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1 458 km jordan 181 km kuwait 242 km saudi arabia 814 km syria 605 km turkey 331 km total 2831 km 1769 miles this border guard force was disbanded with the rest of the iraqi army the american army had neither the desire nor the resources to control those borders the results were catastrophic looted and stolen materials vehicles and machinery found a ready market the unchallenged smuggling business boomed drugs previously very little known in iraq were brought into the country and due to the prevailing lawlessness began to be sold openly on the streets of our cities arms insurgents and terrorists were going back and forth freely across the unguarded borders anybody who had a quarrel with the us hoped to settle his accounts with it in iraq this included sincere people who came in to help liberate iraq neighboring countries some of whom had a life and death interest in keeping the us busy and disoriented in the iraqi quagmire were operating freely the us feebly complained president bush even declared that iraq has become a battlefield i can t remember the exact words for the fight against terrorism how would you like your own country to be turned into a battlefield for terrorism posted by abu khaleel 10 11 am mistake 6 disbanding the army apart from the early phases of the war the iraqi army did not put up much of fight against the invading armies they simply did not want to most have simply had enough of saddam s regime and when it was evident that the usa was earnest this time in its determination to topple it they simply deserted en masse the huge iraqi army of more than 300 000 men simply vanished shortly after the invasion was complete it was formally disbanded that was a mistake it was admitted to be so more than once by senior us officials it was also a mistake to look at those people as cowards many were battle hardened professional soldiers who did not fear facing death another mistake was to regard them as villains as saddam s army of oppression the villains who controlled the army for the regime were a small minority many of those others were professional patriotic soldiers not really very different from other soldiers in other armies all over the world it was also a terrible mistake to humiliate officers some of them senior by having them stand in long lines under the summer sun and overlooked by us soldiers who shoved and insulted them to receive a pittance of an allowance it was a humiliation many felt bitter about when through shear incompetence and mismanagement on the part of the occupying authorities the us army and administration began to be seen as an enemy by many ordinary people and particularly after saddam was caught a lethal combination began to brew hundreds of thousands of men who were well trained in the arts of combat many of them patriotic some of them fearless were abandoned bitter and jobless while the country was seen by many of them as occupied by an army bent on destroying it huge stockpiles of arms and ammunitions in depots all over the country those people knew where to find them a sympathetic population who resented the way americans were handling to many destroying their country in the name of liberation and democracy it doesn t take much foresight to see where that would lead would it posted by abu khaleel 3 28 am monday may 31 2004 mistake 5 disbanding the police when the regime fell the police force simply disappeared nevertheless restoring police services would not have been a very difficult task the personnel were there the police stations were there many had taken their cars with them yet no attempt was made in that direction the police force was simply disbanded by decree it was a gross error saddam s regime had politicized every establishment in iraq including kindergartens do you simply abolish all the institutions in a country as large as iraq simply wipe everything and start anew anyway the police was disbanded the american army patrols were not interested in law order and were evidently preoccupied with their own safety saddam had released all prisoners before the invasion from abu ghraib alone about 64000 people were released none were political prisoners for months baghdad was dominated by gangs of thugs and criminals who went on a rampage of killings and kidnappings the main streets were almost deserted you could go across the usually very busy downtown and not meet a single car for a couple of miles for months lawlessness reigned it was common place to hear explosions and gun shots all day and all night long on average we were hearing of about three break ins kidnappings or murders a day gradually life began to come back to the city as people had to go about their business go to doctors seek their livelihood etc life it seems had to reassert itself it was the presence of people on the streets and the willingness of some of them to jump to the rescue of people who yelled for help that brought some security back to the city there was a curfew between 11pm and dawn that too helped a bit local vigilance by people kept many neighborhoods relatively safe the new police began to emerge about that time however they too seemed to be quite concerned about their own safety and very rarely ventured out after criminals it was during that period that i lost a dear life long friend to lawlessness he managed an amusement park and was going back from work around dusk in his small 20 year old car he was followed by two cars we found the entry points of five bullets in his car one got him in the head people nearby rushed him to hospital but it was too late he was not rich he was not into politics he had no enemies to speak of but he was killed when someone went to the police station they refused to go and have a look at the scene of the crime and demanded that the car be brought to them _____________________________________________ the traffic police had also disappeared and there was no effort made at recalling them back into service the occupation forces were determined to build a new iraq with a brand new traffic police force this task took several months to start as the administration had more pressing agenda on their minds meanwhile baghdad a city of more than 5 million people and more than 40 miles across was left to its own devices with no electricity and therefore no traffic signals and a 50 sudden increase in the number of cars the traffic congestions several months after the occupation were simply impossible teenage volunteers helped in some places to keep the traffic moving young boys of 13 or 14 were standing in the iraqi summer sun at noon to direct traffic in evading the congestions us military patrols had no regard to any basic traffic law to add insult to injury the occupying army sealed off large areas of baghdad literally littered many streets with concrete blocks blocking numerous main roads and at least two important bridges that linked the two sides of baghdad one would not have thought it was possible to surpass saddam in this respect apparently it was today more than a year later traffic police are back in good numbers on the streets but baghdad remains a jungle for cars posted by abu khaleel 3 06 pm mistake 4 failure to restore services up to saturday april 5th the day of the dash through western suburbs of baghdad to the airport and four days to the toppling of the statue electricity in baghdad was almost normal many people felt that this time the americans were fortunately not targeting power stations like in 1991 on that day power was cut i don t recall for how many weeks power was down but the period was sufficiently long to be infuriating week after week of unbearable heat by day and night with no cooling it was a truly unforgettable summer today as i write these words more than a year on power comes two hours every six on the other hand i know exactly how long we remained with absolutely no running water not a trickle 26 days at our home we had fortunately dug up a well in the garden we used a manual pump to lift water from it everybody had to contribute some muscle power to get our need of water the water was smelly but we had to use it for everything except drinking and cooking we had stocked ample supplies of bottled water for those purposes there was also a permanent queue of neighbors waiting for their turn to fill up from the well in other areas of baghdad water took longer to be restored the problem with having a low pressure water supply with no electricity is that there has to be a lot of water carrying not to be recommended to anyone with a bad back telephone lines took longer to date our own ground line has not been restored however telephone service has been restored to many other areas mobile telephone system commissioned a few months ago was some consolation postal services are said to be on their way back after a year of liberation petrol gas shortages persisting to this day in a country that floats on oil at some time the queues were several miles long people sometimes had to spend the night in their cars in very hot or very cold weather to queue for it the list is truly long posted by abu khaleel 1 11 pm mistake 3 behavior as occupying army during the us army s thrust for baghdad people were truly shocked and awed by the might of that army their apparently invincible vehicles and their fire power but when the army began to take up positions on the ground and people began to watch the american soldiers more closely the picture began to change many were seen to be young kids who were so frightened that when fired at they began to shoot at random killing passers by including women and children then came report after report of house searches after kicking doors open humiliation of people frisking of women to many people almost unthinkable and stealing of money that was found in houses searched these things were not even done by saddam s thugs evil as they were rough handling people insulting and humiliating men in front of their families wrecking furniture and household items was common place during these searches to add insult to injury a good portion of the people subjected to these insults excesses and humiliations were innocent many were released some were apologized to later someone of some social standing who was subjected to such an experience told me that his house was attacked by a group of soldiers in the middle of the night with doors broken and furniture rampaged his family was rough handled by soldiers and he was humiliated hand cuffed and taken away he was stripped naked and left with a bag over his head for three days in a room full of other people without any toilet facilities after the three days he was treated well interrogated for a few days and then released he was driven back home and a lady officer went into the house with him and apologized to his wife posted by abu khaleel 10 31 am sunday may 30 2004 mistake 2 selective protection what astonished people at that time was that all government offices and major ministries were left unprotected by the american army except for the ministry of oil then came the shock of the pillaging of the iraqi museum under the very nose of the occupying army a single tank could have protected that museum then came news of the resignation of more than one adviser to president bush in protest over the iraqi museum issue followed by news that several international and us academic and government bodies had warned the us government of the danger that world treasure was in the us had lost the hearts and minds of many iraqi intellectuals just for that piece of what was then considered as criminal incompetence posted by abu khaleel 11 06 am mistake 1 looting when the us army entered baghdad in the early days of april 2003 the iraqi army police baath party militia and all other paramilitary forces of the saddam regime simply dissolved and vanished into thin air people began to hear reports of widespread pillaging of food stores government buildings central malls and even hospitals some of these places including telephone exchange buildings that had not been bombed were burned down in the absence of any police force people had to resort to their own resources to protect themselves their families and property within two days of baghdad s fall a bbc reporter i think it was paul wood described baghdad a city of barricades that was a truly amazing event a city of more than 5 million people without any means of transportation or communication made a simultaneous uncoordinated effort to fight back the looters and to prevent the spread of prowling to their neighborhoods in almost every neighborhood in baghdad armed young men barricaded the approaches to their inner streets and stood guard night and day in some places they even started fighting back attacking the looters shooting them when necessary locking them up in deserted police stations and taking back the spoils and depositing them in mosques then reports that american soldiers were actually encouraging the looters and even ramming open some building doors for them began to filter through when asked about these incidents secretary rumsfeld took the whole thing lightly and explained it away as a manifestation of joy and freedom from oppression president bush was talking about the end of military operations and that iraq was now secure posted by abu khaleel 8 04 am saturday may 29 2004 background post invasion climate exactly a year ago in may 2003 a month after the fall of baghdad i wrote the problem it is natural to assume that a typical iraqi holds two conflicting feelings a feeling of gratitude to the u s a and the u k for ridding the country of a brutally oppressive regime which most iraqis believe that it would not have been possible or even imaginable to overthrow without the military intervention of the u s a a feeling of resentment at the presence of a foreign military power and the visible occupation of the country by a foreign army this presence offends deeply held convictions of nationalism and pride the passage of time will only tilt the balance towards the second feeling one can safely assume that it is the intention of the coalition to establish a democracy in iraq but any government installed by the coalition no matter how sincere will be viewed with suspicion as a puppet regime furthermore the political vacuum at present in iraq which is a result of active policy of the past regime means that there are no widely accepted credible and independent public figures readily available the new political parties now mushrooming need some time to organize themselves and formulate their programs also it is almost certain that the present security situation can be ultimately brought under control through the deployment of military police forces to maintain law and order in the longer term though this is bound to lead to more popular resentment it is in the long term interest of both the coalition and iraq for the coalition to retain the good...