US Quickly Finds Reason to Delay Troops Withdrawal from Iraq

Protests in Iraq have recently turned into new outbursts of violence due to the fact that the Iraqi government has refused to register hundreds of candidates as deputies of the head legislative body.

Both Sunnis who welcomed, and Sunnis who opposed, the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 have expressed their disgust and disappointment over the actions of the election committee.

This new wave of violence is now providing the US occupation forces with an excuse to delay the withdrawal of their soldiers from Iraq. Obama originally planned to pull troops out of Iraq by September, but General Odierno is now arguing against that.

Analysts believe that a continued American military presence will further enrage the Iraqi people.

“The American presence is a disaster. We rebelled against the US occupation in 2004 and 2008. There is no help from America except for missiles that kill the Iraqis. There is no help from the Iraqi government either. Nothing from Iran, nothing from the UN, nothing from anybody,” Abu Mustafa, one of the Shiites of Baghdad, who welcomed US invasion of Iraq in 2003 said.

“We hoped in 2003 that they would help develop Iraq for the Iraqis. The things that started happening were all made against the people of Iraq, and we rebelled against it. I can say the same about the Iraqi government, which was forced to serve America, not the people of Iraq,” Mustafa said.

Meanwhile, the Iraqi puppet regime is trying to win support from the masses by reinstating 20,000 military officers who served in the Iraqi army under Hussein.

From the sentiments of Abu Mustafa and the Iraqi people, it is clear that committing undemocratic actions with the election committee, reinstating the monsters who made up Saddam's army, and continuing the imperialist occupation of Iraq is certainly not going to bring peace and stability to the country. The rulers of Iraq and the US are far from stupid, they know the bad results that will happen from their actions. The thing is, they don't care. They are apathetic to the needs of the people. Only Maoist people's war, not petty-terrorism, can save the Iraqi people.