hitler

Iran’s president Ahmadinejad is a self-advertised ally of Hitler. Abdul
Azziz al-Hakim is an ally of Ahmadinejad. Therefore, Hakim is an ally of
Hitler? Yes, this is true, and it is called guilt by association

The very same individual, Hakim, picked out by Iran as a Quisling to
partition Iraq on its behalf, and picked out by Baker, Gates and Rice to
push aside the Maliki –Sadr government, is a friend to the Nazis.

Now, in the normal course of events, the fact that the favored US politician
in Iraq is a friend to the Nazis and willing to hand over southern Iraq to
Iran, making Hakim an Iraqi traitor as well, might pass without notice in
Washington DC.

Fortunately, Washington is paying attention. The issue of Ahmadinejad’s and
Hakim’s attachment to the Third Reich was front and center in Washington in
the last few days. To the misfortune of Iranian policy, the
Hitler-Ahmadinejad-Hakim-Baker connection surfaced in ways that could deal a
body blow to the Baker-Hakim partnership.

First, James Baker released a report on Iraq that seemed heavily tilted
against Israel, with its call for fast track negotiations on Palestine, as
well as calls for an immediate warming of US relations with Iran and Syria,
mainly at Israel’s expense.

Second, in an unprecedented move, Iran chose to hold an international
conference which challenged the veracity of the Holocaust, during this week.
Come to think of it, seeing David Duke again, the white racist spokesman,
was a thrill not to be missed.

Third, thanks to Baker’s machinations, Hakim, a key Ahmadinejad ally,
somehow emerged as the kingmaker of Iraqi politics, displacing Muqtada
al-Sadr in the process. Hakim now stands at the center of complex
negotiations to move PM Nouri al-Maliki, supported by Sadr, to the side in
favor of an Ahmadinejad-approved candidate as Iraq’s new Prime Minister.

In past months, several Bush administration officials, like James Baker,
Condoleeeza Rice, and Robert Gates, have built their careers on a notion of
excluding Muqtada and his allies from Iraq’s politics at the national level.
Well, if the US is determined to exclude Sadr, it must exclude Hakim and
his allies as well.

Come to think of it, why not boycott Ahmadinejad, who not only sponsored the
anti-Holocaust conference, but spoke to it as well? The US must refuse all
future dealings with Ahmadinejad and ask its allies to do the same,
beginning with Germany. On the other hand, if Germany chooses to give
Ahmadinejad a clean bill of health, the US can do the same.

After all, Iran would surely not want as a president someone who cannot
visit Germany -- Iran’s major trading partner in Europe -- without facing
apprehension for being in violation of German law for praising Adolph
Hitler.

In sum, the direction of US policy seems clear. Whatever the US decision on
Sadr, the US must boycott Hakim and Ahmadinejad. To do otherwise is to
suggest that the US wants to replace Saddam with Hitler. No one can call
this a step forward.

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