REMEMBER

Top row, left to right: Saddam Hussein — Iraqi President; Ali Hassan al-Majeed — Iraqi General; Awad Hammad Bandar al-Saadoun — Head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court

Bottom row, left to right: Barzan al-Tikriti — Iraqi Intelligence Service; Hussein Rasheed al-Tikriti — Secretary of the General Command of the Iraqi Armed Forces; Taha Ramadan — Iraqi Vice President; Sultan Hashim Ahmad — Iraqi Minister of Defense

by Malcom Lagauche - Oct 21, 2007

If you haven’t been keeping score, the individuals in the above photo have either been hanged, or soon will hang, at the hands of the cowards who call themselves the Iraqi government.

Just five years ago, these martyrs were running an efficient government in Iraq, despite the embargo still in place. Their Iraq was peaceful. The streets at night in Baghdad were alive with people enjoying life. Street musicians and artists exhibited their talents while patrons ate delicious meals in the many restaurants. Gasoline was readily available and cost about one or two cents to fill up a car. I’m not lying: Baghdad was once like this. It is easy to understand that to today’s Iraqis a peaceful and beautiful Baghdad is so far removed from reality that they can’t comprehend that only five years ago Baghdad residents did not take their lives in their own hands just by opening a door to go to the street.

The individuals in the photo kept Iraq free and sovereign. They stopped Iran from exporting its Islamic Revolution to the Arab world. They kept terrorists out of their country. And, even during the embargo, they kept the country from imploding. Of course, there were millions of other Iraqis who had the pride to keep Iraq free of outside intervention. Some of those have not been killed, but they are rotting in U.S. prisons. Tariq Aziz is slowly dying. He has not been charged with any crime, yet the U.S. will not let him go and they will not charge him. Where is Mohammed Saleh? He was appointed Iraq’s Minister of Trade in 1987 and did a miraculous job of enhancing Iraqi trade both before and during the embargo. He was captured on April 23, 2003 by U.S. troops, yet his current whereabouts are unknown to outsiders.

Let’s look at the people who murdered the martyrs. Al-Maliki was sentenced to death for trying to overthrow the Iraqi government. He escaped and fled to his masters in Iran. Al-Maliki has absolutely no admiration for Iraq and he has no skills that would help rebuild the country. In other words, he is exactly the perfect stooge for the U.S.

Some religious leaders have come back to Iraq and have turned the country into a sectarian nightmare. Women are now prisoners in their own homes and have no choice in how they dress. Talented people, such as archaeologists, have been fired from their jobs and replaced by religious ideologues who have no clue of the subject matter of the ministries they now run. Almost the entire medical program, once the finest in the Middle East, is now run by appointees with no medical experience.

I don’t have to keep going on about the current state of affairs in Iraq. Everybody is familiar. But, I want to keep the history of the country alive and not let it disappear in the barrage of propaganda that has come from the West, the Iraqi stooges, Israel and Iran. Signs in the south of Iraq are now displayed in the Farsi language. What these heroes above fought eight years to halt is now commonplace in certain parts of Iraq.

Other Arab countries are now beginning to sweat. They don’t want Iranian influence to cross their borders. Maybe they should have thought of this before they gave the U.S. a green light to invade Iraq. Saddam Hussein had transformed an old-fashioned society into a modern and productive one. For two decades, Iraq supplied doctors, engineers and scientists to the Arab world. The lackey leaders of Arab countries who were jealous of Saddam are now questioning their role in his downfall. They realize that their countries would have been better off if they had cooperated with the Iraqi president instead of trying to get rid of him. Arab leaders today are not comfortable with the highly-increased importance of Israel, Iran and the U.S. in the Middle East. They have no one to blame but themselves. In February 1990, in a meeting of Arab countries in Jordan, Saddam Hussein warned them:

The country that exerts the greatest influence on the Gulf and its oil, will consolidate its superiority as an unrivaled superpower. This proves that if the population of the Gulf — and of the entire Arab world — is not vigilant, this area will be ruled according to the wishes of the United States.

The Iraqi officials in the picture with this article are not merely the victims of a few zealots who participated in the U.S.-manufactured "regime change" of Iraq. They were pioneers in developing an Arab country that gave equal rights to all its citizens. They were pioneers in developing an Arab country that used its oil revenues to enhance science, engineering, education, and medicine. Iraqi citizens had access to electricity, clean water, inexpensive food and cheap housing.

Western propaganda has labeled these leaders "criminals." It is just the opposite. The criminals are those who tried them in the most ludicrous trial of modern times. The criminals are those who hanged the Iraqi leaders. The criminals are those still in charge in Iraq.

Those who were hanged were true revolutionaries. We must not forget their achievements. The Iraq of these people was a functioning society with much pride. Today’s Iraq is a travesty. It is violent and in shambles. But, it’s what the U.S. wanted. Even the Iraqi stooges are not happy with the results because they can only survive in a few square-mile area in Baghdad. There’s an old U.S. saying: "Don’t wish too hard for something because you just may get it." In this case, the quislings got just what they wished for.