IT IS ALL FALLING APART
By winston
OpEdNews, PA
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Oct 15 2007
Just as experts predicted years ago.
It is not just the non-Kurdish part of Iraq destabilizing, or even
just Iraq. It is not only the US military that is committing atrocities
in Iraq.
As the article "Slog comments prove GWOT to be only a scam". click
here describes; "It has been bandied about before, but the US’
military dominance makes us less safe against terrorism, and W’s
(GWOT) tactics run counter to the accepted reality that never in
history has a super-power won an "asymmetric warfare" battle by use
of military might solely.
Presidential Decision Directive 62, issued in 1998, says, "America’s
unrivaled military superiority means that potential enemies (whether
nations or terrorist groups) that choose to attack us will be more
likely to resort to terror instead of conventional military assault."
With both the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, Washington is trying
to turn a Fourth Generation war, a war with non-state entities, into
a Second Generation war, a war against another state that is fought
by the simple application of firepower to targets. History shows
that W’s (GWOT) will fail, and understandably alienate the world,
particularly the Islamic segment against us, but what are history or
reality to these GOP goons who believe that Rove can spin any set of
cold, hard facts, to GOP partisan advantage.
When Russia attacked Afghanistan the Soviets dealt with the Herat
guerrillas by bombing 75% of the city into rubble. That still failed
to stop the urban guerrilla tactics. See any relationship to Fallujah
and Baghdad? Fallujah was decimated but the insurgents survived.
McCain alluded to this in his "whack a mole" comments."
Every time W is spouting off that he is winning in "the everlasting
war against terrorism"-which has been changed to "those who are
against us", "GWOT" and "Islamofascism" you must realize that never in
"history has a super-power won an asymmetric warfare battle by use
of military might solely."
Whatever W calls it won’t change history and aren’t we supposed to
learn from the mistakes of the past or else we’ll just be repeating
past mistakes?
This article also notes George Will, a noted conservative lackey,
stated "The London plot against civil aviation confirmed that better
law enforcement, which probably could have prevented Sept. 11, is
central to combating terrorism. F-16s are not useful tools against
terrorism that issues from places such as Hamburg and High Wycombe,
England." Will, a stalwart Republican, went further: "Cooperation
between Pakistani and British law enforcement has validated John
Kerry’s belief expressed in one of the 2004 presidential debates that
although the war on terror will be ‘occasionally military,’ it is
‘primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation."
When you think about Iraq you worry about the Sunni against Shiite
and Sunni against Sunni in al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Shiites against
other Shiites, but not the Kurdish part of Iraq.
The article "PKK rebels say heading into Turkey from Iraq" at
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states "Kurdish separatist rebels said on Friday they were crossing
back into Turkey to target politicians and police after Ankara said
it was preparing to attack them in the mountains of northern Iraq.
A statement by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could further increase
domestic pressure on Ankara to launch a major offensive that Washington
fears could destabilize a relatively peaceful area of Iraq and have
ramifications through the region."
Not only that but, as The article
"Tensions Rise in Turkey on Two Fronts" at
ticle/2007/10/11/AR2007101101276.html
states "The Turkish government warned Thursday that a congressional
committee vote labeling the mass killings of Armenians during the
Ottoman Empire as genocide would "endanger relations" with the United
States, and it summoned its ambassador from Washington for emergency
consultations.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee vote on the Armenian deaths — one
of the most sensitive issues in Turkish politics and society — came
as Turkish officials said they were preparing to seek parliamentary
authority to launch a military assault across the border in Kurdish
northern Iraq in retribution for Kurdish rebel attacks that have killed
29 Turkish soldiers, police and civilians in the past two weeks."
Turkey slaughtered all of those Armenians during the Ottoman Empire and
now they are ignoring the demands of the sovereign state of Iraq as
"Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul told reporters, "There is no need for
parliamentary authorization for a hot-pursuit operation" to chase
suspected PKK guerrillas.
However, Iraq has denied Turkey permission to conduct such raids."
You have to wonder why the Democrats in the House have to draw
attention to an ages old Turkish crime against Armenians. The Turkish
will just use it against the US and the Iraqis also.
The "bubble boy" should have followed his Secretary of State’s
"Powell Doctrine" before starting his Iraq theater of GWOT. Let’s
see–not enough troops, and of the meager number of them all were
ill prepared and equipped, possessing no plans for the occupation,
and no exit strategy-that about sums it up. All of those points were
failures from the point of the man who tried to dummy it down for the
"intellectually incurious" dummy W with the "Pottery Barn" phrase of
"You break it. You own it" being a clear prognostication of what
would inevitably ensue.
Just how atrocious is "Mission Accomplished"! The article
"U.N. Report on Iraq Details An ‘Ever-Deepening’ Crisis" at
ticle/2007/10/11/AR2007101102138.html
states "A U.N. report issued Thursday outlined an "ever-deepening
humanitarian crisis" in Iraq, with thousands of people driven from
their homes each month, ongoing indiscriminate killings and "routine
torture" in Iraqi prisons….
The assessment by the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, which
covered a three-month period ending June 30, found that civilians
were suffering "devastating consequences" from violence across the
country. It documented more than 100 civilians allegedly killed by
U.S.-led forces during airstrikes or raids.
The report described Iraq in more dire terms than last month’s
congressional testimony from top U.S. military and embassy officials,
which stressed improvements in the security situation.
"The killings are still taking place, the torture is still being
reported, the due process issues are still unresolved," said Ivana
Vuco, a U.N. human rights officer in Baghdad.
The first draft of the U.N. report was completed in August, but release
of the final version was delayed for more than a month following a
request by the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan C. Crocker, according
to a confidential account by a senior U.N. official.
Crocker insisted that Iraq be given time to respond to the allegations,
according to the account. The United States then prepared critical
assessments of the U.N. investigation that were included in the
final report.
U.N. officials in Baghdad said the report was not intended to challenge
the U.S. military’s assertion that this year’s troop escalation helped
reduce violence in much of Iraq. The reporting period ended before
the time in which the U.S. military has described the sharpest drops
in violence. The U.N. agency said it was again unable to persuade
the Iraqi government to release civilian casualty figures.
Vuco said her organization was not trying to determine whether the
situation in Iraq had improved or deteriorated. "As long as there
are human rights violations, there are still concerns," she said.
Among the most serious issues raised in the report is the treatment
of detainees. The U.N. agency found that as of June, 44,325 detainees
were in Iraqi or U.S. custody, an increase of nearly 4,000 people
since April. Many of them, it said, remained in detention for months
without having their cases reviewed or with limited access to legal
counsel. The report also expressed concerns about overcrowding and
poor hygiene in detention centers, particularly pretrial holding
cells run by the Interior Ministry in Baghdad. The agency said it
"remained gravely concerned at continuing reports of the widespread
and routine torture or ill-treatment of detainees."…
An Interior Ministry spokesman, Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, said
the ministry "totally rejects this report." Khalaf said politicians,
journalists and human rights workers have visited ministry facilities,
and "they didn’t witness any kind of abuse."
The UN was intimidated into delaying the release of the report,
but facts are facts.
And it is not only US soldiers who are doing the damage. These
private mercenaries–who everyone thinks are lining W’s pockets,
are more vile than any other group ever.
The article "Blackwater Guards Fired at Fleeing
Cars, Soldiers SayFirst U.S. Troops on Scene Found No
Evidence of Shooting by Iraqis; Incident Called ‘Criminal’" at
ticle/2007/10/11/AR2007101101030.html
states "Blackwater USA guards shot at Iraqi civilians as they tried
to drive away from a Baghdad square on Sept. 16, according to a
report compiled by the first U.S. soldiers to arrive at the scene,
where they found no evidence that Iraqis had fired weapons.
"It appeared to me they were fleeing the scene when they were
engaged. It had every indication of an excessive shooting," said Lt.
Col. Mike Tarsa, whose soldiers reached Nisoor Square 20 to 25 minutes
after the gunfire subsided.
His soldiers’ report — based upon their observations at the scene,
eyewitness interviews and discussions with Iraqi police — concluded
that there was "no enemy activity involved" and described the shootings
as a "criminal event."
Their conclusions mirrored those reached by the Iraqi government,
which has said the Blackwater guards killed 17 people."
It is all falling apart–just as experts predicted years ago, but W
still wants our apathetic populace to cower in awe at his might. That
is what the "Daddy Party" does!
Authors Bio: Winston is an ex-Social Worker, burnt out by too much
indifference regading our weak and weary who had too little interest
in politics until the illegal Iraq War started.