“REACTIVATING THE DEMON”

The brutal imposition of a corrupt political regime resulting from a bloody invasion in 2003 and modeled during the occupation never had a future. Who could lead a new Iraq when the corrupt system that imprisons it collapses?

By Ali Al Najafi

Since the fall of Baghdad to the Anglo-American invaders in 2003, security and prosperity have gone forever from Iraq. None of the puppets put up by the Provisional Administration of Paul Bremer, who was in charge of electing them, met the expectations of the Iraqis. Why? For the simple fact that this was not the objective of the invaders.

Not only Iraqis (Sunnis, Shiites, Christians and Kurds) knew that. The entire Arab world witnessed this and much more.

Although the Anglo-American troops withdrew, they left a completely destroyed country, devoid of institutions and duly competent human resources to get the country ahead. Their riches were stolen and many talents were killed, others had to flee before following the same fate. Western democracy for many has been nothing more than a source of perversion and misfortune, a tool of corruption incompatible with a straight life.

The withdrawal of August 2011 was just an act as Washington would continue to pull the strings using its Saudi allies, remnants of the bought resistance (former Baathists), criminals from the “Dawa” party and dark pacts with Tehran. The main objective is that Iraq cannot rise up and Iran and the US agree on that. The enterprise to cut the strings of these puppeteers is very dangerous but essential for the rebirth of the renewed Arab nation.

Iraq today is a dismembered and failed country. You cannot exercise any sovereign measure without the CIA and its collaborators knowing about it. The administration of justice is a fantasy manipulated by the FBI that, far from investigating, covered up the actions of the collaborating security forces. What are the investigations for the thousands of crimes committed by the occupiers and their collaborators? Compressing and drowning out calls for justice has been the task of this puppet regime.

The emergence of the “Islamic State” (Daesh) in 2014 was a consequence of this. Army without morale or firepower was destroyed by this gang of criminals trained by the CIA in camps in Jordan, Syria and Turkey. Each of the puppets that have occupied the government in Baghdad have filled their pockets, their families and their tribes. The life of honest Iraqis has become a nightmare and they are far from enjoying the so-called democracy. On the contrary, the invaders helped build a system more cruel and brutal than the previous one, led by kleptocrats and criminals who occupy government positions for one reason: They respond to the approval of Washington.

This state of affairs has led to the current state of chaos. No law or authority that is respected. The Iraqi authorities do not exist because there is no national state. The groups that earned the honor of champions in the dark hours of the struggle to dislodge the invaders are divided by loyalties outside of Iraq. It is not uncommon to see how the “Asaeb Alhe Alq” have skirmishes with units of “Al Hashd Al Sha'abi” and with the “Saraya Al Salam” (follower of the glorious “Jaysh Al Mahdi”) or some of these with regular forces of the state. The main clashes are between the Iraqi nationalist Shiites and the pro-Iranian Shiite groups that have committed all kinds of brutalities and have been tolerated by the puppets on duty.

In the month that Aberdeen is celebrated as part of the commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, there were clashes between pro-Iranians and national groups that tried to put limits on the arbitrariness of Iranian pilgrims against Iraqis.

Regional rulers and religious authorities in Karbalah and Najab have had little success in curbing such abuses, and security forces are weak against Iranian bribery and influence. Most politicians are profitable and corrupt for that money. Those who have put a face to this have been killed as happened in the riots around the nest of snakes in the Green Zone. The government and its security forces do not protect the people, nor do the pro-Iranian militias. So who protects the Iraqis?

It seems that His Excellency Moqtadr Al Sadr is the only one who can meet this challenge and his right-wing men from “Saraya Al Salam” can support him with their blood and martyrdom on the battlefield. It shows that there is still hope of being able to shake off the parasitized political system created and functional to the US and Iran.

Quite the contrary with wicked power traitors loyal to reprehensible ones like pro-American Mustafa Al Khadimi or shameless pro-Iran Muhammad Shia Al Sudani and a fake parliamentary regime. Opposing him meant death. Prison and torture. Its officials are happy accomplices in this. No one is willing to change course because they know they are not the owners to do so and that is where the void is.

Iraqis are tired of this situation and the young people who were born in the rubble and bombs of the 2003 invasion are rising up vehemently and without fear despite the brutality of the oppressive regime that they lead from the Green Zone, an infamous and humiliating memory of the demonic influence that continues to operate as an antenna of evil for the designs of hell in Washington.

Few are the credible referents who can or want to oppose this so as not to lose the privileges they have plundered. Less than the fingers of one hand those that are believable for young people. But it is certain that the excellent Shiite cleric Moqtadr Al Sadr is the most credible and confrontational candidate for this challenge and this was demonstrated after the irruption in Parliament located in the infamous area. Sadr is the only one who has stood up to the lawlessness, injustice and government corruption.

Sadr is more than a cleric. He is a leader with fiery credentials earned in the toughest times in the country. It has managed to remain in the identity site of the national right without ill-intentioned Safavid contamination that sought to embed itself in power to take revenge for the war of the eighties. There is no confusion in it. As in everything, there are loyal and honest Shiites and others who are corrupt and traitors who serve disunity. The Americans and British helped in this by letting the Iranians do what they compensated puppets like Nouri Al Maliki to look the other way while they did their dirty work against the Iraqis.

Sadr stood up against this and was in danger of his life for it. Despite this, he did not stop his steps and continues to be the most prominent representative of Iraqi politics to give hope to Iraqis, knowing that there is much danger in the process.