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  RRDRRD you are living in a parallel universe. 'If you enter into a real conflict of any kind and you go in thinking you can set a deadline and fixed budget, you are setting yourself up for failure.' Don't you realize what you're saying? This is a recipe for endless war.The kind that demoralizes armies, smashes governments and sends economies to the poorhouse. Look around. Isn't that exactly what you've got? And look at the words you choose. A 'real' conflict? How about an 'unreal' conflict - a sham that was created because of oil politics, Israel and the neo cons and the Republican party's thirst for absolute power. How about that? Schwarzkopf endorses McCain?

  How surprising. Why would one fascist support another? Gee. I can't imagine. The Iraq war was planned in February 2001.

  FEBRUARY 2001

  In 'Armed Madhouse', Greg Palast describes what he calls Plan A. A month after Bush’s ‘election’ to the White House a meeting is held in Walnut, California. The National Security Council and the State Department plan the invasion of Iraq. They even interview a replacement for Saddam. According to Falah Aljibury, who hosted the meeting, (Aljibury was a top U.S. oil industry advisor on Iraq) the original plan was for an invasion that had the characteristics of a coup ‘…shut everything down for two or three days… then everything ‘as is’, (Palast, 52). Under this plan the ministry would retain the government oil monopoly.

  DECEMBER 2001

  The idea of a global energy plan is put forward by the James Baker III Institute and sponsored by Saudi Arabia. The fly in the ointment is Saddam who is doing unpredictable things and causing the oil price to fluctuate wildly… ‘requiring an immediate policy review – military, energy, economic, diplomatic.’ (Palast, 52). In March 2001 Baker, CFR Group member Ken Lay (remember Enron?) and other industry chiefs have a secret meeting with Dick Cheney in order to cast their eyes over a map of Iraq’s oil fields.

  Think about it. How can this war possibly have anything to do with 9/11 or terrorism, or Afghanistan or the Taliban or the so-called war on terror? Well it can't actually. Unless they were planning 9/11 at one and the same time as they were planning the war -9/11 being a pretext to invade Iraq and 'kick ass' to quote your beloved President. Which is, of course, precisely what they were doing at that meeting in Walnut California. Do you even know what's gone on in Iraq in terms of money embezzled (23 billion to the present day) and war crimes committed? Some of the people who stole the money are now living in million dollar mansions in the United States or flying around in their own jets or living the high life in London. The Iraqi government chanelled money for weapons into their own bank accounts. They bought weapons from POLAND, clapped out old wrecks of tanks etc. but America paid top dollar for them. The difference went to the crooked Iraqis. The kind America loves and can't do enough for.

  'Turned around the situation'? Don't make me laugh. What sums up the American occupation of Iraq is that fact that Marines in Iraq shot and ate a herd of gazelles which Saddam Hussein kept on a 'vast preserve'. Marines also spray painted their motto 'Semper Fi' (Semper Fidelis -always faithful) on the walls of a ziggarat (a stepped temple) in the 6,000 year old city of Ur. The Americans built a Burger King and a Pizza Hut in Tallil but they let the Library of the Korans and other ancient and irreplaceable texts burn to the ground. They protected the Ministry of Oil where not so much as a window was broken while on the 11th and 12th of April 2004 the National Museum of Baghdad was burned and looted. American soldiers did nothing. On April 14th 2004 The National Library and Archives as well as the Library of the Korans was burned. American soldiers did nothing. Random checks on American soldiers leaving Iraq found that several of them had stolen artefacts thousands of years old. Donald Rumsfeld shrugged and said this: 'Freedom's messy. Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes.' Well that fucking criminal would know, wouldn't he?

  Between May and August 2004 the walls of the temple of Nabu and the roof of the temple of Ninmah (both from the 6th century) collapsed as a result of the movement of helicopters. The fact is, you Americans are thugs and vandals, with a thug society awash with weapons and a thug army also awash with weapons. Please stop preaching democracy and behaving like stormtroopers before we're all destroyed and face the fact of what you are and what's been done in your name. Have a nice day.

  Permalink Saturday, July 5, 2008 03:24 PM