Before the Bush regime, Clinton and his democrats dropped bombs. With the Bush regime, Corporate America won the support for invasion. The military-industrial-complex lives on. But just what will happen post Bush regime?
Maybe we’ll see evacuation measures taken by the White House under a new administration. But with a strong corporate attachment to Iraq, just exactly who will be allowed to evacuate? Protection - politically and militarily speaking - will be needed to sustain corporate interests of Iraq
Or we could see a larger war blossom from the US occupation and now Turkish incursions. That’s right, the sovereignty of the Iraqi people is being violated yet again. Cross-border attacks against Kurdish rebels has outraged the Iraqi government. But if the Americans can do it, why not the Turks?
The Iraqi people have been murdered; their land, ravaged. So, if the first obligation of a nation is to protect its citizens - thereby, sovereignty - should the Iraqi military begin to move north and protect the border with Turkey? Or is the responsibility of the regional Kurdish government? Prime Minister, Nuri al- Maliki, commented on Kurdish flags in government buildings. He remarked, that ‘the Iraqi flag is the only flag that should be raised over any square inch of Iraq.’
The Kurds have maintained autonomy ever since 1971 when the Iraqi government and Kurdish parties agreed on a peace accord. The accord recognized Kurdish as an official language and the constitution was amended to include that ‘the Iraqi people is made up of two nationalities, the Arab nationality and the Kurdish nationality.‘
So who protects who and who is responsible to who for doing what to who and does why even matter? The US is in Iraq. Turkey is invading the Kurdish north or Iraq. Iran has shelled Iraqi Kurdistan.
Over one million Iraqis have been killed because of all the sanctions and invasions. In a region full of spoils, what is more important: humanity or oil? Life or profit?
P.S. I have decided not to scroll up and figure out if any of this makes sense. Then again, not much of what I read about Iraq or the Middle East seems to make much sense.
