Only a free Iraq can be reconciled
By Carsten
Kofoed, Free Iraq Blog of Denmark, December 17, 2006
Another "reconciliation conference" has been held in
Iraq. "Prime Minister" Nouri Al-Maliki urged officers in the army of independent
Iraq to join the new "Iraqi" army.
Of course, this is completely unrealistic because the Iraqi patriotic army with
President Saddam Hussein as Commander in Chief was not dissolved as the US
trumpeted in order to brand the resistance as “foreign” and legitimize its own
army of collaborators. Instead, it constitutes the military backbone of the
resistance that has forced the US superpower to take the count and caused a “new
strategy”, that is, a smoke screen over the military defeat.
When Al-Maliki, taking US orders, still urges that "Saddam's people" join his puppet army, this expresses the military strength of the Resistance, the desperation of the occupying power and the de facto collapse of the occupation.
Reconciliation in occupied Iraq is impossible. It can only happen after
liberation, when the Resistance has re-established security, and when a legal
showdown with the occupation period and its crimes can lay down the foundations
for a new future.
Sent as a comment (150 words maximum) to the Danish press on December 17, 2006.
Published in the Danish daily B.T. (December 18, 2006).
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