IRAQ - The failed American policy!

IRAQ - The failed American policy!

The invasion of Iraq at first appeared to be a great success because the Iraqi armed forces were defeated relatively easily and Saddam Hussein was overthrown. However, since the initial period which promised much the opposite happened. Therefore, various different Iraqi insurgents have helped to keep America and her allies at bay. The consequences of this failed policy is clear for all to see because religious minorities, females, and other minorities reside in fear. Also, terrorism is a terrible consequence of the invasion of Iraq and now this nation does not exist with regards to centralization. So why and how did America get it so badly wrong?

The first main factor is the lies behind the reasons for war because no weapons of mass destruction have ever been found and of course you had no links with Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. On the contrary, Saddam Hussein was anti radical Islam because he feared this movement would overthrow his secular regime. Therefore, when you start a war from "a lie" it is clear that you will have long term problems.

More important, the same United States of America (USA) supported Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war and during this war the USA stated that Iraq was fighting to stem the tide of radical Islam. However, this factor was ignored by President Bush and so was how Saddam Hussein managed to maintain power. After all, if you do not judge the power plays of a nation then how can you take over the mechanism of government?

In all truth Saddam Hussein was a despot and this can not be doubted, however, given the reality of Iraq, then maybe this was the only way to modernize this nation? Because prior to the First Gulf War the government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein supported religious freedom, the rights of women, and implemented secular law. For Christians, it was a time of relative peace when compared with other nations in the Middle East. Also, a clear infrastructure had been built and Baghdad was a thriving capital where commerce ruled the day.

Yet all this seems like a long time ago because the current Baghdad is a killing zone and a place where time is going backward. Therefore, whole areas are being divided between Sunni and Shia zones and the sizeable Christian population in the capital is either on the retreat or on the margins of society. Another negative is the rise of honour killings in Iraq and the numbers of new born babies dying because of lack of medication.

Another area of disaster is the rise of radical Islam and terrorism because prior to the war terrorism was alien to Iraq and radical Islam had been crushed. But in the new Iraq you have people being blown to bits at weddings, funerals, going shopping, visiting the hospital, and so forth. Therefore, most ordinary Iraqi nationals are bewildered by the complete destruction of society under the rule of America and her allies. Given this, modern day Iraq is a major centre of radical Islam and terrorism, and the USA even sanctioned the implementation of Islamic Law to replace secular law to the disgust of Christians and secularists.

Overall, it is clear that America lied from start to finish, because even today they are claiming that it was a great success. However, only America believes this, and this applies to diehards and not rank and file Americans who clearly know the truth. So many years after the invasion you have chaos, hatred, terrorism, the destruction of the Christian community and other minorities, honour killings, instability, radical Islam, and the complete collapse of the centralized state. Why, put simply, America never had a plan to implement after the war and they never studied the rule of Saddam Hussein and how he maintained order via despotism.

Therefore, not only is the war in Iraq a complete failure, it would also appear that Iran gained by this naive and destructive policy because the Shia are now the new power brokers. Given this, why no war crime tribunals for the leaders of America and the United Kingdom. After all they have destroyed modern day Iraq and turned it into a killing field and a failed state. Even if Iraq changes in the long term, it can never brink back the hundreds of thousands of innocents who have been killed. So America failed from start to finish and they destroyed a nation state on grounds of misinformation.

Lee Jay Walker Dip BA MA
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