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Iraq , in need of National Salvation Front....

by via Faiza Al-Arji, A Family In Baghdad
Saturday, August 29, 2009 : The observer who follows the daily news in Iraq sees how events accelerate in violent, bloody directions, before the parliamentary and presidential elections early next year…

a follower of the news stumbles between hope and frustration, between light and darkness, among tens of confusing questions that needs a quiet session to collect facts on the ground, to analyze them then to come out with realistic, logical results, to comprehend what is happening, and to answer questions like- why? When? and How?

Questions circle around in my mind: why all this violence and bloodshed? When will all this end? How can we save Iraq?
Matters are moving in an accelerating violent direction, as political pacts among the ruling Parties in power stumble. Those political pacts have been moving in a very slow and stumbling manner for months, perhaps, while the streets of Baghdad explode with trapped cars and blood is shed as a reaction on the ground, expressing the violent political conflict among these Parties, in a dialogue language that became adopted in the after-the-occupation-Iraq.

America said it has removed the tyrannical, comprehensive regime in Iraq, and brought a democratic, multiple system- and this is the experiment of the multiple system in the new Iraq.

And when some of the writers of our new government write an article, they accuse the neighboring Arab states of being jealous and spiteful because their regimes are old and tattered, while ours is a modern, civilized, multiple…

By God I don’t know what to say- are these people fools, blind, or ignorant? With what are they boasting, and bragging?

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Last week’s explosions were a strong message addressed to AL-Maliky’s government, and it is clear it was from his allies, not from strangers; as it is not possible to pass so many check-points by trucks loaded with many tons of explosives without a collusion with the security leaderships responsible for those check-points. This also shows how frail and infiltrated our security ministries are- the Defense and Interior Ministries, for they are divided among sectarian militias and death gangs whose job is aimed against the innocent Iraqi civilians instead of protecting them…

During the past weeks, when the Iraqi Prime Minster and the General Leader of the Armed Forces, decided to remove the concrete anti-blast walls from the streets of Baghdad, he knew Baghdad was safe from terrorism; he wanted to send a message to the Iraqis that he was sure of his security systems and their performance level after the occupation forces pull out from cities, and perhaps also it was an election publicity for him personally…

but his allies didn’t like these signals, as he is in a constant state of conflict with the coalition that contains the Supreme Islamic Council headed by Al-Hakeem, including Al-Sader Bloc, Al-Fathealh , Al-Daiwaa party ,and other sectarian groups that donned the Shia’ats guise but failed to present any real services to the Iraqi people on the ground, and so, with the elections drawing near, this coalition broke up and disintegrated, under the pressure of the street and its refusal of these sectarian coalitions. First of all- Al-Fathealh Party withdrew and formed another front… Al-Sader Bloc hesitated, withdrew then went back again, and in my view this is political opportunism; because they know they are empty-handed without this sectarian coalition, they went back to the Coalition to prove, as other Parties have proven, that their loyalty is for the Parties and their interests, not to Iraq and its interests… this ruination spread, and corruption, because of the loyalty to the Party, the covering of all faults and refusing to admit them, in stead of giving loyalty to Iraq and its people, and defending their interests. That is a main reason to the calamities in which Iraq is living now….

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