Stop laughing at yourselves with your claims of ‘democracy’ in Iraq

 

By Fatih Abdulsalam

 

Azzaman, August 14, 2008

 

Both U.S. and Iraqi politicians have been laughing at each other and themselves for years with claims of democracy in Iraq.

 

For some it is the U.S. which is mocking Iraqis and the world at large for propagating such claims. For others Iraqi politicians are doing the mocking.

 

But one thing is clear. The U.S. is laughing at itself and the Iraqi government by speaking of democracy in Iraq. And Iraqi politicians are laughing at the U.S. and themselves when telling others that there is democracy in Iraq.

 

The invaders and their lackeys are laughing. This mockery started with the arrival of U.S. invaders and has since continued unabated despite all the evidence to the contrary.

 

Let us try to describe the kind of ‘democracy’ the U.S. has implanted in Iraq.

 

Using its deadly and fearful military machine, the U.S. has exported the democracy of dark and rotten vestibules to Iraq whose smell now stings the eyes and nostrils of anyone with common sense.

 

It is the democracy of bombardment, shelling, indiscriminate killing, massive prisoner abuses, turning millions of people into refugees, attacking with warplanes and heavy armor major cities, towns and villages and dividing a unified nation along ethnic and sectarian lines.

 

For these polices which the U.S. initiated and Iraqi politicians have been copying we have lost so much innocent blood.

 

Iraq’s share of democracy is death, division, homelessness, lack of basic and rudimentary amenities and escape into nowhere.

 

Is there an alternative to the fake democracy the U.S. has been selling to Iraq?

 

There will be no way out for Iraq as long as U.S. and Iraqi politicians laugh at each other.

 

There will be one crisis after another. Some of the problems will exacerbate and there will be no force on earth to contain them.

 

The greatest tragedy is that those in charge of the country – U.S. invaders and Iraqi politicians – are the creators of almost all the problems Iraqis suffer from. And they are doing nothing to have them solved.