Kyros,
Re: Message 18968080
I'm precluded from responding to you on the FADG thread, so the choice was either here or via PM. Here seems appropriate.
Let's parse out you impassioned and humane plea for decency in Iraq.
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KL: "How much more STUPID can we get?"
There is no stupidity at play here on the level that Bremer, Wolfowitz, Perle, Cheney et al are playing at. They are determined to break the will and the ability of the Iraqi people to resist the rape that continues in full force. The stupidity only occurs at lower levels of the game. The marine in charge in Nassiryah is simply expressing a very human emotion and concern for the obviously genocidal result of what appears to the untrained eye to be "chaos". To those who have studied the Department of Death planning documents on Iraq, as I and others have, we simply are witnessing a continuation of policy.
KL: "In the Lehrer News hour on PBS today a couple of heart breaking stories on Iraq reconstruction."
Which is precisely why the PNAC crowd have no hearts. They're awfully inconvenient when are out to build an empire and control the planet.
See: tvnewslies.org
KL: "The marine in charge of Nassiryah was pleading for MONEY to fix things and pay the policemen and others working for free. He said for the cost of a HumVee he could fix the pumps to provide water to 100K people. But he has to go through a bunch of bureaucracy to get any resources and the office of reconstruction is evidently still asleep, as far as he is concerned."
This is intriguing. I'll have to watch this segment when it plays out here on the West Coast in a couple of hours. The News Hour has become almost exclusively a mouthpiece of the DoD since the war began. One thing we know for certain is that it is still under the control of the Office of Global Information and the Office of Special Plans. My guess would be that trotting out such a caring military man is being done by Tory Clarke and her pals in order to deflect really serious examination of the actual plan to create a summer of unbearable hell for the Iraqi people, who, if I'm correct, are about to descend to the seventh level of hell that up until now was reserved for the hapless Palestinian victims of the sadistic Sharon/IDF crime operation. Iraq, if I'm right, is scheduled by the Department of Death to become a killing field this summer and living hell for the survivors.
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KL: "Then Tom Friedman summarized the situation: the looting basically was the equivalent of us bombing and destroying all of Iraqi infrastructure -- a major unintended consequence.
LOL! That Tom, he can be such a kidder. :) No, what was unintended was how easily the Toronto Star and the BBC destroyed the illusory "Saving Private Lynch" fantasy for sophisticated and international readers. The American public, largely, are still saps for the 'official' story on Private Lynch.
It is impossible to think that the devastation of the Iraqi infrastructure is "unintended". Just look at how well the Ministry of Oil, the Interior Ministry any the oil industry infrastructure were all meticulously spared. In the Orwellian world that is being created in Iraq, the best way to control the future is to destroy the past. Thus, the museums, libraries and schools are being systematically looted and trashed. Then creating a new reality for next generation becomes much, much easier for the 'psyops' folks who are operating in theater. The evangelizing Christians who are now descending on Iraq like a plague of locusts are just a bonus. :)
KL: "Then he described how the billion of cash found in Bahgdad was whisked away to Kuwait and then Washington and put under OMB rules, probably never to be seen by the people that really need it, like the marine commander in Nassiriah, for weeks? months? ever???"
Of course not. Only for as long as it takes to launder it and get it into the off-shore accounts of Cheney & Cie.
KL: "It's heartbreaking and unless it changes quickly the worst fears of the naysayers regarding post-war Iraq will be realized. I keep hearing, give it time, but time is fast running out. The most incredible thing is that the thing to fix it, MONEY, is available is huge quantities ($5 billion, as I showed in a previous post), but being guarded jealously by the STUPIDS, who, you know, are saving it for the future of the Iraqi people -- the ones that survive the coming cholera epidemics."
Not to worry, one man's heartbreak is another man's golden business opportunity! War is good for bidness, believe me:
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Salaams, Ray |
