Spying on Al-Maliki government aroused the idea of how much trust that the American have for the Iraqi government and a sign that they turned against him.
In fact, I would translate what was written in one of the Iraqi newspapers about this matter.
“Instead of planting trust, Washington spies on the government” it is an article written by the chief editor of the New Sabah newspaper which is a local one in Baghdad . The writer said “ It isn’t a secrete to know by Bob Woodward, a famous American writer, in his new book ( The War Within) that the Bush administration spy on our government. Man has two eyes and a nose to know that. Spying became a deep-rooted disease for administrations, governments and coup generals especially in unjust eastern countries as some governments accuse technocrat teachers, writers, journalists and contractors of this miserable accusations of spying as if the national secretes are thrown in streets or from the other hand, as if they hidden for a great state like the United State?”.
Then he said “We are as human beings have to work simply, besides our careers, to free the societies from the spying foolishness. And this would come if we want to convert to be human beings or we want to separate man from the current political system which consider spies as an essential part of their system.
After that he blamed the US policy “For Washington we say if President Bush watched over his policy and its results on Iraq fixing the obvious defect and the disaster decisions taken ( and they take) till now, they needn’t spy on our prime minister”. And he added
“The suspended problems between our government and the American government are not hidden or covered. They are almost limited in the immunity for the disgusted security for the contractors ..those who violate any regulation or law”.
Eventually he suggests solutions or substitutions “Everything that the American government should do is to negotiate with our government to have acceptable form, for both sides, to call individuals to account, those who are not related to the army nor complied to their regulations nor Geneva treaty”.
He finished his article with one simple sentence
“We need a mutual understanding or a compromise …not spying on each other”.
This man Bush is worse as he gets closer to being forced out. I have maintained that this nation cannot be truly representative of good when an evil shadow government exists in the C.I.A. a product of the "Cold War.' There is absolutely nothing constructive about this spy agency and through its efforts over the years we have had to deal with the after effects notably the hatred generated by the spy agency's behavior. While the purpose of the C.I.A. did in the post world war II climate have relevance it should have disappeared immediately after the Soviet Union for all intent and purpose collapsed.,The year was 1990. Generally most Americans have no idea the type of unspeakable and nefarious crimes that have been committed by these people who routinely kidnapped people off the street and they would wind up as what we are led to believe are terrorists. My hope is some way this president will be indicted along with the vp for his indescretions. They have engaged in multiple crimes against humanity and practiced a form of democracy which has devalued our foundations of government in what we came to understand as Ahbu Grhaib. sp) The illegal practice of rendition, the pressure and intimidation of comumication conglomerates to spy on their own and the politization of the Justice Department under the ultimate brown noser Alberto Gonzalez. Breaking federal law going around the FISA law requiring a judge's signature and of course the list goes on.
Posted by: robert machado | October 28, 2008 at 03:49 AM
Kampala-Uganda the insecurity in Iraq will never end unless Iraq is assimilated .
Posted by: sabila francis | September 26, 2008 at 07:35 AM
Bush spies on everyone, so don't feel bad. He spies on citizens of America too, wiretapping our phones, reading our emails. There is no privacy here anymore so I suppose he feels why should anyone not be spied on? They did not get the agreements signed that they wanted signed, so I guess the Bush admnistration feels frustrated.
We hear every day on the news, every hour, every half hour, that the surge has been a huge success, and most of that is due to our soldiers. We hear that every day. It's interfering with any dissent on the matter. To Blue Sun, if you want to explain in writing to me how the surge has not worked, I will read it in my internet radio program. I think this idea should be broadcast because people in the U.S. think the surge was a big success.
And of course Bush is only going to let a trickle of soldiers leave, so there will be no warming of tensions between Maliki and Bush.
Posted by: Shelly | September 10, 2008 at 05:55 AM
Washington spies on the Iraqi government? Don't feel alone. Washington spies on it's own citizens, especially those who would dare question our imperial leaders. These guys are crooks - and the sooner we get rid of them the better. I hope we can do so in the next election, but the right-wing in America is busy trying to fix the election so they'll win again. That will be the end of America and our democracy. Alas. Maybe we deserve it.
Posted by: Bob | September 09, 2008 at 12:04 AM
With the rampant corruption in the current Iraqi government, we should be keeping a better eye on what's going on. To suggest that all the problems stem from Washington is offensive. Instead of taking a month off, the Iraqi's should have been working day and night to meet the benchmarks. Believe me, I'm all for getting out of Iraq and letting them stand on their own. The problem is, they can't and their leadership is part of the problem.
Posted by: Tom | September 08, 2008 at 06:22 PM
The entire propaganda line that the Bush administration is fighting (and young Americans are continuing to die) in order to create a sovereign Iraqi government is revealed as a lie (yet again) by the fact that the administration doesn't trust Maliki to do what the Bushies want him to do (which is becoming truer and truer).
One thing that the American media are not talking about is how the surge (which had as its avowed objective to give Maliki and the other parties in Iraq an opportunity to form a central unified government), is, instead giving Maliki the cover and protection to assert himself and his pro-Iranian Shi'ite backers as an authoritarian, strongman government. Instead of bringing the now fragmenting Awakening movement into the government, he is using his U.S. umbrella to disarm, arrest, and neutralize the various Awakening groups. It has gotten to the point where the various Awakening leaders have realized that their recent patrons, the American Military, are abandoning them in favor of Maliki.
Meanwhile Maliki has discharged the entire Foreign Ministry team (led by a Kurd) negotiating the Status of Forces agreement with Bush and put his own loyalists from the Prime Minister's office in control of the negotiations, so, in fact, Maliki himself is controlling the negotiations to his own advantage, not America's.
At the same time, again under the protection and umbrella of the U.S. military and the Bush administration, Maliki is maneuvering against the Kurds, squeezing them out of influence in the government, and even informing them that the essentially Shi'ite military and security forces will now be free to go anywhere in Iraq (including Kurdistan), without regard to the wishes of the Kurds. As a demonstration of his newfound authoritarian power, his Iraqi Army has recently forced the Kurdish Peshmurga troops out of strongholds in the Diyala area (will Kirkuk be next?).
There is considerable concern within the academic and military communities that Maliki is walking a tightrope, and should he slip or the Sunnis and Kurds not blink, a bloody civil war will break out worse than it was in 2006.
The irony here is that as long as the Bush/McCain policy is to continue to maintain troops and protect Maliki, they are actually allowing Maliki to get away without having to face any consequences from his fragmenting power grab, and making it increasingly unlikely that Maliki will be put into a position where he will have to negotiate a true unity government with all parties fairly represented.
Only a withdrawal or at least a serious drawdown of the American military presence will force Maliki's hand and possibly open up the political process to all of the increasingly fragmenting factions.
According to what is happening just out of sight of the American media and public, the surge has been anything but a success, and has likely set the table for either a pro-Iranian Shi'ite strongman, or all-out civil war.
Posted by: Blue Sun | September 07, 2008 at 08:28 PM