[Peace-discuss] U.N. Mandate for Occupation

[Morton K. Brussel]

By Joshua Holland:  Bush, Maliki Break Iraqi Law to Renew U.N.  
Mandate for Occupation

 From http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/16074

…What this story reveals, again, is that U.S. "interests" -- that is,  
the interests of the U.S. foreign policy elite -- which include  
establishing a permanent foothold in the Middle East and exerting  
influence over the political and economic course Iraq takes in the  
future, are paramount, and that any talk of democratizing missions or  
"liberating Iraqis" has never been more than political theater.

The renewal is the latest in a string of instances in which the Bush  
administration and its allies in Iraq's executive branch have shut  
down a nonviolent, political avenue for Iraqi citizens to resist the  
presence of foreign troops in their country. By denying them those  
avenues, Bush and Maliki have effectively done what they accuse  
advocates of withdrawal of doing: "emboldening" violent insurgents  
and getting more innocent Iraqis and more U.S. troops killed.

One can only wonder, now that the United States has "liberated" Iraq  
from Saddam Hussein, just who will liberate Iraq from the United States?

Raed Jarrar is Iraq consultant to the American Friends Service  
Committee. He blogs at Raed in the Middle. Joshua Holland is an  
AlterNet editor and staff writer. 
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