Warm, Happy Puppy News From Iraq
You can feel it, that turning the corner stuff. It's taken years but all of america's philanthropy has finally worked and Iraq is becoming a huge success story.
The statistics tell the tale, donchaknow. American military deaths are down, Iraqi civilian deaths are down and cooperation is in the air as Iraqis grudgingly understand how americans are there to help them.
This absurdity continues all the time, always in the background but springing to life at the slightest lull in the fighting. Most always the cheery burble emanates from the occupiers themselves, picked up and echoed by the reality challenged brownshirts desperately sniffing for good news for the Bushistas. Since most of the information coming out of Iraq is managed by the military and dutifully reported by unquestioning news agencies it will no doubt fool most of brain dead america.
Good thing we have Pepe Escobar to set things straight.
Reduced violence in Baghdad?
"(Dissembler Major General Joseph) Fil cannot even admit to the basic fact that Baghdad has been reduced to a collection of blast-walled, isolated ghettos in search of a city. Baghdad, from being 65% Sunni, is now at least 75% Shi'ite, and counting. Sunni and Shi'ite residents alike confirm sectarian violence has died down because there are virtually no more neighborhoods to be ethnically cleansed.
Iraqis finally 'standing up'?
"When Fil says the Iraqi forces are "much, much more effective", what he means is they are much more ferocious. Terrified middle class, secular Shi'ite residents have told Asia Times Online these guards - Shi'ites themselves - roaming Baghdad with their machine guns pointing to the sidewalks are "worse than the Americans".
GIs safer?
"The falling numbers of US deaths have also been subjected to merciless spinning. Yet already more US troops have been killed in Iraq in 2007 than in all of 2006."
With US commanders giving up a lot of that senseless patrol activity that subjected soldiers to buried explosives, naturally they'd resort to a way to more generously distribute american largesse.
"With fewer missions on the ground, the Pentagon could not but launch four times more air strikes on Iraqis in 2007 - the year of Bush's "surge" - than in the whole of 2006. Up to the end of September, there had been 1,140 air strikes. Last month, there were more air strikes than during the siege that devastated Fallujah in November 2004."
The worst stupidity in all this is the Big Question that no one asks - why the hell this is happening at all. The americans are in the fucking country for no good damn reason, as hated occupiers holding a sickened population at gunpoint in a devastated wasteland. Every other way of looking at Iraq is not seeing the forest for the trees, shuffling the deck chairs and just idiotic idle chatter.
The statistics tell the tale, donchaknow. American military deaths are down, Iraqi civilian deaths are down and cooperation is in the air as Iraqis grudgingly understand how americans are there to help them.
This absurdity continues all the time, always in the background but springing to life at the slightest lull in the fighting. Most always the cheery burble emanates from the occupiers themselves, picked up and echoed by the reality challenged brownshirts desperately sniffing for good news for the Bushistas. Since most of the information coming out of Iraq is managed by the military and dutifully reported by unquestioning news agencies it will no doubt fool most of brain dead america.
Good thing we have Pepe Escobar to set things straight.
Reduced violence in Baghdad?
"(Dissembler Major General Joseph) Fil cannot even admit to the basic fact that Baghdad has been reduced to a collection of blast-walled, isolated ghettos in search of a city. Baghdad, from being 65% Sunni, is now at least 75% Shi'ite, and counting. Sunni and Shi'ite residents alike confirm sectarian violence has died down because there are virtually no more neighborhoods to be ethnically cleansed.
Iraqis finally 'standing up'?
"When Fil says the Iraqi forces are "much, much more effective", what he means is they are much more ferocious. Terrified middle class, secular Shi'ite residents have told Asia Times Online these guards - Shi'ites themselves - roaming Baghdad with their machine guns pointing to the sidewalks are "worse than the Americans".
GIs safer?
"The falling numbers of US deaths have also been subjected to merciless spinning. Yet already more US troops have been killed in Iraq in 2007 than in all of 2006."
With US commanders giving up a lot of that senseless patrol activity that subjected soldiers to buried explosives, naturally they'd resort to a way to more generously distribute american largesse.
"With fewer missions on the ground, the Pentagon could not but launch four times more air strikes on Iraqis in 2007 - the year of Bush's "surge" - than in the whole of 2006. Up to the end of September, there had been 1,140 air strikes. Last month, there were more air strikes than during the siege that devastated Fallujah in November 2004."
The worst stupidity in all this is the Big Question that no one asks - why the hell this is happening at all. The americans are in the fucking country for no good damn reason, as hated occupiers holding a sickened population at gunpoint in a devastated wasteland. Every other way of looking at Iraq is not seeing the forest for the trees, shuffling the deck chairs and just idiotic idle chatter.
posted by nolocontendere at 9:02 PM
4 Comments:
The americans are in the fucking country for no good damn reason, as hated occupiers holding a sickened population at gunpoint in a devastated wasteland.
There to stay for 2 reasons, apart from the oil:
1) To console the Zionists.
2) To avoid another Vietnam-esque withdrawl in humiliation while fucking with Iran.
You bet Nick, I've always seen that they have multiple, overlapping reasons for all their putrid endeavors, and the tragic nightmare in that country is no different. I think we can safely add 3) maintain the money grab from taxpayers and 4) take the military to the breaking point.
As to your first point, They've wildly succeeded in maintaining an absolutely unacceptable level of human existence, causing the people to fight or flee. This is to eventually force the Iraqis to accept the breakup of their country which was the ziofascist plan all along.
But wait - that school just got painted.
Iraq is a debacle beyond human description, and has made the US a pariah nation.
And we've already spent more than we spent in the ten years in Vietnam.
Iraq and the state of politics and the media are all so depressing that it is hard to even talk about-- but definitely it's hard to have any faith in this country. It seems as if things can only go downhill from here.
Try to imagine, spooked, if the bushistas were actually striving to covertly destroy this country, would they have done anything differently?
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