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Open Letter To U.S. President George Walker Bush
Five Peshmerga forces were just killed getting caught unguarded in Baghdad
Kurdishaspect.com - By Steve Tataii
I blame it on arming some Sunnis as the new strategy to fight the terrorists. Sir, Thank you for the war of Liberation, but we have accomplished our main mission In removing Saddam’s regime from power, we must secure the two nations of Kurds, and Arabs, and bring back our soldiers as soon as that’s done. Please read the entire of this vital article as a fresh look at what we're not doing, and we must begin doing right.
We have caused to kill more Sunni, and Shia than Saddam killed innocent Iraqi Civilians. At a time like this, when Sunnis are at their highest state of being disenchanted by all this killings since our invasion in 2003; to arm Sunni or Shia to fight terrorists is, and will become our biggest mistake.
There is no way to tell the Ba’asi Arabs from ordinary Sunni or Shia. This by itself is a political suicide, and I'm totally against it to continue. To end the sectarian violence we must encourage peace from where it was broken to pieces, and not by arming the Sunni-Shia insurgence nor in the name of al -Qaeda elements! We must secure the Mosques, and respect people's culture, and privacy in their own backyard.
The unidentified Sunnis, and Shias we are arming will be killing Kurds, and even other Arab, and minority civilians mostly in Baghdad, and target our own troops. The Sunnis are obviously angry, fed up, and hopeless even if half of their non-Ba’asis were not in that state of mind prior to the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, sparking attacks, and their daily killings by Shia, hence in a tit for tat chain Reaction, leading to the both sects killing each other at an unprecedented rate.
Who exactly bombed that mosque, and if al-Qaeda did, where is the evidence?
Al-Qaeda could be from any country, so in essence the cleaning up operation can best be done by the natives of Iraq, and as Pat Buchanan on last Friday’s news program suggested; “The apparent effective way to get rid of Terrorists in Sunni area is if we pulled back, or as I would put it step back, and let them fight the terrorist”. This, as Sunnis have tried to do or have shown interest doing so, but as long as we’re at their throats in their backyard, the only thing they can do to survive is to stay out of our way, and worry about their own lives lost, mistaken as terrorists. If we push the local Arabs too far, they may join or may have already joined a form of al-Qaeda, hence we have lost their support, and have probably added to our conflict.
Therefore, this by no means call for arming the Sunni nor the Shia, whom by the way are also at odds with al-Qaeda. We must only arm the Kurds at the present time, and no one else.
You see sir, we are yet to prove who bombed Samarra Mosque? We are yet to prove if al-Qaeda’s committed members are really operating in Iraq as we continue to claim they are, or they are just the Saddamists, and Ba’asi Sunni-Shia dead enders, but also Arab natives’ own resistance groups to our long occupation.
Honorable President Bush, most importantly, Let’s reassess our strategies in this war, and let’s not force the Kurds to get involved in Sunni-Shia wars the way we have been dictating to their Leaders, who have reluctantly sent nearly 2 Peshmerga regiments. It is not being culturally sensitive, when we expect the Kurds to give their lives in Sunni-Shia wars they wish to have nothing to do with. Let’s not persuade Kurdish Leaders to send more Peshmerga forces to Baghdad to act as our hired killers, forced to kill Arabs by no choice, and in self-Defense. This does not go well with their future Kurdish-Arab neighborly relations in their Southern borders to Kurdistan.
There should never be such a thing as Kurdish peace keepers in Arab Iraq other than Kurds keeping Peace, and security in their own Kurdish region the way they have always done, and not expected to get involved after what their civilians have gone through since 1920s, and moreover since 1963 Saddam’s beginning rein.
This would be unrealistic, unfair, against our moral, and principles of defending Human Rights.
Certainly if Americans have spotted an injustice around the world, we have immediately rushed to end it, and save the victims, but have not expected the victims to be re-victimized. If there was any quick solution to this war it should have started by letting the Kurds in the North to have their independence at least 3 years ago, so that they could move on with their reconstruction of the ruins from the past 87 years, in peace, calm, and security, which was the least we could have done. To expect Kurdish nation remain in other nations in-fights is not a moral thing to do. Kurds must not be looked at as Arab sects babysitters, and based on that be exploited, nor should they have to do this in exchange for favors such as their unreleased reconstruction money, which they are yet to receive in the full amount of 8 billion dollars, and not the 1.2 billion piecemeal.
If Kurds were left in their own secured homeland, and remain strong, we would only have to worry about the South, West, and Baghdad, and our job of securing those areas would even be easier. We have simply held the Kurds captive even after their forceful captivity during the Saddam’s regime. We need to change that Sir. Kurdish independence is in the palm of our hands. What are we waiting for?
There is no such a thing as Kurdish-Sunni-Shia Unification, and there never can be any. On the other hand: Given their recent history of conflicts after 1923’s imposed fusion of Kurds, and Arabs into one state "Iraq" by colonial powers: “There is not, and there can never be any Kurdish-Arab-Turkish-Persian unity in Iraq-Iran-Turkey-Syria, after so many bloody wars, including Halabja chemical bombing, and ANFAL to say the least. The Four mentioned states usurping Kurdistan if I may remind you, were all artificially carved up by the major European powers of colonial era in their busy schedule of slicing up world’s nations, and this was one of their most outlaw, and callous projects, because it has led to the killing of a great number of the most ancient people, about 3.5 million Kurdish civilians so far.
In the greater Kurdistan, today’s home to over 50,000,000 Kurds in 4 parts, not one part has had a recognized independent state, while there have are 22 Arab states, 6 Turkic states, and 3 Persian states.
Sir, we have had wrong strategies in this war, but admitting or denying it is not going to bring back the lives lost as in any other war, and Democrats are greatly responsible to take most of the blame in this, for their lack of cooperation, bickering, and nonsense Partisan diatribes. To reassess our actions now, and recognize a clear strategy is the only correct course of action. The world community are aware of the fact; that the aforesaid countries had, and still have puppet regimes often brought to power by our own CIA’s covert or overt executed plans or brought to power by our manipulation of their politics for their people to do the same on our behalf, hoping to reach the same results. Our past intentions haven’t always been “People oriented”, and sensitive, rather it has been, as I would put it, special interest “Corporate Heads Oriented”.
This has damaged our American principles for Freedom, peace, and Justice around the world, and I know this is why you have had a hard time to give us back our true American character, but as you have bravely stood up against all odds; God almighty will be your guidance Sir.
Just imagine, if the many confused Democrats with no sense of understanding about this war come to power. Except a few of them, the rest shall overwhelm whatever we have so far achieved for Kurds, and take the same old rotten path by taking the side of the villains, and bring back the oppressors, who will in turn bring back the same Saddam like regimes. We just can’t afford to wait for that to happen Sir. We must support Kurds in their permanent nation building process.
Again, Kurdish military units or Peshmerga should not be engaged in the Sunni-Shia Wars, and they should be in their own Kurdish region to help, and secure the safety of their Kurdish citizens within the Kurdish map in the North.
Sir, you, and I nor the Kurds should carryout the wishes of the world’s corporate heads, and do what they wish us to do in killing all of their suspected threats to oil fields of Kurdistan nor Basra, and we must not pretend Globalization is any different than Colonialism with slightly different definitions, and means. If Globalization is inevitable, which is not; then at least its process should not be at the cost of millions of innocent civilian lives to get to the oil in Kurdistan, and the unholy “Heads” do not have to kill millions of Kurds, and others, but if they use their Egoistic brains, and poor visions; they can actually see; that they can purchase Kurdish oil from Kurds themselves, and Basra oil from their respective Arab nations.
It is only a matter of time; that these rightful owners, Kurds, and Arabs, will learn; that the actual oil money is not divided among them in an old fashion way, but rather it is in form of credits registered through a central international Monetary fund system without the hand exchange of money, all but a very small amount of actual cash. This is why it is important; that we do not delay releasing Kurdish reconstruction share of the 23 billion dollars. The 1.2 billion dollars has just not been enough. Their actual share is 8 billion dollars. They have bills to pay, wages to pay, and building supplies to buy, not mentioning many many other needs left suspended.
Soon the winter will arrive, and tens of thousands of internal Kurdish refugees, and those in need of proper homes will need to live in reasonable housings. Kurdistan need at least two large electric power plants to provide electricity to millions of Kurds. They need drinking water plants, and road constructions to name a few.
Frankly Sir I believe in the past we have had a very cold, and senseless foreign policy toward Kurds for nearly a Century, and here, I’m still trying to remain within the criteria in speaking about Kurdish people’s well being, because if we don’t correct our approach soon, we will have again betrayed the Kurds, and left the region with a stateless Kurdish population open to the surrounding mentioned fascist regimes’ assaults, when we’re irresponsibly arming the Sunnis instead of first arming the Kurds, who have become one of or the strongest ally with us in this war, and have even answered to your secretaries demand for Peshmerga participation, which as I stated earlier is not a moral request.
Last Friday in the media was suggested; that it appears that the bombing of Samarra Mosque was done by unknown Americans. They did not specify who, and what group, and under whose orders. If this is true, then this is really sick, and we must get to the bottom of this investigation, and find out if there has been one. I personally don’t think so, and if any,
it must have come from an external enemy’s camp.
I Think We Need To Take Four Simple Action Steps Very Quickly, and end this chaotic WAR. They are:
1- Declare the South Kurdistan in the North, which has been Self-Ruled since 1992 an Independent Kurdish state immediately, and cause UN to allow entering its membership by doing the same at once. We are at least 3 years late in doing so after the two major Kurdish parties were unified during the statelessness period brought upon them since 1920s League of Nations’ aborted treaty of Serves for Kurds, Armenians, and Azaris, and because we should be thankful of God; that they have been able to defend themselves with simple defensive weaponry, but suffer heavy casualties, and surviving all these years. Since 1923 they have been thrown before the four well supported, and armed military forces, usurping their land like vultures, while assisting their Colonial masters for the following 80 years of oil piracy from Kirkuk oil fields. This is the least we must do quickly, before we loose all of our credibility among other Nations, and I mean “ALL OTHER NATIONS”. It would be regrettable if we don’t.
2- Let’s announce our departure in a tentative set date, and before that date encourage peace between Sunni-Shia Arabs, to be a mandatory requirement if they want us to leave sooner, but with the assurance of peace, and stability among the two, since Kurds have already been Self-Ruled since 1992, and we have already overthrown Saddam, and almost all of his subordinates, leaving the few thugs or Saddamists, and foreign fighter dead enders be removed by people
themselves.
3- We must help the Kurds to complete the long overdue implementation of article 140, and allow them to secure all ethnically cleansed targeted cities, villages, and provinces below 36 parallel, so that they are back in the hands of their rightful owner Kurdish people, and under the sovereign Kurdistan’s government authority led by the honorable President Massoud Barzani, and not any other unknown non-Kurdish territory’s Rule. This is extremely important, because as Kurds have not invaded other nations’ territories; they will never let their people, and motherland remain outside of Kurdistan, and this especially includes Kirkuk, and all other Kurdish areas within Kurdistan.
4- Let’s make it clear to Turkey, and Iran; that we will decisively take out their military Hardware or arsenals in their bases on the ground if they ever step a foot into Kurdish territory without visa or permission as described, and at that time the usurped Kurdish territory invaded by them will be assisted to permanently become Liberated with each forming their own governments. Unless; that not only they must respect their Kurdish neighbor state’s boundaries in South Kurdistan, but they must begin giving full autonomy to the invaded Kurdish regions usurped by them, and must begin to treat the Kurds there no different than Persian or Turkish citizens or groups, helping the Kurds to recover, and repair the war destructions left behind by their regimes, and also stabilize the level of developments, and modernization kept behind, and bring it to the same standards as the other parts if not better, otherwise the Plan of Independence for those Kurdistan parts will remain open on the table indefinitely.
Thank you Mr. President, and good luck to you in ending this war, wishing that you remain as our brave champion among all other U.S. Presidents, and Happy Birthday to you Sir.
Steve Tataii is a prolific Kurdish author of several recent books related to Iraq War, Kurds and Kurdistan in English. He's the President, and founder of K.U.R.D.S. NGO since 1991, founded to help refugees passing through the pacific. He was also a 2006 U.S. Senator candidate, and the seat for U.S. House in the 2002 contested elections.Tataii has lived in Hawaii since 1976, and has obtained his degrees in Political Science, and Math from UH Manoa. He has written, and lectured extensively about the Kurds, their history, and contemporary Kurdish Political situation since 1920s' unjust partition of Kurdistan by colonial powers, leading to many wars for independence, and creating the today's Iraq War dilemma. www.tataiiforcongress.com
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