The Bigger Thugs To Hang
The Smaller ThugBy Javed I. Chaudry
09 November, 2006
Countercurrents.orgWhy Saddam Hussain trial was not taken to the Hague? The answer to the question is self evident. The proceedings of an international court could mean the exposure of the involvement of well known, powerful international forces. The complicity of these forces would no doubt bring Washington to the fore front. During 1980s, it was Washington acting as Saddam’s supporter, the cheer leader and the main supplier of the military weaponry including the WMD against Iran and perhaps same weapons were used against Iraqi Kurds who opposed Saddam’s regime.
Furthermore, keeping the court case in Baghdad meant that the US had full control over the proceedings as well as the desired verdict, which may or may not be the case if the case had been taken to the Hague. The timing of the verdict was also chosen to yield some strategic benefits by coinciding it with the mid term elections in the US. All of these advantages would have been lost by taking Saddam to the Hague.
The most important question is the legal validity of the court, which is appointed under the influence of the illegal invading forces. In three years, the invaders have killed five time more innocent Iraqis than Saddam could in 15 years. The invaders are also guilty of the same crime, for which Saddam has been sentenced to death. Obviously, the bigger thugs can hang the smaller thugs. Is the smaller thug being punished for being a thug or refusing to cooperate with the bigger thugs? The handing out of such justice has been witnessed by the humanity countless number of times in the history of mankind. Would the invaders be tried in the same court for same crimes? Certainly not – because it is just a kangaroo court, hardly better than the lynch mob.
Now that the neo-cons are running out of steam, so is the American economy. The neo-cons have already started blaming each other and finding faults with the administration. If any thing, they are looking for place to hide. Iraq has now clearly turned into another Vietnam, the occupation is getting difficult to maintain and unbearable for the American tax payers to sustain for a long period of time. The US administration is looking for face saving ways to drop the hot potato which was being described as a cake walk only three years ago. Another fatal mistake, another US foreign policy eating dust.
The world at large and the US tax payers must not however, overlook the fact that the so called ‘exporting the democracy’ to Iraq was not the primary objective of the neo-con agenda. It was however a viable excuse, easy to sell to the American public to achieve the real, hidden goal. The real goal was the security of Israel and the destruction of a potential challenger in the region. The main objective has been achieved with flying colors. It’s a different story that an average American will not benefit from this victory and it will never be presented candidly as a victory in the interest of political correctness.
The vital questions still remain, what is schedule of the invaders to leave the Iraqi soil, which is polluted with the spent Uranium and soaked with hundreds of thousands of the innocent Iraqis blood. The other question that comes to mind is whether the US will be willing to pay for the loss of life and the destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure that the US led forces have willfully and mercilessly caused without an acceptable reason or justification. The pretext given for the invasion, of course, will not have a leg to stand on, if the invaders were taken to an international court of law, that is, if there is one; and if there is a force powerful enough to take the rogues to this court?
The questions don’t just stop there. The next question is about the future of the permanent US military basis in Iraq? How long the Iraqis are going to tolerate those basis to exist on their soil after the invading terrorists have left? And yet, there is another important question. What portion of Iraqi oil has been sold to American and British corporations and at what price? Do the people of Iraq still own any of their own natural resource? The answer to this question will only be known, after the dust settles, long after the invaders are gone. Then only, we will see what long term losses the innocent people of Iraq are going to endure. Don’t be surprised if you find the Iraqis have been left with the empty bag in hand, working for peanuts only to see their own natural resources being plundered by the foreign companies.
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