There is no way anyone can make this up. The facts are on the table. Immediately after the last USA soldier was out of Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri-al-Maliki ordered the arrest of the Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi and accused the Kurds of hiding him to protect him. Now, the USA is selling $11 Billion arms and training to Iraq to consolidate the government. I thought the government was already consolidated.
Ron Paul is exactly correct, 'It is none of our business."
Despite deep worries (click title to entry - thank you) over the continuing stability of the Iraqi government, the U.S. is planning on selling $11 billion of arms and training to Iraq's military. The sale comes as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has attempted to marginalize Iraq's Sunni minority since the U.S. withdrew its forces earlier in the month, setting off concerns over civil war. The Obama administration hopes the sale, which includes tanks and fighter jets, will help Iraq build its military and secure its border with Iran. But some American officials worry Iraq's government will move to align itself with the Shiite theocracy in Tehran.
Maliki is on the road to returning war to Iraq, only this time he'll be the new Saddam that will call all the strikes against ethnic minorities a cause of democracy with the backing of the USA military.
Maliki is setting the stage for deaths to Sunnis and Kurds. There is absolutely more concern for the 'regime' in Baghdad the USA left behind than for those being targeted.
...Last Thursday, (click here) there were 16 bomb blasts in Baghdad (72 people killed, 217 injured). On Friday, two big car bombs in Damascus killed 40 people and injured 150. Even for Iraq, where there are suicide bombs every week, that is impressive. For Syria, these were the first terrorist attacks after eight months of non-violent protests. In both cases, however, perfectly sane people suspect that the government itself was behind the attacks.
Iraq's Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi accused Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of planning the attacks. "This style of terrorist attack, it's well beyond even al-Qaeda to do it," he said. "Those who were behind all these explosions and incidents [were] part of the [government] security forces. I'm sure about that."...
And the Union Leader in all its war mongering glory rather see further civilian deaths, escalated tensions throughout the region and increased military capacity of the USA. The only thing dangerous about Ron Paul is that he sounds a great deal like Dennis Kucinich when it comes to a 'military tail' waging the "American Dog."
And the Union Leader in all its war mongering glory rather see further civilian deaths, escalated tensions throughout the region and increased military capacity of the USA. The only thing dangerous about Ron Paul is that he sounds a great deal like Dennis Kucinich when it comes to a 'military tail' waging the "American Dog."
...Ron Paul is a dangerous man. (click here) While his domestic libertarian views are quite attractive to some voters fed up with politics as usual, it is Paul’s position on issues of our national security that are truly dangerous.
Those views have been largely overlooked by a news media more interested in the presidential “horse race” than in the candidates’ positions on issues. But we expect New Hampshire primary voters will examine the facts and act accordingly.
A Wall Street Journal columnist notes that Paul is “a leading spokesman for, and recycler of, the long and familiar litany of charges that point to the United States as a leading agent of evil and injustice, the militarist victimizer of millions who want only to live in peace.”
Perhaps this warped view is why Paul believes that al-Qaida terrorists caught in the United States ought to be treated as common criminals, not enemy combatants. He wants them read Miranda rights to which they are not entitled and he wants them tried and sentenced in civil courts rather than by military tribunals....
