Iraq? The war drags on. War planes continue to drop bombs -- Turkish
War Planes, US War Planes, etc. Last week, the Iraqi government did
finally demand that any War Planes dropping bombs first get approval for
the dropping from them. We'll see how that plays
out. In addition, ISIS is rising. It never went away. It never went
away because the conditions that created it never went away.
Shall we talk about that? Apparently not. In June of 2014,
then-President Barack Obama talked about it. He noted that the
underlying reasons for the rise of ISIS had to be addressed -- by the
government of Iraq. That has never taken place. The persecution
continues. There has been no serious attempt at national
reconciliation (even though it was a 2007 benchmark created by the White
House that year -- a conditional upon which continued funding
depended).
The war continues, the persecution continues. The government remains
corrupt. Human rights remain a problem as Human Rights Watch repeatedly
notes.
And?
And the US government is deporting people to Iraq.
Did we shock you?
With the news?
Or maybe with our usage.
If you've heard about this, you've heard that Donald Trump is doing it.
Donald Trump is the president of the United States, the duly elected president.
But Donald Trump is not the US government. He is a part of the US
government. He represents the executive branch. For those who need to
brush up on their government studies, the US has three branches of
government -- the executive, the legislative and the
judicial.
Since May, members of the US Congress have made noise about doing
something but they haven't done anything. They are part of the
legislative branch. The judicial branch is made up of the courts and
they have done nothing to stop the deportations.
The US government has failed -- all three branches.
We don't support the deportation efforts currently taking place at all.
But we especially do not support deporting someone to a country at
war. Not only do we not support that move, our nation's laws and
customs do not support it either. It should not be
happening. Donald Trump bears responsibility, absolutely. But he is
not the only one responsible.
And while we're slicing and sharing from the blame pie, let's all of us
in this country grab a piece. What's taking place is outrageous and
we've gone along with it. Have we even mounted a pathetic Change.org
petition? We're all guilty.