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Written by river on Jun 10, 2006
Zarqawi...
So 'Zarqawi' is finally
dead. It was an interesting piece of news that greeted us yesterday
morning (or was it the day before? I've lost track of time...)
I didn't bother with the pictures and film they showed of him
because I, personally, have been saturated with images of broken,
bleeding bodies.
The reactions have been different. There's a general consensus
amongst family and friends that he won't be missed, whoever he
is. There is also doub t- who was he really? Did he even exist?
Was he truly the huge terror the Americans made him out to be?
When did he actually die? People swear he was dead back in 2003...
The timing is extremely suspicious: just when people were getting
really fed up with the useless Iraqi government, Zarqawi is killed
and Maliki is hailed the victorious leader of the occupied world!
(And no - Iraqis aren't celebrating in the streets - worries
over electricity, water, death squads, tests, corpses and extremists
in high places prevail right now.)
I've been listening to reactions - mostly from pro-war politicians
and the naïveté they reveal is astounding. Maliki
(the current Iraqi PM) was almost giddy as he made the news public
(he had even gone the extra mile and shaved!). Do they really
believe it will end the resistance against occupation? As long
as foreign troops are in Iraq, resistance or 'insurgency' will
continue - why is that SO difficult to understand? How is that
concept a foreign one?
"A new day for Iraqis" is the current theme of the
Iraqi puppet government and the Americans. Like it was "A
New Day for Iraqis" on April 9, 2003 . And it was "A
New Day for Iraqis" when they killed Oday and Qusay. Another
"New Day for Iraqis" when they caught Saddam. More
"New Day" when they drafted the constitution... I'm
beginning to think it's like one of those questions they give
you on IQ tests: If 'New' is equal to 'More' and 'Day' is equal
to 'Suffering', what does "New Day for Iraqis" mean?
How do I feel? To hell with Zarqawi (or Zayrkawi as Bush calls
him). He was an American creation - he came along with them -
they don't need him anymore, apparently. His influence was greatly
exaggerated but he was the justification for every single family
they killed through military strikes and troops. It was WMD at
first, then it was Saddam, then it was Zarqawi. Who will it be
now? Who will be the new excuse for killing and detaining Iraqis?
Or is it that an excuse is no longer needed - they have freedom
to do what they want. The slaughter in Haditha months ago proved
that. "They don't need him anymore," our elderly neighbor
waved the news away like he was shooing flies, "They have
fifty Zarqawis in government."
So now that Zarqawi is dead, and because according to Bush and
our Iraqi puppets he was behind so much of Iraq's misery - things
should get better, right? The car bombs should lessen, the ethnic
cleansing will come to a halt, military strikes and sieges will
die down That's what we were promised, wasn't it? That sounds
good to me. Now - who do they have to kill to stop the Ministry
of Interior death squads, and trigger-happy foreign troops?
- posted by river @ 12:47 AM
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