Kitabat newspaper said in its editorial Tuesday that Iraq's Parliament, which it said "supported occupation," passed a law changing the features of the Iraqi flag, a step that reflects failure and loyalty to Iraq's enemies.
The editorial -- with the headline "Which needs change the flag or the occupation government?" -- said the Iraqi government's move to remove stars from the Iraqi flag was confronted with rejection and condemnation by the Iraqi people against a "shameful" deed.
"The three stars that are removed … from the Iraqi flag, represented the unity between Iraq, Syria and Egypt and not as many think a representation of the Baath Party," it said.
"We were hoping that the thugs and killers of the Iraqi Parliament would pass laws that serve the people of Iraq and find solution to the problems they created, which are resulting in daily killings and displacement of the components of Iraq," the paper said.
The paper said Iraqis want the "occupational" government to pass a law to force the U.S. occupation forces to leave Iraq in order to restore sovereignty as well as security and stability.
It said Iraqis want the government to initiate a law to provide local services such as electricity, water and fuel, and provide jobs as a means to eliminate unemployment.
"We want an improvement to our quality of life as we watch the occupier and their supporters from the militias stealing and smuggling our wealth outside the country," the paper added.
It said the Iraqi government of the occupation urgently passed a law to change the Iraqi flag while Iraqis were displaced inside and outside Iraq and in need of protection from ethnic and sectarian cleansing practiced by the "killing teams" and their militias.
"The terrorist Badr Brigade headed by Abdul Aziz Al Hakeem is one of the major militias that practices ethnic and sectarian cleansing," the paper said.
"Iraqi scientific intellectuals need protection from the hands of Iranians and the Israeli Mossad," it added.
The editorial said the Iraqi government has only succeeded in making one change -- the Iraqi flag, the symbol that gathered the Iraqi people together for several decades -- a change made in order to satisfy the Iranians and the Kurds: enemies of Iraq.
The editorial added that Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, has forgotten when the Iraqi former government supported him by raising the Iraqi flag in 1996 while Jalal Talabani, the president of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Party, fled to Iran.
"The Iraqi government in 1996 supported Barzani when Talabani assaulted the Kurds in Erbil. … Saddam Hussein then sent Iraqi forces that raised the Iraqi flag in support of Massoud Barzani," it commented.
Kitabat said what needs to be changed is the "unknown" Iraqi government; or rather the occupation government headed by thugs and killers.
"This era of time, the worst in the modern history of Iraq, needs, more than anything else, a change of this oppressor-led government," the paper said.
