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The Hard Times in Sad Iraq .....

by via Faiza Al-Arji, A Family In Baghdad
Iraq is passing through very hard and critical times. The conflict over power is now at its peak. Of course it is so obvious and explicit due to the fact that presidential and parliament election is very nearby. These days are crucial to the future of the country for four years to come. The powers that are fighting for power in Iraq are not pure Iraqis. Some of them are being financed by neighboring countries, some are financed by occupying country, and there are internal parties that are Iraqi and no doubt is fighting for power as well.
But it seems that the big doer with military, financial and political capacities is the external financier such as America, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and others. Each country is financing a party or a group that want to assume power and in return control along with the financier the decision of reforming the future of Iraq. America wants to achieve its international and regional role in Iraq by establishing military bases, and establishing a base of capitalism and strong economy in Iraq. Iran wants for itself a military, political, regional and even religious domination in the region. Whereas, Saudi Arabia is interfering to prevent the expansion of Iran and the Shiite Sector in the region provoking them as a representative of the Sunni Wahabi sector in the area for a long time now. Syria is interfering to support and revive the Ba'athest to reclaim power in Iraq because Syria is still ruled by one party that is the Ba'athest. Even the Iraqi opposition party of the previous regime who allied with America and entered Iraq to found the nuclear of a new Iraqi State on new bases, is now fighting among them over power. Power makes them eat each other up.

Poor humans, There is no religious conflict in Iraq between Sunni and Shiite, Muslims and non Muslims. These parties don't adopt any ideology. They all manipulate words such as freedom, democracy, human rights and other regardless of real conceptions. They pretend as if they all agree on the same philosophy and adoption of these terms believing in them without any doubt. If so, why they are fighting and what are they fighting for? The Siitte sector is now divided among themselves. Some are financed by Iran, who want them to assume power in Iraq and some is loyal to Iraq and has a national agenda that differ with the Iranian agenda. This is one of the reasons for exchanged violence in the Iraqi street. Each party wants to bring the other party down politically and demonstrate it as looser and defeated. The Sunni parties also have contradictions in term of politics, perspectives, and various national priorities. There is no religious contradiction between the Sunnis and the Shiite party. The conflict is mainly political and it is about the occupation, distribution of power and wealth in the country. The same can be said about the conflict between the Kurd and the centralized government in Baghdad. There is no ideological, ethnic or religious conflict between them. It is a fight to control the oil wealth in the northern areas in Iraq. May be this is one of the ugly secrets of this profession, the profession of politics. The politician plays on different sides. He changes his perception as needed at any phase. He is on his way to power which is his only goal on the account of people and over their dead bodies, their poverty, their hunger, their ignorance, and complain about oppression and darkness. He shuts his eyes and ears so that he doesn't see what may hold back his focus on the goal. In difficult times he has to appear on the TV screen to assure people and encourage them to support the democratic process to achieve their dreams.

Hahaha… how funny. This is what is happening to the poor Iraqis since 2003.

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