occupation. Thus subjects such as Ahmed Chalabi, Noruri Al Maliki, Jalal Talabani and Ayad Alawi, complete strangers to the Iraqi population overnight, became the advocates of facilitating the occupation and therefore the main visible responsible for ordering (in collaboration with the American occupying forces) countless crimes against their own people. The scandals that these henchmen of the occupation carried out became so undeniable and annoying for officials in Washington that there were many problems in trying to establish some legal and justifiable nuance in the aberrations that were being committed (Case of systematic torture). It was very difficult for the White House to try to whitewash such a bloody and corrupt regime led by a guy like Al ​​Maliki who also seized aid money for his population.

That the militias and special "Brigades" of Shiite parties were kidnapping, torturing and murdering fellow citizens (men and women) who had belonged to the Baath party, or were suspected of belonging to the resistance, or were plainly opposed to the occupation was something that the Americans knew by heart for the simple reason, that those dark groups worked for them. It was in this framework that Mr. Nouri Al Maliki was placed at the head of a "Special Committee" by which he was charged with carrying out the "Debaathification" plan and, due to this, he climbed to the government palace within the "Green Zone" in Baghdad. Some sources even revealed that George W. Bush himself was so pleased with the task he was carrying out that in that sense he often expressed "seeking to be his friend." He would also have expressed that "if he (Al Maliki) did not succeed," I will not succeed "making it clear that Al Maliki had been given a dirty task that would gravitate to Bush's political career.

The placement of Nouri Al Maliki was nothing more than that of an executioner to administer and make sure that he would "cleanse" Iraq of opponents.

Here there are no euphemisms or double standards that can hide the responsibility of the officials and the US state who elected this criminal and therefore are as complicated as the Iraqi officials who executed these plans. This is where Washington's resentment lies with the claims of the International Criminal Court.

Never forget that before the US invaded the country, there were never tensions between the Shiites and the Sunnis. On the contrary, there were no divergences in the social treatment or even the occupation of the government posts of Saddam Hussein that demonstrated a composition marked by the confession. It was the same Americans who, in secret, were in charge of feeding suspicion and providing the means to the pro-Iranian groups that for years operated against the Baath Party. Facing the public, the media and its inscrutable sources were the ones who created the hoax of that "sectarian war" that in Iraqi society had never existed until the arrival of the invaders.

But the "Special tasks" of the occupying intelligence did not end there. The operation of private groups (Contractors) subordinate to the directives of the CIA and the Pentagon was another of the dirty faces that represented the so-called "Iraqi Freedom." Officially, these security companies came through contracts with the western oil companies that had taken control of the main oil fields in the country. But for a few extra dollars, these groups made up of mercenaries of various nationalities and all kinds, knew how to execute all kinds of black actions, especially counterintelligence and brutal attacks aimed at creating false attacks of the national resistance.

In the end, it was the pressure of the Shiite resistance groups such as “Kataib Hizb allah Iraq” (Hesbolla Brigades of Iraq) and “Asaeb Aleh Alq” (Order of Righteous Men) who defined the withdrawal of the invaders in 2011. When in 2014 appeared the lie of the "Daesh" (ISIS) took a fundamental role to extirpate that false Caliphate with capital in Mosul. Today, some of these groups included in the “Hashad al-Shaab” (Iraqi People's Militias) continue to be preponderant actors for the liberation of a country that is still occupied and administered by Washington agents. Accused from Washington of being "pro-Iranian", there is actually a fear of their excessive growth especially due to their successful operations in Syria.

Obviously, this is a serious mess for the Americans and it was for this reason that Mustafa Al Khadimi, an Iraqi of British citizenship recruited by the CIA, was placed at the head of the government who (in addition to hardening the repression against opponents), initiated a campaign to deal with to dismantle these groups and allowed - and even would have collaborated - the execution of the assassinations of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis in January 2020.

A few days ago the regime's ISOF Special forces carried out several raids in the offices and base camps of "Hashad al-Shaab" from where they arrested senior leaders of accused of being directly connected with the Iranian IRGC. Nothing new that has not been seen since 2003. In the current context for some it is a power struggle between pro-US and pro-Iranian collaborators. For others, Washington's simple commission to the Kahimi puppet government to -with the supervision of the CIA- dissolve these groups that support Iran in its support of Syria, something that is also unacceptable for the neoconservatives and their Zionist partners in Congress. , complicate the strategic landscape of Israel.

In the midst of this, false flag rocket attacks on the “Green Zone” have been denounced by resistance groups accusing the Americans themselves with the complicity of the regime of being responsible.

Be that as it may, once again, the demonstration before the Iraqis that there is nothing democratic in the procedures advised by Washington, reveals the fiasco of its foreign policy. The ideological uniformity demanded by the Americans (and which the hired gangsters take advantage of) is contrary to any canon of freedom. Simply and as happened to those who fought in the resistance against the occupation, whoever does not respect the guidelines of the puppet regime will be imprisoned or eliminated.