Iraqi Gov Taking Part In Info-Op To Help Repubs Win Election-Larry Johnson

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Maliki and Al Sadr Punk America
by
Larry C Johnson

I will say it simply--the Iraqi Government of Prime Minister Maliki is taking part in an information operation to help Republicans in the upcoming election. The evidence? How about the repeated claims that "we have killed or captured" the number two in Iraq? (And no, my reference to "number two" is not a euphemism for defecation.) I refer instead to the steady drumbeat of breathless anouncements about the "latest" capture of a senior Al Qaeda operative in Iraq. The frequency of these claims is not a simple consequence of stepped up U.S. and Iraqi military operations. It is a deliberate effort to manipulate U.S. public opinion into believing real progress is being made in Iraq because the truth--that we're losing the ground war in Iraq--is unpalatable grist for the November elections.

Consider the following news flash:

On Sunday (3 September 2006), Iraq’s national security adviser announced the arrest of Hamed Jumaa Farid al-Saeedi, also known as Abu Humam or Abu Rana, and said that had left al-Qaida in Iraq suffering a “serious leadership crisis.”

A few days later, however, the U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, General William Caldwell, admitted that the U.S. had captured Hamed three months earlier:

Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell said Hamed Jumaa Farid al-Saeedi, also known as Abu Humam or Abu Rana, was captured on June 19. He also said other suspects had been arrested and were in custody, but that their names had not yet been made public.

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Rightly or wrongly, the United States is perceived as having taken a side in this civil war. We are fighting to bolster Shia control. The mullahs in Iran are also happy for this gift from Heaven--the Shia in Iraq are consolidating their control over areas considered sacred to all Shia.

Meanwhile, our troops are caught in a figurative no-mans land with no plan to escape and no plan for victory. For Maliki and his crowd, the only election that matters is the upcoming U.S. vote. If they can keep a Republican Congress who will "stay the course", the Shia plan to control vital areas of Iraq will remain on track. America's sons and daughters who are being killed and maimed in Iraq are sacrificing so that Shias can run Iraq and, with the backing of Iran, change the strategic face of the Middle East. And that new face will not be smiling on the United State or Israel. Mission accomplished?

much more at:
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/maliki_and_al_s.html#more

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1. lets start showing blown up bodies of US and Iraiqi people on evening

news.


But, that will not happen. we barely get the stats for dead US troops last few months.

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2. War on Poo: we have killed or captured the number two in Iraq

However we will almost certainly have to do it all over again tomorrow morning.

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3. Iraqi's like republicans? Republicans and this WH pResident have

...exterminated 60,000 to 100,000 Iraqi people since the war began in March 2003. So how can they in all good conscience support reThuglican policies aimed at torture, continued destruction, genocide and the plunder of Iraq's oil and other resources?

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4. All true

but the ones in power in Bagdad owe their jobs to the Bush regime.