IRAQ AS VIETNAM : 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF A DEFEAT

FARHAT QUAM MAQUAMI

The Insurgents you see on TV might be on the US payroll just to keep the War Business booming without them this lucrative enterprise would be busted!. Remember Nicaragua’s Death Squads and their success, how the same tactics are being used in Iraq to demonize a leaderless national resistance.
On the 30th anniversary of War in Vietnam, the only Nation that defeated the US, Vietnamese are celebrating the fall of Saigon while the US strategists are celebrating the lesson learned and how they could achieve their goals in Iraq with a relative success, minimum loss of life and maximum profitability.

COMMONDREAMMS has published a confusing article about the “the Unreported parallel between Iraq and Vietnam” and as it seems to be the policy of its site to refuse to publish this rebuttal I would publish it for all to know. The article does not make any sense and the funny thing about it is the so-called progressive media who have become the mouth piece of the corporations who make money out of Iraq are giving this junk a credit it does not deserve in order to mislead the American public.

IT SEEMS THIS WARMONGER ADMINISTRATION HAS SUCESSFULLY COOPTED EVEN ITS CRITICS INTO CO-CONSPIRATORS OF MASS DECEPTION AND LOBBYIST FOR ITS WAR BUSINESS.

Iraq is not Vietnam lets get it over with. If Iraq was Vietnam you would not have seen a Trojan
Horse like John Kerry, coming out of nowhere, hijacking the nomination of the Democratic Party in alliance with corporate media, especially Fox news, MISINFORMING THE PUBLIC, and questioning the “elect-ability” of JOHN DEAN!

The ghost of the Jungle were not haunting Kerry and is not haunting me either, but it would haunt all those who like to put their head in the quick sands of Iraq, not hear the real voices of dissent and in their naiveté and deepest hallucination hear voices making comparisons!

John Kerry, with Ketchup Queen at his side (who is making great profit selling ketchup to Troops) if you recall "reported for duty" ,not for America but in Iraq!. He knew very well from his corporate supporters that Iraq means big business, big profit and giant contributions for his corporate friends. Better jump on the band wagon and fool the America public, than be run-overed by the runaway train of war, while Howard Zinn, was pondering about “neutrality in a moving train"!

To be or not to be neutral, that was his question! He knew very well that the US is going to be there a long time! He did not even talk about bringing the troops home, Because he knew very well, as an Skull & Bone confidant that Iraq is not Vietnam!! He did not want to win the election, that is why he did not push forward al alternative policy. He wanted to derail the train of “opposition to war” and he accomplished his mission! Just to give the naïve intellectuals a dose of pre-emptive strike, in the corporate Democracy!

1.Iraq is the land of pure oil and more than 100 years of known reserves and we need it. Don’t give me the story that Vietnam had anything comparable!! In addition the great water resources of Iraq, if privatized would eventually irrigate Israel, you couldn’t do that in Mekong Delta!! This is the Gold rush of 21st century Americans must have their oil and anybody else’s too! The U.S. is not going anywhere!

2. Vietnam had an organized, battle-hardened Viet Mineh, who had beaten the French in Dein Bein Fu..Iraq does not have any! Every ex torturer is in the payroll of American Embassy., for hundred dollars minimum for every militiaman plus bonus for special diversionary attacks.

3. Viet Nam had a history of independence and resistance to foreign invaders, Iraq since Babylonia time had learned to be occupied and reoccupied. ONLY the valiant Kurd Sallahedin Ayoubi, fro Tikrit, rose against the Crusaders and defeated them but not in the name of a nation named Iraq. Ironically, Americans have put a treacherous Kurd who would have sold his soul to acquire power, as president of Iraq . This double dealing jack of all ideologies, would give Iraq back to the crusaders to avenge history.
4.Vietnam had an organized Workers and Peasant party dedicated to eradicate foreign invaders. Iraq has none! Iraq has only imported and hyphenated leaders supported by death squad militias.

5. Vietnam had a National leader who was devoted to the cause of national liberation and was driven by an ideology which gave hope and aspiration to people. Iraq has none. We systematically imprisoned, assassinated and discredited those who could have led the revolt. American successfully beheaded the political struggle for national liberation and imported and imposed their agents as leaders Even General Tui was a Vietnamese who wanted to negotiate here we have superimposed slipper cells with no allegiance to national entity.

6. Vietnam had a brilliant military leader, General Giap, the master strategist who beat the French and checkmated Westmoreland and must be remembered as one of the worlds greatest military strategists who and wrote the on Guerrilla Warfare.
In Iraq, the Occupiers, murdered, discredited, co-opted any “fat general” from Saddam times, who could have waged a credible resistance. All they have now is the mythical Zarquavi, who is not even Iraqi and was one of the American slipper Cells who might have gone wild. He is killing more Iraqis than Americans and as such he is on the occupation payroll dead , alive or disappeared. He has nothing to do with the national resistance in Iraq.

7. Viet Nam had ideological allies, backers and Arm suppliers. Iraq has none! Iraqis are actually defenseless people with no ideological allies and no arm suppliers. The US picked up a fight with a weak and demoralized nation in Iraq.
In the south you have vicious Kuwaitis and Anti Iraqi Jordanians, In the North you have the Turkish trained military, with little sympathy towards Iraqis. In the West is Despotic minority Allavi’s, who do anything against resistance to save their dictatorial rule in Syria.

Worse of all in their East they have American Mullahs in Iran, who are ideological allies of Zolmay Khalilzad for the establishment of a dictatorial and repressive Islamic Republic in Iraq. The Americans are trying to bring back to power Mullah Rafsanjani who was the infamous ally of Oliver North in Iran-contra affair!.

NEXTTIME YOU SEE INSURGENTS IN THEIR NEW OUFIT ASK YOURSELF WHERE THESE GUYS ARE GETTING THERE SUPPLIES. From their US issued prison suits, to ski masks and even brandishing new guns, to the three ton truck car bombs, where do they get the ammunitions? There is no jungle trail to cover. There is no tunnels deep beneath the earth,. How they get their logistics? Why they mostly attack Iraqi’s and the invaders are only collateral damage.

8. Viet Nam was one people in spirit and one nation indivisible. Iraq was glued together by the British mandate and was easily and successfully broken by the occupation force into three parts. Kurdish Nomad Bandits not only have established their own tribal dictatorship of proletariat, but have become shameless mercenaries to ravage Iraqis of any kind. The Shiia under-class has been set free to destroy whatever social progress Iraq has made under the secular regime in the past century, and turn the country back to the middle ages, imitating the neighboring Iran with the help of their American “liberators“.

The Sunni’s, who formed the educated, Westernized, had organizational ability and know how and could have formed the core of national resistance have been put out of action by American death squads, mainly composed of Kurds and Shii’a gangs. All over Iraq under the Banner of American Fundamentalist brand of Islam these DEATH Squads are forcing university students into submission , cooption or forceful withdrawal from universities. The women are forced to wear Hejab and Birka in the name of Islam. In all these Iraqis receive no support from outside.

9.Viet Nam did not have an American Mullah!. This is another fundamental flaw in comparing Viet Nam and Iraq, which is deliberately ignored by ignorant pundits. In Vietnam, Americans did not have a Trojan Horse inside the country. Whereas in Iraq you have an American Mullah,

In real Islam the prophet did not want Islam becomes Catholicism in which the establishment would co-opt the religion in favor of the policy of the ruling class. Therefore by design he did not name a successor and left it to the faithful to go to the God directly. God is within you and you are Godly if you do your life into the service of humanity. That is why the majority of Muslims are independent thinkers just doing good in the name the almighty, they have Imam but no central authority.

However, American Propaganda which refers to every Mullah as Ayatollah to give him a rank boost, made Mullah Sistani even greater Grand Ayatollah, who in turn issued a Fatwa in support of Bremer’s Market Reform: “What is Good for America is Good for Iraq, privatization”!

Obviously, so far as Iraq becomes a semi-Islamic Republic and he gets his commission and part of the profit from Najaf‘s Land Endowment Funds and tourist attraction!, In his vision of “Najaf Land” he already has already got commitment from Disney and Hilton Corporation! He might follow Iran to make Brothel legal to get a part in skin trade that the Persian Mullahs have proposed to bring the epidemic of prostitution which is caused by Market economy under their corporate control. American Military is distributing servicemen 100 of thousands condom so they can take advantage of this lucrative trade under an Islamic rule. Even in this respect it is completely unlike Vietnam!.

Fortunately, unlike Viet Nam, you see the American Casualties are down and Death Squads of Islamic variety have subcontracted the killings, murders, rapes, kidnappings, assassinations, and car bombings ,which is going to terrorize Iraqi’s into acceptance of the American version of Iraq’s Islamic Republic.

10. In Vietnam the US pacification campaigns failed because the US were fighting a guerrilla war under the cover of jungle in small villages, the notable one was My Lai Massacre!! The Free Media was reporting the atrocities all over the world to rise the public opinion against that post- colonial war of aggression.

In contrast, in Iraq you have the embedded reporters who are accomplice rather than investigators . That is why there was never a report of the “Thanksgiving massacre in Fallujha” in which a city of more than 380,000 inhabitants was obliterated, and everybody is looking the other way!

I tried to publish my article about the massacre in the internet, only the “radical left” in the internet published it . All of the “progressive liberals” like common dreams. Zmagazine, Electronic intifada( that one is a joke), occupation watch (is just a front). Moveon.org ( a sell out) and the list goes on would not consider it, which is an indication of who they are supporting, whose sides are they on and where they get their money to run their big operation. Aren’t these so-called progressive sites the other side of the same coin?

I am not sure if this site or common dreams site would publish the present article. Although this is only a reply to an inaccurate reporting that they publish to mislead the public into believing that there is a credible national resistance in Iraq and therefore our Iraqi agents need us for the security of their puppet government. If we leave there would be civil war, in Iraq so what we helped it happen, American had their civil war! Who said the civil war is worse than mass killings, rapes and indiscriminate massacres and being stopped and searched by an occupying foreigner on the way home.

The so-called liberal media would then argue that we have to give up the money which would support our Social Security, Medicare, higher education, job creation, development of an energy policy, general welfare and to build our infrastructure for the real security of this nation, for an adventurous war of aggression simply because we lied to start our war in the first place! We have to have permanent basis and keep our troops there to protect the liberated Iraqis from the atrocities of Death Squads.

The insurgency is good for the U.S. corporations. They are in demolition business and destroy anything the corporate client wants to reconstruct.. This I have called “DEATH SQUAD CAPITALISM”. They must fuel the insurgency or they would be out of business. The army needs the insurgents to get appropriation from Congress. If there is no insurgency and “mission accomplished “ sign that George Bush naively displayed was accurate, or would be accurate now or two years from later to be correct, then we can have justification to continue our military expenditure.

The only reason that the bankrupt US economy, which has lost its productive base, has huge balance of trade deficit, and is in default of its three Trillions of Dollars of loans, can continue to spent billions of dollars every weak on Iraq is because of the daily dramatic news about the insurgency, that is why Insurgents are us for years to come.