Why, they ask, do they still have no electricity and no water? In whose interest is it for Iraq to be deconstructed, divided, burnt, de-historied, destroyed? Why are they issued with orders for a curfew by their so-called liberators?
And it's not just the people of Baghdad, but the Shias of the city of Najaf and of Nasiriyah - where 20,000 protested at America's first attempt to put together a puppet government on Wednesday - who are asking these questions. Now there is looting in Mosul where thousands reportedly set fire to the pro-American governor's car after he promised US help in restoring electricity.
It's easy for a reporter to predict doom, especially after a brutal war that lacked all international legitimacy. But catastrophe usually waits for optimists in the Middle East, especially for false optimists who invade oil-rich nations with ideological excuses and high-flown moral claims and accusations, such as weapons of mass destruction, which are still unproved. So I'll make an awful prediction. That America's war of "liberation" is over. Iraq's war of liberation from the Americans is about to begin. In other words, the real and frightening story starts now.
Article comments
1 - SlackMFer
wow, you really care about the poor suffering iraqi's...now that it fits with your anti-bush agenda. before, when it wasn't against bush to give a shit about the iraqi's, left-wingers just said "fuck 'em."
2 - san
I think concern for the Iraqis has always been a big part of us "left-wingers'" argument against this war.
U.S. OUT OF IRAQ!
3 - SlackMFer
US out of iraq, huh? if you care so much about them why would you want us to abandon them to certain misfortune? do you think it wouldn't be disastrous to just leave now? some new dictator would just take over (if not saddam himself) and the country would be back where it was.