The main source of recent laughs comes from the misrepresentations and exaggerations of US and British 24-hour TV programs on the brutal invasion of Iraq. A prominent Iraqi opposition figure was sighted by his other Iraqi colleagues in the lounge of London’s Grosvenor Hotel one morning reading the dailies and watching the news on TV. He was impressed by an article by Dr. Condolezza Rice in the Wall Street Journal but doubted her assertion that the coalition consisted of nearly 50 nations. Then he heard the Bush on TV, stating that the coalition is growing with “more allies and allies”. Though, he understood it to be growing with more all lies, all lies and all lies!
A group of American lawyers who were on a visit to Paris, France were flabbergasted when they read in the Wall Street Journal that a suit against the civilian and military leaders of the US at the time of the first Gulf War as “war criminals” is being brought in a Belgian court by seven Iraqi families, said to be relatives, of a terrible mishap on a February night in 1991. Colin Powell, the first President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf are all among the names in the complaint. It is currently rumored in Paris that the American lawyers, on reading the document, decided to retaliate with the possible filing in a Belgium court against President Chirac on the ground that his name sounds more like Iraq to make him a “war criminal” in the court of law.
It is reported in the Journal that a Syrian barrow boy asked his customer about the money President Bush requested from Congress to maintain the invasion. He took his small calculator to work out his annual income of $1,500 to the $75 billion requested. It comes to fifty million years, the boy was amazed to discover. This discovery sent him screaming that he could not understand why so much money was spent on destruction when it could be spent wisely to feed the hungry and educate the illiterate.
Khalid Al Kistani, an Iraq columnist, wrote a few days ago that the Arabs cannot forget the broken promises of British governments since World War II. The British government claim has always been that the Arabs misunderstand them and are terribly forgetful. The Arabs have always been put in their place by their wise British counselors and reminded that “An Englishman’s word is his bond.” This was engrained in their minds and souls so that even the bedouin of Jordan believed it to the extent that in their verbal dealings. They shook hands and exchanged the English promise between one another. Mr. Al Kistani patiently waits for Mr. Blair to fulfill his promises to the Iraqis and Palestinians, and proof, for once, that a British politician delivers on his promise to the Arabs. Jihad Al Khazin of the London daily Al Hayat stated on March 28 that the commonality between Osama Bin Laden, Al-Zawahry, Saddam and Bush is their religious commitment to reach for peace through war but with different war budgets. For Saddam it is $1.40 billion and for Bush $400 billion. The remaining two religious zealots obviously move as they earn for the fun of destruction and the joy of killing thousands of innocent peoples and, like the others, also hope to get away with it.
