| The declaration of the United States to have withdrawn from Iraq cannot be accepted in view of what it has done from the last nine years from 2001 September onwards till now. The U S administration claims that the last American combat troops moved from Iraq to Kuwait on the early morning of 20th August. They left not in a showing upset and fear but silently after midnight. They came in on a gruesome lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and they have left on an untruth. More than half a lakh U S troops will stay back in Iraq and the number can swell to nearly three-fourth of a lakh, in the guise of Advisors and Assistance Brigade, joining Iraqi troops in combat with war planes and helicopters. The U S continues to have many large actually permanent military bases in Iraq and would be going to maintain approx. two lakh armed forces to safeguard the western business and other interests throughout the country. Seven years after President George W Bush declared to have accomplished the mission the troops have left Iraq now.
The unlawful U S led attack of 2003 and the later occupation have caused disastrous effects. There is no correct count of how many Iraqis have been killed or injured in seven years but it is likely that a million have perished, leaving five million refugees out of which nearly three million internally displaced, with 40 per cent having no jobs. With temperatures near 50 degree C for many months in the year, power supplies fail shutting down water treatment plants raising the danger of pandemic. The governmental chaos was origin of U S conjecture in 2003 that much of Iraqis were fanatically supporting Saddam Hussein and this led the occupying forces to break up the Iraqi army and much of the police and civic administration all over the nation. The results of war comprise the poisoning of Iraq and beyond by an estimated1,000 tonnes of used up uranium of U S weapons. As for the life of the general Iraqis 30 million people fear another fall into ferocious sectarian fighting. This is obsessed by extremists to utilize the political void as the elected politicians quarrel endlessly over forming a government even five months after the elections. In reality, the incursion has been a reward to the al-Queda which has now extended sway in West Asia. In addition, Iran, which U S overtly hates and fears, has strong hold over Iraqi Shia bosses. The U S may have got rid of weak Saddam, who by 2003 was not feared even by neighbouring countries, but it has wrecked one of the world’s great ancient civilisations of Iraq. |
