Iraq.

16.6.2014.

The contentious debate about the "legality" of the Western-led Iraqi War of 2003 will not disappear even as the new civil war  erupts  in the poor country. Even as Western-concocted terms such as "jihadist" are being liberally and falsely used, the continuous harangue on bad things associated with Muslim peoples deserves absolutely no  merit.  

Concocting was not difficult in the decision-making  by the US, with  its European allies, to get an excuse to wage a unilateral and  one-sided war against Saddam Husin and his imagined WMD.   It didn't matter that the poor bloke was useful to the US  during the war on Iran. All armed Islamic states must be cut to size when the opportunity is there. Thus Egypt, Iran and Turkey are on the short list.  In the meantime Western media can be depended to continue highlighting isolated stories of "honour" killings, repressed hidden musical talent, and the limiting of youth's  taste for Western culture, to show to the world how bad Islam is. It stoked the unrest in the Arabian states, and when it became violent, neatly labelled it "the Arab Spring."

Iraq was civilised long before the Europeans landed in the Americas. Bagdad was a city of learning two thousand years before George Washington led the rebellion against England. The multi-cultured fabric of the Islamic world is simplistically  lumped as "Sunni-Shia".

For eight years the US-led occupation of Iraq successfully repressed and bottled-up the different internal needs of the ancient state. When it finally abandoned Iraq in 2011, no one should be surprised what's happening now is happening.  

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