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Following are excerpts from an interview with former Iraqi MP Mithal Al-Alusi, which aired on the Al-Jazeera network on September 6, 2013.
Mithal Al-Alusi: No Iraqi – whether Arab or Kurdish, Muslim or non-Muslim, and regardless of whether he is a politician or not – has the right to oppose a punitive strike against the Syrian regime, because we ourselves were the victims of attacks by chemical weapons in Halabja and in many Iraqi villages. Many thousands of Iraqis were killed by chemical weapons in this country.
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Things are especially peculiar when it comes to the Islamic Dawa Party in Iraq. Members of the Islamic Dawa Party were slaughtered by the Ba'th Party, and even their very distant relatives were executed. Today, the Islamic Dawa Party in Iraq, and Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, the secretary-general of the party, is defending the Ba'th party.
Let me ask Prime Minister Mr. Nouri Al-Maliki: Why are you covering up the crimes of the Ba'th Party in Iraq and in Syria? Why, Mr. Prime Minister, are you covering it up, and turning a blind eye to the use of chemical weapons? Mr. Prime Minister, I am afraid to say that I am glad we do not possess chemical weapons, because if we did, some people would not hesitate to use it in the operations that took place in Furat, Dijle, Al-Anbar, and elsewhere.
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