Deja vu
Watching the news this week, I couldn’t help but feel that I’d seen all the reports before. All these joyous celebrations as the “last” US troops rolled over the Iraqi border, leaving the troubled country to run itself once more. Excuse me, didn’t we already have “Mission Accomplished” when Bush was still in power? And didn’t Obama oversee the last of the combat troops leaving Iraq in 2010? So who exactly were the soldiers left behind? Perhaps they were the ones the US kindly lent us to police our dangerous city streets. No, they’re just as dangerous as ever. The oil fields and oil wells, on the other hand, are as well guarded as an exhibition stand giving away free weapons at an Arab conference. Was that what the remaining few coalition troops have been up to ever since they officially ceased combat?
Of course, my naivety is all an act; I know that my safety counts for very little compared to that of just one barrel of black gold. The only difference between Bush and Obama is that George W. and his cronies were honest enough to tell the world that’s how they felt. Much as I hoped that Obama would mean a new start for the US and all their pet projects around the world, nothing much seems to have changed.
We are grateful for the US and British efforts to get rid of Saddam Hussein and we are equally grateful that they are eventually clearing out and letting the Iraqi people run Iraq – no matter how crazy a suggestion that might seem! After all, that’s all we’ve ever wanted; the chance to decide our own leaders, the way our own country will be run, the way we will be seen on the world stage. Saddam stopped us from achieving those things, but so have our so-called liberators. However, I wouldn’t be surprised to see news reports in six months or maybe even a year trumpeting the departure of the very last US troops from Iraqi soil. I just can’t shake the feeling that Obama might have been kind enough to leave some of them behind to help our oil fields in their difficult transition to democracy….
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