Iraq after Four Year of Constant Killing

M. Taqi::independent freelance writer, Iraqi League

It was not supposed to be like this. Iraq was not supposed to end up like this four years from the start of the invasion. By now, Iraq was supposed to be the most peaceful, most stable and most prosperous state in the region, if not the whole world. That is what US President Bush and the coalition of the blind followers prophesied to their respective tax-paying people as they sought their support for what can now only be called the stupid war. The picture is very different now of course from that prophecy; Iraq is drenched in blood as the occupation baby-sits a sectarian civil war to say the least. Death, grotesque public execution, criminal torture, hideous terror, immoral ethnic cleansing extreme poverty and hunger, and strange diseases have all swept the land of Iraq. The future is very grim, and the picture very depressing. Four years on, and US President Bush is still saying Baghdad security will take months. He must be the only one who believes he can achieve in months what he could not achieve in years! For years, the US has been working tirelessly with in the realms of power in Washington and with international criminals masquerading as 'opponents of the Saddam regime’ for a convincing pretext for what remains be an illegal invasion of sovereign Iraq...

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