The only blogger I see (I admit I visit very few blogs these days so I could be wrong here) is Chris Floyd who writes about the ever present American exceptionalism of Americans who think Iraq is seeing violence for the first time since the American troopers, our “fightin’ lads and lassies, heroes all, complete with their souvenirs of Iraqi body parts like fingers and what not are leaving or at least a large number are leaving not forgetting those who shall remain in their Baghdad fortress along with Rin-tin-tin, the CIA, the DEA, and AAA, not mention five thousand murdering knuckle dragging mercenaries that like to use Iraqi people for target practice when things get too slow. Chris Floyd is correct as usual, Americans are amazed that the people of Iraq aren’t just ever so grateful for wut we dun fer’ ‘em. Why right now Obama is sellin’ the heathens eleven billion bucks worth of American arms. And such a deal it is folks because you can just bet that the money the Iraqi government – if it can be called that – will be using comes from American tax dollars. So Obama sells ‘em billions worth of guns and the American public pays the bill. Cool. Now before you get upset it’s all for a good cause. The New York Times, that ancient gatekeeper of all the news that’s fit to print and a lot that isn’t tells us that Iraq is at risk since that same awesome Iraqi army that melted away into the mist on shock ‘n’ awe day is now gone leaving Iraq open for invasion most likely from the ten thousand American troops massed along the Iraq/Kuwait border and possibly Eskimos in Alaska who’ve had their eye on Iraq for some time now.Meanwhile the Chinese are getting all the Iraqi oil so you could say America is making Iraqi oil safe for China, the one’s Obama has been rattling his saber at recently.
Just think about this for one second. Eleven billion bucks for arms and training. Apparently all the training we have been doing for ten long years has been for naught but now, now it’s going to be different just like after Obama wins the election he is going to reveal his true inner self to prove once and for all he is a left wing liberal died in the wool big D Democrat. I see rainbows and puppy dogs with free cotton candy for every American! Yes sirree Bob. Y’all can count on that. And jobs too, yup, jobs just about everywhere, why in just over a year we are all going to be billionaires with nary a care in the world. I promise! Scouts honor. Cross my heart and, well, you know. Why tempt fate?
Kenneth Pollack, cited in the New York Times article had this to say regarding Maliki:
“I think he would like to get the weapons from the U.S.,” Mr. Pollack said. “But he believes that an economically challenged American administration cannot afford to jeopardize $10 billion worth of jobs.”
If the United States stops the sales, Mr. Pollack said, Mr. Maliki “would simply get his weapons elsewhere.”
Of course we can count on Pollack who helped get us into Iraq along with the New York Times who still cites him as an “expert” even though he wrote a book called The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq with a wonderful review over at Amazon.com which says:
In The Threatening Storm, Kenneth M. Pollack, one of the world’s leading experts on Iraq, provides a masterly insider’s perspective on the crucial issues facing the United States as it moves toward a new confrontation with Saddam Hussein.
For the past fifteen years, as an analyst on Iraq for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, Kenneth Pollack has studied Saddam as closely as anyone else in the United States. In 1990, he was one of only three CIA analysts to predict the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. As the principal author of the CIA’s history of Iraqi military strategy and operations during the Gulf War, Pollack gained rare insight into the methods and workings of what he believes to be the most brutal regime since Stalinist Russia.
Examining all sides of the debate and bringing a keen eye to the military and geopolitical forces at work, Pollack ultimately comes to this controversial conclusion: through our own mistakes, the perfidy of others, and Saddam’s cunning, the United States is left with few good policy options regarding Iraq. Increasingly, the option that makes the most sense is for the United States to launch a full-scale invasion, eradicate Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, and rebuild Iraq as a prosperous and stable society—for the good of the United States, the Iraqi people, and the entire region.
Oh my! Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! With experts like Pollack who needs experts? Just look at all those WMD we found in Iraq. Such rare insights are truly rare folks. Kenny predicted it all, and just look at how stable and prosperous Iraq is now, those ingrates. And look at what it did for the U.S., why it was just for the good of all, the Iraqi people, the entire region, all just busting out in flowers and candy and big eyed kittens. Thank god for the New York Times who can’t even recall what it said yesterday, or even just a few hours ago. There is no past, only the present which is why Obama always wants to look forward not backwards.
