The concept of the state in President Saleh’s mind and behavior was not but mere a power. This power is just the banknotes and military power he prepared since money, as “Chershil” has said, is the nerve of war, and the military strength for the dictator is only a means to protect his tyranny and power, and not to protect the people, country and its sovereignty .

Should you ask, how could President Saleh stay in power running the country all this long period? Well, he ran the country and the people with the money lacking control of CBY, conciliated his opponents and those against him, and with the power he oppressed the people and terrified everyone looked for the presidency and its palace. The ruler, as Blutarreck has said, can easily destroy his people’s freedoms by the donations, gifts and grants . 

Should we have add to the previous presidential favors the intimidation, harassment, domination and influence of the military and security arsenal hanging over the people’s heads and lives, then the matter would not be confined to only blocking the freedoms of people, but would extend to the degree of killing the hope, optimism and dreams inside the people themselves as they are the center and pillar of any state or development. So, money and power are the problem and the solution at the same time. On these two bases, the President Saleh stayed in power more than any other ruler along the history of Yemen. If so, and based on these two bases President Saleh will be totally uprooted and removed, and not in the way that many optimists have thought of that power had actually been transferred to his Deputy upon the signature of the President on the GCC Initiative, the call of the Deputy- Abdurabo- to an early elections and his orders to form a reconciliation government .

The reality confirms that the President who was deposed socially, morally and politically was not a president for a state or political, executive authority. had he issued decrees, signed, ordered the governments or participated and dealt with as a President of a State according to the diplomatic laws and traditions; it did not necessarily mean that he was an actual President of a country and fulfilled all his duties and responsibilities for the people and the state’s sovereignty, independence, and its constitution

In both cases, Saleh’s credit could be in stealing the name of “state’’ with its international, political and diplomatic senses and also national and institutionally destroying the executive, legislative and judicial authorities of the state .

The power has been reduced to the authority of one person who, in his turn, made it lesser and narrower than that by restricted it mainly in money then surrounded it with military camps, soldiers and an arsenal of weapons .

Some might think that what we write here is injustice and an abuse of a President who had run the country for more than three decades, and in another way it could mean that when we say he was not an actual President we insult ourselves as a people. But what we see and is clear today refers to this bitter truth; after nearly a year the state institutions are almost out of order .

Had there been a state or authorities the President would not have returned to practice his duties from the Republican Guards Camp! Had Saleh been a president billions would not have been looted and it would have not reached looting the Cabinet and all other ministries. Such acts do not relate to respectful presidents in any way, as such duties are carried out by thieves .

Whoever thinks that the power is in the hands of Deputy President, the government or the GPC, to whom the power was transferred under an international agreement, he has to ask himself about the reason of the disagreement raged recently about the Military Committee more than about the government? It’s crystal clear; it’s due to the influence of the money that was systematically looted and the reliance on the Republican Guards, Airstrike and Central Forces that was trained and prepared to protect his power and not the borders and the people’s gains as should be the mission and faith of the national army ?

I profoundly lament our current situation; after the President has signed the GCC Initiative ordinary people thought that power would be in the hands of the temporary President or the Reconciliation Government formed form the JMPs and GPC since how could a President without authorities or legitimacy remain a president? Today it’s revealed to all that presidency or the government is powerless without stopping money and arms to go to President Saleh with which he goes on his corruption .

The point is that since July 78 Saleh’s regime worked on destroying, diluting and ruining all things related to the state and its authorities and institutions and only today appears this disastrous and tragic picture. He did not return to the GPC as he knew more than anyone else that the three millions supporters are not but a political cover which cannot be trusted at the time of need. At the beginning of his leadership he depended on the soldiers, army, money of the Ministry of Finance and the Economical Corporation as well as the misleading media, and here he ended up