Iraq Gray

There are opinions the US will divide Iraq into controllable slices, and opinions against. Will there be division, partitions and governors of Kurdleville, Sunnofaville, and Shiitville? Time will tell. The UK/US at times have operated that way. But imperialism has so many ways of decapitating a culture. (Irony is most Americans cannot connect the dots of the foreign methods to what the old guards are doing in the US.)

If the Bushcons follow the Latin technique Iraq will remain one unit. Note we do not have any South Salvador or South Nicaragua. This method of low level warfare, sanctions, deprivation, starvation, death, grinds the civilian population to surrender. I watched this process in Nicaragua during the 1980s. The "contras," or Miami-istas brought the population to its knees with rape, torture, terror, until the people were willing to elect anyone Washington approved of to end the horror or whorers of Reagan's dirty little war.

Certainly BushCo long ago doodled their wishlist of leaders of each faction, Kurd/Sunni/Shiite who in turn will maintain sufficient "peace" among their disgruntled followers. Just shuffling the deck a little, dealing Kurdish and Shiite cards this hand. The factional leaders will have the palaces, when not knobbing around London or Maryland, while the fakir Iraqi bends over. An elite guard will keep the stragglers/strugglers in line. They can't be called "Iraqi Security Forces" as the "forces" is too oppressive sounding - we need fuzzy feeling for US consumption, like "United Iraq Defense".

The Iraqi people did not overthrow SH. Nicaragua turned from Ortega and the Sandinistas, that little US venturette was the cakewalk and not nearly as valuable as Iraq. We had the Kurds but Saddam never had the Kurds. We starved, straffed and sanctioned and Iraq didn't rise up - forcing another Bush to go in another time. For years we've had all these exiled Londinistas waiting to come home and take care of Iraq and still the people left SH in power. For a country as nationalistic as the US has become, Americans seem to have difficulty understanding other nations can feel nationalism (or feel at all). Bush's fist smacking "feels good" on the night he announced the war felt good b/c he was going to by god show those camel jockeys this time. Iraqis just refused to make this easy for US.

Living in war, from within the self and from everyone and everything, the despair becomes unmovable. Not only does a person feel the physical misery that comes with war, but the mind dims to gray, dulls the condition. Living in a country at war if a person returns after war has truly ended, even with poverty continuing, it's startling how colorful and animated the place is. What was war numbed gray is suddenly alive with all the senses. The Iraqi people may be tired of gray.

Saddam was a US instrument/puppet, we know another puppet will be given to the Iraqi people. Unless other major players enter the game, and I haven't ruled out that possibility, Iraq will be what the US/Israel want it to be. Life is quite miserable in nations with puppets, and quite miserable w/o them, we've a collection of Asian, Carribean, African, and Latin countries under our boot to prove it. Will the Iraqi people find themselves sufficiently beaten down to accept the will of Bush? It's possible. I wouldn't bet on anything though.