And waarom die burgeroorlog gecreeerd wordt door competentie..quote:Op dinsdag 21 maart 2006 16:36 schreef zakjapannertje het volgende:
schokkend verhaal over de corruptie in Irak en hoe dat ontstaan is:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1734689,00.html
The environment created by the coalition positively encouraged corruption. "American law was suspended, Iraqi law was suspended, and Iraq basically became a free fraud zone," says Alan Grayson, a Florida-based attorney who represents whistleblowers now trying to expose the corruption. "In a free fire zone you can shoot at anybody you want. In a free fraud zone you can steal anything you like. And that was what they did."
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Saddam kan het weten...quote:Op dinsdag 21 maart 2006 21:33 schreef Sebastral het volgende:
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And waarom die burgeroorlog gecreeerd wordt door competentie..
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Als rat onder de ratten weet hij precies hoe dat gaat ja.quote:
Greg Palastquote:Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George Bush’s incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just dead wrong.
Grote rat Abdoellah met z'n fijne theocratie niet vergeten iddquote:“It’s about oil,” Robert Ebel told me. Who is Ebel? Formerly the CIA’s top oil analyst, he was sent by the Pentagon, about a month before the invasion, to a secret confab in London with Saddam’s former oil minister to finalize the plans for “liberating” Iraq’s oil industry. In London, Bush’s emissary Ebel also instructed Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, the man the Pentagon would choose as post-OIF oil minister for Iraq, on the correct method of disposing Iraq’s crude.
And what did the USA want Iraq to do with Iraq’s oil? The answer will surprise many of you: and it is uglier, more twisted, devilish and devious than anything imagined by the most conspiracy-addicted blogger. The answer can be found in a 323-page plan for Iraq’s oil secretly drafted by the State Department. Our team got a hold of a copy; how, doesn’t matter. The key thing is what’s inside this thick Bush diktat: a directive to Iraqis to maintain a state oil company that will “enhance its relationship with OPEC.”
Enhance its relationship with OPEC??? How strange: the government of the United States ordering Iraq to support the very OPEC oil cartel which is strangling our nation with outrageously high prices for crude.
Specifically, the system ordered up by the Bush cabal would keep a lid on Iraq’s oil production – limiting Iraq’s oil pumping to the tight quota set by Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel.
There you have it. Yes, Bush went in for the oil – not to get MORE of Iraq’s oil, but to prevent Iraq producing TOO MUCH of it.
You must keep in mind who paid for George’s ranch and Dick’s bunker: Big Oil. And Big Oil – and their buck-buddies, the Saudis – don’t make money from pumping more oil, but from pumping LESS of it. The lower the supply, the higher the price.
It’s Economics 101. The oil industry is run by a cartel, OPEC, and what economists call an “oligopoly”—a tiny handful of operators who make more money when there’s less oil, not more of it. So, every time the “insurgents” blow up a pipeline in Basra, every time Mad Mahmoud in Tehran threatens to cut supply, the price of oil leaps. And Dick and George just LOVE it.
Uit dat artikelquote:
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Let me remind you of White House spokesman Ari Fleisher’s original announcement, three years ago, launching of what he called,
“Operation Iraqi Liberation.”
O.I.L. How droll of them, how cute. Then, Karl Rove made the giggling boys in the White House change it to “OIF” – Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the 101st Airborne wasn’t sent to Basra to get its hands on Iraq’s OIF.
heb het hele stuk gelezen...quote:Op woensdag 22 maart 2006 00:42 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:
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Uit dat artikel
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Het heette eerst inderdaad Operation Iraqi Liberation.
Er is net een studie uit, uitgevoerd door een professor van Harvard University en een professor van University of Chicago, met de titel:
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Hun conclusie is dat Israel zoveel greep op de Amerikaanse regering heeft dat ze de VS de belangen van Israel laat verdedigen ook al gaat dat ten koste van de Amerikanen zelf.
Hiermee heb je de twee krachten achter de oorlog in Irak. Big Oil en Israel (of beter gezegd de Zionisten)
Met het uitkomen van deze studie zie je ineens weer allemaal artikelen verschijnen over de rol van olie in het conflict, de corruptie en politieke incompetentie. Kortom het zwarte piet toeschuiven en aandacht afleiden van bijvoorbeeld deze studie.
Niet gek opkijken als er binnenkort verhalen verschijnen over criminele professors. Dat er kinderporno op computers is aangetroffen of iets dergelijks. En het zou zomaar kunnen dat een van hen Mearsheimer of Walt heet.
Online lezen: The Israel Lobby
de unedited version is beter (hier te downloaden)
Nee je beschuldigt ze alleen maar even van het schrijven van een tendentieus stuk in plaats van een studie.quote:Op woensdag 22 maart 2006 01:06 schreef David Letterman het volgende:
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ik maak ook geen opmerking over de deskundigheid van de profs die het hebben geschreven
En daar heeft hij gedeeltelijk gelijk in. Los daarvan, ik zou niet weten welk land onze steun meer verdiend in die opeenhoping van domme fascistjes, extreemlinksen en moslimfundamentalisten (allemaal vijandig gezind naar ons) die het Midden-Oosten heet, dan Israel.quote:Op woensdag 22 maart 2006 05:56 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:
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Nee je beschuldigt ze alleen maar even van het schrijven van een tendentieus stuk in plaats van een studie.
quote:Op woensdag 22 maart 2006 00:42 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:
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Uit dat artikel
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Het heette eerst inderdaad Operation Iraqi Liberation.
Er is net een studie uit, uitgevoerd door een professor van Harvard University en een professor van University of Chicago, met de titel:
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Hun conclusie is dat Israel zoveel greep op de Amerikaanse regering heeft dat ze de VS de belangen van Israel laat verdedigen ook al gaat dat ten koste van de Amerikanen zelf.
Het is ook haast te smerig om te geloven wat ze daar aan het doen zijnquote:Iraq: A cluster of torture prisons
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Reuters; “The U.S. State Department is winding down its $20 billion reconstruction program in Iraq and the only new rebuilding money in its latest budget request is for prisons . . . State Department Iraq coordinator James Jeffrey told reporters he was asking Congress for $100 million for prisons but no other big building projects were in the pipeline."
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John Pace of the UN Human Rights in Iraq, a pro-Occupation propaganda mouthpiece, said recently that; between “80 percent to 90 percent were innocent people” rounded up “quite blindly," and taken to prisons.
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Even een snelle reactie. Ken je de interviews met Kay Griggs?quote:
Whehehe, arme Nixonquote:Op woensdag 22 maart 2006 10:43 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:
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Even een snelle reactie. Ken je de interviews met Kay Griggs?
Sluiten heel goed aan bij de links die je daar geeft.
Een deel staat iig online. (kan de links eventueel vanavond wel opzoeken) Heel interessant wat zij te vertellen heeft.
Verdere artikel beschrijft de moordpraktijken van soldaten die er dus op getrained zijn dood en verderf onder de bevolking te zaaienquote:(22-03)The US military is investigating two incidents in which US soldiers killed at least 26 Iraqi civilians and then claimed that they were either guerrillas or had died in cross fire.
The growing evidence of retaliatory killings of unarmed Iraqi families, often including children, by US soldiers seemingly bent on punishing Iraqis after an attack, will spark comparisons with the massacre of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in 1968.
US troops have been notorious among Iraqis for their willingness to shoot any Iraqi they see in the aftermath of an insurgent attack. But it is only now that convincing and detailed information is becoming available about the killings.
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ik zie niet in waarom israel onze steun verdiend. het land lapt zelf alle vn resoluties aan zijn laars.quote:Op woensdag 22 maart 2006 09:22 schreef klez het volgende:
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En daar heeft hij gedeeltelijk gelijk in. Los daarvan, ik zou niet weten welk land onze steun meer verdiend in die opeenhoping van domme fascistjes, extreemlinksen en moslimfundamentalisten (allemaal vijandig gezind naar ons) die het Midden-Oosten heet, dan Israel.![]()
Schuim drijft bovenop idd.quote:Op woensdag 22 maart 2006 12:33 schreef Sebastral het volgende:
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Whehehe, arme Nixon. Ik heb een stukje gekeken en I take it for granted
. Mijn god
. Aanrader voor iedereen die nog twijfelt over hoe het kan dat zoveel mensen zich niet uitspreken over cover-ups.
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane do not apply."
"As successive imperialist powers have shown, the bottom line in combating the hopes and dreams of ordinary people is to resort to spreading terror through the application of extreme violence."quote:Verdere artikel beschrijft de moordpraktijken van soldaten die er dus op getrained zijn dood en verderf onder de bevolking te zaaien
Shock and Awe - Part 2quote:
Death Squad Democracy
For three years the Iraqi resistance has successfully kept American troops on the defensive; taking control of more area, destroying pipelines and oil facilities at will, discouraging enlistment in the Iraqi Security Forces, and undermining public support among Americans (63% of who now believe the war was "a mistake")
These are the goals of every guerilla movement; a gradual erosion of public support, deflating morale, surprise attacks, and eliciting greater support from the general population.
It is clear that this has been a winning strategy for the resistance, and not one that they would readily abandon to pursue an ethnic/religious war.
So, where does the violence originate?
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"In Iraq, the war comes in two phases. The first phase is complete: the destruction of the existing state, which did not comply with the interests of British and American capital. The second phase consists of building a new state tied to those interests and smashing every dissenting sector of society. Openly, this involves the same sort of shock therapy that has done so such damage in swathes of the Third World and Eastern Europe. Covertly, it means intimidating, kidnapping, and murdering opposition voices."
"What we do know, however, is that hundreds of Iraqis are being murdered and that paramilitary hit-squads of the proxy government organized by US trainers with a fulsome pedigree in state terrorism are increasingly being associated with them."
The 'Salvador Option'
Kay is helemaal geweldig! Thanks voor de tipquote:
En bush zegt ook gewoon weer dat hij nooit heeft gezegd dat saddam banden met al qaeda had;quote:The dangers of infecting the armed forces with such partisan propaganda are immense. First, think of how this notion has skewed the reaction of American soldiers to the Iraqi people, especially anyone accused or suspected – for whatever reason, or none at all – of being an insurgent, or a "Baathist diehard," etc. To an American soldier blinded by the deliberate Bush lies, such people would appear to be nothing but evil terrorists complicit in the murder of thousands of innocent Americans. And in fact, all Iraqis would be tarred by this brush: for how could a soldier out on patrol distinguish which of the seething mass of foreigners surrounding him had been a supporter of the man who (supposedly) attacked America?
Putting deluded soldiers in such a position, fed with such lies, is a formula certain to produce atrocities and abuse. No wonder we have seen so many cases of American soldiers being quick on the trigger, quick with the boot and the fist, belligerent and brutal in tumultuous house searches, eager to "soften up" prisoners for CIA interrogators, and so on.
quote:"There was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the attack of 9/11, I’ve never said that and never made that case prior to going into Iraq." -- George W. Bush, 16-12-05
Hoe ironisch.quote:Op zondag 26 maart 2006 13:18 schreef Resonancer het volgende:
Niet alleen Irak heeft last van het DU!
Depleted Uranium Contaminates Europe
http://www.countercurrents.org/moret270206.htm
The highest levels of depleted uranium ever measured in the atmosphere in Britain, were transported on air currents from the Middle East and Central Asia; of special significance were those from the Tora Bora bombing in Afghanistan in 2001, and the "Shock & Awe" bombing during Gulf War II in Iraq in 2003.
Er zijn ongetwijfeld betrouwbaarder sites als uruknet.info en rense.com. Maar die zijn allemaal zo saai.quote:Op zondag 26 maart 2006 13:35 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Is er misschien een betrouwbaardere site dan uruknet.info?
meer: http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/23062.htmlquote:Juan Cole: Top Ten Catastrophes of the Third Year of American Iraq
Source: Juan Cole's Blog (Informed Comment) (3-20-06)
The American war against Iraq began on March 20, 2003, so today is the third anniversary. The Himalyan mistakes of the American administration of the country in its first two years have by now been much analyzed -- the punitive steps against even low-level Baath Party members, the firing of tens of thousands of Sunni Arabs, the dissolution of the army, the permitting of looting on a vast scale, the failure to understand tribal honor, the failure to get a handle on the early guerrilla war, the failure to understand Shiite Islam, the torture at Abu Ghraib, the failure to get services on line, the destruction of Fallujah, the ill-timed and ill-advised attempt to "kill or capture" Muqtada al-Sadr, the adoption of an election system that allowed the almost complete exclusion of the Sunni Arabs, etc., etc.
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