U.S. Continues War by Proxy: Playing the Al-Qaeda Card to the Last Iraqi | Global Research

U.S. Continues War by Proxy: Playing the Al-Qaeda Card to the Last Iraqi | Global Research

 International,
regional and internal players vying for interests, wealth, power or
influence are all beneficiaries of the “al-Qaeda threat” in Iraq and in
spite of their deadly and bloody competitions they agree only on two
denominators, namely that the presence of the U.S.-installed and
Iran–supported sectarian government in Baghdad and its sectarian
al-Qaeda antithesis are the necessary casus belli for their proxy wars,
which are tearing apart the social fabric of the Iraqi society,
disintegrating the national unity of Iraq and bleeding its population to
the last Iraqi.

The Iraqi people seem a passive player, paying in their blood for all this Machiavellian dirty politics. The
war which the U.S. unleashed by its invasion of Iraq in 2003
undoubtedly continues and the bleeding of the Iraqi people continues as
well.

  According to the UN
Assistance Mission to Iraq , 34452 Iraqis were killed since 2008 and
more than ten thousand were killed in 2013 during which suicide bombings
more than tripled according to the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Brett McGurk’s recent testimony
before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The AFP reported that
more than one thousand Iraqis were killed in last January. The UN
refugee agency UNHCR, citing Iraqi government figures, says that more
than 140,000 Iraqis have already been displaced from Iraq ’s western
province of Anbar .

Both the United States and
Russia are now supplying Iraq with multi–billion arms sales to empower
the sectarian government in Baghdad to defeat the sectarian “al-Qaeda
threat.” They see a casus
belli in al–Qaeda to regain a lost ground in Iraq, the first to
rebalance its influence against Iran in a country where it had paid a
heavy price in human souls and taxpayer money only for Iran to reap the
exploits of its invasion of 2003 while the second could not close an
opened Iraqi window of opportunity to re-enter the country as an
exporter of arms who used to be the major supplier of weaponry to the
Iraqi military before the U.S. invasion.