Why Did US Destroy Iraq?

Is it a coincidence that the word OIL forms the first letters of Operation Iraq Liberation?

Why did the Americans not withdraw after toppling Saddam?

If the US killed one million Iraqis and Saddam killed five or ten thousand, who killed more?

Many questions await logical answers,

Many of the Iraqi people have been dreaming of the day when they would get rid of the tyrant. However, they survived the tyrant only to fall in the hands of the foreign occupation, a position reminiscent of the Day of Resurrection when the people will beg Allah, SWT, to save them from that horrific day and take them away from it even to the Hell.

Six years have passed since the US occupied Iraq, during which the American forces have destroyed the Iraqi infrastructure and stolen Iraq's resources.

Nobody doubts that Saddam's era was that of ordeals in which the Iraqi people were deprived of their resources and freedom. During Saddam's era, Iraq also labored under the yoke of a despotic rule, the way which dominated the country as is the case with most Arab countries.

Many of the Iraqi people thought that getting rid of Saddam was the very end, even if they fell in the hands of the Americans! What some Iraqi people dreamt of has come true, the same wishful thinking which many Arab people hope, who also labor under oppression at the hands of their rulers and turn to the US in the hope that it would oust their tyrants. I myself heard more than one Arab person say" If only the US came to our country just as it did in Iraq to establish a democratic rule, secure fair election, eliminate the tyrant ruling regimes and allow the people to choose their leaders and representatives". I even met an Iraqi citizen in Ireland who blamed me after I gave a lecture there, because I prayed at the end of the lecture that Allah, SWT, save Iraq. He justified this by saying that the American armies are friendly ones which have come at the request of the ruling regime and they toppled Saddam the tyrant after life became impossible under his rule!!

I do not wonder at his being happy about the toppling of Saddam, since the latter was really a tyrant , but I wonder at him failing to see the state of affairs which Iraq has reached since the American occupation.

Theoretically ,everyone can speak as they like and suppose and analyze as they wish, but after the passage of six years of occupation, it is time that one stopped living in theories and, instead, one should turn to see the status quo and conditions on the ground.

First: The unbelievable number of the Iraqi slain!

British Polling Centre ORB estimated the number of the Iraqis who were killed from April 2003 until August 2007

(until about two years ago) at one million and thirty three people!! It is an earth shaking figure, even it is not surprising compared to the number of the dead whom we see on the television screens every day. The reasons of death are various but the end is the same, i.e. death. The polling centre stated that 40% of the victims were killed with the bullets of the Americans, and 8% were killed via air raids. These hair raising figures are undoubtedly much more than what we saw in Saddam' days, in spite of the heinous brutalities whose regime had perpetrated. The media outlets then depicted Saddam as a criminal when he killed five thousand people in the Kurdish village of Halabja, and this is undoubtedly a big number, but which is bigger, five thousand or one million !!??

Second: Human Rights Watch in its annual report on Iraq in the year 2008 stated that the number of those held up in the Iraqi prisons under the background of the occupation and resistance of the American occupier has reached 24000 until the year 2008. The occupier did not stop at mere sending people to prison, but we all saw what happened in Abu Ghraib prison which included, among other things, humiliation of Muslims in a way that sparked anger throughout the world as we know.

Third: 4, 8 million Iraqis have been sent homeless!

Human Rights Watch said in its report that about two million homeless people have been relocated outside the Iraqi borders, mostly in Syria and Jordan. This means that one fifth of the remaining Iraqi people who survived killing have been sent homeless, and the future of all Iraqis is dreadful, both in security and economic terms, since many of them are children who have lost their fathers. The UNISEF figures estimated that the brutalities perpetrated by the US forces in Iraq have left behind between four and five million which are brought up by one 1,5 million widowed.

Fourth: the unprecedented and chaotic state of affairs which Iraq has undergone now has never been heard of throughout the history of Iraq and even in the history of the entire region. If we compare the situation in Palestine to that in Iraq, we can realize the magnitude of the disaster. While Palestine has come under a very big problem under the Zionist occupation, their ordeal, however, is much less than that we see on the land of Iraq. I do not downplay the Palestinian ordeal, but I draw the attention to the magnitude of the Iraqi problem.

Fifth: How powerful was the Iraqi army before the occupation and how is it now? I ask those who say that they expected prosperity of Iraq after the Americans invaded Iraq! Nearly all the Iraqi army has been demobilized. After Iraq was the world's sixth military force and its army was the strongest one in the Middle East, numbering over one million soldiers in 1990, the world's fourth army in terms of the number of its troops, it has now become without an army.

Everyone knows that what is called the Iraqi army now, which the American occupying forces are training, is nothing but tamed forces dedicated for the providing security to the American before the Iraqi troops, and these forces do not have the power of ordinary armies, and if the Americans leave one day, this army will not be able to resist any other occupying army either a Zionist or Iranian one.

Sixth: In terms of scientific area, Iraq has become a backward state in the full sense of word, now that its scientific infrastructure has been completely destroyed, and the major universities closed down, and thousands of schools were razed and the Iraqi talented brains used every means to flee Iraq and immigrate to anywhere in the world. Surprisingly, the states which occupied Iraq are the same states which accommodate and receive the Iraqi immigrant scholars. Suffice it to say that , for instance, over two thousand doctors have immigrated to Britain. If we take into account that each Iraqi doctor cost his country about 45000 dollars before he had finished his Major studies, we can realize that with the immigration of the doctors to Britain, Iraq has lost about one hundred million dollars

( in the seventies)in Britain only and in the doctors sector only, let alone the scientific loss due to the those doctors leaving Iraq, and let alone also the health risks which result from the immigration of those doctors. The disaster will actually exacerbate when we know the figures of the scholars and engineers, astrologers and accounts and other influentially scientific posts.

Even the report of the strategic economic orientations issued in Cairo, which deals with the scientific levels in world states, and which relies on the reports of the World Bank, has failed to know the number of scholars and technicians in Iraq in proportion with the population, due to the immigration state of affairs, besides the statistics under this deteriorating security situation in the state have been lost.

Seventh: The economic conditions in Iraq are easy to notice. After it was one of the world's richest states which also brought in workers and farmers and professionals who seek wealth, the state of affairs shows now that Iraq has become one of the world's poorest states, although it sits at a sea of oil and it keeps the world's second oil reserve, besides the other mineral and farming resources. The Iraqi oil exports in the year 2001 hit 15,5 billion dollars in spite of the American blockade. But, alas, the Human Development report for the year 2005 stated that 60% of the Iraqis have been categorized as poor and the declared unemployment hit over 38 % of the population, besides 22% as disguised unemployment. This means that 60% of the people who survived killing have failed to find job opportunities, since the state has been impoverished and deteriorated since the occupation.

Eighth: America has been and still is backing sectarianism in Iraq. Once it swept the country, it announced that it has sought to lift injustice from the sects which were oppressed in the days of Saddam, thus opening the door wide before the Shiites in particular, and formulated the Iraqi constitution in a way that stipulates that the prime minister be a Shiite one. Besides being the supreme commander of the armed forces, the constitution entitles the prime minister to choose his cabinet ministers. This gives the Shiite prime minister free hand to exclusively give the sovereign posts to one of his fellow Shiites. The US knows that this will not pass unnoticed but it will spark Shiite Sunni strife and infighting, something which has never happened in decades and which did not happen except under the American occupation.

Readers may wonder at the mystery of the US leaning to the Shiite. This is a multifaceted issue through which the US seeks to create some kind of balances in the region in a way that works in favor of its interests, and we may dedicate a full report to this issue in the coming articles, but at least I should draw the readers' attention that the Americans have always sought to make the Muslim world a hostage of illusion called the potential Iranian threats. You can review my article "a boogey under control" which deals with that part of the issue. I also draw the attention that Obama late last week posted a felicitation message to the Iranian Supreme Religious leader named Khameni on the Persian Nowruz Day

( Jazeera Satellite Television , April 9th, 2009)

The sectarian sedition- which emerged with the American occupation- claimed the lives of thousands and thousands of Iraqi people, and all the Iraqis have entered into a dark tunnel.

Ninth: We have often heard the American leaders that they would leave Iraq soon after liberating Iraq from Saddam! And now years have passed, mainly six years, and the American forces are still occupying the Iraqi territories. There are about 146000 American troops on the Iraqi territories, besides the American forces in Kuwait and Qatar. And now Obama, who has often pledged to withdraw the US forces from Iraq, paid a surprising, supportive, visit on April 8th, 2009, three months after he assumed office ! this means that the withdrawal of forces- even real- will not be in the foreseeable future .

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Tenth: With the US toppling the Iraqi government and oppressing the Iraqi people, besides wiping out the army and the state, the region has lost its longstanding balance of power, and Iran found it easy to wreak havoc in Iraq; it even sent clear threats to Bahrain and the UAE. All of us have to expect that once the American army has left, most of the regimes neighboring Iran will never be able to stop it, given the mounting growth of Hezbollah in Lebanon and given the Alawi regime in Syria. This aforementioned marks a serious future which must be deeply studied.

Now that I have put the reader in the picture about these ten points aforementioned, I haste to say that I do not mean by this to make the Muslims reach depression and despair, since these occupying armies will inevitably withdraw and the Iraqi country will be inevitably liberated, but I mention these facts to come up with lessons from this story, mainly that whatever injustice and oppression on the part of the rulers of the Muslim countries, the foreign occupation to our countries must not be the alternative. We saw that so far, the Americans have spent over 500 billion dollars on this war. The question is: Did America spend this astronomical sum of money merely to save the Iraqi people from Saddam or that the American agenda has other objectives, foremost among which is the destroying of this growing power in Iraq and� preserving of the Zionists' security, pillage of the valuable oil resources, approaching the US' traditional enemy Russia , and wielding more hegemony within the Muslim nation countries, and other aggression- related objectives which are divorced from honor, virtue and moralities?

Now that I have put you in the picture about this heart breaking image of the Iraqi state of affairs, we do not call on the Arab peoples to accept their tyrant rulers, nor do I call for feeling satisfaction with the like of Saddam Hussein. Rather, I call on every country to seek the suitable mechanisms to get out of its crisis and to lift injustice from its shoulder, using all means except bringing occupying forces into the country which, if deployed in the country, may continue to occupy it in tens of years to come.

To the Iraqi people in particular, and the Muslim peoples in general, here is a clear message which they should listen to:

It is your nails only that can rub your skins. So, you have to resolve your own problems,

May Allah restore glory to Muslims and victory to Islam,

By Dr. Ragheb Elsergany

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