@@ Like a roomful of Energizer bunnies, the jew-cons just keep going & going & going, marching toward conflict with Iran @@
Arash
March 26, 2006
Iraq’s Militia Problem: Go Blame Iran
By Kurt Nimmo
If you listen to PNAC conspirator [1] and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, [Pashtun criminal]
Zalmay Khalilzad [2], more “Iraqis are dying from the militia violence than from the
terrorists”. However, this time last year the CIA’s National Intelligence Council
(NIC) informed us Iraq was a training ground “for the next generation of
‘professionalized’ terrorists”, as the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post,
characterized the situation. [3]
NIC Chairman Robert L. Hutchings [4] described Iraq as “a magnet for international
terrorist activity”. Last October, in a speech billed by the White House as a major
policy address delivered at the NED (the National Endowment for Democracy [5], a
neoliberal “democratization” NGO that is not an NGO but a front supported and funded
by neocon reactionaries) Bush told us if the U.S. left Iraq the “insurgents” would
“use the vacuum created by an American retreat to gain control of a country, a base
from which to launch attacks and conduct their war against nonradical Muslim
governments”. [6]
Prior the invasion, Bush’s neocon handlers went all out to convince us that Saddam
had trained “al-Qaeda” [al-CIA-duh] terrorists and after the invasion the rationale
for invading morphed into an effort to fight terrorists there instead of here. Once
again, through Zalmay Khalilzad, the excuses for the invasion and occupation of Iraq
have changed and the violence no longer comes from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and “al-Qaeda
in Iraq” but from Shia militias.
No mention here of the fact the CIA promised to spend $3 billion over three years,
beginning in early 2004, to recruit and train “Iraqi exile groups, Kurdish and Shia
forces” and “former mukhabarat agents” [Saddam's Ba'athist secret service] to “quell
the insurgency”, according to the UK Telegraph. [7]
Obviously, so long as CIA fostered “militia groups” were “patrolling cities and towns
in many areas of Iraq” and engaging in “an increasing number of extra-judicial
killings of prominent former Ba’athists”, there was no problem for Zalmay Khalilzad
and the neocons. [8]
However, the predictable (and in fact engineered by the neocons) internecine violence
must now be portrayed as out of control and a threat to the entire “democracy”
project in Iraq—more of a threat, if we are to believe Zalmay Khalilzad, than the
“insurgency” itself. It is relatively easy to see where all of this is going.
“Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday the United States—probably Zalmay
Khalilzad—will talk to Iran about Washington’s accusations of Iranian destabilization
of Iraq, in the first public acceptance of an Iranian offer to meet”, writes Nick
Olivari for Reuters. [9]
Naturally, any “talk” with Iran is designed to fail and portray the evil mullahs as
intransigent, yet another building block pretext for an ultimate shock and awe
campaign.
Last June, “several top U.S. officials” accused “Iranian intelligence agents” of
fomenting violence in Iraq. One such “official” is Iran-Contra figure, “universal
fascist”, and neocon éminence grise Michael "P2" Ledeen, a “scholar” at the criminal
[Jewish] American Enterprise Institute (AEI). [10]
“We are drowning in information about Iranian activities in Iraq”, Ledeen told
NewsMax. “After the battles of Fallujah and Hilla, we found names of Iranian
contacts, locations of safe houses, telephone numbers, and photographs that document
Iranian activities”. [11]
According to Michael "P2" Ledeen, the United States has obsessed over the alleged
“al-Qaeda and/or al-Zarqawi” connection in Iraq and has thus missed “the full
context”, in other words the involvement of Iran and Hezbollah. [12]
It appears Zalmay Khalilzad and the Bush neocons are now taking Ledeen’s appraisal to
heart. Iran remains firmly in the crosshairs of the Straussian neocons. [13]
Earlier this month, Matt Sherman, writing for the New York Times, explained how “the
followers of the young anti-American cleric Moktada Sadr” have “gained significant
influence over police and governors in the south of the country”. [14] According to
the Voice of America (VOA), dubbed the official broadcasting service (or propaganda
organ) of the United States government, “Moqtada Sadr is linked both to terrorist
groups and to one of the leading state sponsors of terrorism, Iran”. [15]
In short, through a complaisant Sadr, the Iranian mullahs are not only calling the
shots in Iraq but also exact “significant influence over police and governors in the
south of the country”.
Get ready for a sustained propaganda campaign against Iran that will rival the one
used against Iraq and Saddam. “Like a roomful of Energizer bunnies”, writes Andrew I.
Killgore, the neocons “just keep going and going and going”, marching with
determination toward conflict with “axis of evil” Iran, the next target on the neocon
hit list. [16]
Zalmay Khalilzad is in essence announcing a new sustained propaganda campaign against
Iran as the Straussian neocons prepare to sabotage any “talks” with Iran over “how to
stabilize neighboring Iraq”, billed as “high-level meetings”, according to the
Associated Press (AP), approved by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s
supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. [17]
Of course, these “talks” will fail and fail spectacularly, as the Straussian neocons
do not intend to resolve political issues in the Middle East through negotiation
[18]. ‘’We announced that we do negotiate with the U.S. on Iraq regarding the
interests of all Iraqis and the world of Islam'’, Ahmadinejad said.
However, once again, Ahmadinejad will serve as a useful idiot and the Iranians will
be demonized as intransigent terrorists, determined to engage in suicidal attacks
against Israel and U.S. proxies in Iraq—and according to Michael "P2" Ledeen, the
United Stagtes proper. In the meantime, no deviations from the Straussian neocon
script for total war in the Islamic and Arab Middle East will be tolerated. [19]
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=302
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[1] Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm
[2] Zalmay Khalilzad
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1249
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Zalmay_Khalilzad
[3] Iraq New Terror Breeding Ground (January 13, 2005)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011505Z.shtml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7460-2005Jan13.html
[4] Robert L. Hutchings
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2002/12/11/news/6633.shtml
http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2005/01/14/hutchings-inside.jpg
http://webdb.princeton.edu/dbtoolbox/query.asp?qname=facultydetail&ID=hutchngs
http://www.namebase.org/xhun/Robert-L-Hutchings.html
http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020.html
[5] National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1513
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Endowment_for_Democracy
[6] Bush: Iraq crucial in war on terror (October 6, 2005)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051006-3.html
http://www.ned.org/events/past/events05.html#Oct0605
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/06/bush.transcript/
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/06/bush.iraq/
[7] CIA plans new secret police to fight Iraq terrorism (January 4, 2004)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/04/wirq04.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/04/ixnewstop.html
[8] Ex-U.S. Official Says CIA Aided Saddam's Ba'athists (April 20, 2003)
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0420-05.htm
[9] U.S. envoy urges crackdown on Iraq militias (March 25, 2006)
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6577895&cKey=1143315292000
[10] Michael "P2" Ledeen
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1261
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Ledeen
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3027ledeen_iran.html
[11] Michael "P2" Ledeen says Iran Plotting to Seize Iraq (June 2, 2005)
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/6/1/211629.shtml
[12] The Terror Masters Revisited (August 16, 2004)
http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200408160834.asp
[13] Straussian neocons: Masterminds of America’s Foreign Policy
http://www.islamonline.net/english/Views/2003/10/article03.shtml
Dr. Shadia Drury is a world renowned expert on Straussians and Neocons
http://www.uregina.ca/arts/CRC/
Leo Strauss
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leo_Strauss
http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=1210&name=Leo-Strauss
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521599369.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.larouchepub.com/spanish/images/LeoStrauss.jpg
http://www.larouchepub.com/spanish/images/LeoStrauss2.jpg
http://portland.indymedia.org/icon/2003/08/271005.jpg
[14] Iraq's militias: Many little armies, one huge problem (March 9, 2006)
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/03/08/opinion/edsherman.php
[15] Iraqi outlaw Moqtada al-Sadr (April 9, 2004)
http://www.voanews.com/uspolicy/archive/2004-04/a-2004-04-09-2-1.cfm
[16] Undeterred by Failure in Iraq, Neocons Push for U.S. Attack on Iran (November
2004)
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/November_2004/0411021.html
[17] Iran's president announces his support for talks with United States on Iraq
(March 26, 2006)
http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?no=281670&rel_no=1
[18] The Lobby
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8730
The Israel Lobby
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html
Walt-Mearsheimer study: The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (March 13, 2006)
http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011
http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011/$File/rwp_06_011_walt.pdf
[PDF -1.4MB]
[19] Israel's Grand Design: Leaders Crave Area from Egypt to Iraq
http://www.mediamonitors.net/johnhenshaw1.html
“A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s”
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/zionist_plan.html
Neo-Jacobins Push For World War IV
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts8.html