Iraq

The 12 year aerial and naval siege of Iraq by the US and British forces was the longest in history. Saddam and the siege survived three changes of president and prime minister and military chiefs in US and UK.

If Saddam was able to deter the Americans and British for twelve years with a hoax of weapons of mass destruction, he will go down in history as the greatest military strategist ever.

The Americans and the British leaders attacked Iraq only after they were convinced by UN inspectors’ reports that there were no WMDs in Iraq. They used Saddam’s secondhand hoax of WMDs to fool their own people and the world and create an excuse for the land invasion.

General Tommy Franks, the front man in the run-up to the Iraq invasion and its execution mysteriously disappeared from the scene soon after the fall of Baghdad. The media did not take any notice, or was told not to.

It is also widely conjectured in the Muslim world that the plan for the invasion and control of Iraq had been prepared long before and during the 12 year siege, a team of Iraqi immigrants had been brainwashed and prepared to form the puppet government after the fall of Baghdad. It explains the opposition of the patriotic Iraqis to the interim regime put in place in Iraq by the Americans. It is commonly understood in the Muslim world that the Americans and the British are going to stay in Iraq until they have recovered all the expenditure of the siege, the war and the occupation with a hefty interest. The frequent attacks damaging the oil pipeline to Basra is meant to prevent the British occupation forces from stealing and shipping Iraqi oil to Britain.