Meanwhile Back in Iraq

Should just leave and let them fight it out....I would think an assisination of Sadr could not hurt.

DD

 

There has been evidence of sad'r armies beinbg used as a cover for the "Takavarn" extremly well trained and motivated iranian aspecial forces fighting the us army. the Takavaran was formed before the Revolution, but after the revolution many of the commandars came back from exile to fight the iraqi invaders. the irony is, now there helping the iraqis....oh the irony..

 

As long as George W. Bush is president, the U.S. troops are not leaving Iraq.

 

Are we still getting hung up on this old stuff? WE GOT JONBENET'S KILLER. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

 

I think if the Republicans lose control of the house or senate, or both, they will come home more quickly.

DD

 

DD

You seem to be a big proponent of Assassination
Isn't that against the Geneva Convention
Do you think Assassination is a moral and righteous way to create
Social Change? Political change?

You seem very much a cut to the chase kind of guy
Direct Action etc. . . ..
Doing the RIGHT THING . . .the Right way . .. has to count for something

Are you primarily an ENDS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS type of person?

Rocket River

 

The War Is Lost

By Paul Craig Roberts

09/04/06 -- The Pentagon’s latest quarterly “progress” report to Congress on Iraq is a grim tale of a lost war. The Pentagon told Congress what Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and propaganda organs such as Fox “News” never tell the American public, namely:

(1) The Sunni-based insurgency remains “potent and viable” despite spiraling Sunni-Shiite violence and beefed up US forces.

(2) Since the last report three months ago, Iraqi casualties from “sectarian clashes”--the Pentagon’s euphemism for civil war--have soared by more than 50 percent.

(3) From May when the new Iraqi government was established until August, the average number of weekly attacks increased sharply to 800.

(4) Since the previous report, Iraqi daily casualties have jumped by 50 per cent from 80 per day to 120 per day. Currently, Iraqis are dying at the rate of 43,800 per year from violence.

The Iraqi government cowers behind the fortified walls of the “Green Zone.” On August 31, the Kurds in the north took down the Iraqi flag and replaced it with the Kurdish one. Most of Iraq is ruled by Shiite and Sunni militias. Conflict between them has forced 160,000 Iraqis to flee their homes.

Who is going to tell Bush that the war is lost?

Is Rumsfeld going to tell him?

Is Cheney going to tell him?

How can they tell him after all the bravado and false reports?

This is a delusional administration. Confronted with three major polls showing that two-thirds of Americans oppose the Iraq war, Bush declared that he is staying the course, demonstrating yet again his disdain for common sense and the will of the American people.

If Bush and his neoconservative cabal were judged by their performance they would be ridden out of town on a rail. If a court of law judged their actions, they would walk the plank.

Everything this moronic regime promised about a “cakewalk” war and the ease of pacifying Iraq and turning it into an American puppet democracy has turned to ashes in President Bush’s mouth.

Having lost the Iraq war, the neoconservatives are determined to initiate war with Iran.

National security expert John Prados says, “The pattern of manipulation and misuse of intelligence that served the Bush administration in the drive to start a war with Iraq is being repeated today for its neighbor Iran.”

It is now established beyond a reasonable doubt that the neocons intentionally cooked up false intelligence in order to justify the invasion of Iraq, an invasion that has resulted in tens of thousands of Iraqi and American casualties, both dead and maimed.

Aggressive wars are themselves war crimes. To intentionally create a false basis for an aggressive war is an act of high treason.

Alarmed by the neoconservative drive to start a war with Iran before the US can extricate itself from the Iraq catastrophe, the CIA firmly declared that any Iranian nuclear weapon is a decade away. This undermines the neoconservatives’ urgency to attack Iran now.

Neoconservative fanatics tried to discredit the CIA with a recent report by the House Intelligence Committee Republican staff written by neoconservative Frederick Fleitz, a protege of neocon heavyweight John Bolton, a person active in concocting the false case for war against Iraq. Fleitz alleges that the CIA is a know-nothing agency that lacks the ability to assess Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons.

Neocons also dismiss the findings of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which issued a report on August 31 reaffirming that there is no tangible proof that Iran’s nuclear energy program has a military aspect.

The neoconservatives plan to plunge America into war with Iran before they can be held accountable for the lost war in Iraq.

This neoconservative conspiracy against the United States and Iran must be stopped. Neocons must be removed from the government that they have betrayed and held accountable for their crimes.

Before America can preach democracy to the world, we must first rescue American democracy from the Bush regime and re-establish government accountability to the people.

Paul Craig Roberts , was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington ; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice

 

Sistani tells Maliki to 'impose security'

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/058D3414-CB3B-4446-A533-CB8252088703.htm

Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, has met with the country's most influential Shia cleric, with discussions focusing on the current security situation.

Al-Maliki met Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Saturday in Najaf, 160km south of Baghdad.

According to the cleric's office, al-Sistani said: "If the government does not do its duty in imposing security and order to the people and protecting them, it will give a chance to other powers to do this duty and this is a very dangerous matter."

In July, al-Sistani was credited with restraining the majority Shia community from widespread retaliation against Sunnis following horrific attacks on Shia civilians.

The discussion came two days after a barrage of co-ordinated attacks across mainly Shia eastern Baghdad killed 64 people and wounded 286.

Shahristani to stay

In remarks after the meeting, al-Maliki announced that four Iraqi ministries will be affected by a planned cabinet reshuffle.

Maliki said Hussein al-Shahristani, Iraq's oil minister, whose future has been the subject of behind-the-scenes speculation, will stay on.

Shahristani, a close ally of al-Maliki, was criticised by some politicians for failing to tackle a fuel-shortage crisis efficiently.

The cabinet reshuffle, which will include the transport ministry, will need parliamentary approval.

Abu Ghraib handover

In a separate development, Iraq's government has formally taken over the Abu Ghraib prison, site of an abuse scandal by US soldiers.

Coalition forces transferred operations of Abu Ghraib to the Iraqi justice ministry on Friday.

On Saturday, Ali al-Dabbagh, a spokesman for al-Maliki, said: "The Abu Ghraib detention facility was handed over to the Iraqi government. It is now empty of any detainees."

Busho Ibrahim, deputy justice minister, said last week that the detainees at Abu Ghraib had been moved to a new $60m detention facility that had been built as part of Camp Cropper, near Baghdad International Airport.

Lieutenant-Colonel Keir Kevin Curry, spokesman for detainee operations, said multinational force authorities still had about 13,000 detainees in their custody.

Ceremony cancelled

In contrast to the prison handover, authorities postponed a highly anticipated ceremony on Saturday in which Iraq's defence ministry was to assume operational control of the country's armed forces command from the US-led forces.

The ceremony, which had been set to take place in the morning, was first delayed until later in the day, then postponed until Sunday.

Spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Johnson said the reason for the postponement was "miscommunication" in the timing of the ceremony.

Handing over control from the coalition to Iraqi authorities is a key part of any eventual withdrawal of US soldiers in the country.

Kurdish flag

In other news, Aljazeera said the decision by the Kurdish province's president, Massoud Barzani, to replace the Iraqi flag with the Kurdish flag has been criticised by Saleh al-Mutlaq, the leader of the predominantly Sunni Iraqi Front for National Dialogue.

Al-Mutlaq said that his fears came true when the decision was made, adding that that the repercussions could be negative.

Aljazeera also quoted al-Mutlaq as criticising the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, for purportedly taking instructions from the country's top Shia cleric, Ali al-Sistani.