Sunday - September 30, 2007

Category Image Which Side is the Iraqi Government on?


Here's a quote from a man who organized the citizen resistance to Al Qaeda in the Arab Jabour province of Baghdad.
The central government hasn’t dealt with us. There is no provincial government. Every time we try we have been rebuffed. All of the help and support has been from the Coalition. With support like ammunition, we can destroy al Qaeda. We believe al Qaeda is 70 percent finished here. The central government does not want to establish security here. They have an agenda with foreign powers. Quoted from Bill Roggio's The Long War Journal.
This is something I've always suspected of the Al Maliki government, that they really aren't for peace in Iraq, or even merely power for themselves, but that they are the tools of Iran and Syria. Actions and lack of action that affected our part of Al Anbar made this fairly clear back in 2005.
Iran has a lot of blame for the disaster in Iraq since Al Maliki's government was elected, but so does the Bush administration for allowing the elections for the flawed constitution. It's the modern American way of not understanding what makes our own nation so great and inflicting that misunderstanding on others. We are not a democracy.

Our nation is founded on the idea of inidividualism, freedom, and a government constrained to not interfere with our rights. The modern trend has been to simply say that we are great because we are a democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Our founders knew that democracy was a terrible political solution and took great pains to limit the power of the government so that the demos could not rob individuals of their rights. They created a government that is intentionally designed to be cumbersome and slow to make laws. They created three branches of government with checks and balances, all of which are limited by the Bill of Rights.

Last time I checked, the Iraqi Constitution did not contain a Bill of Rights. In fact, it named a state religion. It does not have checks and balances, it has a European style of parlaimentary government.

Let's hope that the Iraqis can overcome this monumental blunder of ours and can resurrect some form of government that recognizes individual rights and freedom and restores civilization before too many more people are slaughtered by Al Qaeda and Iran.

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