some thoughs

 
Libération or Occupation ?





The current war in Iraq is leading me to think about the concept of liberation that is used by the US to explain their current operation in Iraq:

Is it a real liberation or another way to get ride of a current problem but in the same time sacrifying allies and destabilisation this part of the word?



First of all, we need to think about historical facts:



In 1944, the US sold East Europe to the Soviet Union in Yalta. We can just be disappointed that theses countries are now selling their soul to those that betrayed them.



The US in 1944 didn’t liberate Paris. As De Gaulle was saying: “Paris liberée par elle-meme”, they even prepared bank notes for an occupied France. This explains why the French policy is to be more pragmatic on its political actions in foreign policies.



Since that date and I’ll just take few recent examples, I won’t come back on the years 50, 60, 70 and 80,



The US sold Lebanon in 91 to Syria



The US betrayed the Shiites and the Kurds in 91



Theses 2 events after the first gulf war and the US sold the Palestinian land to Israel by identifying themselves in a “terrorist” plot.



In the future, I believe that they will betray again the Kurds by restricting their freedom in the Iraqi Kurdistan as they will need the Turks against or Iran or Syria.

Iran would be the next target as Rumsfelt accused lately that country to supply Iraq with troops and military supply. This country geostrategicaly is stuck between a future Iraq pro US, Turkey, the Pro US Gulf states, and of course Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Syria is also stuck between Turkey, a future Pro US Iraq and Israel.



This will make theses 2 countries a perfect future target for the actual US administration.



But to come back to the question, is this liberation or occupation, what is the goal of that administration?



It is not liberation for sure; the actual war in Iraq shows it:

Lately AFP news from the 03/27/2003 09:10:00

“US soldiers were present in Safwan in order to supervise the distribution of more then 20,000 packets of humanitarian help, […] a small group of civilians welcomed theses packets with the following slogan: “With our soul, with our blood, we will sacrify ourselves for you Saddam”

Some others news states that more then 5,000 Iraqi passed the Jordanian border to come back to Baghdad and to fight there for the Iraqi regime.

Theses news are showed, we have witnesses to prove it.



On the other side, the British forces are claiming that a beginning of Intifada started in Bassorah (this information was denied by the correspondent of Al Jazirra in Bassorah)

The coalition forces also claimed that the power is preventing the Iraqi to leave the cities, which is also denied but by occidental sources.



We are in a stage of intoxication of the information by the coalition.



The only thing till now that they succeed is that they were able to unify the Arab population of the Middle East behind Saddam.



Why is that?

Simply because the US lost the information war from the beginning.



I have heard lately an Arab saying:

“I would like to be liberated, but not by the US”

And I would add that it is because of the blind support of the US to Israel that the Arab population is reacting that way.

and as far it is not a liberation, it will turn to be an occupation of Iraq

and i avoided on purpose the reason of this occupation.



Coming up:

the reason of the occupation

posted by francois at jeudi, mars 27, 2003