While everyone shops and travels to see relatives and friends, or people spruce up the house so they can receive those relatives and friends, while others hold down the fort so to speak so that businesses and institutions are still there when these holidays are over, the government is quietly changing tactics while it's constituents are otherwise occupied. Some of us have been keeping our eyes wide open, watching every move, noting every nuance our government makes. I'd rather be doing something else, but I've learned that you can't take a break or relax in this country anymore. There are evil plans afoot so to speak.
The papers are saying that the President is working to come up with a new approach. I believe that he's found it. I think what he's going to do is support the Shiite in their war against the Sunni. Why do I say this? It's pretty easy to figure out. We can't stop the sectarian violence and we can't get the Sunni side to come to the table and talk. The Shiites are winning anyway and it's always better to side with the winning team. This "Islamic Nation of Iraq" that the Sunni's proclaimed last week is getting press coverage and that looks as if it is being pushed by the American side. The problem with this option of "taking a side" (and this is exactly what we are doing), is that the Saudi government who support the Sunni's are talking about building a nuclear weapon of their own, and supporting the Sunni's if America pulls out of Iraq. That in itself is an indicator that the Saudi Government has been told of this new development.
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the Shiite cleric that supports parliamentary democracy, and Moqtada Sadr, the Commander of the Mahdi Army, are locked in a power struggle for control of the Shiite community. While not openly at war, both are rivals. The Mahdi Army has not fired on American troops, not as a matter of policy anyway. I believe that Bush believes that American support for the Shiite side would leave the American forces in Iraq free to take back Baghdad and put down the Sunni uprising in the Anbar Province, and with the help of the Mahdi Army, will seem to put Iraq back under the rule of law and therefore gain support from Americans that are desperate to see some progress. I think the fleet is there to warn Iran to keep out of this.
The "surge" of forces that General Casey was against, but this morning seems that he is now "for", I believe is because of Arm twisting by the Commander –in-Chief. The Commander of Central Command, the command that oversees the Iraqi war effort, General Abazaid, is stepping down, and General Casey is now on his own. The option of remaining adamantly opposed to a surge in force is really no option at all. The General Staff do not do so well on their Officer Evaluation Reports once they have locked horns with a President.
I could very well be wrong about everything I've written here. although I haven't been wrong on anything I've written about this War yet. It's not like I have any crystal ball either. It just makes sense from a Bush win-at-any-cost point of view. To hell with what we will end up with; an Iraqi dictatorship with Moqtad Sadr and his Mahdi Army running Iraq. The question is, are we willing to embrace that as an outcome? It looks as if that question has been answered.
So while this might bring a semblance of peace to this war ravaged nation, after 3000 American dead, and over 600,000 Iraqi dead, all we have managed to do is swap dictators and Muslim Sects, a sect that is closer spiritually if not politically, with Iran. What are we getting in return? That is something only George W. Bush or someone close to him is able to answer. I know this though, if it's anything like other deals that have been made by this President, It might not be in America's best interests, but it will be in the best interests of George W. Bush. You can count on that.
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We are at the start of our 'War on Terror'. Iraq is the beginning. As the army attacks Iraq, the US gov't erodes rights at home by suspending habeas corpus, stealing private lands, banning books like "America Deceived" from Amazon, rigging elections, conducting warrantless wiretaps and starting 2 illegal wars based on lies. Soon, another US false-flag operation will occur (sinking of an Aircraft Carrier) and the US will invade Iran, (on behalf of Israel).
Final link (before Google Books bends to gov't demands and censors the title):
America Deceived (book)
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Lorring II (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 86 comments)
on Monday, December 25, 2006 at 1:45:33 AM
If there is only one thing that I agree with bush and his ilk with it's this: there will be a great clash of civilisations soon due to many reasons, economic, climate, resources, all of which overlap and all are spiraling beyond any control mankind can muster. (Although I don't know if bush&co. are aware of the "beyond" part) And those that control the most will have the most to lose and will meet with brutal force any that oppose them.
The dynasties, royalty, industrial, wealthy, again overlapping, that have controlled civilizations for hundreds, if not thousands of years are trying to hold unto that control in the face of the uprising of those that always will oppose them, the people they enslave. Their dream of a "one world government", with said dynasties still in control is almost, if not already, here.
And even if the so-called people should survive and cleanse most of the evil of mankind, they'd be left to try to survive in a destroyed world.
happy holidays ...
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Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 20 diaries, 1781 comments)
on Monday, December 25, 2006 at 5:03:49 PM
The administration is not taking "a" side, it is playing all sides against each other, and they have been all along. They're not pursuing stability, they're fueling instability. They don't want to "win", in any conventional sense, because what they really want is continued and escalating war. They subscribe to the "a weapon unused is a useless weapon" doctrine, and they want to use all these weapons they've accumulated. Yes, the administration is giving the "Islamic Nation of Iraq" story legs; but the goal is not to end the conflict, it is only to inflame it.
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sedicious (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 at 9:55:29 AM
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