The Most Un-Patriotic People on Earth!

What I’m gonna talk about here is something that I have thought long about and have discussed with my friends and family many many times by now and every time I raise this subject, I get nowhere in terms of getting people, Iraqi people to think and to be objective about this issue. This issue is a “Murgatna Ala Ziyagna, i.e. مرگتنا على زیاگنا ” issue. This is an Iraqi-to-Iraqi talk that nobody else other than Iraqis has the right to get involved in.

Most Iraqis agree that Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and a war criminal and during his era in power, Iraqis suffered the unthinkable and when he was toppled, I for one, was very happy to see his time as a ruler of Iraq come to an end and was really looking forward to a much brighter future for my country and see Iraq takes it’s position between the nations of the world. Iraqis have suffered enough under Saddam and they deserve every chance to live and lead a normal life but that, of course, did not happen. Instead, Iraqis have and still are suffering yet again but now under the rule of a bunch of traitors who have sold their souls and their country to the highest bidder be it the US or Iran in the most disgustful and disgraceful way.

With the wisdom of hindsight, one has to think WHY? Why Iraqis have to go through this? What did we do that no other nation in the entire world has done that we deserve all this forever going agony and suffering? I don’t know really and wish somebody can tell me BUT what I know is that we Iraqis are the MOST UNPATRIOTIC PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET! Why? Because you would think that after sharing all the pain under Saddam (excluding most of the traitors in power whom have not shared that with the rest of Iraqis and which explain their indifference about Iraq and Iraqis), we Iraqis would really be looking forward to turn the page on the Saddam Era and look forward to re-building our country and shaping up a better future for us and for future generations but what we did? We get engrossed into a sectarian civil war provoked and initiated by our very neighboring enemies and we spend all our might and energy killing each other and meanwhile the people whom we elected (and we can’t blame anybody else but ourselves for electing those traitors) to lead us out of the mess diligently rob us of the chance of a better life to the last Iraqi Dinar and laugh their way to Swiss banks (if you know what I mean)!! Did we do what the Germans, Japanese or even Koreans did? NO! Why? Because we don’t love Iraq enough to remember that it is not about us now, it is about our country! We failed miserably as citizens of this great country. We are no match to our ancestors and forefathers who built this country over thousands of years and now we are just a bunch of losers fighting for short term gains forgetting the blessing of being called an Iraqi and what that means.

One more thing, where do you think these politicians that we elected to lead us come from? They didn’t come from another universe or traveled through a fourth dimension from a parallel universe! No, they are Iraqis born and bred (wait, many of the most influential politicians were “imported” by the genius US administration but that’s for another future blog) that WE elected! Nobody else elected them but we and we did that because we are ignorant and stupid enough to believe in the religious leaders (and these guys are one rotten bunch of power and money hungry criminals, Sunnis and Shiites, no exception) who know very well that peace and harmony do not serve their interest in power and money, lots of money, and Iraqis bought the advice of their respective religious leaders and look where are we now! It is fair to say that Iraqis are paying the costly price of their bad and ignorant choices. We should take a moment (may be longer than that from some of us!) as Iraqis and think, really think hard about what we need to do to save ourselves and our country from being divided and sold to Iran, the US, Saudi Arabia or anybody else cause Iraq deserve better. The question is: are we worth that? Think again!

In closing, many of us still blame Saddam for what is going on in Iraq and that’s, with all due respect, is a heap of BS. Yes he (or his actions) may have been behind some of our misery but Saddam (having been long captured and hanged) is not the reason. It is us and it’s time to admit that and work for a better Iraq, otherwise, we (and Iraq) will be history and not a bright one for sure.