What is really going in Iraq?
When it comes to Iraq everyone has an opinion. But it angers me because many times I see people arguing that U.S. troops should stay in Iraq to provide security amidst the civil war, or that U.S. troops should stay to train Iraqi forces to stabilize their own country. I always hear people thinking what they think is best but rarely do I hear people referring to what the Iraqi's want. Hell, I actually do not want to hear what anyone thinks should be the U.S. policy in Iraq except for Iraqi's themselves.
Who are we to step on to foreign soil, beat their people to a pulp, then ask, what should we do now? But what about Saddam Hussein, is not life better in Iraq without him? William Blum spoke on campus and had a great analogy, I'll paraphrase. Imagine a patient goes to a doctor with a knee problem and the doctor amputates his knee and then says, but hey, you don't have knee problem anymore!
Get the hell out of there. That is what the Iraqi's want. According to a World Public Opinion poll, 70% of Iraqi's want U.S. troops to withdraw within six months. Whatever happened to popular sovereignty? Popular sovereignty doesn't exist in the face of the American Empire, we seek only “democracy.”
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