Google.Iraq "Iraq Under Bremer"

After the 9^th of April, 2003, every Iraqi –including me- imagined himself as to be reborn and the doors of heaven and "democracy" are now widely opened for him, but the reality was everything except that.

The first US mistake in Iraq was that when Paul Bremer "US administrator" tried to swim against the Natural Iraqi stream; he tried to convert a -Muslim Majority country, a country addicts to dictatorship for 35-years under Saddam- into a super model of democracy. What he did was like taking out all kinds of drugs from an addicted patient without any kind of rehab. The result of course, was a disaster that I and all Iraqis are still living it till now.

Let me tell you what the Iraqis think about democracy. Few days before the first Iraqi-election, that the Sunni-Muslims boycott it; I was talking with a friend of mine about the election, he was Sunni too. You know what did he say to me? Guess. He said that, "there is not something like elections in the Islamic Constitution, prophet Mohammed and the Khalifa (Islamic Leader) didn't came by elections, but they came by direct appointment; elections and democracy are non-Islamic regimes and because they are not Islamic then they are certainly corrupted; Christian & Jewish Americans brought that to Iraq in order to corrupt the Islamic identity of Iraq. And that is why I will not vote"!

Now, let me tell you 2 stories about Bremer and his attempts to build a new Iraq. The first one is about (Al - Iraqia TV channel) which got broadcasted after the end of the War and was supported and supervised directly by the Americans. At the beginning, Al-Iraqia, didn't show any kind of religious programs or Islamic prayers; (of course that was the first step to build a country separates between religion and the state, just like USA); but Paul apparently forgot that this is Iraq not US. The Iraqi got very angry and went on demonstrations calling Bremer an Atheist (Kafir)…. At the end Bremer was forced to give up, in order to calm the people.

The second one is, Bremer ordered the Ministry of Education to change some subject in the (Islamic-education and history books), he ordered to remove some chapters from the history book that condemned Jewish and was clearly anti-Semitism; from the Islamic-education book, he ordered to omit verses from Quaran that encourage "Jihad" and fighting against Atheist in the name of God (Atheist here, has multiple meanings, sometimes it refers to non Muslims).

Bremer succeeded in that, but his success was temporary. In 2006, the Ministry of Education imported what they called it "new prints of history and Islamic education books" guess from where??? From Iran!!!!