There Has Never Been an 'Iraqi People'

The "Iraqi people."

How many times have you heard the phrase "Iraqi people" employed in language like "free the Iraqi people from oppression" and "we must help the Iraqi people achieve democracy"?

Those on the left and right can argue all day and, apparently, for years about what lies were told or not told leading up to the war in Iraq. But nobody has talked about the one misconception about the entire ordeal.

Okay... the biggest and most important "lie" that's been told by those who want to bring "freedom to the Iraqi people" - the fact that there has never been an "Iraqi people" at all.

The fact is that Iraq itself is not really a country. It's just an area in Greater Arabia where lines were drawn in the sand by the British after WWI.

The British have done something similarly stupid with many other "countries."

In fact, the British have always been experts in dividing and conquering (mostly dividing) other countries in the name of "bringing civilization to the world." The "civilizing" has always mostly been "exploiting" and the Brits have always - ALWAYS - left disaster in their wake.

It was the British who "civilized" India. When their influence was waning they decided to divide the Hindus and Muslims. There are now three countries where India used to be. Pakistan and India have been at war or on the verge of war ever since.

Instead of an "Ireland" we now have a Northern Ireland and an Ireland - on the same island - thanks to the Brits.

The list is endless but it is also thanks to the Brits that we have an "Iraqi people." In the case of Iraq, the Brits did a reverse and threw together three diverse and historically violent cultures into a conglomerated "Iraq," obtusely neglecting the obvious - that the three had not that much besides logistics in common.