Rewriting History!

Rewriting History!

Baghdad, Iraq

It is truly amazing!

If you didn’t know, you would be hard pressed to know that the Americans had actually been the ones to overthrow Saddam Hussein and liberate Iraq.

One could even call it a stroke of genius!

Nowhere is there a monument, sign or anything to say “thank you” to the brave American men and women who paid the ultimate price of over 4,000 lives and over 40,000 injured, to as the young soldiers you can encounter every day say in their own words “Give the Iraqis what we have – freedom!”

You can call it “rewriting history”, “erasing history” or just plain old lying, but the results are the same – a very clear effort to erase the Americans and their contribution from Iraq and create a new version of history that, while not saying it in so many words implies that the Iraqis themselves overthrow the Dictator with the support of their friends in the Middle East.

One sees it daily in small ways.

A soldier at a Checkpoint who has to get permission from a group of Iraqi Soldiers for everything he does.

“You would think the Iraqis overthrew Saddam Hussein by themselves and we are just a nuisance they are trying to get rid of as soon as they can” he says.

American soldiers forced to bow and “genuflex” and literally apologize for their very existence in the country every time they have a meeting with an Iraqi.

Constant pressure to turn over more and more areas, vitally needed to complete the ongoing process of reconstruction and to protect and enable the American effort.

Another is visa requirements.

After liberating the country, putting in billions of dollars to rebuild the country and paying such a huge price in our best and brightest one would think that Americans coming to Iraq would be treated with a little respect, honor and appreciation.

It is traditional in countries that the US has liberated going from Japan to Korea to Germany and more that Americans are welcomed to come and visa requirements reflect this.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

Talk to George Stevens who recently came to Iraq. In spite of having an Iraqi Visa which he had waited for weeks to get, he was stopped at Baghdad International Airport for over three hours because the Embassy had not properly communicated his visa to the Interior Ministry and treated literally like a criminal.

For Bat Ye’or, though in her landmark book “The Decline of Christianity under Islam” it would be no surprise.

Her book analyzes the long relationship between political islam and what are called the “Dhimmi” or “peoples of the book”; literally the Christians and Jews living in the Middle East who until the rise of political islam were the vast majority in the area.

The major point of her thesis is that from its very beginning political islam was parasitic, essentially feeding off the “Dhimmi”.

Simply put, the beginning of political islam was tribes living in the desert conquering the stable Christian and Jewish areas, dominating them and feeding off them by charging them astronomical “protection” money, forcing them to wear distinctive clothing, bow and respect
their Islamic conquerors and more.

Due to this “parasitic” idealogy, essentially the Christian and Jewish communities were slowly driven out from the Middle East and as a result political islam killed the very source of their wealth.

Without oil to fill the gap, political islam would have died a very long time ago simply because of its inability to create wealth say experts.

The Christian and Jewish population which was essentially the Middle East was dramatically reduced to about 20% in the 1950s and following the rise of Khomeini in Iraq in particular, further reduced to the point that it is now under 2% and falling dramatically.

Many view the problems in the Middle East as more economic than anything else due to the dramatic departure of the Christians and Jews who ran the economies as the critical middle class of the region.

It is unemployed youth who are the main source of terrorism and the constant problems in the Middle East.

Many in fact go so far as to view the supposed great accomplishments of the supposed “golden age of political islam” as in fact not accomplishments of political islam itself, but rather much as in the Tang Dynasty in China, accomplishments of the oppressed Dhimmi in its midst instead.

“What is happening in Iraq today is not unique” says one expert who asks not to be identified.

“It fits into the classic pattern of using Christians, Jews and others to accomplish important tasks for political islam and then erasing what they have done.

In a few years, most people will probably think that the Liberation of Iraq was accomplished by the Iraqi people with support from the moslem world.” He continued

One would be hard pressed to disagree with him. The rewriting of history has already begun and at least on the surface the Americans seem to be enthusiastically supporting their own erasure from history.

One would think that if nothing else the unimaginable sacrifice of blood and treasure would be motivation enough to make sure that America’s great accomplishment in liberating 28 million people from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent rebuilding of the nation in the greatest such effort since World War II.

A good start would be an official “thank you” from even one Iraqi Government official and at least one monument in a prominent place in Baghdad memorializing the sacrifice of America.

Amir George