25 March 2008 Divide & Conquer Policies
Email to Senator Feinstein,
I
am most troubled by your recent email. I would respectively like to remind you
that, contrary to your assertions, there weren’t long simmering sectarian
conflicts between Sunnis and Shia’s prior to our illegal and immoral
intervention in Iraq. Our unwanted presence fueled this conflict and our
military strategy followed the old ‘divide and conquer policies’ which have
been used by other imperial powers to weaken and pacify the local population.
Many
Iraqi expatriates have challenged the fallacy of such statements reminding us
of integrated neighborhoods and families prior to our ill-fated invasion. I
sincerely hope you have heard the testimonies of US soldiers and veterans who
barred the souls and spoke of committing the most horrific crimes against
innocent Iraqis at the ‘Winter Soldiers’ meeting earlier this month – an event
that was unreported by the local US mainstream corporate media but widely
reported in over 80 countries around the world.
Our
invasion has unleashed a war of terror, disdain and racially motivated crimes
against the Iraqi people by the US military who freely admit that there was a
complete absence of ‘rules of engagement’ which generated extremely hostile
reactions. Tragically, they reported that the racist attitudes occurred at all
levels of the US military. Iraqis and
brown skinned foreign workers are commonly addressed by the demeaning epithet
as ‘Hajis’. I ask that you direct your energies to bringing about an immediate
and unconditional withdrawal of all combat US forces and private mercenaries
(contractors) from Iraq. Finally, I ask that you demand the removal of the US
embassy in Baghdad (largest embassy in the world) and US military bases which
are an unwanted symbol of imperial power. Failure to take these steps will
ensure a continuation of hostilities and further erosion of US influence and
power. The Iraqis have suffered enough by our presence and must be granted
billions of dollars in reparations for the destruction of their country and the
death and injuries of millions of their people
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