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“Mission Accomplished” “Operation Iraqi Freedom” is W “has destabilized the Middle East”.
Current GOP insiders, his Pop’s cronies, impartial experts—all see this for what is, was, and always will be, a failure from the start, with one objective, gaining GOP advantage.
And the CounterPunch March 14, 2003 article “GOP Memo: New Product Ready to Launch--The Roll Out for the War on Saddam” states "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August."
White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card in 2003, explaining why "Project Stampede America Into Iraq War II" was introduced in September.
MEMO FROM: KARL ROVE
TO: ALL CONCERNED (EYES ONLY, BURN BAG)
RE: NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH
First of all, GREAT JOB, PEOPLE! Our dynamic Iraq War Product is just about ready to go! Think of what we've achieved in less than a year! We've managed to:
*Demonize Democrats as "objectively pro-Saddam, terrorist-loving traitors" when they've dared oppose us!
*Take America's Mind Off the Crappy Economy!
*Find A Great Reason To Stop Mentioning Bin Laden!
*Rally Our Wingnut Base!
*Keep Our Defense Contractor Campaign Contributors In Ecstasy!
*Trash NATO, AND the UN!”
For W, and his brain, Rove it is just another chapter in his “Mission Accomplished” “Arabian Nights” fantasy/nightmare. The only people who have previously believed his lies, “thickly painted over with unending coats of misinformation” have to believe that two sets of Iraqis, the Shia and the Kurds, who have been persecuted by Sunni Baathists, will not attempt to re-pay every atrocity committed against them. Why wouldn’t they with revenge against the Sunnis? And they are getting their revenge in the draft they agreed upon, without Sunni participation by the way. What the draft of the constitution does is put the Sunnis into a spiral of death and destruction, with no resources or source of income. The former ruling party members will have no alternative other than to attack innocent Iraqis and our dear US boys and girls, soldiers in a war they can’t win.
“We should start figuring out how we get out of there,” Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I think our involvement there has destabilized the Middle East. And the longer we stay there, I think the further destabilization will occur.”
Is it improving for the Middle East, Iraqis or our soldiers?
Hagel said that it was the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq that was causing the destabilization, and that the administration needed to start articulating its long-range plans for withdrawal immediately or risk having Iraq become as politically costly as the Vietnam War.
“We are locked into a bogged-down problem not unsimilar or dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam. The longer we stay, the more problems we are going to have,” Hagel said. He was particularly harsh in his criticism of Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, for saying in an Associated Press interview a day earlier that the Pentagon was making contingency plans for having more than 100,000 U.S. troops in Iraq through 2009.
Such plans, even if they are a worst-case and unlikely scenario, are “complete folly,” Hagel said. “There’s no way America is going to have 100,000 troops in Iraq, nor should it, in four years.”
Recent Iraq history predicted that the Shia and Kurds would exact revenge against the Sunnis!
The Iraq no-fly zone started just fourteen years ago. Saddam’s Sunni Baath Party members were massacring the other Iraqis. A representative article “No-Fly Zones - Iraq - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council” states “In April 1991, Security Council Resolution 688, the US, UK and France began to patrol the skies over northern Iraq, excluding Iraqi aircraft from this zone. The same powers started to enforce a second “no fly” zone in southern Iraq a few months later.
Announced as a means to protect Iraqi Kurds (in the north) and Iraq’s Shi’a population (in the south).”
Even leaders of his Pop’s war against Hussein, W’s cronies, each one of them, earlier knew this had to become a disaster!
Norman Schwarzkopf, Bush 41’s general who commanded U.S. forces in the 1991 Gulf War, is still involved with the Bushes, and the PNAC crew. A January 28th, 2003 article “Desert Caution” states “he (Schwarzkopf) hasn't seen enough evidence to convince him that his old comrades Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Paul Wolfowitz are correct in moving toward a new war now.”
He also stated, regarding the task the U.S. military might face after a victory "What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind. It really should be part of the overall campaign plan."
Was this predictable? Of course said Rami Khouri, a U.S.-educated Arab analyst and editor of Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper wrote “The theme in this region is the reality of a foreign military power that comes in with great determination and overwhelming force, defeats people, subjugates a nation and then gets completely lost in the local maelstrom of interests and the irresistible force of indigenous identity—religious, ethnic, sectarian, national. People act in a maniacal way when they assert these identities, which includes nurturing and protecting them.
Every single foreign power that has been in this region since Alexander the Great—through the Romans, Greeks, Ottomans, British, French and now Americans has learned the same lesson,” Khouri said.
Watch out for “reverse domino theory.”
Lewis M. Simons, an ex-Marine who covered the Vietnam war for the Associated Press and the Post, says that he had an ‘eerily reminiscent experience’ when he visited Iraq recently to write a piece for National Geographic.
In an attempt to understand the concept of winning the war in Iraq, Mr.
Simons asks “What would ‘winning’ in Iraq mean, anyway? A democratic society that’s free to elect an anti-American, pro-Iranian, fundamentalist Islamic government? A land of gushing oil wells feeding international oil company profits at US taxpayers’ expense? Shias, Kurds and Sunnis joining hands to end terrorism around the world?”
Like Vietnam, says Mr. Simons, the Americans do not understand Iraq. “The truth — that Iraq was not a terrorist haven before we invaded, but we’re making it into one today — has been thickly painted over with unending coats of misinformation.”
He warns that what American failed to understand in Vietnam – ‘that people who want foreign occupiers out of their country are willing and prepared to withstand any kind of privation and risk for however long it takes – are failing, once again, to grasp in Iraq’.
Arguing that there’s no ‘good way’ to quit Iraq, he says that if
America stays, the ‘insurgency’ continues. If it leaves, the insurgency will most likely expand into an all-out civil war, the fragmenting of Iraq and the intervention of Iran, Turkey and Syria, followed by the collapse of promised democracy in the Middle East: a kind of reverse domino theory.”
The article “Iraqis Finish Draft Charter That Sunnis Vow to Defeat” states “Sunni Arabs, whose community is the seat of the insurgency, are opposed to the constitution and have vowed to undermine it in a referendum by October.”
Doesn’t that sound great? No, but this does “The draft lays down the political system of Iraq as “republican, parliamentary, democratic and federal”, and refers to Islam as “a main source of legislation”.
The word “party” was omitted from Article 7, referring only to banning “Saddam’s Baath” instead of “Saddam’s Sunnis Baath Party” in an earlier draft.” This is an open fatwa against the Sunnis by those who they ruled earlier. Now, instead of having all of Saddam’s military might behind them, they have to resort to IEDs and acts of terrorism.
W wants it look like the US is achieving “Operation Iraqi Freedom” and you might until you realize it is only lies.
The reality is that this draft will not work!
“Ali Dabbagh, a Shiite member of the constitutional committee, expressed concern that violence could result if Sunni attempts to block the document failed. “We are ready for the referendum and we will win,” he said. If the Sunnis “feel they are outside of Iraq and want to cause problems, that is up to them.”
Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. diplomat and an adviser to the Kurds, said that if the referendum failed, the Kurds might push for full independence from Iraq.
“If this constitution is rejected, the next negotiations are going to be about the partition of the country,” he said.”
When it mattered, during the reign of the CPA, a former CPA official stated that this atrocity was a failure. Why didn’t we act on it earlier? W wanted progress, even if it was phony, in his schemes which has a sole motive—that of obtaining advantage for the GOP!
“We are on the edge of a generalized civil war in Iraq'', said Larry Diamond, a senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), who also said that occupation authorities must follow through on any crackdown against Sadr's forces by disarming and dismantling all of Iraq's militias if the transition process and future elections are to have any hope of success.
Diamond, a democracy specialist at the Hoover Institution in California, also called on the administration to sharply increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq in order to disarm and dismantle the militias, and accused Iran of financing and arming Sadr and other Shiite militias, which he says are building up arms in advance of elections or possible civil war.
“Iran is embarked on a concerned, clever and lavishly resourced campaign to defeat any effort to create a genuine pluralist democracy in Iraq, and we've been sitting back”, he said in what has become a growing refrain among neo-conservatives and administration officials who blame Tehran for the coalition's growing problems among the Shiites.
“I think we should tell the Iranian regime that if they don't cease and desist, we will play the same game -- we will destabilize them.”
This is a complete failure geared to promoting civil war in Iraq. The end result is the same.--Iraqis being protected from murdering one another—so what is the difference between partitions of the country and no-fly zones?
Why then did all the death occur to create another “an anti-American, pro-Iranian, fundamentalist Islamic government” which as the New York Times reported on Wednesday “Secular Iraqi leaders complained that the country’s nearly finished constitution lays the groundwork for the possible domination of the country by Shiite Islamic clerics, and that it contains specific provisions that could sharply curtail the rights of women.”
Regarding this farce of a draft, W can only lie stating it “contains far-reaching protections for fundamental human freedoms including religion, assembly, conscience and expression”.
Those are all lies. If you are not a fundamentalist Islamic male in Iraq you are not going to be treated equally. The Shia and Kurds will have all of the oil and money and will have good militias to retaliate against the Sunni insurgents, who without any natural resources, will only have one recourse, that of becoming a teaching area for jihadists. That is how you want to build “Operation Iraqi Freedom”?
And W asserted, as democracy unfolds in Iraq "not only will it help make America more secure, but it will affect the broader Middle East. Democracies don't war with their neighbors; democracies don't become safe haven for terrorists who want to destroy innocent life."
"We have hard work ahead of us, but … we're making good progress toward making sure this world of ours is more peaceful for generations to come," he said.
He is destabilizing the region, and his advisors warned him of this before W started this war. Everyone knows that it was premeditatedly timed for one purpose by Rove, to get the GOP votes in 2002 mid-term election.
Winston smith
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