You must have been old enough during the Iraq war right?
won't confirm, won't deny.
You did not once feel surprise at what happened to the bulk of the battle hardened crack troops of Saddam that did battle with Iran for 10 long years?
They suddenly vanished? Became farmers and scent makers?
The fight that never came.
good point.
Till now.
good point.
but vanishing was not so sudden and so complete... while a lot of the baathist movement, including your mentioned saddam's republican guard, dispersed after 2003 ( primarily to syria ) to regroup, a lot of them remained and offered stiff resistance to the american occupation army and its new puppet regime... cities like fallujah are well-known for the resisters, but who were not only the baathists but also other factions (
Razing of Fallujah fails to break Iraqi resistance - World Socialist Web Site ).
some analysis... from (
Iraqi insurgency (2003–11) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )...
The fall of Baghdad effectively ended the existence of the
Fedayeen Saddam as an organized paramilitary. Several of its members died during the war. A large number survived, however, and were willing to carry on the fight even after the fall of Saddam Hussein from power. Many former members joined guerrilla organizations that began to form to resist the U.S-led coalition in Iraq. By June, an insurgency was underway in central and northern Iraq, especially in an area known as the
Sunni Triangle. Some units of the Fedayeen also continued to operate independently of other insurgent organizations in the Sunni areas of Iraq. On November 30, 2003, a U.S. convoy traveling through the town of
Samarra in the
Sunni Triangle was ambushed by over 100 Iraqi guerillas, reportedly wearing trademark Fedayeen Saddam uniforms.
from (
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )...
al-Douri has been considered more of a symbol, but he doesn't actually hold that much power over the party. In a discussion with the American embassy in Amman, Jordan, in 2007, retired Lieutenant General Khalid al-Jibouri stated that he believed "a powerful shadow group of personnel [was] behind him who really constitute the operational leadership of his faction". He further noted that the party was modernizing, in the sense that it recognized it would be impossible to return to power alone, while, at the same time, it returned to its old, Ba'athist ideological roots.
In another note, al-Jibouri noted that the Ba'ath Party had become a major enemy of al-Qaida in Iraq.
In the wake of
Muammar Gaddafi's
downfall, [ late 2011 - jamahir ] the new Libyan government sent documents to the Iraqi government which claimed that Ba'athists, with help from Gaddafi, were planning a coup.
[63] Because of the revelations, the Iraqi government initiated a purge of thousands of public officials.
[63] The purge triggered Sunni protests, with many calling for Sunni
autonomy within Iraq.
[63] Surprisingly to outside observers, al-Douri's Ba'ath party opposed Sunni autonomy and, in a statement, referred to it as "a dangerous plan to divide Iraq along sectarian lines.
connect this last with what i said earlier about a iraqi unit going to libya to help muammar gaddafi.
the iraqis fight on but mainstream media does not talk about them.
there was a thread some months ago about the supposed death of izzat ibrahim al-douri in iraq... i don't know if that fact is true because after all it is the usa government and the iraqi government saying so.
but there is also a complicating thing... (a). we must consider that among the people in syria fighting against the nato-backed foreign terrorists will be the iraqi baathists ( in support of syrian government ), (b). the new russian plan of sharing intelligence against qaeda and isil with the anti-baathist current iraqi government, (c). the existing friendliness between syrian government and the new-iraqi-government-friendly iran despite syrian government being baathist itself... russia and syria must surely have found a way to reconcile the differences.
jamahiriya is a libyan invented term that means "system/state ruled by the people" and refers most directly to the socialist, direct-democracy, decentralized system that governed libya from 1969 to 2011 under guidance of muammar gaddafi and others... but those like myself who propagate this system call libya as just the first jamahiriya and call for all humanity to be arranged politically within a world jamahiriya.
the "aam aadmi party" also has vision for a direct-democracy system for india and which they call "swaraj"... you will have heard of one of its components - "mohalla sabhas".
Idiots have to realise forcing the continued rule of the same brutal alewite dictator is no longer acceptable and can no longer bring peace to syria
you are being the naive one here... this is the fifth year of the syrian war and you are unable to see it as the simple thing it is - a nato regime-change attempt against another socialism-based system, like happened earlier in iraq and libya.
can i ask your opinion on the situation in pakistan?? as government, would you prefer progressive socialists there or the current western-oriented confused fools or nato-puppet mullahs??
