The New York Times today has signed on to an unlimited engagement in Iraq until the Iraqis 'shape up.' Unless Iraq and Baghdad behave as they are supposed to, in the ideology as perscribed by the illegal invasion by Bush, then the Western American troops aren't going anywhere.
Really? I guess every American troop will huff and puff and blow every house down until every Iraqi falls in line with Western ideology? Is that right? The New York Times is willing to reign hell fire on the burgeoning genocide in Iraq to make sure in the end Iraq behaves as it's supposed to and Bush's contracts for oil are honored?
I don't think so.
That's been tried before. The Shah didn't last either. And as a result Iran is still ridiculed and threatened when they have every right to feel as though militarization of their nation is the right thing to do. When does this Western domination idiocy end?
I remind, Iraq never was a national security issue, is not a national security, the National Intelligence Estimate addresses Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda. Osama was abandoned by the Bush White House and evidently The New York Times for an oil war in Iraq. Guess what? Osama is still in his mountain domaine somewhere between Afghanistan and Pakistan no different than on September 10, 2001. I guess Osama and his al Qaeda network doesn't exist anymore either. Osama needs to be seen on a regular 'terrifying' basis in order to keep those facts straight evidently.
The New York Times front page is so pretty today (click here). It has the successes of water current turbines in it's video section and it has the murals of Baghdad as if that is all supposed to 'sooth' over the outrage of war and somehow calm the nerves of Americans that are 'sick and tied' of an illegal war that has lasted longer than WWII, while the rest of the world prepares to confront the American war machine anywhere on Earth including the Polar North Cap. By the way, those murals don't do anything for me. It's not like the 'street art' of American cities. The Iraqi artists are perscribed a scene to paint for $15 per day. Hardly 'the free will' of the artists. And the NY Times even has as front and center the resignation of Rove, that must make every reader feel victorious.
Nowhere on the front e-page of the New York Times will readers see this. I mean nowhere. It must not have happened then and all is right in Baghdad with the Bush Surge still working. Deceiving the public will save the day for the propagandists, I suppose. I have yet to understand why truly understanding the Middle East evades Westerners. I guess it's the demand for oil and neoteny that supercedes reason.
Five US Soldiers Killed By Explosion Near Baghdad (click here)
Five U.S. soldiers were killed, including four in a single explosion, during combat operations south of Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
Four other soldiers were wounded in the explosion but no other details of the incident were immediately available.
In a separate statement, the U.S. military said a fifth soldier had been killed by small arms fire while on foot patrol southeast of Baghdad on Saturday.
The U.S. military said the soldiers were part of Task Force Marne, which has deployed in areas south of Baghdad to stop the flow of weapons, explosives and Shi'ite and Sunni Arab militants into the capital....
I am being too generous. The Genocide of the Iraqi people has already begun with refugees impoverished in neighboring countries to the tune of over 2 million and with deaths estimated at over 665,000 now well over a six month old journaled article and let's not forget the 8 million (well over one third of the populous) are living in profound poverty or otherwise described 'near death' conditons. The Iraqi Genocide by Bush is underway and the only country that seems to give a hoot is Iran. Can't imagine why, must be because they are primarily Shi'ites.
I really think most candidates for president still have it wrong and in a Rasmussen poll I read a week or so ago, Dennis Kucinich was ONLY 15 points down from Guiliani. The same poll put Edwards 15 points ahead, so no Democrat is out of the running at all for the nomination. Dennis will have to run a little harder, but, money could be the issue here.
But, back to Iraq.
Iraqi PM Visits Iran For Security Talks (click here)
(AP) TEHRAN, Iran
Iranian officials told Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday that only a U.S. pullout would bring peace to his nation and claimed the Tehran government was doing its best to help stabilize neighboring Iraq.
Al-Maliki said decisions about an American pullout were between Baghdad and Washington. This issue "belongs to the Iraqis only and it is related to the readiness of the Iraqi armed forces and their ability to take over security responsibilities," he told The Associated Press during the visit....
And one might ask, what exactly do these leaders of Iran and Iraq think will secure them both? Hm? I guess Shi'ites will be Shi'ites after all, and Maliki seems not to read between the Iranian lines very well. I suppose that is why the good Prime Minister doesn't have a political solution for his country yet while his provincial governors and police are being blown up on a regular basis.
Iraq, Iran Sign Oil-Pipeline Deal (click here)
August 11, 2007 -- Iran's state-controlled media report that Iran and Iraq have signed an agreement on building an oil pipeline between the two countries.
The Iran news network reported that the pipeline would carry oil from Iraqi oil fields to refineries in Iran.
It said the deal was signed in Tehran on August 10 by Iraqi Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani and his Iranian counterpart, Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh.
It was unclear who would finance the project or when it would be constructed.
While on the 'Contingency Plan Front' (click here)
US General Says Pullout Plan "Ready To Go" NBC Nightly News says that while military planners "say it could take two years for a complete withdrawal from Iraq," a "top US commander here in Kuwait says, from a logistics standpoint, he's already got the plan and he's ready to go. All he needs is the President's order." The Washington Post reports Lt. Gen. R. Steven Whitcomb said facilities in Kuwait "have handled as many as 240,000 troops moving into and out of Iraq in as little as a three-month period during the war's major rotations."
So all in all, the USA needs to put their war machine away and bring the troops home which seems to be a reality in less than three months.
We don't belong in Iraq.
We never did.
Oppose the draft, which no candidate at the top of the pack to date has excluded in their campaign platforms.
Troops out now.
Stop Western Domination of the World. The world has other ideas.
Stop the Iraq Genocide.
Have a better day. I mean what it comes down to is either you 'buy in' to the idea of a global war confronting every sovereign country on Earth to provide for 'politics' in the USA or you disarm from Iraq and reestablish the countries priorities, which the global financial markets rely on remembering the BEST way to fight terrorist networks is through economic development leaving behind any reason for people to turn to extremist ideologies in the first place.
The reasons to stop confronting Islam hasn't changed since decades ago and will not change in the future. We are fighting the "W"rong war in Iraq and we are spawning greater danger to the USA. Iraq's problems need to be solved by the region and that doesn't include warring. It means stability and balance of power without the threat of mutual nuclear annhilation between every country in the Middle East. What is going on right now is insane, because of the war machine monies of the USA and the politiking of the Repuglicans.
We need to leave Iraq in a very big way. We can do it now with guaranteed safety to our troops in three months. It's over. Iran wants to make Iraq it's best friend and it should happen that way, it will eventually anyway.
