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The clock continues to tick away the
seconds to the end of June 2004. Decision Day approaches, and still there is
no plan in sight. The coalition forces, consisting primarily of 130,000 US
troops and 15,000 mercenaries (euphemistically we call them contractors),
plus the Brits, and a bunch of lesser forces are now facing serious if not
fatal problems.
Mixed in with the troops and
mercenaries are thousands of aid workers and private assistance volunteers,
along with journalists. There are also remnants of the 25 million people
that are trying to live in what is left of their country. Still there is no
plan to secure the highways, or the services needed for daily life. There's
also no viability for actual political leaders within the country, aside
from the puppets appointed by the ruling US council.
What Rummy and his incompetents have
failed to understand is the nature of the typography, or the depths of the
hostility, that this desert world can bring. Our non-warriors simply
assumed; that once the cities were subdued by brute force, then the
connecting roads and transportation systems would remain unmolested. But as
anyone who is familiar with resistance warfare knows, that's almost never
the case. Iraq is not a small country and the roads are vulnerable, as are
the water supply and the oil pipelines,
all of which cover hundreds and
hundreds of miles of open desert. Pacification lies in victory over hearts
and minds, and has always been the only way to insure any occupier's safety.
The principal is as old as history itself.
Bush refuses to listen to history,
just as he shuns traditional customs in dealing with other people:
especially when they are victims of the Bush Doctrine of 2002.
One problem now surfacing are our
own highly paid outlaws. These "contractors" are not aligned with
the US military. Their actions in Iraq mirror the actions of the Israeli's
in Palestine. Neither their missions, nor their movements are monitored or
controlled by the US, because they answer only to those who hired them. It
is their outrageous actions, in the kicking down of doors in the middle of
the night, and dispatching any resistance with bullets, that has brought us
to this situation.
The brutal deaths and barbaric
treatment of the corpses of four of their personnel, is what began this
latest round of slaughter. When Bush sent troops to find the perpetrators:
that's when this rebellion became serious. The sheer disproportion of the
deaths resulting directly from this murder are almost unbelievable. The
result has seen the deaths of over 50 GI's, and in Fallujah alone over 600
Iraqi's.
http://www.empirenotes.org/
We have over 15,000 of these
overpaid rent-a-killers. Why didn't the contractors take care of finding
these people, instead of having the US military go in with tanks and guns
and planes and helicopters blazing? Because this is how Rummy wants things
to go, he wants to show the world that nobody can mess with the USA. The
contractors have a major stake in the outcome of this barbarism. The
contracts these people have, continue to pay their employees and themselves,
even when they cannot work because of war. Since the 15,000 mercenaries are
already there why aren't we using them whenever things get really rough? We
don't have any more troops to send to Iraq. So why not draft these well
armed private citizens that are already there to help the overwhelmed US
military? Why not revise the private no-bid contracts, so that whenever they
cannot work, because of war, then they don't get paid. That might offer some
incentive to stop brutalizing the local population. But don't hold your
breath, they are only there because of money.
Why are we in Iraq at all? Bush
said we had to go in immediately without waiting for the UN to find the
Weapons of Mass Destruction, because "the lives of American citizens
are at stake." We were threatened, by Saddam and his vast array of
weaponry. That was a lie. Bush knew that Saddam had all that stuff, because
he's got the receipts for what we sent him before the 1991-war. It never
occurred to the "new" administration that during the twelve years
of 24-7 bombing, that targeted two-thirds of Iraq, compounded by the nearly
criminal sanctions, only left a crippled country. Add Saddam's diversion of
the aid that did get through and fact that maybe those "WMD's" had
been either destroyed or sold. and this is no longer a mystery.
What that all means in plain
English is: that we attacked Iraq for no legitimate reason, without any
proof whatsoever, of any of the things we alleged, at the time that we
attacked. That's a huge crime against every national convention, and is
against all international laws, including the laws of war.
Have our memories really grown so
short? Can we not even remember Powell's lies before the UN? All of the
panic calls for WAR, from Contradicta herself, or from Snarling Cheney, and
of course from Rummy? Have we really forgotten that literal diatribe of war,
war, war: as the only solution to this threat? We are today illegally inside
Iraq. So all of Paul Bremer's arrogant claims about legality are crap.
Bremer's calls to indite, and to attack those who want their country back -
are only spin to hide the fact that it is we who are behaving in a criminal
manner.
But it gets worse. The White House
involvement in 911 is more than most people would have ever even thought
about. http://independent.com/
There's also the vaunted Al-Qaeda
that is and was a CIA creation, created during the Russian invasion of
Afghanistan by us. They have been a useful tool of that agency ever since.
Their part in all of what happened on 911 needs to be scrutinized
thoroughly, if anyone is ever to believe that what happened on September 11,
was not part of a homegrown scheme.
http://disc.server.com/Indices/
As a result of these and other
contradictions, there are continuing questions amid a boatload of lies that
the US is facing in this major dilemma. We have made so many mistakes in
Iraq that it is impossible to salvage any credible position. We must leave,
but diplomatically and politically we cannot. Militarily we must win - but
politically we dare not, because that will make it all far worse.
 Had we made any true plans, the US
would have insured that our forces included translators, and that our
commanders had been briefed on the customs and the expectations of those
that they were about to attack. But this appears not to have happened. This
is ugly beyond ugly: and all because on top of telling the world that this
was unilaterally our choice to make. We went to Iraq, with absolutely no
plan at all for the aftermath. Blame for this falls squarely on the
shoulders of both the Secretary of the Department of Offense,
and the what's left of the Department
of State: in addition to the primary culprits, George W. Bush and Dick
Cheney. Sharon comes in for some credit as well ,but he's safely confined to
his own little pretend state, so he can't be called to account, at least not
by us.
The roads out of Iraq will resemble
the roads from Moscow back to Germany during the Nazi's failed attempt to
crush the Russians. That was a colossal military failure, and in Iraq, we're
about to repeat the Nazi's errors. Like the snows of Europe then, the
deserts of Iraq are now not friendly to mechanized armies, but they are of
immense assistance to small and knowledgeable bands of resistance fighters
who are armed with the determination that we created by our senseless
slaughtered so many Iraqi's. We have only ourselves to blame, for the
toughness of the fighters, because for the most part we made them. They will
do their best to stop us when we attempt to leave that bloody mess that used
to be their country.
The price of war is mutilation,
serious damage and lingering death. Body bags mark each new attempt at
global domination. So far we've had comparatively few of those. But in the
process we have slaughtered men and women and children indiscriminately, too
many times. That will be paid for. The "allies" will have to pay
the price in blood and guts and wasted lives. The Arab world will never
forget the carnage and the death, or the wanton destruction of all that made
that land a viable nation. We shall have to try and understand the plight of
those we have desecrated for the last full year:
http://www.rense.com/
Nature will never forgive this
crime, given all the depleted uranium that we've infected that entire
country with. This was partly done, just to show the world the power of our
weapons, how shallow we've become.
The media needs to begin their
"seriously determined interest" once again, just like they did,
back when we were about to pounce. This time they need to demand answers for
the questions that abound. We must begin to remember what we've done, by
doing what we did to at least three countries. Afghanistan has suffered too,
but so have we-for America is the third victim of these pretenders to our
government.
This war is too important to be
left up to this lame commission. Congress needs to hold hearings that can't
be controlled by the Tarnished House. Congressional Hearings cannot be
edited, or be scripted by the targets of an investigation that has yet to be
held into the actual events of 9-11.
Until those open and public
investigations are held, and seen by all who want to watch them, then all
this governments crude attempts to steal our constitutional way of life, and
the guarantees within the Bill of Rights, will only be more evidence in need
of thorough investigation.
The public and the families need to
know for certain, who's to blame for those nearly three thousand people who
died on 9-11? We need to hear from all who were on duty that day, and we
need to hear in depth from all the heads of every branch of government
involved-on the record and under oath. No one should be omitted from the
witness list, as no man or woman is above the law. That is of course, if we
still have any laws that can compel George W and his playmates to testify
about this matter, fully, before the coming elections.
Congress will say, "This is
unprecedented." Indeed! There has never been a political or military
act on American soil that comes even close to 911, which is why we need the
hearings-now! Perhaps it's also what we need, to be able to finally remember
what was done in the names of each and every one of us!
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