Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki: According to some

of his fellow countrymen, he's no democrat.

Kitabat, Iraq

Our Leader is a Mass Murderer,

and Our Democracy is a Sham

"Those imposing this system want, above all, to drown Iraqis beneath a sea of democratic pretension, so that the government can securely execute its policy of muzzling and silencing the people."

By Ibrahim Alabidi

Translated By James Jacobson

August 28, 2007

Kitabat - Iraq - Original Article (Arabic)

After Iraq's "transformative" experiment in democracy - which arrived by way of the coalition's immoral war of aggression led by its evil sponsor, the United States - can that country still be referred to as the free world's "defender of liberty?"

While history has witnessed similar barbaric wars, Bush's war of democracy arrived on the back of tanks on the 9th of April, 2003, with a company of exiled traitors rushing close behind and championing the war of "liberation" that has resulted in the slaughter of Iraq, Iraqis and their civilization.

Before this, there had been lone dictators at the head of governments across the entire Arab region (usually totalitarian regimes that came to power through military coups or bloody revolutions), who were well aware of the particular political customs of the nation - which were needed for shaping the minds of his Arabic citizens.

However today, we are witnessing a new kind of dictatorship, that one could call "Bush's democratic dictatorship." This democracy is comprised of groups of vengeful, malicious, murderous and corrupt sectarians who returned after having been exiled to neighboring countries - specifically Iran and Syria. And the memories remain. The Iraqis are aware of Prime Minister Al-Maliki's corruption and the nest of forgery at his former stronghold near the Saiyyda Zeinab Mosque in Damascus, which is a distinct hallmark of the pattern of government in the new Iraq.

[Editor's Note: Nouri al-Maliki is a member of the Dawa Party, the Shiite political group that for years led an armed underground resistance to the secular-Baathist leadership of Saddam. When Saddam hunted down his opponents, Mr. Maliki followed other Dawa leaders into exile - fleeing the country in 1980 and eventually finding refuge in Syria ].

For this reason we're unlikely to see much evidence of democracy from a government that has had 17 ministers resign, four major political blocks withdraw their support; whose Parliament had to be suspended; which is reviled by 90 percent of the Iraqi population; which is subject to frequent criticism from American authorities; and which is at the mercy of the ruling junta in the Green Zone (recall that the only person to express satisfaction with Al-Maliki's performance is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which only serves to demonstrate the sectarian nature of the two governments).

Yet when confronted with the complete, catastrophic destruction of all walks of life under his sectarian government, Mr. Maliki does nothing but rant about achievement after achievement and about how he and his government are to continue until the bitter end.

During his recent visit to Syria and his meeting with several Iraqis there, Mr. Maliki declared that, "the political changes will continue even if they result in the deaths of half of Iraq's people." This is the logic of the new tyrant, Mr. Al-Maliki, alleged by officials to be the beloved descendant of a venerable house!

One can only imagine the extent of the criminal background of this man who leads the Iraqis. He's quite a "cowboy," and his personality matches perfectly with the mass murder carried out against opponents with his personal revolver in the early days of the occupation. (According to the Americans, when the new government was being formed, Mr. Maliki did away with a good number of his political enemies - some of which was captured on video tape). This is a brief outline on Iraq's murderous new ruler, an assassin and chieftain of a nest of experienced pretenders and opportunists who got their start at Syria's Sayyida Zeinab Mosque. Iraqis can expect only death and destruction at the hands of such a mentally flawed individual.

After our former dictator and his party [the Baathists] surrendered, we hoped that a new democracy had come on the backs of the U.S. tanks. But within days, Iraq had turned from a one-party dictatorship to a dictatorship under many parties and leaders, based on a conspiracy to enlist all in the service of Iraq's occupation.

The country's organizations and ministries were diveed-up amongst the different factions, until the various ministries were staffed on a singularly sectarian basis to the point that Iraqi citizens knew when seeking employment, which ministry to approach, depending on their sect. For example, one ministry belonged to [Muqtda] al-Sadr, another to al-Hakim and still another went to the Kurds, one party controls appeals, one controls education, and another controls the registration of Iraq's population, and so on. In other words, an Iraqi citizen cannot find a position in modern Iraq without the endorsement of one of the warring parties.

Of course, this chaos has actually undermined democracy at all levels, and has resulted in the widespread murder of innocent Iraqis, by the various factions that encircle them. Then there is the kidnapping and displacement, and the looting of the country's wealth in all of its manifold forms by all parties to this "democratic" exercise. That's right - it's a democracy of murder, looting and displacement and the denial of Iraqi dignity.

Those imposing this system want, above all, to drown Iraqis beneath a sea of democratic pretension, so that the government can securely execute its policy of muzzling and silencing the people.

And it is doing so both inside and outside Iraq, to the extent that it recently sent a government delegation headed by national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie to Jordan, to hand them a list of overly-outspoken Iraqis to ask the Jordanians to silence them.

[Editor's note: Since Iraq has a more-or-less free press now, news outlets have been going to Jordan to interview Iraqi exiles there - mainly Sunnis - who, like the author of this article, express harsh criticism of the Iraqi government. This handing-over of a list of outspoken Iraqis to Jordan was apparently an effort to get the Jordanian government to ask these mostly-Sunni exiles to shut up if they want to stay in Jordan].

These days it seems they have forgotten when they were in exile, on their knees after their escape, begging to be interviewed by satellite TV channels to market their lies and represent the interests of a foreign nation. And today they deny Iraqi patriots the opportunity to express the truth about the evil ones now in power.

Such are the double standards, the confusion, the lunacy, the lust for power and the tyranny now parading under the guise of democracy. May Allah help Iraq and the people of Iraq in the ordeal they confront under the auspices of the Safavid populists and their masters, the Western occupiers.

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