Perpetual Paralysis: Iraq's Designed Dysfunction
📰 THE STORY: The New Arab reports that Iraq's parliament has once again postponed the election of the country's new president, attributing it to 'intense political horse-trading and US pressure,' prolonging a year-long political stalemate. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The current inability to form a stable government in Iraq is a direct, predictable outcome of the 2003
US-led invasion. The invasion, predicated on fabricated WMD claims (remember Colin Powell's UN speech, February 2003, later admitted by sources like the New York Times in 2004 to be based on faulty intelligence), dismantled the Iraqi state, creating a power vacuum and sectarian divisions that continue to plague the nation. This wasn't merely 'liberation'; it was state destruction that killed over
1 million Iraqis and destabilized the entire region. Double Standard: Western media bemoans 'Iraqi political instability' while conveniently omitting the architect of that instability. Imagine if the media blamed 'American political dysfunction' on a foreign power that invaded, destroyed its infrastructure, and imposed a new system. Yet, when 'democratic elections' fail to produce a neat, obedient
government in a victim nation, it’s always portrayed as an internal failing, never a consequence of imperial meddling. Compare this hand-wringing to the media's silence on the stability of authoritarian regimes aligned with the West, like Egypt under Sisi, which receives $1.3 billion annually in US aid precisely to maintain a specific—and often oppressive—order. Follow the Money: The 'US pressure'