Chaos is their game. Chaos has been the Bush regime's most successful pursuit.
I wonder who in the administration is looking over these SAIC reports that were generated by Marines in the period before the mosque bombing,
muckraking around the Iraqi sects - probing them, manipulating them - documenting their reactions to see what will happen when they begin to stir up the minorities in Iran to revolt against the government there.
Do you suppose this had anything to do with the recent unrest in Iraq?
US Marines Probe Tensions Among Iran’s Minorities
Financial Times
(February 23, 2006)
The intelligence wing of the US marines has launched a
probe into Iran’s ethnic minorities at a time of heightened tensions along the border with Iraq and friction between capitals. Iranian activists involved in a classified research project for the marines told the FT the Pentagon was examining the depth and nature of grievances against the Islamic government, and appeared to be studying whether Iran would be prone to a violent fragmentation along the same kind of fault lines that are splitting Iraq.
The research effort comes at a critical moment between Iran and the US. Last week the Bush administration asked Congress for
$75m to promote democratic change within Iran, having already mustered diplomatic support at the UN to counter Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme.
Marine Corps Intelligence defines its role as focusing “on crises and predeployment support to expeditionary warfare”. It also provides threat and technical intelligence assessments for the Marines. The first study, on Iraq, was completed in late 2003, more than six months after marines spearheaded the US invasion. About 23,000 marines are still in Iraq. The Iran study was finished late last year. Hicks and Associates is a wholly owned subsidiary of Science Applications International Corp, one of the biggest US defence contractors and deeply involved in the prewar planning for Iraq. The Strategic Assessment Center of Hicks and Associates advertises one of its current projects as the “Impact of Foreign Cultures on Military Operations”. SAIC confirmed it completed the confidential studies for the Marine Corps.
Tehran cannot afford to dismiss minority grievances out of hand and seeks to blame the violence on outside forces, says Bill Samii, an Iran analyst with Radio Free Europe. “The regime can crush dissent when it is localised and relatively small,” he commented.”But if sporadic incidents of ethnic unrest occurred across the country simultaneously, or if such troubles coincided with labour troubles and student demonstrations then the regime would have its hands full.” Given these developments, the question of Iran’s minorities has aroused interest across Washington . . .
It's all just a warden's game to the murderous bastards who are orchestrating these Bush wars. Iraq is under siege . . . by the U.S. military. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, threatened right before the mosque bombing to withhold money which would go to the Iraqi security forces if the new authority there failed to somehow unite all of the disparate factions into a centralized mush of U.S. compliant stooges.
Bush has been using the training of the Iraqi forces as justification for our continued occupation. But they were divided into militias from the start. The Sunni's immediately labeled them death squads Negroponte's got his henchman James Steele
training a unit of about 5000 troops called the 'Special Police Commandos'. He did the same thing during El Salvador's civil war.
US Maj Gen Joseph Peterson, who is in charge of training the Iraqi police, told the Chicago Tribune on Feb. 16 that US forces had had found the first evidence of
death squads within the interior ministry. If true, the general would be the last to know. The rest of the world knew about the death squads for months, and, so did the Bush regime.
It's no surprise to find the Bush regime - who accommodated their own ascendance to office in the U.S elections with voting machine rigging, voter intimidation, ballot manipulation, denial of access, and resistance to scrutiny - feeling free and obliged to meddle with the different factions in the Middle East until they get the results they want.
So, after the marines and others in the U.S. junta stirred the pot just enough to bring Iraq to a boil, Bush called a representative from each of the major factions and told them to make nice with each other or he'd cut them off of the U.S. dole. He probably shook them down one at a time. Before long they were in a group hug - as if they had been the ones killing and fighting - promising to just get along. "No civil war here, boss."
But, the killings were much deeper than Rumsfeld's media machine and the Iraqi politicians led the world to believe after several days of bloodshed. Instead of the
hundreds killed that had been reported, it turned out that over
1300 deaths had occured since the mosque bombing.
Bush orchestrated the entire invasion, occupation, and installation of his junta to arrive at this moment. Like a true gangster, Bush's military henchmen control the mob of antagonized Iraqis with their paid soldiers, their stooges and the fear they spread with their targeted attacks on those who would resist their false, propped-up authority. Chaos is the breeding ground for Bush's imperialism. The most potent threat Bush wields against his puppet Iraqi regime is the prospect of stiring up the locals and standing back as they slaughter, step back in when his stooges cry for help, and ensnare them in his imperious protection racket.
You have a choice Bush tells them:
"
Chaos or unity"
Over forty more Iraqis killed today, and Bush is in the catbird's seat. The choice for Iraqis is not freedom, democracy, or any of the other jingoisms Bush uses to justify his barbaristic power grab. The choice today for Iraqis, offered up by their supreme dictator, is between "chaos or unity".
You're either with us or against us.
Your country or your life.
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