Iraqi Speaker, Defended By White House, Says US Invaded With Zionist Agenda

[NNN0LHI]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/25/iraqi-speaker/

Last weekend, the speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, described the U.S. occupation of Iraq as “butcher’s work.” Confronted with those remarks on Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten said he had met with al-Mashhadani privately and believes he has an “appreciation for the sacrifice so many Americans have made.”

If al-Mashhandi appreciates the sacrifices of Americans, he has a funny way of showing it. At a news conference, he said “I personally think whoever kills an American soldier in defense of his country would have a statue built for him in that country.” Also this:

Saying that the U.S. seeks to control oil fields in southern Iraq, Mashadani added, “America didn’t come to the country for our sake. America came with a pure Zionist agenda.“

Remember, the neoconservatives in the Bush administration promised us that invading Iraq and creating a democratic government would stabilize the Middle East. From Newsweek:

Last year’s invasion of Iraq and toppling of Saddam Hussein were supposed to bring prosperity and stability to the Middle East. “The road to Jerusalem,” the mantra went, led through Baghdad. Neoconservatives and other hawks within the Bush administration expected that the United States would win respect in the Arab world through a massive show of force, and that Israel would be more comfortable making peace with the Palestinians once Saddam was gone.

[WCGreen]

1. Since the Rose colored glasses have slipped of the nose....

WHat the fuck color glasses are all these lunatics wearing now....

BLACK....

Cause they can't see anything, nothing....

[Kagemusha]

2. That's not exactly what the neocons argued.

They argued that the process which started with Iraq would lead to a more stable, prosperous Middle East. Iraq was never going to be the whole job though.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Except that's not what they said

if anyone bothers to read what they write.

Michael Ledeen wrote that we were not going to bring stability to the ME, but rather we would destabilize the ME. This is what they planned and they even admit it.

[Kagemusha]

7. Destabilizing it to bring eventual stability. That was the plan.

Rice is promoting it every time she says an immediate ceasefire is not desirable in Lebanon.

[Roland99]

8. Well, you have to break something in order to fix it.

:eyes:

[Burried News]

11. Creative chaos was a term they liked as I recollect nt.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Sounds like at least one Iraqi is standing up. n/t

[Rex]

4. 'appreciation for the sacrifice so many Americans have made'

A sacrifice that was unnecessary because as it turns out, Saddam had no WMD and was little to no threat to America. Their commander and chief decided to commit various war crimes by neglecting Afghanistan and the hunt for OBL, in order to make Dick Cheney and Rummy rich beyond all measure.

I hope Bolton realizes he is working for international war criminals.

[Bozita]

6. Wondering what GWB thinks about freedom of speech in Iraq

[leveymg]

9. The "Gov't of Iraq" is the Parliament of the Green Zone

There is no Iraq anymore. Three warring ethnic zones are easier and cheaper to deal with for the mutinational oil companies than is a single national government. That was the objective all along -- along with scaring everyone else in the region to make a better deal with Exxon-Mobil-Chevron-Texaco-Conoco-BP-Shell, et al. Mission accomplished - half-way, anyway.

Isn't democratization wonderful?

[Igel]

10. I've little use for Masshadani.

Or his clan.

Many are Salafists, and have Iraq's interests in mind only insomuch as they conform to their beliefs. Hussein did the world a great disservice by encouraging them and empowering them, while crippling Iraq's educational system in the '80s and '90s.

[Disturbed]

13. Masshadani is on the short list to be assasinated by "evil doers".

Maybe he will resign and immigrate to the UK before that.

[Igel]

15. With there being so many

"evil doers", to Masshadani's way of thinking, you'd think that would have been done by now.

[spanone]

12. Mr.Bolten can lie with the best of these criminals.

[K8-EEE]

14. Wow This Certainly Was Money And Lives Well Spent

NOT!!! Domino effect in reverse. However, they ensuing chaos and misery was a perfect situation for the robber barons to come in and steal us blind, which was what the war was all about in the first place, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

[bigtree]

16. lot's of hubris in all of that, but it's believable enough from his side

I know that he's exaggerated, but his rhetoric is no more inflammatory than the demonization that comes from the Bush regime as they prosecute and defend their militarism. It's not realistic, nor is it fair, to expect Iraq's successive 'leaders' to develop their political appeals out of the U.S. script. We did have Richard Perle, Richard Armitage, and Paul Wolfowitz as integral partners and instigators within the Bush administration who had expressed just that type of domino strategy before, during, and after Bush's ascendence to office in their PNAC policy pronouncements, whereby the U.S. would topple the governments of Iraq, Syria, Iran. and secure their own 'crescent' of influence to project American hegemony and power.

The speaker just didn't dress all of that up for his two-faced American benefactors. Inartful maybe, somewhat repugnant in the equation of Israel's government's actions with 'Zionism', but his comments reflect a frustration not unlike a prisoner relating to his wardens. At any rate, the Iraqis' newfound voice of resentment comes with the freedom that the Bush regime claims they invaded Iraq and occupied their country for. It's no surprise to find so many in Washington who would deny the Iraqis that freedom of expression at the first utterance of dissent.