Surgified Iraq: How the US has guaranteed a state of chaos for years to come

“He said his members voted Saturday to leave the Awakening movement, though they would keep their posts. ‘This is a message to the prime minister,’ he said, suggesting that the move was only symbolic so far. The United States military says that only 164 Sons of Iraq members have been arrested in the past year, ‘many of them for good reason,’ said Col. Jeffrey Kulmayer, who runs the program under General Ferriter. Awakening members, however, complain that the real number is much higher. Mahmood Abdullah al-Jbouri, security chief for the Awakening Council in Madaen, said in that district, there were arrest warrants out for hundreds of Awakening members, ‘including me.’ He was in hiding and reached by telephone.”[5]

An even more recent report shows the alarming descent into sectarian hell that looms just around the corner. In a March 30, 2009, interview on The Real News Network, Leila Fadel, Baghdad Bureau Chief of McClatchy Newspapers, states that leaders of these Awakening Councils are being systematically rounded up, arrested, tortured and killed by the Maliki government. [6]

Could all of this have been avoided? You betcha. But from the very outset of the occupation phase of this war, the US government has methodically chosen the route of more war, more bloodshed, more death and more chaos. From the axing of General Garner’s initial plan to return the country to its people within 90 days, to the utterly catastrophic directive by his replacement, Ambassador Bremer, to instantly create a state of complete destitution across the entire country by firing all police, military and most ministerial positions, the American government has been consistent in only one regard, rampant and continual confusion and chaos.

And as a final added insult, the US government has deliberately created a sizable group of hardened fighters in Iraq who are all considered traitors. The leaders of these groups are now running for cover, or already hiding. The Iraqi government has put out arrest warrants for hundreds if not thousands of them. In order to stay alive, these groups will be forced to fight and defend themselves for the rest of their lives.

So I guess, in a way, the mission of the US is now complete. If the goal has always been utter chaos, violence and bloodshed for years to come, the US has done a marvelous job. And when reviewing the timeline of events, it is hard to imagine another possible scenario to explain the US government’s continued destruction of the Iraqi society since March 19, 2003.

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