What I will be saying in the coming few lines is not my opinion, these are facts, from someone that might be the closest to what is going on.
The people of US & A (sounds funnier when said by Borat) are so kind, I enjoyed my stay in the states much more than I ever thought I would, the hospitality and kindness American people have, their respect to other people and the fact that they are as honest as no one is made my respect to them increase.
According to the current Iraqi government, appointed by the occupation, 650,000 at least were killed since the war first started, many political parties in Iraq believe the exact number has reached seven figures.
There are few facts that need to be clear:
1) Alkaeda is Arabic means the base, the name was taken from its very strange structure, in all groups, there is a clear chain of command, a pyramid that is topped with few leaders, and the member count increase as you head down the pyramid, but in Alkaeda's case, there are few figures that distribute tapes (CDs nowadays), have public opinions published, have a very tiny army (that usually serves as protection for them only), and they spread the word and ideas that other people will believe in and follow, members operate in cells of very few people, and those cells are not connected to each other at all, and not connected to the leaders neither, many of them are members of the same family, students from the same school, or even sometimes players from the same football team (from when there used to be football matches in Iraq, nowadays football fields are used as graveyards) who happen to agree on what the leaders (who are actually only putting guidelines) say. They don’t have a secret handshake or training camps, training camps that bin Laden appear in were used for propaganda only, but it was used against him.
2) USA is building Iraq, but this is what is going on exactly: Iraq was once a heaven compared to its neighbours, their universities and educational system were more advanced than other Arab countries, people from other countries used to go there to work, they had a great culture, most of the books were published in Iraq and Egypt, it was a wealthy country with Oil and many other natural resources, even after the war with Iran and the first gulf war, until this war, US tanks kept bombing non war strategic bridges, they ruined most of the roads, in short made Iraq in a mass need for new infrastructure. Now who is going to fix all this? Foreign contractors hired by the US army, for very high prices, that will leave Iraq like every other country once the occupation leaves it, under heavy debts that will stand in the way of it making all of its decisions.
3) The current state in Iraq: there is a civil war there, Saddam (with all his flaws) is an important figure for Sunni people, so you don't hand him over to the other party (Shia'a) to execute him, whether he was guilty or not, this will just heat the fire of the civil war.
4) Timing: It was the worst timing ever, Muslims woke up to celebrate Eid Aladha, these are holy days for them, even non Muslim people in the middle east respect these days, you may not believe it, but since all three occasions came too close (X-mas, Eid and new year), I have heard "Merry New Adha" from many of my friends, all people were happy because of the three occasions, and they ruined everything for everyone here by the timing they chosen, it was extremely insulting and disrespectful (just to let everyone know, the earlier constitution of Iraq before the war didn't allow any executions to take place in any religious holiday, so no one can be harmed)
5) Illegal weapons are used by US army in Iraq. liked it or not, believed it or not, this is true, I am in direct contact with many Iraqi families regularly, and they all, Sunni, Shiei, and Kurdi saw that, and lost relatives and got injured by those weapons, and I've seen some of these injuries with my own eyes.
6) As I said earlier, many non Iraqis used to work in Iraq before the war, most of them have left back to their countries, non Iraqis are not welcomed anymore there, so those freedom fighters are mostly Iraqi, only few are from Saudi Arabia (crossing the border from Saudi Arabia to Iraq is very very very difficult, the few that manage to get there pass usually through Syria, and many don't even manage to reach Baghdad, they get killed on the way). Now for the many non Iraqis workers that are in Iraq now, they are all protected by the armies there, or by body guards, a friend of mine got a job offer that is five times what he gets here and he refused to go there because it is so dangerous even with security personnel protecting you.
7) On the other hand, all of the many Iraqi people I know agree on the following:
- While they are in Iraq, many of them saw several dead bodies for US soldiers ON DAILY BASES, they only reason they go out is to buy important stuff like food, they don't tour all Baghdad for bread, so they don't see all the dead soldiers that were killed in a single day
- They had many encounters with US soldiers who don’t speak English AT ALL!
Now who is hiring mercenaries for promises of American citizenship and doesn't even count them as causalities when they fall? Few weeks ago I was heading to the states and while in the airport, I met a guy who works for a security company, this guys used to work for the British troops that serve in Iraq, the important thing, the guy said it clearly to me, yes there are many non Americans serving as US army, so this is no conspiracy theory, it is the truth.
I am not saying all this to offend anyone, even the soldiers that left their countries and are fighting this war, those armies are under the command of their leaders, the ones am blaming are their governments and leaders.
To anyone that says that this war is not for oil, would you please enlighten every one of us here what is it for? I would be very thankful for a civilised reply.
Sorry for the long post...