Prior to the last couple of months, I was of the opinion that the chaos in Iraq was due either to the * Admin's narrow-minded focus on Iraq's oil resources or to near-ubiquitous incompetence across the administration. However, after the recent collosally horrendous decisions (see bottom of post) and reading a recent poll analysis (suggesting that Bush is viewed by the public as stronger on defense, and that the recent increase in violence in Iraq has, counterintuitively, helped his numbers), I began migrating to the opinion that the chaos and increasing violence in Iraq is the administration's desired goal.
And that was prior to my reading the following interviews with Jay Garner (which I learned about during Monday's 'Majority Report' interview with Greg Palast on Air America Radio).
It's hard to be anything but certain at this point.
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Jay Garner, the US general abruptly dismissed as Iraq's first occupation administrator after a month in the job, says he fell out with the Bush circle free elections and rejected an imposed programme of privatisation.
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"What I was trying to do was get to a functioning government ... We as Americans like to put our template on things. And our template's good, but it's not necessarily good for everyone else."
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Describing his dismissal after he called for elections , he said: "The night I got to Baghdad, Rumsfeld called me and told me he was appointing Paul Bremer as the presidential envoy ... The announcement ... was somewhat abrupt."
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But he had wanted the Iraqis to decide economic policy for themselves. "They'll make mistakes, and that's OK ... I don't think they need to go by the US plan."
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Article in THE GUARDIAN: GENERAL SACKED BY BUSH SAYS HE WANTED EARLY ELECTIONS
BY DAVID LEIGH
Thursday Mar 18, 2004
BBC TV INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL GARNER: IRAQ FOR SALE
Friday Mar 19, 2004
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earlier
"Yes, I now do believe that something else is going on." post:
We're doing far too many things lately that are just downright aggressive and provocative. After reading/hearing a Presidential campaign poll analysis recently, correlating fear in the electorate to * gains, I'm evolving to the opinion that the * Campaign/Misministration may be orchestrating many of these blunders to increase chaos pre-election.
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Fallujah reprisal siege: as stated elsewhere, why do these 4 killings warrant such special attention? Fallujah is a known insurgent stronghold. The best medicine for such towns is to get the rest of the country prospering, and then they'll get on board 'cause they don't want to be left behind. Quarantine them, maybe, to protect the rest of the country, but don't play into their hands.
al Sadr offensive (shutdown of paper, arrest of lieutenant, promise of al Sadr's capture): same as Fallujah. Why must al Sadr be addressed NOW? It's a political matter for the Shiites to work out. Left alone, he has little power; only through our military response does he gain followers.
siding w/ Sharon on lopsided unilateral move in Palestine/Israel conflict: * might as well have pissed on the Palestinian flag. What a diplomatic f___up. Did he fail to ask Powell's opinion on this one, too? Do we even *HAVE* a State Department any more?
appointment of Negroponte as US Ambassador to Iraq: linked to death squads, linked to Iran-Contra scandal that funded the arming of Iraq's enemy, the man who lied to the UN in order to create a facade of legitimacy for *'s invasion of Iraq. * couldn't have proposed a more controversial candidate.
Bremer announcement of full sovereignty on Iraqi television, almost immediately contradicted as only partial: nuff said.
And now you can add that ridiculous flag. It's like waving a red cape at a bull. Crikey!
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