Open Letter ...From Iraqi Citizen to the American President Obama

When it comes to the issue of Iraq, you have always listened—and still you do—to the leaders of political parties and the neighboring countries’ governments, who suggest different points of view motivated, to a great extent, by each own interest. Now, it is time, your Excellency, to listen to an ordinary Iraqi citizen, at least for the sake of change.
It is only fair to admit here that you have helped us in removing one of the cruelest dictatorial regimes in the history of humanity; and only fair to say that we have enjoyed the resultant freedom which allows me today to write this letter which if it had been written during the last regime, I would have lost my life, and my family would have been deported to the United States, for showing loyalty to that country!
However, under this “newly born democracy”, and under the counsellorship of those who were called “experts in Iraqi affairs” whether Americans, Iraqis, or Arabs, whom you listened to them faithfully, you ventured into awakening sectarianism national discrimination in Iraq, making these the basis of this “democracy” that you wanted to bestow on us. You brought back this long forgotten talk of sectarianism to the country whose roots had been buried for more than seven centuries ago; you preferred, among all the liberal and progressive choices which were suggested then, those which called for sectarianism form both sects—whose theses went back to the Middle Ages—to establish a democratic system in Iraq in the twenty first century!!!! This makes me wonder, and hope that the government o the United States to answer me, that if democracy is built through the representation of all sects and national minorities, why this approach has not been adopted in the United States which includes more than fifty nationality and religious community? Does not that mean that one of these democracies, the “American or Iraqi” is built on a mistaken assumption? Either democracy is based on the representation of communities and national minorities, and then it has to be applied first in the United States, before it can be applied in Iraq; or democracy is established on the basis of citizenship regardless of any other narrow label, and this is the democracy followed in America and should also be applied in Iraq, but why it is not?
By quite simple logic, I can assume two possible answers to this question: first, there is intrinsic misunderstanding of true nature of Iraqi society, resulting from the so-called “counselors”, referred to above and that you have made a mistake when you considered that the conflict with Saddam was motivated by sectarian and national reasons, rather than being the struggle of a nation for freedom against a dictator regime that threatened several times the life of this nation, regardless of its religious sect, nationality or race. This indicates a lack of information that has led to all the problems that we suffer today in Iraq. This is can be corrected today after the Iraqi people have proved to all the world that it is more developed and united, superseding “most of the political leaderships which have led the political process in Iraq after 2003” in their dissertations to rule the country, forcing them to abandon the sectarian primitive theses after the last elections.
The second possible answer for the question above says: you have awakened the sectarian and national conflicts to tear my country apart into three small states, and I can’t figure what is the benefit from that; however, if that was your aim, then I tell you to get out from my country, but first you have to announce to the whole world that your aim was and still tearing Iraq into three small states, so the whole world can know what is exactly happening in my country.
Of course it is understandable—and also natural—that you do not care to the Iraqi civilians who are killed every day as much as you care for the killing of one American soldier, so you lay the Iraqi boundaries open, and dissolute its army so that my country became an open arena for all the terrorists in the world to practice their profession in it, and later they will be killed on its land rather any other country in the world. Now if it is as such, and the people in Iraq pay daily a tax of blood for the whole world, why they are not being helped in its war against terrorism, or rather the world’s war, which Iraq is waging alone on its behalf? Why the countries that fund this terrorism with money and weapons have not been dealt with according to the Security Council Resolutions related to fighting terrorism?
I also know that the issue of the American forces withdrawal from Iraq was at the top of your electoral campaign, and you are committed –morally—to fulfill it, besides its being a legal obligation as your forces is considered “occupation forces” that you correct some of the mistakes that are related to the future of Iraq and the life of its nation, and never let the backward reactionary forces win the battle, so they can built another Afghanistan in Iraq, the same country which strike your country in the events of September 11.
This is few of the things that may contribute to improve the image of the United States in Iraq and all the Arab Homeland.
Building a real democratic country in this particular area is a great challenge that needs people with deep faith in their roles and the parts that they need to achieve, and this requires people up to the level of the challenge they face in Iraq.
I wish you all the success in taking the first step in this direction.
With my respect,
Nsaif Jassim Hussein
An Iraqi Citizen

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