Iraq - The medicine was worse that the ailment

Iraq – The medicine was worse that the ailment

Jun 17, 2014 Editorial

At the turn of the century the western world was at odds with the Arab world. In fact, before the dawn of the century there were constant problems fuelled by those who were abusing the rights of others on the grounds of religion.
The presence of the Muslim group, Al Qaeda, in just about every corner of the world was not helping the United States, Israel and even the British. Wars were flaring in Pakistan, in Afghanistan—the war in Afghanistan had been going on almost forever—and the Middle East. The world saw constant clashes between Iran and Iraq. Some say that those clashes were the continuation of the war that started in Biblical times when Persia (Iran) and Mesopotamia (Iraq) came to do battle. This is recorded in the Bible as the dislike of the Medes for the Persians.
However, the United States, in its role as global policeman was constantly worried about what it saw as the violation of the rights of certain people in their own country. Indeed, it had singled out Iraq ever since that Middle East country had invaded Kuwait. The Americans retaliated and entered the war to drive the Iraqis out of Kuwait and did just that.
Ever since then, the United States wanted to get back at Iraq. Saddam Hussein became a prime target. Today people wonder whether the Americans going into Iraq was not a case of one president having a vendetta and using his power to exact revenge. One news organization quoted President George W. Bush as saying that Saddam Hussein nearly killed his father. How? That is for President Bush to explain.
One thing is certain, when Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq the region was stable and Iraq was stable. When the west concocted the tale about weapons of mass destruction the rest of the world bought it although there was some skepticism. For one, the United States with its eyes in the sky and its powerful ability to see underground one could not understand where Saddam would have hidden such weapons.
Saddam had to be seen as a monster and with the Americans controlling almost 90 per cent of communication in our corner of the world it was not difficult for American reporters to create an image of Saddam that would be in keeping with the leader of a country that deserves to ‘be attacked.
Many of us sit in our corner of the world and react to situations in other countries without understanding the culture, the people and the desires of those who want to manipulate world opinion. The United States, with support from the British, the French and the other allies mounted an invading force.
They literally forced Saddam Hussein underground to the extent that when they caught him, the world laughed at how he hid like a rat in a hole. He had been accused of using chemical weapons on the Kurds, a people who lived in a part of Iraq and who were considered not of Saddam’s Sunni sect.
Were the Kurds the clever ones who knew that if they played the correct cards the United States would rid them of Saddam and so help shift the status quo in the country? Today, the world now understands that Saddam Hussein was the force that kept peace in the Middle East. He was also the force that held a volatile society like Iraq together. That is known today and it is not by accident that the vast majority of Americans are now having second thoughts about that invasion that brought about the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
Cruelty, the likes of which was unheard of in the country is now the norm. Just this past weekend there were reports of a rebel group executing hundreds of Iraqi policemen. Soldiers were seen stripping off their uniforms and running because of a cruel and inhuman horde that was rapidly taking control of the cities. And these new people are not enamoured with the United States.
So Americans must now wonder whether their children must return to a region to lay down their lives all over again when that should never have happened in the first place. The United States destabilised Iraq and created a monster.

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