The US Is Defeated, by the Lord of the Ka’ba

All political analysts and military commanders agree that the U.S. was defeated in Iraq and did not achieve the victory that was announced by the Bush and Obama administrations. Through its media machine, the U.S. beat a shameful drum throughout the years of the occupation, but many military leaders and members of Congress admit to this defeat and acknowledge that it’s a victory for their enemy, Iran (that Iraq provided a golden platter to Iran).

This talk comes at the time of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Mesopotamia. The whole world has seen, in his recent address, Obama’s lies to his troops withdrawing from Iraq. He lied to them and to the world by arguing that the U.S. liberated Iraq and established democracy, that it transformed Iraq into a green oasis of freedom, prosperity, security and stability and that Iraq now has the region’s ideal form of democracy.

Also, in the course of lying, he did not forget to announce the death toll and injuries resulting from the defeat of his army. He said that 4,500 people were sacrificed for democracy and 30,000 wounded, ignoring what has been announced by Western and American research institutions. In the words of Professor Abdul Bari Atwan, there are huge numbers of dead and wounded, and among them are the hundreds of thousands in Iraq.

He did not mention weapons of mass destruction, which the criminal Bush administration did not find, as well as the devastation caused by U.S. military brutality. Millions of Iraqis are either dead, displaced, migrants or detained. Administrative and financial corruption is unmatched in Iraqi history, and the government is corrupt and failing. Its politicians systematically loot the wealth of the country and wrestle over positions, benefits and sectarianism, which strikes throughout the country. Iran delivered a golden platter to Iraq in order to damage Israel’s forces and revolutionary guards were killed and kidnapped. Bombings and assassinations are regular occurrences, leaving the country with the development of an explosive sectarian security problem. (There is a sectarian war happening in Diyala, led by Israeli forces and the sectarian parties, which hold the powerful security and military offices.)

Iraq lost health, educational, and economic services, as well as the total lack of security in the provinces of Iraq and the absence of balance, through deliberate marginalization and exclusion, in the government and institutions. The army and security forces are dominated by the ruling party, and the sectarian parties that came from Iran now hold 99 percent of the most sensitive and important government jobs. There is no water, no electricity, no health services and the armies consist of unemployed graduates. All of this devastation has engendered harsh feelings that have helped foster the establishment of the territories, and these feelings are necessary. This has happened in Salah ad-Din, Diyala and Anbar; Nineveh is probably on its way, as well as Kirkuk.

Any victory Obama speaks of is narrated, and his administration’s failed promises are laughed at by the Americans as political propaganda. These lies and hypocrisy have not fooled any Iraqis, or the world, because the reality on the ground is just the opposite. The American invasion forces have pulled out of Iraq under the cover of darkness and by the force of the heroic Iraqi resistance, which has smashed the arrogance of the U.S. Army, inflicting the greatest casualties militarily and materially.

Let me give you an example of a defeat of the U.S. military: The U.S. governor of the Nineveh province was informed that Wednesday would be the day for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Mosul and that he was to attend the farewell ceremony. So the governor went on Wednesday to attend the ceremony, but was surprised to find that the entire base had fled (via the Mosul airport). He did not find a single person in the base, and he realized that they had fled the day before under the cover of darkness, without anybody’s knowledge. Similarly, the United States fled from the rest of the other provinces for fear of military strikes from the Iraqi resistance, which has deepened the U.S.’s wounds and has forced them to flee and escape in unworthy shame.

However, the army is timid and cowardly, just like the invading U.S. Army. As for the Iraqi political situation after the supposed withdrawal — which is a misrepresentation, considering the 15,000 security personnel and the thousands of items from security companies that remain in Iraq — security is deteriorating dangerously and is coming very close to producing an explosion of chilling images (as is now happening in Diyala and Anbar). Political strife in the Maliki government is at its peak, and its political failure is unmatched.

Then, with the end of the year approaching, we threaten to enter into an even more dangerous civil war (God forgive) thanks to the withdrawal of the invading forces from Iraq as well as the strength of Iran’s influence, which, according to the statements by Ahmadinejad, Salehi and Larijani, is ready to fill the vacuum left behind by the withdrawal. They have enlisted the Maliki government in order to export to Camp Ashraf their explosive internal crises between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei. Innocent residents who are internationally protected were killed, and the Al-Maliki government insisted on their leaving Iraq by the end of this month, despite appeals by the international community, including the U.S. Congress, the European Union and its member governments. Therefore, the Iraqi scene is more dangerous than perceived.

The Obama administration’s lies are exposed in front of the world. The United States is defeated … Yes, defeated in Iraq, by the Lord of the Ka’ba.*

*Editor’s note: “By the Lord of the Ka’ba” is an Arabic expression meaning, roughly, “I swear to God.”