This week, the whole world joined the people of the United States of America (USA) to remember those who perished in the World Trade Centre bombing and also remember the day September 11.

The day trigged off what has today become United States’ biggest nightmare, the war in Iraq.

When the hijackers struck the Twin Towers, George Bush, the American President, suspected almost every Arab country under the sun because to the Bush administration and people of America, it is only the Arabs who indulge in such terrorist acts.

Afghanistan was the first stop for the American and British troops, ostensibly to stop Osama Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda group.

Not long after, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was also being attacked under the guises of that country having weapons of mass destruction but behind the scenes, George Bush and his friend Tony Blair, then the British Prime Minister, have listed Iraq, under Saddam Hussein as a sponsor of terrorist activities.

When the American troops invaded Iraq, they could not be bothered about the warning Saddam Hussein gave them that the war would be a long drawn out one because to them, it was only going to last a few days.

But six years on, as the American people remembered their dead, the best consolation gift for them would have been an end to American deaths in Iraq, but as the world joins the USA in remembrance of the day, many more American troops are dying daily.

Not long after George Bush had been sworn-in for his second term in office, did the Democrats, the biggest opposition party in the United States, started talking about American Troop withdrawal from Iraq but despite the increasing number of American casualties, the Republicans under George Bush, are adamant and would not heed the calls by a section of the American people for withdrawal.

On the day itself, September 11, 2007 when many Americans were morning in their homes for loved ones who have departed earth because of the negligence of their political leaders, the military commander in Iraq, David Petraeus and the American Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, were telling the American Senators that the objective of the American troop build-up “are largely being met”

But Senators Joe Biden and Barack Obama, both Democrats, told military commander David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, the troop build-up had failed to achieve peace.

Senator Biden - who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee - said the build-up had failed to promote reconciliation between Sunnis and Shia, and was at best “a stopgap that will not prevent chaos”, and concluded: “We should stop the surge and start bringing our troops home.”

Senator Obama - one of the Democratic nomination frontrunners, also called the war a “disastrous foreign policy mistake” and said the impact of the surge had been modest given the resources.

Senator Christopher Dodd, another presidential candidate, said: “I don’t get a feeling here that there’s any real opportunity or optimism that this is going to get better.”

John Kerry - the defeated Democratic candidate in the 2004 election - questioned the commitment of the Iraqi politicians who he said were stalling while US soldiers sacrificed their lives.

“Is it acceptable that young Americans are dying and being grievously wounded while Iraqi politicians delay and delay and delay meeting their own standards?” he asked.

But the question some Arabs would like Kerry to answer is “who sent the American troop to Iraq, is it the Iraqi politician who requested for them or the American politician who decided to send them there to fight a useless war?

Republican Senator John McCain, a presidential aspirant, has however defended the US strategy in Iraq, saying: “Congress must not choose to lose in Iraq and I will do everything in my power to ensure that we do not.”

But again, who says United States is going to win this war? How similar is this war to US’s waterloo, the Vietnam War? And did the Americans win that war?

It is surprising that Republicans are staring failure in the face and yet would not accept it and in the words of Senator John McCain failure in Iraq would turn that country into a haven for terrorists and would let Iran come to dominate the Middle East.

I am optimistic Americans would lose this war because already some Republicans senators have voiced unease about the war and the Bush administration’s policy on Iraq.

Apart from that about 70 percent of Iraqis believe security has deteriorated in the areas covered by the US military “surge” of the past six months while many Iraqis across the country say that nearly 60 percent see attacks on US-led forces as justified.

So if the people the Americans say they are protecting are saying that attacks on them by the insurgents is justified then what are the Americans waiting for in that country?

One person a section of the Americans people would not like to see or listen to is the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, but he too, afraid of what would happen to his country in the absence of the Americans, has decided to play ball with George Bush by telling the Iraqi parliament that his government has stopped Iraq sliding into civil war.

Even though his people don’t believe him, he said violence in the country had fallen 75 percent in the restive provinces of Baghdad and Anbar, and that 14,000 militants linked to al-Qaeda had renounced violence.

But fearing a full scale civil war in his country, warned stakeholders that Iraq’s armed forces were not ready to take responsibility for security from the US-led coalition.

So when will Iraq’s armed forces be ready to take their destiny into their own hands so the Americans can park and go home.

As the debate on American troop withdrawal continue at home, Osama Bin Laden seems to have had a field day and has sent a message to the American people that coincided with the 9/11 anniversary.

Mean while conditions in the country’s Electricity, water supplies and other social amenities are arguably worse than at any time since the US-led invasion overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003.

While the office of the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (Sigir), has singled out widespread corruption and economic mismanagement as the source of the continuing decay.

Again, it is obvious that the Americans are failing on every front including the war itself, so what else is left for the American to see they are no longer wanted in Iraq.