Haifa Zangana, "Left" Wing Iraqi Traitor in Exile
By Husayn Al-Kurdi
February 19,2008
A cottage industry of self-appointed Liberal and
Progressive self-styled "advisers" to the Occupation forces in Iraq has been
growing as disgust with the war and disgruntlement with the government grows in
America and Britain.
There's the crypto-Baha'i Juan Cole who expatiates anti-Ba'ath vitriol under the banner of "Global Americana". Actually, Cole was a hanger-on in the openly pro-Zionist Baha'i Shi'ite offshoot sect and specialized in Iranian and Baha'i studies during his academic career, before he launched himself as an instant expert on Iraq and all that US Foreign Policy should and should not do. His "proof" that Saddam was an undesirable? "He looks crazy".
There's "Captain" Kurt Nimmo, another self-appointed USA adviser, aptly dubbed "John Le Carre" by Leila Anwar, one of a very few writers in the English language on the subject of Iraq who knows what she is talking about. He has bruited about the old saw that Iraq was an artificial creation, therefore does not need to be recognized as an entity, therefore can cease to exist and be broken up into three or more pieces, cohering with the old Israeli plan which has been around since the 1950s, and which pushes for ethnically-driven breakup of all Arab and Muslim-based nations in the Middle East and North Africa.
Then there's "Code Pink" and "Global Exchange" and the rest of the "Peace" apparatus which is joining with others in an effort to "Save the Republic", as are virtually all of the 9/11 "conspiracy" theorists who refuse to admit that nineteen Arab Muslim guys could achieve what they did on that fateful date.
One salutary thing about "9/11": it brought out the abject, servile true essence and the rotten political character of almost everybody in America as well as many others elsewhere. The war in Iraq has carried the process of outing the phony "oppositionists" even further.
Thus the spectacle of moveon.org and all the "anti-war.coms" plumping for the Democratic Party (which has long proven to be at least as pro-Jewish power and anti-Arab and anti-Muslim as their GOP counterparts) to come to the rescue.
A broad coalition, incorporating what was once "the Left", has formed. Its' salient features are anti-Saddamism, anti-Ba'athism and anti-Arabism, all wrapped in a "peace" package. It is explicitly against anything Arab that does not make nice with the imperialism which oppresses them, and particularly against national liberation movements which insist on fighting their oppressors until they are out of their countries and out of their lives, refusing anyone's tutelage in pursuing their paths to self-determination.
Among the denizens of the anti-Saddam "Left" camp is one Haifa Zangana. At first blush, she evokes the "do-gooder" maternalist-paternalist soup-kitchen approach, concerned with the living conditions of the people, especially women.
She tries to create an impression that she is or has been recently involved as an Iraqi on the ground in Iraq trying to address the problems which that country faces as a result of invasion and occupation.
Actually, she has been an exile from Iraq for over 35 years. She was briefly imprisoned but then released, as were many others, although they were engaged in activities detrimental to the welfare of the people of Iraq, including efforts to overthrow and undermine the Ba'ath's efforts to transform Iraq into a bastion of Arab liberation and a strong force standing up to the American-British-Jewish-Pharisee Christian Axis of Evil. She has since embellished her story and let others add that she "escaped execution under Saddam".
Actually, the Ba'ath repeatedly tried to get the CP of Iraq to mend its treacherous ways, but to no avail. It is the "Leftist" sectarians who were and are traitors to Iraq, as their presence at the feet of the occupier in the Green Zone demonstrates.
Haifa Zangana has attached herself to the dastardly "Progressive Community" by playing the put-upon victim of Ba'ath repression who still hates Saddam so much that she pretends that there is a national resistance but it has nothing to do with the Ba'ath Party!
Zangana (name of a Kurdish clan which has covered itself in shame and treason from San Diego to Suleimaniya and back) spilled her guts to the false-flag Pacifica Foundation "Democracy Now!" radio program, approving the removal of Saddam and the Ba'ath but disapproving of the Occupation and then lying repeatedly through her teeth with comments like "We fought against Saddam's regime, continuously, all Iraqis did that" (no doubt from her exile in London along with such as Ahmad Chalabi)and "I never thought I would live to hear some Iraqis regretting getting rid of Saddam Hussein". If this person had been present in Iraq anytime in the last three decades, she would certainly know better. Her punch line on "Democracy Now!"? "I hate everything Saddam has done."
One wonders, does that include releasing her from jail those many years ago?
This is the lying twaddle which is getting her favorable recognition and a starring role in something called "Act Together", an outfit sponsored by Code Pink, Global Exchange and Amnesty International, the false-flag "human rights" outfit that tipped the scales for the invasion of Iraq by spreading the lies about incubator babies being murdered and similar fabrications. The AI intervention was decisive in shifting the few Senators over to vote for war and tipping the scales in the US Congress pass the resolution authorizing the invasion of Iraq in 1991.
Who the hell she thinks the "Resistance" is that is "defending Iraqi women" is beyond anyone's guess. The Resistance does have a broad range of component parts, but to deny that the Ba'ath is at the heart and head of it is patently absurd. But that is good enough for the "Citizens for a United Nations People's Assembly", one of her hangouts, whose logo is "Empower the UN" and whose on-site stars include longtime Ahmad Chalabi supporter and bad actor Noam Chomsky, the incredibly moronic Australian peacenik Helen Caldicott who comes out every four years to insist that we are all doomed unless we elect a Democrat and...Al Gore, one of the "saviours" she has so endorsed in the past.
Somehow, Zangana has no idea who is killing all of the academics and others on a daily basis in Iraq. She is muddled in her comments on the "Civil War" which the Occupiers have attempted to use to displace and defeat the Resistance and further degrade Iraq.
One does not have to be a scumbag if one is an exile.
I cite Leila Anwar as an example of this. She lives in the vicinity of Haifa Zangana (in England) yet has been a staunch and passionate defender of Iraq and admirer of Saddam. I cite Ibrahim Ebeid and Salah al-Mukhtar, in exile from Palestine and Iraq respectively, but firm stalwarts of the Iraqi and Arab cause nevertheless.
What kind of "Arabs" turn on THE Party of Arabism and anti-Imperialist and anti-Zionist struggle? What makes them all too ready to sign on to what has long been in actuality the "Left Wing" of Imperialism as well as a backdoor Jewish colonialist entree into the Arab nation?
Nothing new for Iraq: it was the "Communists" who egged on the lunatic Abdul Karim Kassem in his persecution of the Ba'ath. The heroic Ba'athists turned the tables on their persecutors at their show trials, standing up to them in the face of actual death in their own jerry-rigged courts, thereby winning millions over to the cause.
As authentic Iraq expert Malcom Lagauche has pointed out, when it comes to the "Progressive Community","What you see isn't real". They're not REALLY challenging the system, but providing fodder to fill the minds of the unsuspecting consumers of their products.
All Americans in this great "Democracy" are entitled to receive the mushroom treatment: to be shit on and left in the dark.
Haifa Zangana and the "Progressive Community" play their part in this mushroom processing of unsuspecting and misinformed minds.