With Iraqis still reeling from yesterday’s attacks which left 154 dead and over 600 wounded, the deadliest day in quite some time in the nation, US officials are finally admitting that the August “drawdown” is being reconsidered.
Initially Obama Administration officials had promised to have all combat troops out of Iraq by August of this year, leaving some 50,000 troops in the nation indefinitely afterwards. Even this pledge, a far cry from his campaign promise to have all the troops out by May, is looking increasingly unlikely.
With the March 7 election predictably ending in indecision and rising tensions, the US hasn’t even started removing its nearly 100,000 troops in earnest yet, and with just months left to meet that deadline they are admitting that it might not begin until “June at the earliest.”
When US officials were selling Iraq’s election as a “stabilizing” influence the hope was that the drawdown would seriously begin just weeks after the vote. Now that the election seems to have made matters dramatically worse, not only the August deadline but the 2011 deadline must be considered in question.
I didn't see any mention of what the Iraqi viewpoints were regarding a prolonged occupation. So obviously they do not count as entitled to having opinions. And from that one can easily infer, that the population will be steadfastly growing in their opposition to the occupation, presuming they develop as a little psychologically sane and normal people. In normal societies one finds most 2 percent having pehophilic disturbances. Here we are supposed to build up a majority to become social pedophilians (Iraqi "leaders") or willing victims (US-democratic sheeple) all under the baton of the big master-pedophile subduing the victims, and rewarding his trusted vasals. Subdued by their own guilt and own compliance, rewarded with lofty speeches and occassional bribes.
Well, well…. All that hoopla about the elections being so important and the foot dragging when it came to the Iraqis and their seeking the US to get the hell out on schedule. Seems Uncle Sam does what he likes whenever the hell he likes and cooks up any excuse to fit whatever time table he imagines.
We will only leave Iraq when we are forced out like the humiliating chronicles that came out of Saigon.
These guys in Washington never know when they are well off or when to quit. Slowly but surely they are convincing the Russians and to a lesser extent the Chinese. that they will have to attack the US/NATO before they attack them as the US/NATO expansion is positioning weapons, bases and troops all around them. It will be an old story. When the US feels its players are all in position, it will issue an ultimatum much as it did in Yugoslavia/Kosovo and Iraq. If Russia and its allies will not capitulate, it will begin the attack, banking on it's missile defense system all around them to thwart any retaliation while brandishing the threat of the nuclear sword.
The Russians are not stupid and they see this coming much in the same way they saw Hitler preparing to invade them after signing a nonaggression treaty with Stalin. They see themselves being encircled by permanent bases and missile defense systems that can be used for offensive purposes.
The last time this happened the Russians were not militarily prepared for Blitzkrieg. This time I fear they will not wait to be attacked.
Good post.
The Neo-Cons both here and in Israel that have control of our foreign, as well as the rest of our government are megalomaniacs and will not stop until they have embroiled the entire world in either WW III or have enslaved it for the New World Order that Clinton, Bush and now Obama have drooled for.
Surprise, surprise, surprise, to quote Jim Nabors from his Gomer Pyle role.Shocking, just shocking I tell you. I certainly didn't see this coming.
Everyone here could see this coming, and you can bet the farm the neocon elites running our government did ,too. They stalled possible unrest at home by using the mainstream media to ensure Americans we would be leaving as soon as the elections produced a functioning government in Iraq, knowing all the while this would not happen. They plan on being there permanently, and ignorant Americans will easily be persuaded by the next media blitz on how important it is for us to stay and finish the job. Then when that doesn't happen, well, you see, it's just an endless loop.
Cui bono? Who benefits from all this Iraq violence?
Why, the two countries who want U.S. troops to stay there indefinitely.
And we all know who they are, dont we?
America has absolutely no intention at all of ever leaving Iraq. The "combat troops" exit is a smoke and mirrors bit of nonsense. You think the remaining 50,000 troops won't be armed or will be unprotected? Lets reverse the situation and allow for differences of scale. How would Americans like, oh say, 500,000 Iraqi troops in their country? Almost none of them speaking English, understanding Christianity or American cultural mores and traditions?
well well.