I thought the consciences of foreign agents in the region would bring them to their senses and cause them to desert their disgraceful profession. I thought this would be the case now that the fig leaf has fallen and exposed the real motives of a war waged by those claiming to want to liberate the people of Iraq. I thought the collaborators would be moved by the pictures of the charred bodies of Iraqi children, of human limbs maimed by bombs, of soldiers searching under the cloaks of women who could very well be their wives, daughters or sisters, looking for explosives and of an old woman crying over the dead body of a relative.
I expected to see their senses return to those who keep watching TV in their bedrooms or grumbling over their mobile phones at how they missed out on certain lucrative business deals and were not even given the merest crumbs of the reconstruction contracts that went to others.
I never thought that one day I would see such a degree of treachery and deception prevailing in Arab societies. Yet, some insist on justifying the very pictures and reports that make your hair stand on end. It pains us to listen to them telling us that any talk of conspiracy in Iraq and the region is mere hallucination. Not only that, the foreign agents and collaborators keep urging us to use our minds. I, for one, don’t know what “mind” those who have joined in the destruction of Iraq and submitted to its Zionist occupiers are talking about. You could see them rejoicing over pictures of the people of Basra scrambling for a bottle of water from the British troops. It was those same forces who had destroyed the city’s water and electricity supplies to provide foreign companies the chance of a profitable contract. What is happening now in Iraq is a crime against humanity, a crime against religion and a crime against all humane standards and principles.
The names of those agents and collaborators must be made public for everyone to know. It is incredible to hear that some businessmen are supplying the invaders with trucks while those same invaders trample and crush the very people they claim to have come to help. I wish the businessmen realized they belonged to the same family of those who are being killed. The question is: How long will this continue and what we can do beyond making some calls for boycotting the occupiers’ products?
A Big Lie
Abdullah Al-Fawzan • Al-Watan
It has now been proved beyond doubt that America has told the biggest lie of the 20th or 21st centuries. It claimed that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction and waged a devastating war based on that claim. If Saddam did have WMD, he would have used them. It is inconceivable that the man would possess the weapons and refrain from destroying them or using them against his enemies as he saw his end approaching. It was also inconceivable that Saddam would refuse to use such weapons, knowing that he was fighting an unbalanced war.
It is has also been established that Saddam proved to be the most stupid and idiotic leader in history, and the greatest loser as well. His rule failed in almost everything except in applying the most brutal policies to his own people. Had Saddam had any sense, he would have managed the diplomatic battle to convince the world that he had no WMD in a different way. Instead, he organized the battle in such a terrible way that his tactics backfired, giving people the impression that he did indeed possess those weapons. Every move he made or action he took pointed to the fact that he was hiding the weapons. He pressured Iraqi scientists into refusing to talk to the weapons inspectors except in the company of the regime agents and also demanded that all the interviews be taped. He then refused to allow the scientists to be interviewed outside Iraq. He should instead have encouraged them to cooperate fully with the inspectors and prove that he had no WMD. He would have embarrassed the United States by exposing its aggressive intentions. Saddam could have done this by many means but he preferred to do nothing to support his case. His foolish policies made him a liar and an evil man in the eyes of others, while those same policies were used to paint America as the saving angel.
These are only a few ideas about this war which led to the removal of a brutal dictator. When the opportunity arrived, America did not hesitate and it reaped the fruits. In pursuing its objectives, the US acted just like the bullies and gang leaders who terrorized Arab cities in earlier times. Yes, it has been proven far too many times that bullies manipulate idiots in order to achieve their objectives. Only time will tell how many idiots still remain in the Muslim world.
Arab News From the Local Press 17 April 2003
