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June 2, 2008 at 09:10:45     Permalink New Contracts Exhibit a Longer Occupation of Iraq Than Campaign Speeches Seem To Indicate Diary Entry by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (about the author)

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New Contracts Exhibit a Longer Occupation of Iraq Than Campaign Speeches Seem To Indicate

Contracts being proposed and made quietly public in May, far from the watchful eyes of American voters indicate longer term U.S. involvement in Iraq and an extrication process facing the next president that will be excruciatingly difficult.

Not only do the contracts call for major new spending, from supplying mentors to officials with Iraq's Defense and Interior ministries to establishing a system to protect Iraqi courts that mimics the U.S.-marshal Service. Contractors would have to provide at least 100 linguists, who will possess secret clearances, as well as food delivery agencies to provide for US built and managed prison, which will be supplied with thousands of new prisoners as America begins to make the Spanish Inquisition look like child's play, in both numbers and cruelty. The proposals display time commitments far beyond the immediate presence there. The "mentor" contract states that the US Military "desires for both Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense to become mostly self-sufficient within two years," which is beyond current proposals setting U.S. combat troop withdrawal. The "mentors" sought would "advise, train [and] assist . . . particular Iraqi officials," those who work in the Ministry of Defense, which controls the Iraqi army, and/or the Ministry of Interior, which controls police and other security organs. These "mentors" will assist the U.S. military group which had begun to implement "core processes and systems." These include contracting, procurement, public affairs and force development, management, and budgeting. "Mentors" would commit to at least one-year, with options for an additional two more one-year contracts. This "Mentoring," from clues in the contract announcement is no bed of roses, as it requires "mentors" to supply their own gas masks, helmets, and protective body armor. The "Marshaling Service" would be organized by the creating rules of law programs in Iraq. It "has plans to create an Iraqi service to be known as the Judicial Protection Service (JPS), modeled to some degree after the U.S. Marshals Service, that will ensure the safe conduct of judicial proceedings and protect judges, witnesses, court staff, and court facilities," said a notice published in May. The State Department is planning to hire a judicial security program manager contractor, which would create the mechanics of how this service would be constructed and function in Iraqi. That organization, or person, would develop not only the structure of an Iraqi JPS service, but also how much personnel, budgeting and training materials will be necessary, as well as "all other aspects of creating the new organization so that the project can be contracted out." In short, this person or agency is to hire subcontractors and will act beyond the scope and reach of US law, as a virtual dictatorship within a dictatorship within a protective shield, which has no power over it, like a legalized "Blackwater with a God knows how huge a contract?

May I remind everyone that Barack Obama has said he would probably continue to use Blackwater? Who is advising the Senator on BlackWater, one of its salespeople? The State Department would also like to hire a contractor to provide "100 plus linguists" also on one year contracts, with up to four additional, one-year options. They are seeking Arabic and Kurdish translators, "Native or near native capability in the foreign language and an excellent command of the English language are required," the notice says.

They will work at the State Department's Baghdad embassy, as well as at regional offices and with the Provincial Reconstruction Teams. An allied discovered last week entertains the opening, in September, of a new U.S.-controlled prison, called a " Theater Internment Facility Reconciliation Center," and will be located at Camp Taji, less than 14 miles north of Baghdad. The new contract requires food services for "up to 5,000 detainees" and employs 150 Iraqi nationals, who, it appears, will work at the prison. The contract is also for one year, with one option year to follow. The U.S. currently holds about 20,000 Iraqis at two prisons, most of which are at Camp Bucca in south Iraq and the remainder are at Camp Cropper closer to Baghdad. That is not all however, because another new "reconciliation center," specifically for (mostly) Sunnis, is under construction at Ramadi in the Anbar province. Last March, Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas Stone, who manages the detainee program, informed reporters that, on average, Iraqi detainees are kept at a U.S. facility for less than one year.

That longevity, however, may not be the true for the tougher, more than 9,000 Iraqis, which he characterized as holding "a very rigorous view of an ideology that we would broadly categorize as al-Qaeda." If that comment sounds suspicious or a great deal like 1984's Double-Speak, be well aware that it is at the very least saying that these prisoners are committed to at least a political ousting the US. If they were, Americans held in an enemy prison, Americans would call them "patriots," it is highly doubted that many are Al Qaeda. My guess is that they are labeled so for political purposes. It appears that instead of using their heads and waging peace with the hardcore, the Corporate Contractors, who only profit while Iraqi's are seen as the enemy, are influencing policy. I believe that the only way to pacify the hardcore is to appeal to their patriotism and allow them a part in the peace-making instead interring them further and setting out to brainwash and/or anger them further. This sounds more like Contractor-created policy than US policy. More prisons, means more profits. The hardcore are, nevertheless, earmarked for the new "reconciliation centers" probably for some old-fashioned, brain-washing, to recondition them into renouncing the vagaries of such patriotism as they follow the fate of Orwell's, not so heroic, Winston Smith, and what could be considerably longer stays. The dark corporate powers behind this administration are busy studying Orwell for news means of provoking the Iraqi's so their own profits will rise forever. To quote MAHMOUD ABU DUMOUR, a former detainee, on the thousands of American detainees who are set to be turned over to the Iraqi government: "The Americans are better than Ministry of Interior prisons. They will torture you. Maybe you will die. With the Americans, if you enter Abu Ghraib, they will only wage psychological war on you."

 

Professor Bagnolo has majored in: Cultural Anthropology, Architectural design, painting, creative writing. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, he was offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.
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