The Americans want their Ba’athist allies back!

To the surprise of those who are unfamiliar with Iraqi politics, the Baathists entered Baghdad on an American train two times in the past. The first was to kill the communists in Iraq in 1963 and the second in 1968. To return the favour of Uncle Sam, Saddam accepted to launch the American war on the Islamic republic of Iran in 1980 in order to free the hostages in the US embassy in Tehran and to protect US allies in the Gulf. But Saddam’s biggest mistake was his missile attack on Israel. Jewish-controlled US foreign policy doesn’t tolerate any threat to the rogue Jewish state. In this regard, Saddam refusal to accept Israeli atrocities received wide support inside Iraq, since the hatred for Israel is deeply rooted. The Iraqi Baath party, or one of its factions, has been negotiating with the Americans in Jordan and in Turkey as they want to return to power at any cost. The Americans took advantage of their desperate position and want to hit two birds with one stone. The first is to break the pro-Iranian Kurdish-Shiite monopoly of power in Iraq. But the second and most important is to have the Baathists accept to recognise Israel. The visit of John Biden to Iraq ton 23.01.10, under the cover of reconciliation, exposes the US plans to find anti-Iranian Arab allies. There are two things the Americans must know about Iraq. First Iraqis will never recognise Israel as long as it remained as a rogue state carrying out Nazi-style atrocities. Second,and aside from USraeli agents, the Iraqis consider Iranians as their friends and allies.

It was King Abdullah II who told the Americans that the invasion of Iraq would open up a pandora box of problems in the Middle Esat. That is at the time when he allows the American special-forces to use his forward military bases to launch cross border attacks inside Iraq. I am glad that the American have done what they did and got bankrupt in the process. It also proved the ability of armed people to undermine the military might of the most advanced army on earth. The Iraqis have perfected the use of IED, car bombs, mortars and suicide attacks to harras the American forces. If disarmed Iraq can inflict so much damage can any one imagine what armed Iran can do?

Many war criminals were prosecuted years after they have committed their crimes. Bush-Blair-Aznar-Barroso conspired to destroy Iraq and to kill its people. The Israelis have been committing Nazi-style crimes with impunity. The impatient Al-Qaeda people take the laws in their own hands as there is no-justice. Civilised people must use civlised means to get justice, even if takes years to bring the perpetrators to court.
The Americans don't anyone to expose their collaboration with Saddam regime in gassing Halbaja and the Iranians. As a matter of fact the Americans didn't object or imposed sanctions on Saddam at the time because he was their best friend carrying out a war on the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is known that Mr Donald Rumsfeld had visited Saddm twice while working as one of the directors of Searle Chemical Corporation that supplied precursors of Chemical weapons. The number of 100000 is exaggerated as Halbja is too small to support more that 20000 people. Another issue that requires attention is that the Kurds collaborated with the Iranians to occupy Halbaja at the time when Saddam was waging a war against Iran. Hassan Al-Majeed or Chemical Ali, deserves harsh punishment but also the Americans, the British, the Dutch and the Germans who helped Saddam in manufacturing chemical weapons.
The cruel and mean Saddam committed his worst crimes while a friend of America. That is why he was hanged for irrelevant crime in order to bury with him all the secret dealings with Reagan and Thatcher.
Assassination drones are counterproductive!
It is true that unmanned drones can effectively destroy a trget but can't stop Al-Qaeda or Taleban. Following the assassination of Beitullah Mahsud, the violence increased by many folds. The Pakistani Taleban leadership is not as careful as its counterpart in Afghansitan as it continues to give interviews and expose itself to ISI agents who pass information to CIA. For example, no-one has seen a recent photo of Mullah Omar. Similarly, the wherebout of Bin Laden remains a mystery. It will not be too long before the Islamic resistance finds ways to neutralise the drones.