As the voice of the new provisional Iraqi leadership, Mr. Allawi has struck two major themes in his statements.
First, he fully supports U.S. military strikes against terrorist cells, like the recent bombing of a safehouse in the city of Fallujah. Second, the people behind most of the terrorist attacks are not Iraqis, but foreign forces.
“We do not believe that those behind these attacks can be Iraqis,” he said. The planning, manpower and weapons are “supported financially and logistically by foreign resources.”
This is a strategic war cry Iraqis need to hear over and over again. U.S. military forces are not the enemy. Iraq’s enemies are the outside foreign forces from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Syria and elsewhere who are determined to sow chaos and terror by destroying Iraq’s infrastructure, and by killing any and all Iraqi civilians who cooperate with the United States and the provisional government.
It is not just Iraqis that need to be reminded that most of these attacks are by foreigners to Iraq. I had a South Korean leave a comment here that indicates that the South Korean media certainly isn’t making it clear. Neither is the American media.
