I was reading the last interviews given by Saddam Hussein during
his unlawful detention at the headquarters of the US occupation force in
2003-04, records of which has been declassified by the US government and
published by the Gulf
News website. The interview has no transcription, rather a narrative
by the interviewer, who seemed more opined on every topic than the deposed
Iraqi President.
Reading through the account of
the discussion, we could assimilate the fact that Saddam Hussein has gradually
evolved between the 1960s and 1990s. From being a puppet to the role of taking
up an independent course of nation building, which turned fatal for him and
Iraq, the man carried vivid colours and characteristics with him. A Ba'ath
socialist at the core of his heart, Saddam Hussein remained firm on decisions
he had made and steps he had taken to secure the interests of Iraq in a
volatile geopolitical situation.
Saddam Hussein was not a
communist swearing allegiance to the notion of universal proletarian unity; he
was a patriotic nationalist, a free bourgeoisie leader, inspired by the models
of Kemal and Nasser, who tried to shape the future of his own country and its
economy independent of the global imperialist hegemony of the US and its allies
since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Saddam Hussein understood well
that Kuwait was used as a puppet in a game plan of the US to aggress upon Iraq
to occupy the major fuel producing wells of the country in order to meet the
growing demand for fossil fuel in the Western countries. Saddam Hussein, though
differed with the views of the Ba’ath Party's RCC on carrying out a pre-emptive
strike against the Kuwaiti people, had to give in to the rule of the majority.
Saddam narrated the reason of Iraqi attack on Kuwait as a preventive step to
secure its own interests and to 'liberate' the people of Kuwait, so that the
latter may choose what is beneficial for their country. It was an act, which
the US itself has carried out multiple times during the last six decades to
secure its own imperialist hegemony; however, for a country like Iraq, the
Americans had no tolerance for such pre-emptive strike on a perceived enemy
state.
The US government, controlled
by the big monopoly and finance capital owned military-industrial complex and
the notorious oil lobby, anticipated an early fall of the Saddam Hussein-led Ba’ath
Party government in Iraq due to the most inhuman sanctions imposed against the
Iraqi people. However, despite all odds, Saddam Hussein and the Ba’ath Party
managed to sustain life in Iraq fighting all odds. They collectively kept the
country united, crushed religious and sectarian extremism and nurtured the
little secular and progressive state in the Arab heartland surrounded by
American puppet monarchies and a venomous Zionist Israel that aimed to destroy
the Iraqi state and massacre the Iraqi people.
The pressure from the oil lobby to secure supply line of future
energy requirements of the US corporations compelled the Sr. Bush and Clinton
administrations to formulate multiple strategies to topple the government of
Saddam Hussein through all possible means. Despite Saddam Hussein and his
government openly rebuking and thrashing the bigotry fundamentalist Islamic
forces in Iraq, the Western imperialist bloc kept on accusing him of forming a
secret pact with al-Qaeda and other such Sunni terrorist organisations.
The Western media kept on
peddling lies about Iraqi government, which was plagiarised across the world by
the mainstream media. The American people and the people of the world were
misguided and misled by the fabricated data of the US secret service, which
blamed the Saddam Hussein’s government of building several weapons of mass
destruction. The CIA doctrine was used as an excuse by the Bush and Blair
regimes that acted as running dogs of the US petroleum lobby and
military-industrial complex, to launch imperialist war of aggression on Iraq,
which now resulted into nearly a million deaths.
The CIA and Mossad formulated a
strategy to divide the Iraqis on sectarian lines by heightening antagonism
between the rival Shi'ite and Sunni sects of Iraq in the early 1990s, a plan
that materialised after the occupation of Iraq by the American and British
imperialist forces in 2003. The massive sectarian violence that rocked Iraq
since the occupation crystallised into the formation of the notorious Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a CIA - Mossad venture funded with Saudi petro
dollar.
While reading the Saddam Hussein interviews one cannot stop
recalling Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes asserting that all crimes are actually
an act of repetition, something like this has happened before and no crime is
so unique. Little did Doyle know that the assertions of his world famous
detective character will turn out so much relevant in the 21st century, when
the imperialist war crimes of the Iraqi pattern is again replicated in Syria
under a different pretext by the same perpetrators. Another Ba’ath Party
government, another President trying to protect his country from foreign
aggression carried out by the outsourced henchmen of the US and Western imperialist
forces and another stream of malicious propaganda by the American and Western
mainstream media.
Still there is not much
resemblance between the global situation and the position of the people of the
world during the early 2000s and now. The Syrian conspiracy is now an open
book, the US and its allies like Britain, France, Germany, the Zionist Israel, Wahhabi
Saudi Arabia, Islamist fascist Turkey and other Gulf fascist states stand naked
before the people of the world.
The participation of multiple forces, including the Iranian
government backed Hezbollah, Lebanese Communists and above all, the Russians in
thwarting the American plan to destabilise Syria has actually jeopardised the
political and military fortune of the US puppets fighting with Western money
and weapons to topple a legitimate government and establish a theocratic
dictatorship in its place.
The frustration of the US and its Western allies is well visible
in their indigestion of the Russian involvement in the Syrian conflict and the
latter’s aerial bombardment on the terrorist forces like the ISIS, al-Nusra and
their apprentice organisations like Free Syrian Army, which plays the decoy
role for American regular marines. The vehement opposition of the Russian
involvement in Syria by the US government and its Western allies is echoed by
the Saudi monarchy and its Islamic allies. The gradual retaliation against the
terror forces by the Syrian National Army aided by Russian air cover, the
forceful retreat of the terrorists and massive decline in their funding and
destruction of their logistic support system, has overturned the table on the
U.S. imperialists, who have now resorted to back door diplomacy to bring Russia
in their fold and share the booty of the Syrian exploits with Moscow.
The defensive posture of the
U.S. government, who are now offering their women as bed partners for the
Russians, whom they have exploited massively between 1992 to 2002, has
manifested the immense crisis the U.S. economy is facing and the importance of
the victory of their plot in Middle East for the survival of their economy.
Future will show us whether
Russia succumbs to the U.S. pressure and agree upon in sharing
the booty with Washington DC, or continues to assert its own power to
consolidate Moscow's imperialist interests in Syria and Middle East. However,
at this point of time the contradiction seems to overweight the unity between
the two imperialist powers, which is beneficial for the Syrian people who can
exploit the contradiction to defeat the bigger and most powerful enemy of their
country.
Saddam Hussein's lessons made
it imperative for the people of the Gulf region to fight against the U.S.
imperialism and its hegemony over the entire Middle East Asia, which is exerted
through a chain of puppet monarchies in the region. Saddam correctly pointed
out that the U.S. and its allies will use sectarian division to incite violence
and mass murders, which is visible in Iraq and Syria today, where the
mercenaries created by the CIA like ISIS, Daesh, Al Nusra, etc are carrying out
large-scale devastation. The White House has a clear agenda for Middle East in
particular and the whole world in general that it will forcefully topple any
government that works hostile to its geopolitical interest and will occupy
their lands either through direct military aggression, if the financial
condition does not support a full scale military mobilisation then they will
outsource it to local puppet troops.
The Syrian war is now a symbol
of global unity against U.S. imperialism and its allies in Middle East Asia.
The Syrian war is an event, which has created a global solidarity of democratic
and revolutionary forces against the U.S. imperialism and its allies like the
ISIS and Daesh. The support should materialise into action to oust the
reactionaries from the Syrian war theatre and to force a heavy blow to the U.S.
- Israeli - conspiracy to destabilise Syria and turn it into another
version of Iraq.
