[Editorial] Enough is enough
Time to end the War
Jo Tae-Geun
The US Forces casualties in Iraq exceeded three thousand before the year of 2007 began. The casualties outnumbered the victims of the 9.11 which was the cause of the war in Iraq. Moreover death of of the innocent Iraqi civilians was not counted while the American casualties were reported in detail. It is death without flowers and tombstones.
But insisting that the withdrawal means a defeat the Hawks in the US became unduly stubborn. Contrary to the expectation that the executing Sadam Hussein would weaken the Sunni resistance the civil war in Iraq is being intensificated. Increasing number of dead bodies of theUS military proves it.
It seems that the Iraqi war would obviously bring a curse of death until the end of Bush administration and even when the new president comes out in 2008.
Meanwhile the execution of Hussein will be recorded in the history as an example that shows how inhumane and abnormal the US emperialism is. There is no eternal friend or enemy for the US. It only needs servant countries that follow its will.
Sadam Hussein was merely a miserable ‘proxy monarch’ who lived as a puppet of the US emperialism rather than a dictator executed by the people.
Once he fought against Iran on behalf of the US, mistakenly invaded Kuwait to keep the US defence budjet and the military-industrial complex. At last he bacame well-timed enemy desperately needed by the US after 9.11. Therefore death of Hussein has a thread of connection with that of numerous dictators as they were once created and then destroyed by the US.
So we are angry with the action taken by the US although we do not cry for his death. It does not came out from sympathy. Rather we are worried because the death of Hussein would deepen the civil war, kill more innocent Iraqi civilians, and sacrifice American soldiers who must be undoubtedly daughters and sons of the American workers. Prices for ‘a political show’ to recover ever-decreasing Bush’s job approval are way too expensive.
Again we appeal to the conscientiousness of America. Now that the Iraqi civilians, more than hundred times of the 9.11 victims died, and the same number of American soldiers are also killed in Iraq, isn’t it time to end the war?
2007-01-03 ⓒThe Voiceofpeople