This law is
exemplified by what happens if one steps off a boat onto the bank of a lake. As he moves in the
direction of the shore, the boat tends to move in the opposite direction.
The attack against
Iraq, a member country of United Nations, was both illegal and illegitimate. UK and US short-circuited the Security Council when they found there was no
majority support for their resolution. What both did was to knowingly jettison international laws
and conventions and devalue the very institution responsible for the maintenance of world order
and peace. Under the UN charter only the Security Council could authorise the use of force against
a member country.
In order to justify
the attack on Iraq, Bush and Blair lied through their teeth by saying “Saddam
Hussein is an evil and he poses a direct threat to the national security of America."
Bush and Blair also sheepishly claimed the war was not a war of aggression but a war to liberate the Iraqis from the iron dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. “There will be spontaneous uprising, especially the majority Shias in southern Iraq, against Sadam Hussein as soon as the first wave of coalition forces land in Iraq,” they said. They were proved wrong!
This talk about “liberating people” is a familiar subterfuge of every invader to justify naked invasions thoughout history.
President Chandrika Kumaratunga said this from every rooftop in 1995 “The attack on Jaffna is to liberate the Thamils from the clutches of the Tigers. The Thamil people are appealing to me to save them from Tigers.” This of course was a total lie.
In Iraq everything has now gone wrong. Newton’s third law is proving right. Both Bush and Blair have been caught red handed with their pants down. Both are in deep trouble not because of Iraqis, but because of their own lawmakers.
"This may be the first time in recent history that a president knowingly misled the American people during the State of Union address, either President Bush knowingly used false information in his State of the Union address or senior administration officials allowed the use of that information. This was not a mistake. It was no oversight and it was no error,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said.
In his State of the Union address, Bush said, "The British government has
learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
This allegation has also been proved false.
The documents supporting such assertion were found to be forgeries. An administration
official said Tuesday the president would not have included the information in his State of the
Union speech if his advisers had known it was false.
The
pressure on the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to explain his Government's actions in the
run-up to the invasion of Iraq has increased after he was closely questioned by senior MPs, a day
after the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee concluded that the jury was "still out'' on
intelligence claims about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction — the main justification
for attacking Iraq.
After the lapse of more than 3 months no evidence
have been found about WMD, although Blair has the temerity still to brag
“ I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass
destruction programmes.''
He insists that the intelligence that his Government had at the
time was accurate!
Though Bush
announced on May 1 the combat war in Iraq is over, the real (guerilla) war appears to be gaining
momentum now. There are daily attacks against American and British occupation forces in Baghdad
and northwest Iraq, stronghold of Sunni Muslims. So far 29 US soldiers and 6 British troops have
been killed. Hundreds have been wounded. The
frequency and severity of the attacks are on the increase as days roll by.
Insensitive, trigger
happy, heavy-handed tactics in house-to-house search operations, including the use of dogs, has
inflamed sentiments among Iraqi Muslims. They justifiably consider them as an insult to their
dignity as a proud and civilized people.
To make matters
worse for the occupiers of Iraq, the purported voice of Sadam Hussein said “I appeal to you, O Iraqis, Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, Shia or Sunni, Christians or
Muslims, it is your duty to expel the aggressor invaders from our country,'' on the broadcast by
Lebanon's Al Hayat-LBC.
U.S Army sergeant on
duty at a police station in Baghdad told journalists, "We have no business being here."
He said life is miserable, hot meals, air-conditioning and decent bathrooms are not
available and that it is difficult to keep morale high: "We need to get out of here."
His counterpart in the Iraqi police considers the
Americans arrogant and attributes their loss of public trust to this arrogance.
The days when one
country can attack another country and occupy it forcefully without any consequences has gone.
There is no force on earth, not even super-powers, which can conquer the spirit of freedom
and dignity of people however weak numerically they may be. Modern weapons can kill people, but
they cannot kill the spirit of freedom.
America learned it
at tremendous cost in South Vietnam. Russia learnt it the hard way in Afghanistan. Israel learnt
it during two years of intifada in Palestine. Now India in Kashmir, Indonesia in Ache and Russia in Chechnya are learning it at
terrific cost in terms of manpower and money. Very soon America and Britain will learn it in Iraq.
The world will be better and safer place to live if
people are allowed the freedom to decide their own political destiny. The Iraqis, Kashmiris,
Chechnyans, Tibetans. Aches, Kurdish and Thamils should be allowed to decide their own political
destiny. It is terrorism for states to suppress
freedom struggles by use of military force. It is not terrorism to resist occupation by foreign
armed forces. It is their birthright and Newton’s
third law in practice.