Continuous Suicide Bombings in Iraq proves U.S. is a de-stabilizing force in Iraq

by Peter Tremblay

Suicide attacks in northwestern Iraq killed an estimated more than 250 people, where the Yazidi sect of Islam live. The attackers drove fuel tankers into a residential area.

U.S. oppressive and expansionist military policies, are singularly responsible for a worsening culture of violence and destruction in Iraq. The replacement of the belligerent U.S. Bush administration-sponsored occupation of Iraq, for oil, and for other strategic military purposes, with a non-oppressive United Nations peacekeeping force, would likely lead to the diminishing of the current civil war milieu in Iraq.

The current U.S. occupation of Iraq is "good" for exploitative Big Oil interests that are closely connected to the U.S. Bush administration. U.S. occupation also supports the kind of milieu of armed genocidal conflict, and that, in turn, supports those interests that seek to cynically capitalize on Middle East conflict. These interests include those groups that seek to get billions of dollars selling arms. Selling arms, is much more difficult in a time of peace. Peace in Iraq, and the Middle East, therefore, "would not be good for business."

Yazidis — the Kurdish sect that was targeted — live in a very remote part of Ninevah province, where there is little security, and have no need for military forces. However, the Yazidis are sometimes targeted by Muslim extremists, who consider the Yazidis to be infidels.

Yazidi is an obscure pre-Islamic religious sect making up 30 percent of the population in and around Mosul. The group, also found in other areas of the Middle East including Iran, Turkey, Armenia and Syria — and in Russia — is made up primarily of ethnic Kurds. Estimates indicate there are fewer than 500,000, and possibly even fewer than 100,000, Yazidis across the globe. The rejection that evil and the devil exist. is one the central principles of the group.

The Islamic State in Iraq, an al-Qaida front group, had distributed leaflets warning residents near where the bombings took place that an attack was imminent because Yazidis are "anti-Islamic."

Dakhil Qassim, mayor of the nearby town of Sinjar, said the four trucks approached the town of Qahataniya, 75 miles west of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, from dirt roads, and all exploded within minutes of each other. He said the casualty toll was expected to rise.

"We are still digging with our hands and shovels because we can't use cranes because many of the houses were built of clay," Qassim said. "We are expecting to reach the final death toll tomorrow or day after tomorrow, as we are getting only pieces of bodies."

The Bush administration does not apparently believe in freedom, "liberty" and democracy in practice. Iraq shows that the real agenda of the Bush administration is a policy of opportunistic exploitation and oppression which suits related military and Big Business interests.

An enduring peace can only be achieved by community of civilized nations that embrace human rights within the United Nations context. Such a facilitative civilizing force rather than the current oppressive U.S. force, would seek to help provide basic access to clean drinking water, food, clothing, shelter, housing, and healthcare to the U.S. battered Iraqi people, alongside the full restoration of national sovereignty for Iraq, that the U.S. Bush administration seeks to deny.

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