Salah Al-Muktar vs the occupation propaganda [video]

This video from aljazeera’s “the oppo­site direc­tion” [video at the bot­tom of this post], Iraqi pan-arabist, intel­lec­tual Salah Al-Muktar con­fronts an Arabic-speaking Amer­i­can with facts left him speech­less list­ing to Al-Muktar’s lec­ture like a school child.

Al-though Al-Kasim strug­gled very hard to keep his neu­tralit, but you can feel the pan-arabism in his tone and ques­tions.
Salah Al-Muktar started with greet­ings to the Iraqi resis­tance and the Pales­tin­ian resis­tance Fatah and Hamas.

Salah Al-Muktar: Men­tion­ing the “pos­i­tive achieve­ments, is part of the U.S. pro­pa­ganda in Iraq, I just want to ask few ques­tion: How Dick Cheney came to Iraq? He came as thief and went out as a thief, at his pres­ence the Green Zone is bombed by the Iraqi resis­tance, even the Amer­i­can ambas­sador move­ments are mar­gin­al­ized inside the Green Zone, we chal­lenge the Amer­i­can ambas­sador to move out­side the Green Zone, we even chal­lenge the Amer­i­can pres­i­dent announce his visit to Bagh­dad, what this means? Iraqis are against the occu­pa­tion and its pup­pets, we said this and we say it again, we chal­lenge you to move out of Bagh­dad with­out air cover and a tanks escort.

The Amer­i­can: he is deny­ing the role of 90, 000 brave Iraqis from the “Awak­en­ing Coun­cil” help­ing and defend­ing the “new Iraq”, he is insult­ing Cheney, the pres­i­dent and Amer­ica, and he shows his sup­port to the peo­ple who use vio­lence in Iraq and Pales­tine, we want an inde­pen­dent state of Pales­tine and sov­er­eign coun­try of Iraq, we want to work together, are the peo­ple who are using vio­lence help to build a new country?

Al-Muktar: 6 mil­lions refugee, 1 mil­lion mar­tyr killed by the Amer­i­can forces or the death squads hosted by the Amer­i­can forces, 30% of Iraqi women are wid­ows, the destruc­tion of the Iraqi econ­omy, women scared to go out­side because they will kid­napped and raped, his­tory never wit­nessed such sav­age occu­pa­tion like this of the Amer­i­can on Iraq, they destroyed whole cities like Fal­laouja, they killed 22, 000 res­i­dent of the city and buried them their, as for the Awak­en­ing Coun­cil, let tell you this these coun­cils are about to fin­ish, they joined because they want to revenge from Al-Qaeda not from the Iraqi resis­tance, no one can change the facts.

Al-Kasim: few days ago Bush talked about the suc­cess in Iraq.

Al-Muktar: Sure he is suc­ceeded in Iraq, his suc­cess is by killing more than mil­lion Iraqis and destroy­ing the Iraqi state and started the sec­tar­ian war among Iraqis.

The Amer­i­can started his argu­ment with some­thing like: Why do you always men­tion the neg­a­tive things, see the pos­i­tive side of the mat­ter and the pos­i­tive achieve­ments of Iraq.

There are notice­able parts in the discussion:

Al-Muktar: Do you know that if Tal­a­bani wants to go out­side the Green Zone he must inform the Amer­i­can forces 24 hour in pre­vi­ous, and he went hid­ing in an ambu­lance car

Al-Kasim: Are you giv­ing infor­ma­tion to the resis­tance to search ambulances?

Al-Muktar: I know this infor­ma­tion from the resis­tance, the Iraqi resis­tance destroyed an Amer­i­can myth that their army can fight two wars at the same time.

When the Amer­i­can guest said that the Iraqi gov­ern­ment is demo­c­ra­t­i­cally elected by 12 mil­lion Iraqis

Al-Muktar: Which elec­tion you are talk­ing about? After the Amer­i­can demanded Syria to with­draw its troops from Lebanon, Bush said elec­tion under the occu­pa­tion is ille­git­i­mate answer­ing Syria request to start an elec­tion in Lebanon on the withdrawal.

So, what makes the Iraqi elec­tion legitimate?