It is ironic that the president of Iraq, the leaders of the national coalition and the leaders of the militias all complain about the Saudi-Qatari support of terrorism in Iraq and Syria: Are they some kind of beacon of peace among all the bloody days of the week in Iraq? They deceive their followers instead of motivating their moral and religious inclinations by telling them the truth. The reality is that their ally, America, which moved tanks into the castle of dictator Saddam Hussein in the protected green zone, orders and encourages [America’s] followers in Saudi Arabia and Qatar (and all Gulf countries) to support the instability in Iraq by supporting terrorism.
Iraq is not a country. It is a protectorate of America and the biggest American military base in the world — the flags and national anthem that blanket this country do not hide this reality, as illustrated by political analysts of countries like Qatar (Dr. Aaed Minah) or Kuwait (Dr. Mohammed al-Msafer), who come out and violently provoke Iran to the point of insult, with no fear that they are only a stone’s throw away from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on the other banks of the Gulf. Maybe they will be protected from behind by the army of Qatar or Kuwait, or Iron Man or Grendizer.*
All of the Gulf countries, without exception, are under the dominance and protection of the United States of America. These countries are not able to move one round of their military armament or give one dollar to any foreign [entity] without U.S. approval and alignment with the country’s interests around the world. Our political analysts on the satellite channels in Iraq avoid mentioning the devilish role of Iran in Iraq, or [Iran’s] singing of praises for the IEDs (improvised explosive devices), sticky bombs and militias of General Qasem Soleimani that exist across all stretches of Iraqi land.
The president of Iraq has visited America more than five times to meet with leaders in the White House. Every month he has communicated with the U.S. vice president to check on the safety of the “political process,” and in none of these meetings has he mentioned the situation of their allies’ support — Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey — of terrorism in Iraq. Do you know why? Because the American leaders would say to him: “In and across Iraq, Iraqi and Arab terrorist systems (which Iran supports) harm our supreme national interests, and although you are our dear friend and ally, we are not able to [put] pressure on you as you are a legitimate government of an independent sovereign country. And as we are a respectable and civilized country, we respect the sovereignty of a country and its laws, habits and customs. Saudis also are our dear allies, and we are not able to intervene in the domestic and foreign policies that are representative of that independent and sovereign country. We are not able to [put] pressure on them, but can only give them advice that is between friends.”**
This is also applicable to other U.S. allies such as Qatar, Bahrain and Turkey, and even the Comoros and Waq-Waq Islands. The words of the president of Iraq are either, “Saudi Arabia does not recognize its mistakes in supporting terrorism because it is governed by a ‘sectarian complex,’” or that [Saudi Arabia] “strives to eliminate the inaccurate belief that it is at war with [Iraq] and that it is Russia who specifies that Saudi Arabia is responsible for terrorist activities in the world.”***
This is craziness, and these are the words of someone who lives outside of history: The U.S. war with Russia rages on in the Middle East, and has for years, through the influence of their delegates (in the Persian Gulf countries). It is fueled by al-Qaida, the Badr Corps, the al-Nusra Front, the Khazali network, Daash, Iraqi Hezbollah and the Liberation Army of Lebanon, Iraq and, finally, Syria. For the last three years, Russia and its ally Iran have tried desperately to maintain control of the eastern Mediterranean coast (off Syria), while America and its allies (the Gulf countries and Turkey) have tried to expel [Russia] at any price, and to extend a “Gulf” gas pipeline to Europe.
This would [be an act of] renunciation of the gas from Russia and the expulsion of Iran — withholding the milk from the spoiled child, Hassan Nasrallah. From 2003 to the present day, the price of the Russian–American conflict has been paid by Iraq’s followers: Saudi Arabia and Iran. Today, Iran controls the Shiite area in south Iraq totally, while America tries to wrest the Sunni region at any price and annex it to Kurdistan in American Iraq. It even happens that America has refused to provide the Iraqi government with advanced weapons, fearing that the Shiite militias (sympathizing with Iran) have merged with the armed forces that have retained their allegiance to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The reality, of which the world is aware, is that the Iraqi people (except for the Kurdish sectors) are held hostage by unofficial terrorist activities, official murderous militias and gangs, and the corrupt mafias that are able to smuggle hundreds of billions of dollars from Iraq. This is all supported by America and Russia (as well as the Gulf countries and Iran). On Nov. 7, 2013, the president came out and said, “We do not have interest in relations with any one country, but we work to set up good relations with all countries.”*** He thinks he leads a country called Iraq, not a boxing ring for regional and international fighting by the same name. The most destructive weapons in the history of mankind are used in Iraq, and these weapons further contaminate the sectarian conflicts. It is a country in which 1.25 million soldiers are heavily armed — $20 billion worth — dozens of car bombs explode in its capital every month and hundreds of the world’s most hardened terrorists are released from its prisons.
It is unable to protect its borders with Syria — not just from the army but also from terrorist gangs (such as al-Qaida and Daash). It accuses half its people of being incubators for terrorism, but not its interior minister or minister of defense. Iraq has no intelligence service or agents, and its security resolutions are built on unreliable intelligence reports presented by the “lawmakers” and sheiks from the 1990s. They protect the leaders and the symbol of the nation (its militias), and they stage parades to pour money upon them. They run for election in parliament (Qais Khazali) and they win and become minister (Hadi al-Amiri) so that they can go and kiss the hands of the leaders of other countries (the way it is done in the mafia) and receive orders from them.
Leading a country of such importance in the Middle East with such a shabby political system is not respected by the world; its society is overwhelmed by sectarian and ethnic divisions that delegitimize the regime. It is an elective system without democracy, for even most dictator regimes carry out elections of some form to obtain legitimacy — for the sake of repressing, killing and enslaving the people in the name of the people. Indeed, international organizations respect a system that respects the people, but they do not trust the system that accuses half the people of terrorism and incubating terrorism. [International organizations] distrust a foreign agenda that aims to beg big powers for the sake of the extermination [of these organizations]. This regime is a puppet of the great and regional powers, because it has no controlled land to stand on and no strong wall to support them — this land and this wall, they are the people.
The world can disregard the ruler who kills tens of thousands of citizens of other countries, but [the world] despises the government that wages war and kills its own people — like what is now happening in the random bombardment of the city of Ramadi. The previous regime was not prosecuted when it killed thousands of Iranians and Kuwaitis, but it was prosecuted for crimes committed against its own people. A system like this, mired in repression and corruption, but heeding the world’s call to set up an international conference to fight terrorism, could not grasp the reasoning of these international organizations that understand the details of what occurs in Iraq.
What the world sees are deep sectarian divisions in the region, which originate and extend from those divisions that occurred in Iraq after 2003 at the hands of extreme religious parties — “Islamic Nazism,” as it is called in Iran and Saudi Arabia. These sectarian divisions maintain an environment ideal for spreading terrorism and extremism (both Sunni and Shiite). The massacres that have continued in Syria for years are repugnant examples of this division. The political, sectarian system in Iraq is a factory [for producing] extremism and terrorism. Iraq is involved in internal, regional and international conflict from which it receives no benefit; it wastes its people’s lives and assets and is causing the loss of its present and its future.
The Sunni moderate has become afraid because he thinks that all Shiites are protected by the so-called Iranian “system of Shiite atonement,” so he goes to the Saudi “system of atonement” to receive safety in exchange for his becoming an extremist through his service — and then he blasphemes his Iraqi Shiite brother. Likewise, the moderate Shiite is afraid because he thinks that all Sunnis are protected by the Saudi “system for Sunni atonement” and so he goes to the Iranian “system of atonement” to gain his security in exchange for his conversion to extremism through his service — and then he blasphemes his Iraqi Sunni brother. And in this way, all Iraqis become extremist terrorists, murderers and criminals, unconsciously.
Iraqis need to be conscious and clever — and they are no less clever than the people of Egypt. This is the dreadful plan carried out by Iraqi religious parties, who help their regional and international masters carry out the scheme to annihilate Iraq and divide it into regions based on sect, tradition and tribe for the scrutiny of American companies (Chevron and Exxon Mobile), as well as that of Israel, Russia and their smaller followers, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
*Editor’s note: Grendizer refers to the cartoon robot character created by Japanese artist Go Nagai in the 1970s.
**Editor’s note: This quotation is not meant to be the verbatim representation of what was said by U.S. officials to the Iraqi president. It serves, rather, as an anecdote for what the author believes would be the dialogue between the parties.
***Editor’s note: The original quotation, accurately translated, could not be verified.
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