Bill Sykes' Newsletter
from America.
(Midsummer 2004)
An ex-Brit gives his views-(without fear
or favor)---of the American Scene
Late Breaking News.
Monday the 28th of June 2004. Dateline Iraq.
 Mr.
Paul Bremer, the United States Administrator in Iraq handed over power and sovereignty
two days early to the American sponsored Iraqi Interim Government in
a low key ceremony, and then Mr. Bremer and some of his
associates immediately took their leave of the unstable
country and literally flew the coop. It has been stated
that few Iraqi’s were sad to see him go.
The new Prime Minister is Iyad Allawi a member of a
United States sponsored clique of Iraqi opposition figures
who have lived in exile for nearly forty years. One commentator
stated that the new Prime Minister has the advantage
of being equally mistrusted by practically everyone in
Iraq’s multifarious population. Religious leaders
consider him to be too secular, the United States now
see him as a critic, the anti- Saddam opposition see him
as an ex-Baathist party member, and the ordinary Iraqi
see him as a member of the CIA.
Mr. Allawi was badly wounded in an assassination attempt,
(believed to have been ordered by Saddam Hussein), whilst
living in the UK in 1978. Perhaps the world can expect
that further assassination attempts will be made against
the new Prime Minister and other members of what the
Iraqi people consider to be a puppet American Interim
Government.
Comment: It would appear to be obvious that Iraq is not
yet prepared to rule itself and become a Democratic country
in the image that the United States wishes it to become
and this now sets the scene for the real battle to begin,
the Iraqi civil war which is sure to be fought between
the warlike nomadic Kurds in the north, the powerful Sunni
in the central Baghdad triangle and the dominant Shiite
population in the south who make up 60% of the Iraqi population.
The installation of the American sponsored Interim Government
in Iraq has been likened to setting up deck chairs on the
Titanic as it was sinking. !!!
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