George Walker Bush, in the sunset of life, is spending his
moments of joy and happiness at his Texas Ranch in US with his family members.
The former Republican President, though God fearing, had no qualms in declaring
a war against Iraq in 2003 even after he was warned not to launch it on the
false assumption that Iraq under Saddam Hussain was piling up weapons of mass
destruction. Hans Blitz, the UN representative after conducting detailed
inspections had concluded that no weapons of mass destruction were detected by
his team and even after UN prevailed upon Mr.Bush not to intervene in Iraq and
declare war against it didn’t listen to the Supreme Body’s advice, bombarded the
nation killing millions of Iraqis, maiming as many, forcing as many to flee the
nation to neighbouring nations and seek refuge, destroying properties worth
billions of dollars thereby wiping out Iraq’s precious monuments of cultural
heritage, made a mess of entire Iraq and finally couldn’t come across any
weapons of mass destruction.
Mr.Bush had to face the wrath of his own countrymen who
slapped the entire blame on him for wasting billions of dollars, thereby
draining the exchequer, later plunging the nations to the brink of an abyss. The
gentleman President, inspite of the wrath of his people didn’t have an iota of conscience
that what all he committed deserved contempt. Saddam Hussain, the then ruler of
Iraq according to him and his father Sr.Bush was the incarnation of Satan. Mr.Bush
wanted to finish Mr.Saddam off and in the course of the war his soldiers with
help of Shias – Saddam’s enemies all of them - fished him out from a cave in
his native village of Tikrit, where Mr.Saddam was hiding and imprisoned him.
Saddam Hussain was a Sunni but Shias constituted a majority
in Iraq.
Later a puppet govt was installed who pandered to the wishes
of Mr.Bush, under Noorul-Al-Maliki, a Shia.
After installing Mr.Maliki as the head of Iraq, he constituted
a trial court to question Mr.Saddam Hussain and his confidents like Tariq Aziz.
The trial in fact was a mockery and the result was a foregone conclusion. The
court after the hearing sentenced Mr.Saddam Hussein and his confidents to death
and led them to the gallows one by one.
With the wrath of his people across his nation reaching its
crescendo, Mr.Bush was left with no option but to put an end to his ‘mission’
and his armed forces were taken away to their near and dear in US. They were
accorded an emotional welcome. The kith and kin of the dead soldiers showered thousands
of curses on Mr.Bush for leading them to face death in a cold-blooded war.
Iraq which was virtually reduced to a rubble evolved into a frustrated
nation in shambles and Sunnis were on a killing spree against the Shias, their
enemies.
Each day brought out blood-chilling stories of
suicide-bombings killing hundreds of citizens, most of them Shias.
In the beginning Iraq killings and destructions captured the
front pages of print media and a wide coverage in the visual media.
With days passing by, the daily reports of suicide-bombings
claiming hundreds of lives turned unworthy of reporting with many other stories
from other nations capturing headlines.
The citizens across the world too lost interest in Iraqi
mayhem, which is not surprising, with hot news- stories standing in the queue
drawing attention.
Nowadays how many of us are on a follow-up to see or hear
the happenings in Iraq? Only a few.
Even yesterday 82 persons were done to death in Iraq which
was reported in the inside pages of print media which not at all was given any
prominence by electronic media.
Mr.George Walker Bush must be a happy man nowadays. Let him
enjoy the coming days too for bringing the situation to such a pass.
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