Soldiers

Soldiers are not devices that were sharply made in a factory with a strict production plan so that all the products will be exactly the same and the ones that aren't due to some malfunction in one of the production units can be thrown away, Of course they aren't, any army is not a one-unit system, they are just humans and the laws of human psychology applies to all of them, the army (no matter the country) is like any humans group or gathering, it's like a society where you can find the good one and the bad one, just like all the human societies where the bad ones always try to hide their evil and wear the mask of goodness and wait for the right time to release the Satan inside them when there might be no one watching or when they have the power and authority to do evil with a very slight possibility that they might be punished…in the hard times and after some traumatic incidents the good ones might turn bad also; as everybody knows even the most honest and good men have a dark spot and a corner for evil inside them where evil can't wait to go out from that corner in which it has been kept for so many years.
Since all humans have needs and dreams and since there are many ways to achieve those dreams and get those needs so each individual chooses the path that seems best to him and it's a common sense that many of those paths are evil and we must not forget that humans are really complicated creatures where their personality, behavior, judgment and morals are affected and developed by so many factors like genetics, childhood experiences, the way they were raised and who were their parents, the incidents that happened in his life, his believes and the society he grew in…etc, all those things might have a big impact on the choice of the path and since soldiers are humans so it applies to them as well.
And we must not forget an important issue that each human have his believes and customs of his society and surroundings and some humans try to force the others to believe in what they believe and consider anybody who doesn't agree with them an enemy that should be fought, damaged or even killed and this is the most complicated problem in the world these days and as I believe it's the root of all the troubles in the modern world of globalization where nations and civilizations became so close to each other, in fact they interfered with each other so the conflicts begun.
So whether it's the Iraqi army, the US army, the Japanese army, the Mexican army or even the Philippines army, it's all composed of humans some are good and some are bad but the percentage of the bad members makes the judgment on that army along with the big events like a big humanitarian crime or something a soldier in a specific army did that shock the whole world….the credit for the good deeds is given specifically to the one who did it but the bad deeds makes the whole group looks bad even if it was one member who did evil.
I don't want to look as someone who is making propaganda or trying to make the soldiers of the Iraqi or the American army looks good…it's just loud thinking.
What brought this issue to my head and made me think about it are two incidents that I witnessed few days ago, the first was an Iraqi soldier who stopped the cars to help an old woman to cross the street and the other was a terrible road traffic accident near Adhamiya that occurred before my arrival; it was a small car (some Korean car) that crashed with a trailer and the small car was in a terrible situation and it's passengers weren't there but it was a sure thing that some one was hurt badly, I slowed down to see if there is anything I can help with and at the same time a US troops patrol passed and they stopped to check and people told them that a young kid was injured and they took him to the near-by clinic (few meters away) and they went there to see him but he was taken to AlNuman hospital so they said they will go there and take him to their hospital but what an irony that the limping guard of the near-by clinic who told them where the kid went (by the help of the interpreter) was shouting after he told them about the kid "you want to be good now, what about me? Haven't you shot me and caused me permanent damage? What will you do to me? You made me disabled and I haven't done anything wrong"
I saw the Iraqi soldier helping the old lady and many times before I have seen soldiers pointing their guns to old women, humiliating old men and driving recklessly without the need to talk about the crimes that they do that we all know about, but does this mean that the whole army is composed of bad men?
The US troops were trying to help an injured kid but how many kids did they kill by "accident" how many disabled Iraqi kids have they produced like the one that I treated recently, she was 12 years old and was shot with her family near Kilo 160 (on the high way to Jordan and Syria) her father died in that "accident"
Some Iraqi soldiers are very nice when they deal with you but some of them curse you through the loud speakers of their car just because you are in the same street that they are in!
US troops found the orphanage where the kids were tortured and abused and saved them, but how many of those are orphans because of the US troops!…the US troops also tortured, abused and raped so many people in Abu-Ghraib … they saved some people who were injured in explosions but at the same time they shoot randomly when they are attacked and some soldier even killed innocent families for no clear reason.
Few months ago as an eye witness told me " a US patrol passed in Aldubat St. in Adhamiya and some young kids were playing soccer at the sidewalk and when the convoy passed the kids started singing "He he mkhabal , he he mkhabal" and mkhabal means crazy…I think the interpreter told them what the kids were saying and all the convoy stopped and some soldiers stepped out and pointed the guns at the kids and told them to be one line and face the wall…they stayed for some time and told the kids through the interpreter "we will go but we will be able to see you, if anyone moved he will be killed" and I don't need to tell you how the situation of the kids was"
But sometimes US troops gives candies and gifts to the kids when they are relaxed and walking in a street…they even chat with shop owners and try to build good relations with them!!!
I noticed something about the US soldiers and I'm not sure whether it's just a normal human behavior or orders they received from above. I noticed when they are in a relatively safe neighborhood where there is a slight possibility that they will be attacked they are so friendly, smiling and try to build good relations but in a more disturbed areas they are really aggressive and violent, they curse and point guns even at kids when they pass that's if they haven't shot immediately like when they shot my father when he was driving his car and didn't see them coming (they were far) and they shot his car in the gas tank…they shot in front of my car once because I was driving ahead of them in another street but parallel to them and I don't need to talk about the countless times they pointed the laser guide at me or my wife when we were in the car and they were passing.
I think most of the world heard about what they do during the houses search but thank god I haven't experienced such thing because I was searched once and they were from the good men or maybe they were good because my neighborhood is relatively US-safe! I'm not sure.
So what's the deal and who are we dealing with? What should we expect from the Iraqi and American Soldiers?
The deal is: they are humans and each soldier is different, some are good and some are bad and sometimes (as I think) they have orders (non-written) to behave badly and aggressively and sometimes they have orders to be friendly especially in the areas that they took control of and try to maintain it.
War is the time where it's so easy for good people to do good and bad people to do bad, hard times are the best times to reveal the nature of the human soul.

but unfortunately, I can't think like this all the time, there are times when really bad things happen to me or someone else that I hear or witness...I'm just like all the humans; have times when my emotions become more powerful than my mind...sometimes I really hate the Iraqi army when they did what they did to me...or when I hear about the crime they have committed either with a friend, in the news or by emails and blogs or when I see them behaving like animals in the street...sometimes I really hate the US troops when they do the very evil things or when I have to wait for an hour till they move and I don't know why are they stopping in the middle of the street at the first place or when they behave like animals and cursing with a very bad language and making fun of people thinking that we don't understand what they say...etc!!! I felt great anger when I watched the movie "Battle for Haditha" because I know those things happen but it feels much stronger when you see it....I'm a human after all.

So the outlines are: most of the blame should go to the US administration who decided to go across the world looking for its benefits without caring about what will happen to a whole nation while giving the chance for the evil men to practise their evil and killing thousands in a war that they hardly could find a false reason for and the blame should go also to them when they brought the masters of evil with them and assigned them as the new leaders for Iraq and the rest of the blame should go to those criminals in the armies although they couldn't have this chance without the help of the "politicians".