Hip Hop CSS Live : U.S. Military Wars in Middle East have created 5 MILLION Orphans and 2 MILLION Widows in Iraq alone, the other side of the War you never hear about.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

U.S. Military Wars in Middle East have created 5 MILLION Orphans and 2 MILLION Widows in Iraq alone, the other side of the War you never hear about.

On July 4 of this year, Vice President Biden celebrated American Independence Day in occupied Iraq, in one of the presidential palaces of the former regime, now an integral part of the U.S.-run "Green Zone." Four days earlier, PM Nouri Al-Maliki's U.S.-installed puppet government declared a "victory" signaled by the pullout ofU.S. troops from major Iraqi cities, and the beginning of the "restoration of sovereignty."

Nothing could have been more hypocritical or comical.

When the late Robert McNamara paid a visit to the independent country of Vietnam that he had previously "sought to conquer" and failed, he said to their foreign minister, "We wanted to give you democracy." The reply was, "We wanted our independence first." Why do American policy-makers never learn from history?

I'm amazed by the number of Americans who are "hurt" that the Iraqis are celebrating U.S. troop withdrawal with no "word of thanks." The sad truth is that there is no withdrawal and there is nothing to thank for. For the Iraqis the list of war reparations is not one that the U.S. can dream to even begin to fulfill. How can you bring 1.2 million people back to life? How can you render 2 million war widows married wives again? And how can you give back a lost parent to 5 million Iraqi orphans?

The celebrations of "independence" in Iraq today are a circus where the primary clowns are the same thugs that count on U.S. presence to survive. And how can anyone question the status of continued U.S. military presence when the largest embassy in the world, the size of 80 football fields, lies in one of the most beautiful locations in the heart of Baghdad?

The current troop level dispels the myth of the "SOFA" agreement. Even after the June 30 deadline, 134,000U.S. soldiers will be left behind. This number is reminiscent of troop levels in 2003, when the invasion began and before the so-called "Surge."

Further, and to take it straight from the horse's mouth, the first U.S. military commander in Iraq openly announces "a longer stay in Iraq for U.S. troops."

In fact, General Odierno insists, "It's not going to end, OK? There'll always be some sort of low-level insurgency in Iraq for the next 5, 10, 15 years…" If so, then what are we celebrating? And what form of "crystal ball" has Gen. Odierno, asserting that there will always be a need for U.S. troop presence? Unless, it's the world's second largest oil field.

To the average Iraqi citizen, and rightly so, the Americans are there for the oil, and the puppet-government with its "no-bid" to "selective-bid" oil contract policy is there to serve this very purpose. In fact, the common sentiment in Baghdad today is that we went from living under the rule of a tyrannical Ali Baba to that of 40-hundred ruling thieves.