We are in the prime years of our servitude to the U.S and their occupation and yet we “esteemed” citizens have received nothing from our American masters but ruin and fear… and dust! This dust, a hallmark of our bond to our beloved America, is one of the more prominent legacies of American policy in the region.
It began with the American caravans, caravans of solders and of doom that brought the black Baath regime to Iraq and tyranny to the region. It dried up the marshes and killed the people and eradicated the trees- pustules of a war grew throughout the land and American boots churned the ground and wrought destruction. Then came the violence, liberating the people from their lives, compounding the dryness of the land and the dustiness of the air.
This dust, which has sapped us of natural life for generations, reminds us what it is that the American administration truly deserves, culturally, legally, and according to the laws of the United States itself: a trial before the courts for its crimes against society!
The goal of this trial is not to obtain material compensation (it certainly would not go to the afflicted among us), but to force the United States to fix what it broke and to use its superior technological strength to put an end to this dust! It is obvious to anyone that American technology, which is said to allow the Pentagon to see even the underwear of the wives of Arab presidents, would, without a doubt, be able to put an end to our misery.
These indestructible Americans could bring rain to the place where the dust originates or give the suffering medicine and equipment for treatment and prevention or propagate a broad network of central respiratory care centers at the expense of community agencies!
I don’t know what it is that makes our obliging representatives– and they are obliging– demand everything, the trivial and the valuable, for themselves while they move sluggishly to alleviate the sufferings of the “esteemed” citizens of Iraq. They allow us to suffer, we who made them representatives and gave them status!
How can we declare “victory” and celebrate the American withdrawal while they remain ever in the clouded air and dusty ground of the great Iraq?
Here in America, most of us wish our government had never made the decision to invade Iraq. And we all wish the Iraqi people hadn’t decided to slaughter each other wholesale too, based on nothing more than their fellow citizen’s religion or ethnicity.
But anyone in Iraq suggesting that the overthrow of an unelected government that massacred it’s own citizens and buried them in unmarked trenches, committed brutal beatings, dismemberment and had people thrown off the roofs of buildings, while Saddam’s family members committed wholesale rape and summery executions in the street… Well, I would suggest the writer is crazy too. What a terrible mentality!!!