The experiences of history prove that it is impracticable to rely on America-Part III Iraq

Iraq
The offensive aggression launched by Saddam Hussein against Iran in 1980 was fully protected and covered by the Western countries, and America and the other European countries have not hesitated, even for a single moment, to provide support for this attack and did not leave Saddam alone in the face of the Islamic Republic, through sending different types of weapons and war materiel, as well as through sending other assistance and logistic and material equipment. In spite of all this, the start of the first war in the Persian Gulf, represented in the attack of Iraq against Kuwait, which was at that time the base and the headquarters of the American military forces and one of the most important U.S. strategic points and centers in the Persian Gulf region, led to the deterioration of the US-Iraqi relations, and thus led the United Nations to impose tough sanctions on this country.

Of course, before this attack, we did not see any of the Western countries, including the United States, condemning the use of chemical weapons by Iraq against Iran, but in truth, Iraq did not face international sanctions and pressure, but only after threatening the U.S. strategic interests in the Persian Gulf region.

Since the year 1991, i.e. the time of the Iraqi attack against Kuwait, the United States began the chapters of another novel about the chemical weapons in Iraq, and America spared no effort to let the international inspectors enter into Iraq. In 1998, Saddam Hussein began to react with the Americans and allowed the international inspectors to have access to certain sensitive active positions over the territory of Iraq and put them under surveillance. He also passed a resolution to allow the inspectors to enter more than 8 military sites directly linked to the location of the Presidency of the Republic of Iraq and has put the Law of Freedom of Iraq for changing the regime in this country into action and implementation.

In spite of all this positive reaction and steps, the declaration issued by the United Nations’ inspectors stated that “Iraq is not reacting properly with the inspectors’ work”! This led the United States to launch a military campaign against Iraq, and thus announced the beginning of the second war in the Persian Gulf region in the last days of the year 1998. Then, in 2002, Saddam Hussein again allowed the inspectors to enter the Iraqi territory, but the decision to wage the war on Iraq had already been taken in the Security Council and the United Nations.

Yet, Saddam had announced his approval of the Security Council resolution on the abandonment of weapons that his country possesses. Although the Iraqi government responded positively, George W. Bush launched a large-scale military attack on Iraq in 2003, and he was actually able to overthrow the Baathist regime.

Since that time, and until this day, Iraq is still offended and is suffering from a series of killings, bloodshed, bombings, and terrorist attacks, and the U.S. administration has repeatedly declared, during earlier times, that it rather took the decision to go to war in Afghanistan first, and in Iraq, consequently, on the basis of its desire to grant the Afghani and Iraqi peoples the gift of peace, security and stability!! However, the fact is that those two peoples did not witness ever since that time the return of peace, security, and safety fully to their countries.

Egypt
The popular mass revolution that occurred recently in Egypt was as the dream of the people of that country, who were dreaming for many years to attain liberty and to form a state and a civilian democratic government in every sense of the word. This dream has finally had a chance to become true, and to become really a reality, where we saw the process of electing the President of the Republic of Egypt that took place in fact based on the votes of the Egyptian people at the polls, and a new government has been really formed in the country.

However, this vision, which was going to be realized, has faded so quickly as a result of the efforts made by President Mursi to get closer to the United States, and thus the dream has turned into a mirage, and the Egyptian people, the people who were patient and who sacrificed, plunged again into the quagmire of the civil governance and the government of a military coup.

The pursuit of Mohamed Morsi and his exaggeration to get closer to America came on the backdrop of ensuring that the United States would not reduce the level of the economic aid provided by it to Egypt and to its army, what made the Americans in the end get rid of Morsi, who was aspiring to become the new ally of the Americans in the region.

Hillary Clinton, the U.S. Secretary of State, has said during a visit to Egypt that America is working with all its efforts and endeavors to form a complete democratic government in Egypt. However, the elected president was quickly taken to prison, and the military returned again to govern the crisis and to manage the situation in the country.

In fact, what happened in Egypt recently constitute a clear and real model that reveals that the policy of the United States is based on making its own interests superior to all other issues; the Zionist entity was really scared because of the idea of establishing a state in Egypt led by the Muslim Brotherhood party. This American action that was represented in supporting the establishment of a military coup in Egypt came only in order to protect the interests of this usurper entity in the Middle East.

Syria
Highlighting the abovementioned models, we ask the politicians in Syria: Is it possible to rely on a state that makes its national interests superior to all its promises, covenants, and agreements, and it even trample all the international laws and norms, and does not hesitate to vow and to announce this on all the platforms and in all international occasions and events?!

Did the officials in Syria do well when they agreed to give up all the chemical weapons through agreeing with the United States, and through handing over all their affairs to America in this field?!

Is it really possible to rely on the promises made by the United States related to Syria and the Syrian people to provide facilities and to make concessions in the Geneva II Conference that is to be held in the future?!

Both the near and far history proves, beyond any doubt, that it is impracticable to rely on America, and that its promises and commitments can never be trusted.