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This Is Not Going As Planned: Iraq Prime Minister Defies US, Accuses Saudi Arabia Of "Genocide"
Shortly after the US revealed that, in addition to aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships it was also sending a few hundred "special forces" on the ground in Iraq, contrary to what Obama had stated previously, Washington made quite clear it wants Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to embrace Sunni politicians as a condition of U.S. support to fight a lightning advance by forces from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Then something unexpected happened: Iraq's Shi'ite rulers defied Western calls on Tuesday to reach out to Sunnis to defuse the uprising in the north of the country, declaring a boycott of Iraq's main Sunni political bloc and accusing Sunni power Saudi Arabia of promoting "genocide."
In fact, as Reuters reported moments ago, the Shi'ite prime minister has moved in the opposite direction of Obama's demands, announcing a crackdown on politicians and officers he considers "traitors" and lashing out at neighbouring Sunni countries for stoking militancy.
Not only did Iraq defy the US, but it also called out America's BFF (or at least formerly so until the arrival of Iran, which the US is aggressively, and inexplicably, rushing to make its new key partner in the region) for being the real aggressor behind the scenes? How dare Maliki point out the truth - doesn't he know that those US troops in Iraq can just as easily be used to depose the current regime as "fight" the Al Qaeda Jihadists the US itself armed in the first place?
Apparently not, and instead of seeking a broad coalition with Sunnis as the US ordered, the latest target of his government's fury was Saudi Arabia, the main Sunni power in the Gulf, which funds Sunni militants in neighbouring Syria but denies it is behind ISIL.
"We hold them responsible for supporting these groups financially and morally, and for the outcome of that - which includes crimes that may qualify as genocide: the spilling of Iraqi blood, the destruction of Iraqi state institutions and historic and religious sites," the Iraqi government said of Riyadh in a statement.
As Reuters notes, Maliki has blamed Saudi Arabia for supporting militants in the past, but the severe language was unprecedented.
And just to show it won't take being exposed for the whole world to see sitting down, on Monday Riyadh blamed sectarianism in Baghdad for fueling the violence.
The rest of the story is largely known: Iraq is slowly sinking into sectarian violence which is exposing age-old rifts, and even forcing leaders to speak out of place, in the process revealing very undiplomatic truths:
ISIL fighters who aim to build a Caliphate based on mediaeval Sunni precepts across the Iraqi-Syrian frontier launched their revolt by seizing the north's main city, Mosul, last week and swept through the Tigris valley towards Baghdad. The fighters, who consider all Shi'ites to be heretics deserving death, pride themselves on their brutality and have boasted of massacring hundreds of troops who surrendered.
Most Iraqi Sunnis abhor such violence, but nevertheless the ISIL-led uprising has been joined by other Sunni factions, including former members of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and tribal figures, who share widespread anger at perceived oppression by Maliki's government.
Western countries, including the United States, have urged Maliki to reach out to Sunnis to rebuild national unity as the only way of preventing the disintegration of Iraq.
"There is a real risk of further sectarian violence on a massive scale, within Iraq and beyond its borders," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday. "I have been urging Iraqi government leaders including Prime Minister al-Maliki to reach out for an inclusive dialogue and solution of this issue."
But the long-serving prime minister, who won an election two months ago, seems instead to be relying more heavily than ever on his own sect, who form the majority in Iraq. Hassan Suneid, a close Maliki ally, said on Tuesday the governing Shi'ite National Alliance should boycott all work with the largest Sunni political bloc, Mutahidoon.
In the meantime, until the solution to Iraq violence is found, alliances in the mid-east are changing at a ferocious pace and pitting such one time enemies as Saudi Arabia and Iran (not to mention the US) on the same side, forced to fight an extremist Jihadist movement that the US itself was funding. "Iran, the leading Shi'ite power, has close ties to Maliki and the Shi'ite parties that have held power in Baghdad since U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. But although both Washington and Tehran are close allies of Baghdad, they have not cooperated in the past."
Domestically, the chaos is just as bad, if not worse:
Tens of thousands of Shi'ites have rallied at volunteer centres in recent days, answering a call by the top Shi'ite cleric to defend the nation. Many recruits have gone off to train at Iraqi military bases.
But with the million-strong regular army abandoning ground despite being armed and trained by the United States at a cost of $25 billion, the government is increasingly relying on extra-legal Shi'ite militia to fight on its behalf, re-establishing groups that fought during the 2006-2007 bloodletting.
According to one Shi'ite Islamist working in the government, well-trained fighters from the Shi'ite organisations Asaib Ahl Haq, Khetaeb Hezbollah and the Badr Organisation are now being deployed as the main combat force, while new civilian volunteers will be used to hold ground after it is taken.
The Sunni militants have moved at lightning speed since seizing Mosul last Tuesday, slicing through northern and central Iraq, capturing the towns of Hawija and Tikrit in the north before facing resistance in southern Salahuddin province, where there is a large Shi’ite population.
The battle lines are now formalising, with the insurgents held at bay about an hour's drive north of Baghdad and just on the capital's outskirts to the west.
Meanwhile to the north, as we reported previously, the town of Kirkuk has been taken by forces from the autonomous Kurdish region. In a further sign of ethnic and sectarian polarisation, Maliki allies have accused the Kurds of colluding with Sunnis to dislodge government forces in the north.
That, however, is hardly the case, at least for now. As Fox reports, ISIS is so far mostly bent on taking their march south toward Baghdad, and not into the autonomous zone of Kurdistan, where hardened fighters are prepared to defend their oil-rich turf. This northern front is one of the few places where ISIS have encountered resistance -- for unlike the Iraqi Army, the cohesive Kurdish force has held them back.
The Kurds, of course, were lucky to seize the long-disputed oil rich lands in the north - they did so with the help of ISIS whose arrival promptly scattered the Iraq army.
Whatever the reason, the army here fled -- and into the vacuum came the Peshmerga -- the Kurdish Army that has for decades been fighting for freedom in this mountainous land, and who are now taking advantage of the chaos below them.
Today on the front lines in Kirkuk, Kurdish forces were digging in, excavating trenches and building defenses. This is becoming a permanent boundary.
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As to the question of whether these impressive Peshmerga troops might help reclaim Mosul, Nechervan Idris Barzani, the prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan, was clear. Until a political solution is embarked upon, they will not help. To do so would be foolish without the support of other Sunni tribes in the area.
Perhaps the best summary of all the unfolding confusion comes from the following just released update chart from the Institute for the Study of War.
But where it would get most messy - literally - is if as the previously reported shuttering of Iraq's largest refinery leads to electricity blackouts for Baghdad. Because nothing gets people in a murderous rage quite as 115 degrees and no air conditioning.
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That's the angle...
Perception is reality.
If they knew God existed they wouldn't put their faith in the Govt.
Very true.
But tyrannical Government does try to replace GOD with themsevles. It fools some...
What inconsistency...What can you expect from a woman who despises herself, as you, FlakFRAU.
Why do you continue being a bitch? You must like punishment. Are you that much of a masochist?
Just stop being a bitch, FlakFRAU.
wuz up tom, long time. finally back in action after a brief death. hows socal treatin ya?
If only you had capitalized "God".
That was deliberate...
Durr!
Flak, if we kill them all the gases from decomposition will warm the planet.. Jus sayin..
Once again you get it wrong...
Net effect would be to reduce carbon emissions...
Correct. The Gengis Khan school of environmental policy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1350272/Genghis-Khan-kill...
Good link...
Between that and the Black Death, the resulting modest change in C02 levels coupled with a dip in the solar output is now thought to be behind the Little Ice Age....
One metric ton of dead hippie makes 80 gallons of Soylent Diesel. Each ton of hippie you convert drasticaly lowers the participating hippies' carbon foot print.
I like how you think. There's more liberals in the US than people in Iraq. Win-win for the planet?
Jeez, you liberals are humorless assholes.
Hey fuck stick it's religion and god that has brought us to this FUBAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clearly the irony was lost on you...
On you!!!
Kill them all and let god sort it out....
Leave them alone, and I do believe they will kill off each other.
If the US and Saudis leave them alone the virulent islamist will be killed by egypt, iran, iraq and syria. Then the sunni and shia could live in peace.
So it lays bare the MSM reports, echoed here the last week, as a transparent lie. Would the US and the Saudis arm train and fund these guys?
hmm.. ask the ones in this video who execute a man in cold blood, all armed with fresh western assault weapons.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=754_1403030005
Like I said with the goals of the deep state / CIA in the US, the best they can hope for is to be with Iran in spirit because they are unwilling, unwanting and unwelcome to do anything to help this mess they created. The Syrians and the Iranians will continue to fight the good fight with Maliki, as they already have been.
The only reason this has been given the press is because it spilled into iraq, this has been business as usual in syria for years, but unlike iraq, not many people are on the take anymore because they saw what the foreign menace was.
Kill them all and let god sort it out....
Leave them the fuck alone and let them sort it out themselves.
My SUV begs to disagree.
We need nuclear powered SUVs.
A Strontium-90 pebblebed powerplant would run for 45 years, and provide electric power and heat for your home when parked in the garage.
That sounds like a new Executive Order designed to boost GM sales.
MySUV.
Don't worry, participation is mandatory.
From a real American citizen's viewpoint, and most definitely from the Iraqi president's POV, he is entirely correct.
Let's closely examine the facts.
Fact: A bunch of Sunnis from Saudi Arabia are supposed to have attacked the USA on 9/11/01, in fact, every single terrorist attack against the USA has been conducted by Sunnis!
Fact: Going back to the Iraq-Iran War, when an Iraqi (Sunni) jet pilot "accidentally" fired an Exocet missile against a US destroyer in the Persian Gulf, it has always been a Sunni responsible.
Fact: The Taliban are Sunnis, al Qaeda are Sunnis, and ISIS, an extreme faction of al Qaeda, is made up of Sunnis.
Fact: The attacks on the US embassy in Africa, the attack on another destroyer off the coast of Yemen, etc., were all undertaken by Sunnis.
Sunni, Sunni, Sunni . . . everything Sunni!
The only present possible outcome once the Bush Crime Family invaded Iraq was a Shi'a superstate, made up of Iran, Iraq and whatever territories wished to join them. Nothing else will serve as a bulwark against the onslaught of the Sunnis!
And the sunni version of Islam is the more simple one, halting at the 4th imam among the 12 the Shia are into. And boy are they both pissed.
It's Always Sunni In Philadelphia.
Don't remember who said it: "We'll all go to hell for practicing the wrong religion. Christians will go to Muslim hell. Muslims will go to Christian hell".
Fuck them.
I'm going to Valhalla.
Easiest way is the 2nd stop after White Plains on the Harlem line Express out of Grand Central...
And there is the confirmation that you are nothing but a death-worshiping fascist that hides behind the eco agenda as a justification to kill and enslave the people you consider to be below your stature.
More likely it suggested that there are no shortage of people willing to kill in the name of a god that does not exist...
Great projection on your part, BTW....
Man, did I get downvotes for making the same statement on another thread.
How about, "Let them kill themselves and let 'Allah' fuck them up!"?
All of this killing over a fucking moon god, depicted as a fucking rock, that people throw stones at...
I'll stick to my christian moon god, that had a rock moved, that people nailed to a fucking cross.
At least my particular mood god taught love and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Their particular moon god says they MUST kill those that are unlike them.
Which way does it seem the most peaceful?
This is my first and only christian input into Zero Hedge.
Apologies, it will never happen again.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/officials-u-s-trained-isis-at-secret-base-in-jordan/?cat_orig=us
That's very Hitlery of you.
http://newamerica-now.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-us-engineered-destruction...
Rut Rho
It keeps Obamacare off the front page.
Hellstheproblem?
And uncanny that the news like this always breaks after U,S. markets close.
I'm pretty sure the chaos in Iraq is not new news.
Maybe you shoult try reading something other than ZH.
This outta get the US's knickers in a wad. You can't actually state who is causing all of this.
Fucking Saudis, they have been destabilizing the region, well since they decided the USD would be best to accept for oil.
All of this violence comes right back to the USD.
pods
Those old Saudi's might be seeing their days numbered. They are about to find out how US politicians truly work. We only place bets on the favorites.
The playbook goes like this
Protest
Snipers
Overseas Assets seized
Caliphate in Mecca...Obama tours it like Queen Victoria.
Yep, US keeps using the same play over and over again. They just don't give a fuck who knows whats coming or what the American people think. Ego will meet Karma one day.
.....Saudi oil productions falls.
GAME OVER.
I'm reminded of the words of one Daniel Plainview:
"if you have a milkshake... and I have a milkshake... and I have a straw; there it is, that’s the straw, see? Watch it. My straw reaches across the room... and starts to drink your milkshake: I... drink... your... milkshake! I drink it up!"
Saudi production won't fall. SLUUUUUURRRRRRRPPPPPPP!!!!!!
But there will be blood.
I totally get ya, dude.
Milkshakes are fucking awesome.
The only thing better than a Milkshake, is your Milkshake!
And oil companies might need to learn how to drill through a layer of Trinitite.
How about falls for a particular reason:
Saudi leadership decides to keep it for their grandchildren.
Then other oil exporters decide the same thing.
Think the US will let Canada keep its oil for the future?
Ok, please lay out the false flag strategy that leads to the US attacking Canada for oil.
HACKER HELLSTORM
China invades Canada first because they are an easy target. The US goes to war with CHina to defend our boarders. Canada and US form a currency after CHina dumps petro-dollar....
Making this shit up as I go.
I think that got covered in the game Fallout.
No. The US and Saudis will go down together. They have empty fields, pockets full of paper and nothing to lose. The illusion of Saudi oil is all that is propping US up. Nixon and the hous of Saud signed a suicide pact.
+1
Not that you really care but it was FDR that cut the original deal...
BTW, ~9 million bpd ain't an illusion, the US shale production is on the other hand...
So the shale barons couldn't pull the wool over your eyes. Fascinating. How were you able to crack that nut?
BTW how do you know where that 9 million is coming from? Follow up question: how much gold is in Fort Knox?
You are aware that the Bakken has been known about since the 50's? The basic technology has been in place for many years, it was all a matter of price...
Look, the US LTO has exceeded anyone's wildest expectations, but quite frankly ~2 million bpd from the Bakken and EFS changes nothing in the big picture...
Back in the good old days, no serious analyst in the oil game was saying less than 300,000 bpd out the Bakken, and CLR et al. suprised a few by smacking it out of the park reaching a million bpd but they are fast running out of fresh Bakken to drill. And it ain't cheap oil. Oh, did I mention the decline rates?
US LTO is just another bridge to the future that will be sold as a new paradigm of how the old game can go on, just like Prudhoe Bay and the North Sea were. And we know they weren't any such thing. Only shills play word games with concepts like 'Energy Independence", helll, even now the US is net importer of NG.
Re: Ft. Knox, it really doesn't matter, once the USD looses convertability into oil, the country splits like a rotten melon. Let some warlords fight to find out what is there.....
We agree on your last point. The overarching point is folks should be as skeptical regarding oil as they are with gold. Who really has it. How much. Quality. Recoverability(Bakken). Keeping in mind that it would be irresponsible and dangerous for governments to speak frankly about dwindling supply. When it gets serious we all know what you have to do.
Naw, the Sykes-Picot agreement is at the root of it...
Flak, elaborate if you may on this agreement being the root. Is the Nixon agreement an extension? Honest question because I am not aware of this. Learn something new everyday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes-Picot_Agreement
British–Zionist discussions during the negotiationsFollowing the outbreak of World War I, Zionism was first discussed at a British Cabinet level on 9 November 1914, four days after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire. At a Cabinet meeting David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, "referred to the ultimate destiny of Palestine."[7][8] Lloyd George's law firm Lloyd George, Roberts and Co had been engaged a decade before by the Zionists to work on the British Uganda Programme.[9] In a discussion after the meeting with fellow Zionist Herbert Samuel, who had a seat in the Cabinet as President of the Local Government Board, Lloyd George assured him that "he was very keen to see a Jewish state established in Palestine."[7][10] Samuel then outlined the Zionist position more fully in a conversation with Foreign Secretary Edward Grey. He spoke of Zionist aspirations for the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish state, and of the importance of its geographical position to the British Empire. Samuel's memoirs state: "I mentioned that two things would be essential—that the state should be neutralized, since it could not be large enough to defend itself, and that the free access of Christian pilgrims should be guaranteed. ... I also said it would be a great advantage if the remainder of Syria were annexed by France, as it would be far better for the state to have a European power as neighbour than the Turk"[7][11] The same evening, Prime Minister H. H. Asquith announced that the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire had become a war aim in a speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet.[12]
In January 1915 Samuel submitted a Zionist memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to the Cabinet after discussions with Weizmann and Lloyd George. On 5 February 1915, Samuel had another discussion with Grey: "When I asked him what his solution was he said it might be possible to neutralize the country under international guarantee ... and to vest the government of the country in some kind of Council to be established by the Jews"[13][14] After further conversations with Lloyd George and Grey, Samuel circulated a revised text to the Cabinet in the middle of March 1915.
Zionism or the Jewish question were not considered by the report of the de Bunsen Committee, prepared to determine British wartime policy toward the Ottoman Empire, submitted in June 1915.[10]
Prior to the departure of Sykes to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov in Petrograd on 27 February 1916, Sykes was approached with a plan by Samuel. The plan put forward by Samuel was in the form of a memorandum which Sykes thought prudent to commit to memory and destroy.[citation needed] Commenting on it, Sykes wrote to Samuel suggesting that if Belgium should assume the administration of Palestine it might be more acceptable to France as an alternative to the international administration which she wanted and the Zionists did not. Of the boundaries marked on a map attached to the memorandum he wrote:[7]
"By excluding Hebron and the East of the Jordan there is less to discuss with the Moslems, as the Mosque of Omar then becomes the only matter of vital importance to discuss with them and further does away with any contact with the bedouins, who never cross the river except on business. I imagine that the principal object of Zionism is the realization of the ideal of an existing center of nationality rather than boundaries or extent of territory. The moment I return I will let you know how things stand at Pd."
Thanks Colonel for the info. Explains a lot and understand more about the creation of a false state. If Karma does exist, it will be destructive.
Not suprised you would focus on that aspect of it....
Just pointing out how pervasive it is. Don't hate the messenger, just the message that is being sent.
Enjoy living in NY puddin.
Colonel, how can you say that? That's racist, digging up the truth and exposing it to people and the light of day.
Felchmeister never sees it that way. I've not seen someone as universally hated and almost on the wrong side of every issue as he is.
Felching - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felching
He is the master of Felching.
Geez, I klicked on that link. Not something I needed to ever know about.
A bit of a disclaimer would have been appreciated, Colonel.
From Wiki:
Basically, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Palestine were carved out of the rump of the Ottoman empire, with borders are odds with natural ethnic and sectarian divisions. The Kurds got shafted, a Shia majority became subject to a Sunni minority in Iraq...
I guess they wanted to control a certain group of people and instead created a motivated radical shit storm.
Divide and rule at it's finest...
They trotted some tribal figurehead that the French pushed out of Syria and make him King of Iraq. In all fairness Faisel tried to make the ethnic hodgepodge work but that was beyond the grasp of a mere mortal...
I admit i am no expert when it comes to the middle east. But I will say the more I learn , the more I understand the anger within the middle east. Eventually the small guy gains an advantage when kingdoms become to big for management.
Are you are aware of this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
The Brits were scared shitless that they would lose their strategic oil supply for the RN....
Of course everyone knows about that, when the CIA's Roosevelt cousins (Kermit and Archibald) would lead the coup team for the oil company later to be known as BP (just did a deal with China, wonder what the currency will be) --- half owned by the British government, the remaining half owned by the Rockefeller, Mellon and Rothschild families (which is probably the very same ownership still existing today).
So you clearly are aware of the role of Sullivan & Cromwell as a tool of US foreign policy and the seeds of corporate driven fascism in the US....
Best kept secret next to "The Smedley and Prescott Coup that Almost Was"....
I was aware of that one. Thanks
There was a slight problem with "the parchment" argument and "his name was Von Hindenberg."
The dude who wanted no part of World War I friggin annihilated the Russians on the Eastern Front in WWI. "The Germans were in the Caucuses by the end of the War."
Not even Hitler made it that far.
The French had mutinied. The English were on the edge with U-boat war. The only thing that saved these stupid clowns was a million man American Army and General Pershing.
That's why World War II was inevitable. The peace terms (speaking of Keynes) were absolutely ridiculous. "And the French paid the ultimate price for their victors peace."
Kissinger, Nixon...those clowns were nothing but a pile of war losing bullshitski.
That wasn't true what came after them though.
That was called "The United States Navy."
And Iraq War I.
Now it's Holy Shiite!
http://www.pozorblog.com/2011/06/a-map-of-non-existent-european-countrie...
The French wanted to drive Germany back into the stone age. After the French Army occupied the Ruhr for non-payment of reparations after the Mark crashed ( not a shock since the French demanded payment in gold ), it became a national sport in Germany to sneak into the Ruhr and snipe at frenchmen.
"The only thing that saved these stupid clowns was a million man American Army and General Pershing." No
While France was fighting since August 1914, the United States entered in the war only in April 1917 (more than 2 years and 8 months later), not to rescue the French (who by the way were not at all defeated in 1918), but because, President Wilson judged it was the US national interest to do it in response to the declaration by Germany of a total submarine war against US ships.
The United States came significantly in action (1 division) at the battle of Seicheprey in April 1918 (only 7 months before the end of the war) and then at the Battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918.
Therefore the US intervention had not the character of a rescue for the French, but was an appreciated help to accelerate the end of war and victory – and was indeed very desirable, regarding the enormous human cost of the war for France *
* World War I cost France 1,697,800 dead, 4,266,000 wounded (of whom 1.5 million were permanently maimed) and 537,000 made prisoner or missing — exactly 73% of the 8,410,000 men mobilized (for a total population of 40 million). This means that 60% of men between the ages of 18 and 28 died or were permanently maimed.
You can have an idea of what these figures woud represent for the present population of the US:
- 13,412,000 dead
- 33,701,400 wounded (of whom 11,850,000 permanently maimed)
- 4,242,000 made prisoner or missing
Can you imagine US reaction to casualties on that scale?
And the French DID NOT SURRENDER (Mr Jay Leno your stupid jokes are really not very funny) …
Most amazing is that the totally ignorant US generation now see the French as cowards because of the avalanche of neo-cons propaganda and silly jokes after the firm and sensible refusal of the French to join America in Irak, in 2003.
Well said....
They did however also have a sucessful offensive at St. Mihiel salient in Sept. 1918...
Right.
The United States came significantly in action for a short period of time, but it was however intensive, and at the end of the war, the US army counted a total of 116 700 deaths.
While we are walking down memory/history lane ... little known event unfolded in 1959 when the CIA recruited a young Iraqi captain to assassinate the then Iraqi ruler Qasim.
Wounded in the unsuccessful ambush, the captain was spirited out of country to Syria to recuperate, only to return to the Iraqi/world stage years later to play a prominent role.
Captain's name was Saddam Hussein.
A lot of "experts" on the ME have said many times over the years that overthrowing Saddam was a bad idea.
You do realize that Saddam could not be trusted and he was not going to live for ever...
And observers knew his sons were not going to hold it together...
Damned if you do and damned if you don't....
Compared to Charlie Rangle, he was a spring chicken when he was hung.
But he smoked and didn't floss...
Good article Deflator. Thanks
You can't actually state who is causing all of this.
EXACTLY!
Which is why the newsy whorescum of the American Corporate McNews ONLY refers to the ISIS invaders as "militants" --- only effing bullcrap!
Does this mean I get my old job back?
I thought you already did, writing press releases for the white house.
No you are going forward to greener pastures. You are a perfect tool for Soros and his ilk including his friends in global industry and banking. You are so valuable to them that you can write your own ticket.
Quick, someone get the teleprompter set up on the back nine!
The Saudi's? Naaaa, come on, don't be silly.
http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/05/22/elusive-equilibrium-america-iran-and-saudi-arabia-in-changing-middle-east/hbec
Mission accomplished
Is this the part where we all chant Bomb, bomb, bomb?
Get paid first. Neoliberals love unpaid labor, so make sure it's cash in hand before you're the backup singer for Droner and the Chickenhawks.
Fuckin lulz!
Vince Vance and the Valiants: "Bomb Iran", sung to the tune of "Barbarbra Ann".
ahhhh hmmm 12 Saudies trained by US to fly not land,,,, AlCIADHU arms whom ever in X numbers of countries.. Oh US military burns 1/3 of Iraq supply (52% Air Force, 29% navy)..... Mmmm what line in the sand is crossed? Isolationism no no no no non intervention.... Sessions over the Constitution project has it about right... Only take it back beyond the last three POTUS... and extend to the MSM propagandist.
But it is going as planned the DOW, NASDAQ and S&P 500 are back in form. After the fairy godmother talks tomorrow they will be back on track for the moon.
All the Kings economists and all the Kings day traders couldn't put Humpty back together again.
Don't buy the lie just because of the nominal gains in the markets. All is not well in finance when the dollar is being thrown to the fire by our dear leaders. Look no further than inflation in food and energy costs, thus why they never landed on the CPI - the lie is there is no inflation.
Don't forget that.
If you print enough Federal Reserve notes, the price of stocks WILL go to infinity.
Quick Obama! Send moar troops while liberals are staring at their facebook page on their MacBooks while caught in traffic driving their Suburus.
One million people went to the streets against Shrub's Iraq invasion, and all Dick and Co. did was fap in glee. Barry's run by the same neo-con conspirators, so losing the eternally gullible PC crowd isn't going to slow him down a bit. Choomboy gets to be a war president.
There is no left and there is no right. There is one allience and it controls the White House, Congress, and all of the government.
Now that we have that cleared up - and my point was - Democrats stand iddley by as Obama bombs the Mid-East/Africa back to the stone age as Bush did before him. Democrats are the problem, more than Republicans, because they are those with the cognitive dissonance. They lie to themselves, creating feedback loops that are uncalcuable by those who search and yearn and fight for freedom.
A POX ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES
Oh believe you me, diehard Repubs have just as much cog dis.
The term you're looking for is "denial"
Don't put the blame for lack of an effective response by the American people on liberals alone. Our enemy is thoroughly bi-partisan.
Sunny with a high probability of murder...
if the u.s. isn't working behind the scenes to help orchestrate a massive genocide here, then i don't know what the point of all this isis bullshit in northern iraq is.
we need to murder alot of shia in southern iraq. ALOT. MURDER. KILL . DEATH. MURDER.
REDRUM.
Brother Nathanael
What If Jews Ran America?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcd8Hxc8UI4 (3:07)
Yeah baby. One of my favs.
Nat hits a homer over the left field fence!
I'm thinking good old Nuri al-Maliki better be staying out of hot tubs and far, far away from nail guns.
I'm guessing that's the other reason his new BFF and houseguest is Qassim Suleimani.
And of course, don't forget Turkey. Modern warfare depends on huge amounts of materiel shipped all the time. AQI's supply depots are in Southern Turkey, at the behest of the USG. Financed by the Saudis and Omanis, directed by our lads at the CIA.
You'd think the Turkish regime would see the Kurds getting oil revenue for their eternal campaign to carve a Greater Kurdistan out of the eastern third of their country and start seriously thinking about stepping on that pipeline. But, nah, they're just as abject as any other European poodle. ISIS has secure supply lines. Until it's time to expand the Caliphate north.
wheels within wheels...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/17/turkey-kurdistan_n_5504309.html
Libya, Egypt, Ukraine, Syria, Southern Border and now Iraq! Hillary and Obama sure left Ketchup Boy a mess to clean up!
"Iraq is slowly sinking into sectarian violence"
If this slow, what does fast look like?
A mushroom cloud.
Don't count that out.
The Saudis aren't going to waste those Chinese IRBMs they bought by putting HE warheads on them. I'm sure they have worked something out with the Pakis.
It takes a Shi'ite head to say 'fuck off ObaMao!'
Congratulations America. Well done.
But seriously. Do they have to pretend to be completely inept so that they don't look as evil as they really are?
Oh, hell yes. Even now, the 'stupid vs evil' debate soaks up a lot of energy. And Shrub acted a lot more stupid than he was so that, say, Jon Stewart made all his jokes about someone who couldn't pull his thumb out instead of someone conspiring against this country. As for Barry, 'He's doing the best he can; he's trying hard' keeps a lot of uncomfortable thoughts away.
Exactly!
Around 2002, there were four countries in the Middle East which had yet to sign onto the WTO's Financial Services Agreement, which would mandate foreign ownership of banks allowed, and the acceptance of credit derivatives (Fifth Protocol): Iraq, Libya, Iran and Syria.
Presently, there are now ONLY two remaining which haven't signed on: Iran and Syria.
And, Iraq, under Saddam, had switched from trading oil in US dollars to other currencies, and after the invasion they went back, shockingly enough, to trading in US currency (plus, there was that missing $8.7 billion in Iraqi oil funds, wonder whatever became of that, huh, Messrs. Geithner, Daniel Zelikow and Reuben Jeffery III?).
Not Stupid vs. Evil.
Stupid AND Evil.
115 - that's degrees F, or price of oil?
No worries. It will be a refreshing 107 by next Sunday.
Why am I reminded of the last Iran-Iraq war when U.S. intelligence agencies were funding both sides and providing bogus intelligence to both sides. I wonder if Tehran and Baghdad remember that last war as well? The real question is, which side will hit the U.S. navy in retaliation this time for playing both sides against the middle and will they hit just a frigate by "accident" or decide to take down the namesake of their nemesis: Bush? Rember the Stark... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_%28FFG-31%29
Yes and there was also the USS liberty shot by our "friends",the Israelis.Another tonkin Gulf moment coming soon?
The Israelis were just taking orders from President Johnson. He wanted a Casus Belli against Egypt, but it got queered when the US Navy arrived before they could sink it, despite giving the Navy commanders orders designed to slow their response down.
The captain and surviving crew of the Liberty were threatened with life imprisonment if they talked afterward.
The Sunni side . . . always, the Sunni side.
Just direct your feet to the Sunni side of the street.
Inject chaos into the system and it becomes self replicating... Who knew?
Bring up Wagner and the ride of the Valkyries,gattlings,20mm`s and smoke. bring on the smell of JP5----Oh wait,this isn`t a movie is it? This won`t end well either!
Barry needs to realize it's "game over, man" and get the 5,000+ poor saps out of the embassy. Exploding and decapitated American heads and planes that have been "stingered" will make some excellent recruiting tools. Indeed, a TOTAL and hasty exit would probably be the smartest thng the US did regarding our Iraq adventure....If any neocons want to fight, give them a gun and a one-way ticket to Baghdad since that is all they will need..
Why should he care about 5000? Plenty more voters back home already. ... and "smart" never figures in any of Barry's... ahem... thinking.... FORE!
Must....get....military...out...of....conus....for.....clampdown.
Bitchez. That's how they do the thing.
After all these years, I just can not understand why anyone in the USA considers the Saudis "friends."
They're our friends because they pay us to be our friends https://www.google.com/search?q=GW+Bush+Saudi+king&es_sm=93&source=lnms&...
Our dollar is backed by the oil standard.
This.
The dollar didn't collapse after Nixon abrogated Bretton Woods because the Saudis privately backed him up by creating the petro-dollar, while publicaly condemning the US for supporting Israel.
The world would be a better place without the House of Saud
The 'r' was originally a typo but nobody wants to admit it.
Iraq is slowly sinking into sectarian violence which is exposing age-old rifts…
“Sectarian violence”: In almost every turn of the conflicts, a new sect seems to be identified. Most are Semites if the definition from Wikipedia is used.
Wikipedia: “Today, the word ‘Semite’ may be used to refer to any member of any of a number of peoples of ancient Southwestern Asia descendant, including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews (Jews), Arabs, and their descendants."
Why on Earth would the United States consider these conflicts to be so important that they would require major wars one after the other?
Reason: The United States has its own special, recent Semite sect which was inserted, by force, exactly into the middle of this Semitic fight. And troubles began immediately upon Israel’s initial population of Palestine and they have continued to increase steadily as Israel expands substantially into the region.
It is one thing, of course, to sponsor the problem that Israel has encountered in its quest for a Greater Israel. It is another thing for a country such as the United States to put all of its people's wealth and treasure on line to support Israel’s aggression in this Semitic fight.
It is important to understand, right now, that this conflict will never, never end, and for the U.S. to take sides is to doom not only America’s heritage but the destiny given her by her Founders.
I'm always reminded of that Iraqi cabinet scene in "Green Zone". Total chaos.
its gonna be funny watching Obama stab both the Saudis and Israelis in the back (they both deserve it) , before this war is over the Saudis and Israeli states will be gone.
live by the sword....
Uh, no, I think the Barry sock puppet will do nothing to get his backers/handlers upset. He's been a good little neoliberal for six years, no reason to expect him to become and American any time soon.