United States waging war on the Iraqi Government

"If anyone is responsible for the poor security situation in Iraq it is the Coalition"
The United States had begun to contemplate that which they previous said was unthinkable, defeat in Iraq, for that is what withdrawal will be. Iraq has been a military disaster: the invasion was ill-conceived and the occupation was more so. Today in an interview with Reuters, the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, made it clear that the United States is responsible for the Iraqi Government's current state of paralysis and is instrumental in exacerbating the violence.

He dismisses the tired response of Washington and London that their withdrawal is not favoured by the Iraqi government: "They think building Iraqi forces will need 12 to 18 months for us to be in control of security. We agree our forces need work but think that if, as we are asking, the rebuilding of our forces was in our own hands, then it would take not 12-18 months but six might be enough." Thus the Prime Minister of Iraq is suggesting that the Occupiers should not need to be Iraq for any longer than six months.

Moreover, he unambiguously blames the occupiers for the current instability and chaos in Iraq: "If anyone is responsible for the poor security situation in Iraq it is the Coalition. I am now prime minister and overall commander of the armed forces yet I cannot move a single company without Coalition approval because of the U.N. mandate. So those who have the authority and could move the forces are also responsible. This should be clear". Thus dispelling the notion that Iraq is now governed by a democratically elected Government. In reality, it is administered rather than governed (under the auspicious of the UN) by an incompetent, brutal and repressive US military junta.

This is important, because if one was inclined to believe the spin comming out of Washington and London, they are the friends of the Iraqi government; this could not be further from the truth, they have sought to undermine the democratic process at every stage, the Occupiers are waging war on the Shia government, opposing both SCIRI and the Sadrists, the bulk of the government, the major part of the coalition party that al-Maliki is a member of. It was Sayyed al-Sadr, who put al-Malaki in office. The Occupiers attacks on the the Mahdi army and the Badr Brigades are a direct assault upon the sovereignty of the government.

Al-Maliki points out that the threat to Iraq does not come from the Shia militias, as the United States suggests: "Terrorism and the militias are separate issues. There is a political plan aimed at making the militias the priority." Moreover, Al-Maliki noted that Sayyed al-Sadr has forbidden the "use of force against the government and the Coalition forces" and that they are both in full agreement: "the efforts for all political groups should be focused on the most dangerous challenge, which is al Qaeda and the Saddam Baathists...At least we can talk to the militias, we know who they are. They follow Moqtada al Sadr, the Dawa party, Badr etc. We can talk to them but who are terrorists loyal too and who do they follow?"

This is point, that is infrequently mentioned that the United States is in effect siding with al-Qaeda and the Saddam Baathists insurgency in Iraq, by declaring open war on the Shia in Iraq. In fact, by trying to impose a secularist pro-Western government, the United States has abandoned any pretense of favouring democracy, and is once again trying to restore a brutal oppressive autocracy, no different in nature to the Saddam Baathists regime. To this aim the United States has re-centred its focus on targeting the Shia Militia, which is describes as "death squads" ignoring the fact that exponentially more Iraqis have died at the hands of Wahhabi, Kurdish and Baathist "death squads", than have died at the hands of the Shia militias, and that the current wave of reciprocal violence in Iraq, is the corollary of the present security situation. The truth is that without the Shia militia the South of Iraq would be ungovernable and that many of the Sunni militias fulfil the same function in the North.

The United States also operates "death squads", and on a far greater scale, al-Malaki accuses the United States of effectively engaging in terrorism: "Do you send in planes to arrest one person? There is no problem with the principle of arresting criminals but you should not harm people in the way you go to arrest people, spreading horror and at the risk of sabotaging political actions we have worked on."

When Washington and London say they are in Iraq supporting a democratically elected Government, this is simply untrue; they are waging a war against that Government and against the Iraqi people.