Barack Hussein Obama, Master of the White House!

Who would have believed that a Muslim (even in spite of his claim that he is not a Muslim) of African descent would be the president of the United States and have the most important job in the country which primarily controls and decides the policies of many nations and people?

Yet here is the optimistic young Democratic senator from Illinois (Barack Hussein Obama), now inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States of America, and the only one with African roots. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 as one of the youngest senators.

Interested in humanitarian work and wanting to help marginalized people, Obama enrolled at a university in California before he moved to Columbia University to graduate in 1983 with a B.A. in political science and international relations. In 1991 he graduated from the Faculty of Law at Harvard University and taught law at the University of Chicago. After he nominated himself for the 2008 American presidential elections, his defeat of John McCain led him to the throne of the White House.

The announcement of his presidential victory came before the results of the U.S. west coast states were all in, when he received the (270) votes needed in the electoral college to enter the White House. Then the dream of Americans, white and black, came true. Those who wanted to see change and to inject new blood to their domestic and foreign policies were optimistic about the arrival of Obama, who promised them an economic plan to save the rest of their economy from the financial crisis which shocked America.

He also promised a change from the policies pursued by his predecessor, Bush. In regards to the war on Iraq, he was in opposition to it – as were the majority of Democrats – since they said that the “war was a mistake and the former Iraqi regime had no weapons of mass destruction or any links to terrorism.” The secretary of state (Hillary Clinton) announced that she would not have voted in Congress to invade if she knew that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. And since you, Mr. Obama, are proud to nominate her as secretary of state, as you have already stated (perhaps you gave her this position since she didn’t win yours), let Mrs. Clinton know that her lack of knowledge about the existence of weapons of mass destruction comes too late, because the Iraqi people have already paid the expensive price with their blood. Also let her know that the proud, struggling people of Iraq can’t be annihilated and won’t give up and become slaves. They need their freedom and sovereignty back.

Therefore, since enthusiastic speeches about a withdrawal from Iraq by summer 2010 were the basis of your presidential campaign, we hope that your troops will no longer occupy the country of the the Tigris and Euphrates by that date. Also, we expect you to implement your promise to close Guantanamo Bay’s prison of death and torture, pursuing a rational policy far different from Bush’s criminal policies that have claimed the lives of hundreds and thousands of innocent people under the pretext of “fighting terrorism.”

And perhaps the president (Obama) will listen to Amnesty International’s call to make human rights a central focus of his new administration, especially since he will have real power which enables him to correct the illegal and authoritarian practices adopted by George W. Bush in the name of counter-terrorism and national security. We also ask him to form an independent commission to investigate the violations that the government of the United States committed in the context of the war on “terrorism.”

President Obama, can the killing of children and civilians be called a war against terrorism? And what is the position you will take in regards to the spilled blood in Gaza? Will you be able to rein in Israel and reduce its barbaric aggression? Will your future policies end the shameless and reckless policies of Israel’s leaders? Or will you follow the policy of sympathy in order to satisfy the Zionist lobby, which dictates the decisions of the U.S. government?

We, as Arab people, do not expect much from you, but we hope that you will deal with the Middle East issue through peaceful means, as you announced you would do. We hope you adopt the decision to negotiate rather than confront when considering Iran’s nuclear issue. In regards to the Palestinian issue, we would like you to be fair toward the Palestinians and to support their position on the right of return, and to keep Israel away from Palestinian territories, urging Israel to respect and implement international resolutions.

This is what we hope for from your new administration at the beginning of this new era. Otherwise, history will record that the 44th president of the United States of America, like the 43rd, also won the title of the worst U.S. president, and he only ruled America for four years!