A message to Obama
By Hassan Khalil Gharib
Iran’s entry into Iraq was an American mistake and America is responsible for removing it from Iraq.
After reading Obama’s speech on Wednesday, 5/8/2015, at the School of International Service at the American University in Washington, and his admission that the George W. Bush administration had made a big mistake in waging war on Iraq, and because he considered that the Iranian entry was one of those mistakes, and instead of working to correct that mistake, he convinced the Americans of the need to recognize the importance of taking diplomatic solutions with Iran over its nuclear file, while forgetting that the Iranian regime infiltrated Iraq by force. The American military and America has a responsibility to get him out of it because it was the reason.
Obama has completely forgotten this issue, when it is precisely the main issue that needs to be resolved after admitting the mistake, and forgetting that he is primarily responsible for removing Iran from Iraq, not distracting us from the importance of conducting diplomatic methods with a country that occupies another country by force of arms, war, and aggression.
Because he did not do so, he confirmed that there was a disconnect between his proper characterization of causes and consequences, while he had to complete the correction of the mistakes. Here is the US administration’s mistake of calling on Iran to withdraw from Iraq, that is, by removing all traces of the basic American mistake.
Obama, the president of the United States, in describing the American occupation of Iraq, seemed like a trustworthy labo. Still, innalyst, but in describing the treatment he was the example of a failed doctor who heals Iraq’s deep wounds with “Iranian watermelon peel.”
Obama’s statement is bold and his diagnosis is sound.
As a lab analyst, Obama openly admitted that the U.S.-led war against Iraq led to a series of mistakes, the most important of which are:
The occupation of Iraq was an invasion, and the decision to invade was wrong. He also acknowledged that America had lost this war humanly, materially, and strategically.
He admitted that the war made it easier for Iran to control Iraq. He stressed that America lost and that the only winner was Iran. Such an admission confirms that Iran took control of Iraq taking advantage of an American mistake, which means that that control was wrong. Logic dictates that those who benefit from the error of others are in the same position as the wrongdoer, and must be held accountable as such.
Because the American decision was wrong, the US president had to remove the reasons for this mistake and withdrew from Iraq in late 2011.
Because Iran was the only winner from that mistake, Obama, as head of state that made the wrong decision, had to order Iran to withdraw from Iraq as America did.
The solution proposed by Obama is beyond all logical standards.
A sound diagnosis of error must provide a sound solution. But Obama didn’t. Let’s review his solution.
Obama said that those who invaded Iraq from U.S. officials, with a mentality that favors military action over diplomacy, are behind blocking the nuclear deal with Iran. Because Obama allegedly opposed the decision to go to war in Iraq, he declared in his recent speech: “America must not only put an end to this war, but also an end to the mentality that brought us there in the first place.” In doing so, he wants to convince the Americans of the importance of diplomatic solutions with Iran regarding its nuclear file.
This is a beautiful statement that takes into account all humanitarian standards and international laws. In line with this, Obama, as a US president who believes in putting an end to the mentality of war and aggression, should have called on Iran to put an end to its aggression against Iraq, not forget all that, and call for diplomatic solutions with a country that practices aggression against others.
We are with Obama in that America should use diplomatic means in its relations with other countries, but in his aforementioned speech, he is completely illogical because he had to correct the mistake committed by the previous US administration against Iraq by forcing the Iranian regime, which entered Iraq with the help of the American occupation, to leave it.
Otherwise, without the United States removing all traces of the mistake it made, including allowing Iran to occupy Iraq under America’s watch, participation, and silence, that is, without calling on Iran to withdraw completely from Iraq, all its audacity to admit America’s mistakes makes no sense. It was as if he had not confessed and was not bold. Because he did not offer a solution to the issue of Iraq regarding pushing Iran to withdraw after such boldness, we condemn it and consider it deceitful and mendacious. We also consider him like a doctor who heals the wounds of Iraq with Iranian watermelon peels.
**This article was translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Ebeid for Sawtoroba.
