IRAQ – AFTER FOUR YEARS OF WAR
IRAQ – AFTER FOUR YEARS OF WAR

Summary/Abstract: Although the dictator Saddam Hussein was removed from power, the international mass media registered (more than three years after the military intervention unleashed in Iraq) the situation has not improved yet. There were invested over 700 millions dollars and, in the field, near the Iraqi capital, almost 36,000 military personnel, policemen, special troops and security agents act. Nevertheless, the security situation in Baghdad seems to be out of control. Submissively to new pressures, Iraq continues to be the scene of bloody attacks, in spite of increased security measures endorsed in the Iraqi capital. More and more people, also Iraqi military personnel and policemen, lose their lives not only in Baghdad, but also in different cities of the country. Attacks, kidnappings and assassinations against the American army increased significantly, and the inter-confessional violence between the Shi’a community and the Sunni community intensified, after the bombing (on 22nd February) of a Shi’a mausoleum in Famarra1 . It has been said that, after Saddam Hussein’s execution, Iraq is already on the brink of civil war. In fact, Iraq was already affected by the civil war, on the background of inter-religious violence scale in this country2 , the nuances are different. Despite the fact that part of media3 adopted the “civil war” syntagm regarding Iraq, the White House doesn’t allow it. Moreover, the American President sent – from Riga – where he participated to the NATO Summit, on November 28-29, 2006 – the message that he will not withdraw the troops from Iraq till he obtains the victory. On November 28th, 2006, the Washington Post released an American Navy’s Report4 that admitted the American troops loose the control over the West side of Iraq, an area overwhelmed by rioters and terrorists affiliated to Al-Qaeda, but, at that time, the officials minimized the gravity of the evaluations. A shocking declaration came from the future chief of Pentagon, Robert Gates5 , stating that the USA doesn’t win the Iraqi war and, during the next two years, the American presence in region will bring either a stabilization of Middle East, or a conflict of international proportion. Sentenced to death, the former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, was hanged at Baghdad, on December 30th, 2006. Related to the event, the Iraqi television transmitted a text, written in red, according to which “Starting the death of Saddam Hussein, there was reversed a black page of Iraqi history”6 . On January 10th 2007, the president George W. Bush presented a new strategy for Iraq in front of a skeptic Congress, dominated by democrats and, in the same time, in front of a population who expressed its opposition to the assignment of supplementary troops in this country.

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