Fruitless US Middle East policy

The US and other western experts have condemned the Bush administration’s Middle East policy as a failure in terms of politics, military and morality.

Claiming that the Bush administration has proliferated weapons of mass destruction rather than checking their spread, they asserted that the US war on terrorism has fostered confrontation and antagonism in the Middle East, resulting in a vicious cycle of murder and vengeance.

The US occupied Iraq by force of arms under the pretext that the alleged plan of the Saddam Hussein regime for the development of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons posed a grave challenges to global peace and security.

Three years have passed since then, but no WMD has been found in Iraq.

The US invasion of Iraq was not aimed at providing the Iraqis with freedom and democracy, but at taking the rich oil deposits in this country.

The Americans intended to take control of the Middle East as a whole.

That is why the Americans are rationalizing their occupation of Iraq.

Now Iraqi resistance forces are intensifying their activities against the US occupation policy.

As a result, the death toll of US troops has exceeded 2,500.

Meanwhile, some countries are withdrawing their troops from Iraq.

Poland has already withdrawn its troops by more than half and Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominica and other countries finished the pullout of their troops.

The Iraq war launched by the US under the pretext of war against terrorism has only brought about destruction, murder and chaos.

Sectarian conflicts between Shias, Sunnis and Kurds are ever deteriorating, which leads to constant outrages. Iraq is literally on the verge of civil war.

The Bush administration’s combat on terrorism is fanning hostility between Islamic world and the West.

Facts show that the more desperately the US clings to its anti-terrorist war in the Middle East the more flagrantly it will violate the sovereignty of the Islamic nations and it will lead to instability and insecurity.

Dubbing Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities a program for the development of nuclear weapons, the Americans are trying to take international sanctions by using the UN while attempting to launch a military attack.

Their drive is likened to what they did just before launching the invasion of Iraq.

The US invasion of Iraq gave a serious lesson that those countries that value sovereignty should build up their own deterrent in order not to fall victim to the US combat on terrorism.

If the US continues to go on the road of invasion and intervention under the signboard of combat on terrorism and spread of democracy they will face greater international rejection and isolation.