"And now that relic Baker returns from the dregs of the Cold War and the furnace of Arab oil to reward murderers, pacify fascists and say goodbye to everything that America stands for.”

By Dr. Fereydun Hilmi   

December 10, 2006
Iraq - Kurdish Media - Original Article (English)

The art of the deal: James A. Baker III is coming under fire for
selling out American principles for the sake withdrawing from
Iraq's unlpeasantness.

—C-SPAN VIDEO NEWS: Bush 'accepts' the report
from the Iraq Study Group, Dec. 6, 00:03:14

—BBC NEWS VIDEO: President Bush meets with
Congressional leaders to mull over the report from
the Iraq Study Group, Dec. 7, 00:01:40

[LATEST NEWS PHOTOS: Iraq Study Group].

The report from the Iraq Study Group: Reaction to it shows it is
one of the most momentous such reports ever put together.





Lee Hamilton, George Bush and
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair on a satellite link-up with the
co-chairs of the Iraq Study Group, James Baker and Lee Hamilton,
on Nov. 14.





'Saddam, 2003 ... Bush, 2006' [Al-Ayyam, Yemen].


'Saddam, 2003 (right) ... United States, 2006' (left)

[Alquds Alarabi, U.K.].


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The Baker-Hamilton report is being touted as the most serious review yet and a blueprint for American policy in the Middle East. It is not, and it must not be taken as such, because above all it is immersed in immorality. It is immoral not just in the Machiavellian sense of ends justifying the means, but it is immoral in its ends and in its distortion of reality, and it portrays those ends as realistic, logical and inevitable.

If the United States decides to implement the Baker agenda for the Middle East, it will mean the end of the U.S. morally, ideologically and politically, and it will put it in a much weaker position militarily. This 21st century will be a century of American shame, humiliation, retreat and decline. Baker looks at Iraq through the exaggerated prism al-Qaeda and the other Islamic fascists, Sunni Baath murderers and those who enjoy nothing more than killing American soldiers massacring helpless women and children who want nothing more than a normal life in a free society that respects their human rights.

The Baker report portrays Iraq as a hell created by the American invasion, and that can be redeemed only if the U.S. leaves Iraq and reverses all that the Iraqi peoples have achieved in terms of democracy, a constitutional state and civil society. The principles of freedom, human rights, self determination, government by the people, non-intervention in the legitimate democratic processes of others, the global battle against murderous evil terrorism and despotism, etc. - essentially the heart of the American Constitution, the U.N. Charter and international law - mean nothing to Baker and his pro-junta group.

And what does Baker tell the Kurds? Sorry guys, we don’t know what morality, alliance, friendship, honesty, etc. means. These are words that have no references in our dictionary of politics. Come on, join al-Qaeda and Ansar-Islam fascists read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansar_al-Islam] and train your fatherless Anfal children to be suicide bombers, blowing up our soldiers and your own children, them we might think again and include you in our realpolitik.

[Editor's Note: The author's reference to "fatherless Anfal children" is in reference to the Al Anfal Campaign, which was an anti-Kurdish crackdown conducted by Saddam during and after the Iran-Iraq War in 1988-89. Independent sources estimate 50,000-100,000 deaths; the Kurds claim about 182,000 people were killed READ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfal ].

How far down can people go with their brutal biases and devilish dishonesty? Iraq is not so desperate. It is still 80-percent-democratic success. It is the United States itself that has undermined every successful democratic achievement - from democratic elections and democratic government to a popularly supported democratic constitution, to the democratic will of the majority (over 80 percent) to opt for a federal non-centralized democratic government structure that would take into accounts the historical, geographical and cultural peculiarities of the Iraqi people.

With every inch of democratic progress the fascists have intensified the violence, knowing full well that American success in Iraq is America’s success in the world, and that American failure in Iraq means its failure in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Darfur, Somalia and even in New York and Washington.

Yet in stead of - as they once proclaimed – "staying the course" and empowering Iraqis to establish security, a democratic system and a stable economic infrastructure to buttress it, at every turn the Americans have made concessions to Iraq's Sunni fascists through their representatives in other parts of the so-called Arab world [Saudi Arabia, Pakistan], encouraging them to indulge in even more brutal violence.

And now that relic Baker returns from the dregs of the Cold War and the furnace of Arab oil to reward murderers, pacify fascists and kiss goodbye everything that America stands for in terms of morality, rationalism and democratic principles.

This man has no respect for the blood of America’s soldiers in Iraq or anywhere else. He doesn't know the meaning of humanity, fairness and friendship. He is an anachronistic relic. Let him enjoy his Arabism as such.