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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: JakeStraw who wrote (9199)4/9/2004 11:17:03 AM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
"We have to destroy (Iraq) to save it". These folks took the brunt of the last stupid Bush war, then they suffered under Saddam, worse suffering has come under American occupation. No need to worry about Bremer though. He has special security forces guarding him:

"Mike Ruppert was spot-on, in yesterday's account (From the
Wilderness) of the actual nature of the Blackwater Corporation's
activities in Iraq. This article from the NY Times sheds much more
light on it - the fact that Bremer's personal security guard is ALL
Blackwater employees, not the military, that they have their own
fleet of military (presumably armed and armored) helicopters, and
that they are fighting alongside Marines and other US military.
Guns for hire - dealing death for profit. What are the rules of
engagement for a Blackwater employee? What happens if a Blackwater
employee kills Iraqi civilians and the relatives pursue a $100M
wrongful-death lawsuit? Mind-boggling.

Clearly there's been a sea change in the role of non-military
private armed forces contracted to the US military, and it's slipped
under our noses with no one noticing. Now, at least, the Fallujah
incident has brought it to the attention of the US Congress.

Also worth noting is rising apprehension among US military about the
real loyalties of the Iraqi police and the attempted new security
and military forces being re-created in Iraq. The US realizes they
don't know who they can trust. Where do real loyalties lie? More
and more, despite efforts to avoid that characterization, it feels
like an urban Vietnam. "We had to destroy it to save it". That's a
quote, folks.

Note also (see other NY Times articles) that there seems to be one
thing that's finally brought Sunni and Shiite together: cooperating
in armed resistance to US occupation. Nothing else the occupiers
have tried has been so successful at bridging their ethnic and
religious differences. "Unintended consequences".

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