Iraq Combat Missions Over...?

[Shawn B]

White House Plans Another Fake End to Iraq War
Won't Comment on Rumors of Bush Participation
by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2010

Less than two weeks ago Americans were glued to their TVs for footage of the "last brigade" of US soldiers withdrawing from Iraq. With embedded MSNBC journalists and in-studio officials trumpeting a military victory, an America exultant in having finally "won" the war, it was extremely successful, and that 50,000 US troops are still there and hundreds of Iraqis have died since the announcement was really only a minor hiccup.

It was so successful, in fact, that the Obama Administration has decided to do it again, which is one of the advantages fake endings of wars have over actual endings. Tuesday, when the President addresses the nation, he will again be trumpeting this victory, and with much fanfare.

There are even rumors that former President George W. Bush will take part in the festivities, as something of a founder-of-the-feast, having made all the fake ends to the war possible with his decision to launch the ill conceived conflict in 2003. The White House has so far been mum on whether or not Bush will have any particular role, but has assured that Obama will not say "Mission Accomplished" during his address.

President Obama is said to be planning to focus his speech on claiming credit for the illusory victory, while lauding the other ongoing war in Afghanistan. Vice President Joe Biden is in Baghdad for the commemoration there, as are 50,000 US troops that officials are desperately trying to label something other than "combat" troops.



and this:


http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=12328&title=-neocons-controlling-the-show


and this from Ron Paul:


Writes Ron:

The President's announcement that all U.S. combat troops have left Iraq is no more believable than the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration was in 2003. Once again, we are being told the mission has been accomplished and our brave men and women are coming back home. Though the people are hopeful they remain skeptical, and rightfully so.

The biggest problem is that success in Iraq is undefinable since the mission was never defined. The reasons given for the invasion were based on misinformation. Now, the war has cost us hundreds of billions of dollars and this has contributed significantly to our economic woes.

Forty-four hundred Americans are dead, thirty thousand severely wounded, and more than a hundred thousand are suffering from serious health problems related to Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. This alone should tell us that it was not worth the investment and the needless sacrifice of our young people and the taxpayers.


It is deceitful to imply we will avoid hostilities with this new policy. We still have to contend with:
–the 50,000 troops carrying weapons remain in Iraq
–the 100,000 contractors that remain, with more expected to go to Iraq
–the 9,000 special ops personnel trained in assassinations that remain in Iraq
–a huge embassy, bigger than the Vatican, that will remain
–dozens of military bases that will stay
–the al Qaeda organizations that did not exist in Iraq before the war
–Muqtada al Sadr, a strong nationalist, has gained much political power
–the fact that Iran benefits tremendously with the Shiites now in power in Iraq and is a close ally of al Sadr

Osama bin Laden wins by 'proving' that America has an agenda of occupation in the Middle East. And, we continue to walk into his trap and hand him up his best recruitment tool in his efforts to incite hatred and terrorism against the United States.

What's worse, President Obama made it clear last night that the troops and resources leaving Iraq will not come home to defend our country or ease our economic woes. They will instead be diverted to Afghanistan, perhaps also Pakistan and, I fear, even Iran.

From my viewpoint we are the losers in this fool's errand of endless war. Tragically, this new policy is not one of peace but merely a charade that will severely undermine our national security and continue us down the path to bankruptcy—a threat that we best not long ignore.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/64733.html

[glenn kangiser]

You got it, Shawn B... war for fun and profit....

I just read this on the Russian site.....   the Ron Paul part

http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/233030

The thing about ol' Ron is that you can only half trust him - he got this right except the continuing fake Bin Laden scare..... He's long dead - all we get to see are poor fake tapes commissioned by our government to keep the stories by the corpse alive... saying things our government would like the dead Osama to say to keep the sheeple scared and motivated to go along with whatever the military industrial complex wants.

Bhutto was killed for confirming his death as I recall.  http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/15-01-2008/103426-benazir_bhutto_osama-0

[325ABN]

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