Last week’s raid against an ISIS prison in Iraq, which led to the first American combat death of the latest Iraq war, has left the administration struggling with repeated promises not to send ground troops into combat in Iraq, and the obvious combat nature of the mission.
While most analysts expected that the raid would simply mark the eventual shift to overt ground combat, one which has been expected at any rate, Pentagon officials have tried to present overt gunbattles with enemy troops as an “advisory” mission.
Adding to the confusion, officials are also promising more similar raids in the future, after previously trying to downplay it as a “unique” case and not indicative of a shift on the ground.
Likely part of this dispute is that the raid was approved by the Secretary of Defense, who only “informed” the White House of the fact. The White House seems to be trying to avoid going directly on the record about the matter until they see whether the public is going to buy the idea of this being something short of combat.
At least former British PM Tony Blair had the chutzpah to say he was 'sorry' that
Britain had taken part in Dubya's bogus 2003 invasion. He also 'admitted' that
ISIS and the carnage in Iraq today is the result of that phoney war.
Whether Blair is sincere is another question. However, his (apology) is better
than what I hear from that Bush klan. Stuffed-shirt flunky Jeb still rambles on
with his delusion that his punk brother Dubya did nothing wrong.
It's nice that somebody's approving these things, since, as Hollywood has indicated, satellite intel of graves being dug anywhere in the middle east is now a matter of US interest.
More likely however is the narrative that has the Kurds reacting to news of another impending execution scenario and needing a ride to the area. US special forces being the only folk in theatre with such required 'riding equipment' probably, and much like a radio shock jock and war hero in another equally as successful 'raid' in Herat Afghanistan, just wanted to 'go along for the ride'.
There's an indication that there is some significant video of this one, as there is of the Herat 'massacre'. Probably for 'professional' eyes only – only some can 'take' that kind of 'truth'..
In the beginning, Eve had no knowledge of fiction and no one had ever told her that a liar is one who speaks fiction. So, when the serpent said to Eve, “You will not surely die, for when you partake of this fruit you will be like God knowing good with evil…” Meaning, you will know how to mix good with evil by using a pretense of good to hide an intent to do evil.
For only in a lie do we find good mixed with evil, as everything else under the sun is absolute good or absolute evil and free of such criminal confusion.
For mainstream media is all owned by the corporate rich and it being a mixture of good with evil, just like in the beginning is it with the mainstream public, for they cannot believe that corporate media could ever fool them, it being excepted as the gospel truth by 99% of the people and did not Abraham Lincoln promise us,
“You can fool all of the people some of the time,
some of the people all of the time,
but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
(BBC-2004) The Power of Nightmares 1: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies. The Power of Nightmares has been praised by film critics in both Britain and the United States. Its message and content have also been the subject of various critiques and criticisms from conservatives and progressives.
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