I guess we pay them $800,000 per day to not attack US soldiers so we can claim "the surge is working"
---------------http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19384.htm
It is impossible to keep up with all the Bush regime’s lies. There are simply too many. Among the recent crop, one of the biggest is that the “surge” is working.
Launched last year, the "surge" was the extra 20,000-30,000 U.S. troops sent to Iraq. These few extra troops, Americans were told, would finally supply the necessary forces to pacify Iraq.
This claim never made any sense. The extra troops didn't raise the total number of U.S. soldiers to more than one-third the number every expert has said is necessary in order to successfully occupy Iraq.
The real purpose of the "surge" was to hide another deception. The Bush regime is paying Sunni insurgents $800,000 a day not to attack U.S. forces. That's right, 80,000 members of an "Awakening group," the "Sons of Iraq," a newly formed "U.S.-allied security force" consisting of Sunni insurgents, are being paid $10 a day each not to attack U.S. troops. Allegedly, the Sons of Iraq are now at work fighting al-Qaeda.
This is a much cheaper way to fight a war. We can only wonder why Bush didn't figure it out sooner.
The "surge" was also timed to take account of the near completion of neighborhood cleansing. Most of the violence in Iraq during the past five years has resulted from Sunnis and Shi'ites driving each other out of mixed neighborhoods. Had the two groups been capable of uniting against the U.S. troops, the U.S. would have been driven out of Iraq long ago. Instead, the Iraqis slaughtered each other and fought the Americans in their spare time.
In other words, the "surge" has had nothing to do with any decline in violence.
With the Sunni insurgents now on Uncle Sam's payroll, with neighborhoods segregated, and with Sadr's militia standing down, it is unclear who is still responsible for ongoing violence other than U.S. troops themselves. Somebody must still be fighting, however, because the U.S. is still conducting air strikes and is still unable to tell friend from foe.
On Feb. 16, the Los Angeles Times reported that a U.S. air strike managed to kill nine Iraqi civilians and three Sons of Iraq.
The Sunnis are abandoning their posts in protest, demanding an end to "errant" U.S. air strikes. Obviously, the Sunnis see an opportunity to increase their daily pay for not attacking Americans. Soon they will have consultants advising them how much they can demand in bribes before it pays the Americans to begin fighting the war under the old terms. If Sunnis are smart, they will split the gains. Currently, the Sunnis are getting shafted. They are only collecting $800,000 of the $275,000,000 it costs the U.S. to fight the war for one day. That's only about three-tenths of one percent, too much of a one-sided deal for the Americans.
If the Sunnis negotiate their cut to between one-quarter and one-half of the daily cost to the U.S. of the war, the Sunnis won’t need to share in the oil revenues, thus helping the three factions to get back together as a country. Even 20 percent of the daily cost of the war would be a good deal for the Sunnis. A long-term contract in this range would be expensive for Uncle Sam, but a great deal cheaper than John McCain’s commitment to a 100-year Iraqi war.
If Bush's war turns out to be as big a boon for the Sunnis as it has for Tony Blair, we might have a modern-day version of The Mouse That Roared – a movie about an impoverished country that attacked the U.S. in order to be defeated and receive foreign aid – only this time the money comes as a payoff for not fighting the occupiers.
As the world now knows, Blair's "dodgy dossier" about the threat allegedly posed by Iraq was a contrivance that allowed Blair to put British troops at the service of Bush's aggression in the Middle East. Now that Blair is out of his prime minister job, he has been rewarded with millions of dollars in sinecures from financial firms such as JP Morgan and millions more in speaking engagements. As part of the payoff, the Bush Republicans have even put Mrs. Blair on the lucrative lecture circuit.
Ask yourself, do you really think Blair knows enough high finance to be of any value as an adviser to JP Morgan, or enough about climate change to advise Zurich Financial on the subject? Do you really believe that after hearing all the vacuous speeches Blair has delivered in those many years in office anyone now wants to pay him huge fees to hear him give a speech? Even when it was free, people were sick of it.
Blair is simply collecting his payoff for selling out his country and sending British troops to die for American hegemony.
The Sunnis seem inclined to do the same thing if Bush will pay them enough.
Is the next phase of the Iraq war going to be a U.S.-Sunni alliance against the Shi'ites?
----------------------------
but don't worry, we won't run out of wars anytime soon.......
Reports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that the United States President Bush and his Israeli counterpart Prime Minister Olmert [both pictured top left], are preparing for the ‘immanent’ outbreak of Total World War by the launching of invasions in both Syria and Lebanon in order to topple their governments and seize control of their vital oil pipelines.
Most extraordinary, however, about these reports, according to their FSB Middle East sources, is that this new warning was issued to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during his historic visit to Iraq, by the United States Top Military Commander, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen [pictured 2nd left], who made an ‘unannounced’ emergency trip to Baghdad to meet the Iranian leader.
Coinciding with these new warnings of World War was the United States abrupt order to the Germans this past week to remove their Naval Forces from off the coast of Lebanon, and where they had been stationed in a peacekeeping role after the Second Israeli-Lebanon War.
Germany complied with the US order to remove its ships and handed over control of its naval mission off the Lebanon coast to the European Command that includes Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, all of which were thwarted in their missions, however, by the United States, and as we can read as reported by the AntiWar News Service:
"The USS Cole isn't engaged in a sightseeing tour of the Eastern Mediterranean: its sudden deployment just "over the horizon" near Lebanon – in tandem with two other warships – is a clear sign that the Americans are preparing for something big.
That's what the Arab world seems to believe, anyway, if you listen to al-Jazeera and the chatter coming from other Arab news outlets. The Saudis, the Kuwaitis, and the government of Bahrain have all warned their citizens to get out of Lebanon, pronto.
What's curious, however, is that, while it's big news in the Arab world, this "visit" by a guided-missile destroyer and accompanying flotilla has received scant attention in the U.S. news media."
Russian Military Analysts point out in these reports that neither Israel, nor its US ally, wanted a European presence prior to the expanding of their Middle East War as German Naval Forces had reported that they had been fired upon by Israeli Fighter Jets, and which Israel’s Prime Minister had previously ‘apologized’ to Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel for.
AFP News Services further reports that "Hezbollah slammed Washington's dispatch of the USS Cole to waters off Lebanon as military interference, as the Western-backed government said it did not ask for the warship to be sent.", while China’s National News Service is reporting, "Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem on Saturday accused the United States of worsening the political crisis in Lebanon by sending a warship off the Lebanese coast."
Most horrifying, though, of the contents of these reports are the detailing of the extreme damage being done to the United States by the total collapse of its dollar, and which Iran has now joined Russia, Venezuela and Kuwait as oil producing Nations that are no longer accepting US dollar payments, and as we can read as reported by Iran’s Press TV News Service:
"Deputy head of the National Iranian Oil Company for international affairs says Iran has completely dropped dollar in its oil sales. “We issue invoices in dollars and agree with clients that the letters of credit and other means of payment will have a non-dollar basis,” he said.
In an interview with The Financial Times, Hojjatollah Ghanimifard said that over the past three months, Iran has received 75 percent of the proceeds from its oil sales in euros and the remaining 25 percent in the Japanese currency, yen."
Not being understood by the American people, and done so deliberately by their propaganda media organs, are that the record high prices being reported for gold, silver, oil, wheat, dairy products, and virtually all other vital commodities, are only in relation to the US dollar as it continues it plunge into they abyss of other such like failed currencies, and which, according to the International Herald Tribune, no rescue is foreseen:
"Currencies will be in full focus on financial markets this week, following the dollar's drubbing of recent days, yet anyone hoping for help from policy makers to shore up the ailing U.S. currency is likely to be disappointed.
Crucial meetings of European Union finance ministers and those who set interest rates for the European Central Bank are expected to do little to shift the status quo, while the U.S. Federal Reserve Board appears set on cutting rates again this month. "I don't see a major change in trend," said Lex Hoogduin, chief economist at Robeco, an asset management firm in the Netherlands."
The vital necessity of the United States, Israel, and their Western Allies, in the destruction of both Lebanon and Syria, amidst the collapse of the US dollar, lies in their strategic decision to abandon their Persian Gulf oil sources for those of the Caspian Sea basin, and as we can read:
"The bombing of Lebanon is part of a carefully planned and coordinated military road map. The extension of the war into Syria and Iran has already been contemplated by US and Israeli military planners. This broader military agenda is intimately related to strategic oil and oil pipelines. It is supported by the Western oil giants which control the pipeline corridors. In the context of the war on Lebanon, it seeks Israeli territorial control over the East Mediterranean coastline.
In this context, the BTC pipeline dominated by British Petroleum, has dramatically changed the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean, which is now linked , through an energy corridor, to the Caspian sea basin: "[The BTC pipeline] considerably changes the status of the region's countries and cements a new pro-West alliance. Having taken the pipeline to the Mediterranean, Washington has practically set up a new bloc with Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Israel,”
Israel is now part of the Anglo-American military axis, which serves the interests of the Western oil giants in the Middle East and Central Asia."
It is interesting to note, too, that the Western Nations are also planning for their failure to control the Middle East by their continued destruction of the former nation of Yugoslavia into small nation-states controlled by their puppet governments, like Kosovo, friendly to the US and EU, and which allows the West a further access to Caspian Sea oil through the Balkans to the Adriatic Sea.
Also to be noted are the vast oil pipelines being constructed in Afghanistan as a further conduit of Caspian Sea oil to the Western Powers.
In their quest to control the oil resources of the World through war and conquest, the American people have spent, so far, over $3 Trillion, while at the same time having lost over $2 Trillion in the value of their homes, and in a Nation where 1 out of every 99 US Citizens are imprisoned, one cannot fail to see that these once great people are, indeed, doomed to become nothing more than slaves to their brutal war making leaders.
May God have mercy on them.
---------------http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19384.htm
It is impossible to keep up with all the Bush regime’s lies. There are simply too many. Among the recent crop, one of the biggest is that the “surge” is working.
Launched last year, the "surge" was the extra 20,000-30,000 U.S. troops sent to Iraq. These few extra troops, Americans were told, would finally supply the necessary forces to pacify Iraq.
This claim never made any sense. The extra troops didn't raise the total number of U.S. soldiers to more than one-third the number every expert has said is necessary in order to successfully occupy Iraq.
The real purpose of the "surge" was to hide another deception. The Bush regime is paying Sunni insurgents $800,000 a day not to attack U.S. forces. That's right, 80,000 members of an "Awakening group," the "Sons of Iraq," a newly formed "U.S.-allied security force" consisting of Sunni insurgents, are being paid $10 a day each not to attack U.S. troops. Allegedly, the Sons of Iraq are now at work fighting al-Qaeda.
This is a much cheaper way to fight a war. We can only wonder why Bush didn't figure it out sooner.
The "surge" was also timed to take account of the near completion of neighborhood cleansing. Most of the violence in Iraq during the past five years has resulted from Sunnis and Shi'ites driving each other out of mixed neighborhoods. Had the two groups been capable of uniting against the U.S. troops, the U.S. would have been driven out of Iraq long ago. Instead, the Iraqis slaughtered each other and fought the Americans in their spare time.
In other words, the "surge" has had nothing to do with any decline in violence.
With the Sunni insurgents now on Uncle Sam's payroll, with neighborhoods segregated, and with Sadr's militia standing down, it is unclear who is still responsible for ongoing violence other than U.S. troops themselves. Somebody must still be fighting, however, because the U.S. is still conducting air strikes and is still unable to tell friend from foe.
On Feb. 16, the Los Angeles Times reported that a U.S. air strike managed to kill nine Iraqi civilians and three Sons of Iraq.
The Sunnis are abandoning their posts in protest, demanding an end to "errant" U.S. air strikes. Obviously, the Sunnis see an opportunity to increase their daily pay for not attacking Americans. Soon they will have consultants advising them how much they can demand in bribes before it pays the Americans to begin fighting the war under the old terms. If Sunnis are smart, they will split the gains. Currently, the Sunnis are getting shafted. They are only collecting $800,000 of the $275,000,000 it costs the U.S. to fight the war for one day. That's only about three-tenths of one percent, too much of a one-sided deal for the Americans.
If the Sunnis negotiate their cut to between one-quarter and one-half of the daily cost to the U.S. of the war, the Sunnis won’t need to share in the oil revenues, thus helping the three factions to get back together as a country. Even 20 percent of the daily cost of the war would be a good deal for the Sunnis. A long-term contract in this range would be expensive for Uncle Sam, but a great deal cheaper than John McCain’s commitment to a 100-year Iraqi war.
If Bush's war turns out to be as big a boon for the Sunnis as it has for Tony Blair, we might have a modern-day version of The Mouse That Roared – a movie about an impoverished country that attacked the U.S. in order to be defeated and receive foreign aid – only this time the money comes as a payoff for not fighting the occupiers.
As the world now knows, Blair's "dodgy dossier" about the threat allegedly posed by Iraq was a contrivance that allowed Blair to put British troops at the service of Bush's aggression in the Middle East. Now that Blair is out of his prime minister job, he has been rewarded with millions of dollars in sinecures from financial firms such as JP Morgan and millions more in speaking engagements. As part of the payoff, the Bush Republicans have even put Mrs. Blair on the lucrative lecture circuit.
Ask yourself, do you really think Blair knows enough high finance to be of any value as an adviser to JP Morgan, or enough about climate change to advise Zurich Financial on the subject? Do you really believe that after hearing all the vacuous speeches Blair has delivered in those many years in office anyone now wants to pay him huge fees to hear him give a speech? Even when it was free, people were sick of it.
Blair is simply collecting his payoff for selling out his country and sending British troops to die for American hegemony.
The Sunnis seem inclined to do the same thing if Bush will pay them enough.
Is the next phase of the Iraq war going to be a U.S.-Sunni alliance against the Shi'ites?
----------------------------
but don't worry, we won't run out of wars anytime soon.......
Reports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that the United States President Bush and his Israeli counterpart Prime Minister Olmert [both pictured top left], are preparing for the ‘immanent’ outbreak of Total World War by the launching of invasions in both Syria and Lebanon in order to topple their governments and seize control of their vital oil pipelines.
Most extraordinary, however, about these reports, according to their FSB Middle East sources, is that this new warning was issued to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during his historic visit to Iraq, by the United States Top Military Commander, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen [pictured 2nd left], who made an ‘unannounced’ emergency trip to Baghdad to meet the Iranian leader.
Coinciding with these new warnings of World War was the United States abrupt order to the Germans this past week to remove their Naval Forces from off the coast of Lebanon, and where they had been stationed in a peacekeeping role after the Second Israeli-Lebanon War.
Germany complied with the US order to remove its ships and handed over control of its naval mission off the Lebanon coast to the European Command that includes Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, all of which were thwarted in their missions, however, by the United States, and as we can read as reported by the AntiWar News Service:
"The USS Cole isn't engaged in a sightseeing tour of the Eastern Mediterranean: its sudden deployment just "over the horizon" near Lebanon – in tandem with two other warships – is a clear sign that the Americans are preparing for something big.
That's what the Arab world seems to believe, anyway, if you listen to al-Jazeera and the chatter coming from other Arab news outlets. The Saudis, the Kuwaitis, and the government of Bahrain have all warned their citizens to get out of Lebanon, pronto.
What's curious, however, is that, while it's big news in the Arab world, this "visit" by a guided-missile destroyer and accompanying flotilla has received scant attention in the U.S. news media."
Russian Military Analysts point out in these reports that neither Israel, nor its US ally, wanted a European presence prior to the expanding of their Middle East War as German Naval Forces had reported that they had been fired upon by Israeli Fighter Jets, and which Israel’s Prime Minister had previously ‘apologized’ to Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel for.
AFP News Services further reports that "Hezbollah slammed Washington's dispatch of the USS Cole to waters off Lebanon as military interference, as the Western-backed government said it did not ask for the warship to be sent.", while China’s National News Service is reporting, "Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem on Saturday accused the United States of worsening the political crisis in Lebanon by sending a warship off the Lebanese coast."
Most horrifying, though, of the contents of these reports are the detailing of the extreme damage being done to the United States by the total collapse of its dollar, and which Iran has now joined Russia, Venezuela and Kuwait as oil producing Nations that are no longer accepting US dollar payments, and as we can read as reported by Iran’s Press TV News Service:
"Deputy head of the National Iranian Oil Company for international affairs says Iran has completely dropped dollar in its oil sales. “We issue invoices in dollars and agree with clients that the letters of credit and other means of payment will have a non-dollar basis,” he said.
In an interview with The Financial Times, Hojjatollah Ghanimifard said that over the past three months, Iran has received 75 percent of the proceeds from its oil sales in euros and the remaining 25 percent in the Japanese currency, yen."
Not being understood by the American people, and done so deliberately by their propaganda media organs, are that the record high prices being reported for gold, silver, oil, wheat, dairy products, and virtually all other vital commodities, are only in relation to the US dollar as it continues it plunge into they abyss of other such like failed currencies, and which, according to the International Herald Tribune, no rescue is foreseen:
"Currencies will be in full focus on financial markets this week, following the dollar's drubbing of recent days, yet anyone hoping for help from policy makers to shore up the ailing U.S. currency is likely to be disappointed.
Crucial meetings of European Union finance ministers and those who set interest rates for the European Central Bank are expected to do little to shift the status quo, while the U.S. Federal Reserve Board appears set on cutting rates again this month. "I don't see a major change in trend," said Lex Hoogduin, chief economist at Robeco, an asset management firm in the Netherlands."
The vital necessity of the United States, Israel, and their Western Allies, in the destruction of both Lebanon and Syria, amidst the collapse of the US dollar, lies in their strategic decision to abandon their Persian Gulf oil sources for those of the Caspian Sea basin, and as we can read:
"The bombing of Lebanon is part of a carefully planned and coordinated military road map. The extension of the war into Syria and Iran has already been contemplated by US and Israeli military planners. This broader military agenda is intimately related to strategic oil and oil pipelines. It is supported by the Western oil giants which control the pipeline corridors. In the context of the war on Lebanon, it seeks Israeli territorial control over the East Mediterranean coastline.
In this context, the BTC pipeline dominated by British Petroleum, has dramatically changed the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean, which is now linked , through an energy corridor, to the Caspian sea basin: "[The BTC pipeline] considerably changes the status of the region's countries and cements a new pro-West alliance. Having taken the pipeline to the Mediterranean, Washington has practically set up a new bloc with Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Israel,”
Israel is now part of the Anglo-American military axis, which serves the interests of the Western oil giants in the Middle East and Central Asia."
It is interesting to note, too, that the Western Nations are also planning for their failure to control the Middle East by their continued destruction of the former nation of Yugoslavia into small nation-states controlled by their puppet governments, like Kosovo, friendly to the US and EU, and which allows the West a further access to Caspian Sea oil through the Balkans to the Adriatic Sea.
Also to be noted are the vast oil pipelines being constructed in Afghanistan as a further conduit of Caspian Sea oil to the Western Powers.
In their quest to control the oil resources of the World through war and conquest, the American people have spent, so far, over $3 Trillion, while at the same time having lost over $2 Trillion in the value of their homes, and in a Nation where 1 out of every 99 US Citizens are imprisoned, one cannot fail to see that these once great people are, indeed, doomed to become nothing more than slaves to their brutal war making leaders.
May God have mercy on them.