An article on the Iraqi Azzaman newspaper suggests that the souls of Red Indians murdered by the forefathers of today‘s Americans “now greet with joy what is happening to America in IRAQ“.

The growing U.S. death toll in IRAQ, and the mounting opposition to the WAR suggest that the Americans will ultimately be defeated. Iraqis fighting the U.S. occupation shall never assume that the Americans are superhuman, or that the United States is a land from outer space.

In fact, the U.S.’s history started with a tragedy; the victims of which were the original inhabitants of the land known today as America. The Indians must have cursed the Americans, not only for seizing their land, but for exterminating their entire race. The souls of those killed at the hands of the early Americans, and their descendants if any, now greet with joy what is happening to the U.S. in IRAQ.

This might be considered by the souls of the Red Indians as a heavenly reprisal agaisnt those who killed them, raped their women and burned their children. This is not gloating as much as it is a feeling of justice.

The whole world could be sharing the feelings of the Red Indians. Especially the Iraqis, with all the atrocities committed by the Americans in their country, starting with growing CIVILIAN CASUALTIES to prisoner abuse scandals at Iraqi jails.

A majority of Americans now believe the INVASION was a mistake and want U.S. troops to return home now. Moreover, American soldiers start to lose faith in the WAR and recruiters fail to meet recruitment goals. (More than 2,100 American soldiers died in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led INVASION.)

“IRAQ is the first time in hundreds of years of European and American history that a war was massively protested before it was launched. There was huge protest in February 2003. It had never happened in the history of the West,” Noam Chomsky, MIT professor and one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century, was quoted as saying. “The Bush administration has succeeded in making the United States one of the most feared and hated countries in the world. The talent of these guys is unbelievable. They have even succeeded at alienating Canada. I mean, that takes genius, literally,” he added.

Despite fierce resistance from the Iraqis, the Bush administration will do what it can to stay in the war-torn country. As the early Americans exterminated the Red Indians to seize their lands, the Bush administration now wants to stay in Iraq to exploit its oil resources. According to an article by Matthew Rothschild, political analyst and editor of The Progressive magazine, the U.S. would continue to entrench itself in IRAQ despite the growing number of war opponents. "The last thing the Bush administration wants to do is to pull out," he said, "and it doesn’t frankly care about the human costs or the costs in the budget deficit." Citing U.S. economic interests in IRAQ, Rothschild warned, "The Bush administration, if left to its own devices, will be in IRAQ for an eternity."

Those who support the United States in this illegal WAR at the expense of their national interests are not only harming their country, but also risking their own future.