Four years on, Iraq still bleeds and Bush still brags

Mazher · #1 Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Four years into the ‘Operation Iraq freedom’, Iraq still bleeds while the Bush administration tries desperately to make the American people believe that the war is going on well. Iraq today is not only trapped in its own tragedy but is also making it increasingly hard for the Americans and the British to get out of the mess. There is hardly a spot anywhere in Iraq where democracy has been established, as was boastfully promised by the Bush administration.

The pretext used by the United States for invading Iraq proved false four years ago and yet the war continues. The weapons of mass destruction, whose existence the Pentagon was so sure of, were never found. Saddam Hussein’s link with the al-Qaeda and involvement in the 9/11 attack was never established. Peace and democracy in Iraq, as promised by the lone superpower in the world, never came. In other words, millions of Iraqi men, women and children have been brutally killed, thousands maimed, over a quarter million made homeless and economy shattered beyond restoration, all because of the lies weaved by the Bush administration.

Bush knows, although he still refuses to acknowledge, that sixty five per cent of Americans today believe his administration is handling the Iraq war terribly. His popularity is at an all-time low, with fewer than thirty per cent of Americans approving the way he does his job. That thousands of Americans across the country, as also throughout the world, are marching in protest and marking fourth anniversary of the invasion bears testimony to this fact.

On all counts, Bush was proved wrong and to be lying. After these long four years, the Americans in general also have realised that their government cheated them and made them a party to the crime only their government is responsible of. Through this invasion, the general Americans, especially the children, have been denied better education and health facilities for billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money has been and is being wasted to fight a war that sees no peaceful end. Today the superpower has a severe image crisis and is considered throughout the world, especially those nations holding and nurturing democratic values, nothing but a war monger. Public opinion in America is deeply sceptical of the adventure in Iraq as the American body count is rising and the Bush administration is sinking more and more under the heavy burden of a crime beyond redemption.

How many million Iraqis and how many thousand of American soldiers have to die before reality dawns upon the Bush-Blair administration and the US Congress? If we take into account the collateral damage that the Iraq war has done and looks set to do in future by way of intensifying revenge and terror, the Iraq adventure could go down in history as one of the worst initiated and disgracefully abandoned not by a despot or a dictator but by leaders of two major ‘democracies’ of the world.

The US government still has time to catch people’s pulse and pay heed to their demand and aspiration. It is about time it stopped acting egocentric and did the right thing. It is time for Bush-Blair’s unholy alliance to seek apology and immediately withdraw its soldiers from Iraq to end the bloodbath. Meantime, the human rights activists worldwide should get united and demand the trial of this axis of evil for their crime against humanity. Crime of such magnitude cannot and should not go unpunished.

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