Putting the Spin on the Annihilation of Iraq

Added: (Fri Aug 20 2010)

Pressbox (Press Release) - So the troops are pouring out of Iraq. Not a retreat but a strategic withdrawal.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/38779487#38779487

Barrack Obama’s promise to remove the full might of the US military machine within months of taking office has taken a mere two years in practise. Like a knife removed from the stomach of an unsuspecting victim, the ragged wound the Americans leave in the wake of their blade will spill fresh blood from the victim of Iraq for a long time to come.

Over the course of their mindless 7.5 year crusade in the Middle East, the Americans have achieved nothing more glorious than the ruin and decimation of an innocent people. Iraq is a nation reduced to ruin where lawlessness and corruption pervades, women mourn the loss of sons, children and husbands and the brutal regime imposed by former dictator Saddam Hussein is remembered as better times.

There is Hell on Earth and it is the bullet riddled dereliction of modern Iraq. Not least because the apparent drawing back of American aggression is in fact little more than a cheap publicity stunt designed to bolster Obama’s ailing status in the polls by fulfilling a demand the American people have been baying for since his ascension to the Presidency in 2008.

50,o00 troops remain in Iraq, along with an ‘unknowable’ number of mercenary and private contractors who operate outside accepted international law. Inside sources have already hinted that the Americans will now undertake a covert campaign against insurgents in Iraq using these undercover and largely unknown mercenary units. The secret war method was last used to great effect to bring down the former Soviet Union and is considered a much cheaper, much less noisy alternative to military solutions. For the people caught in the crossfire, however, there is little difference. The mainstream media, of course, will have little role to play in capturing the events of a covert war, which will suit Obama’s administration perfectly. Publicity polls are won and lost in the modern media circus and political spin is now an all consuming facet of contemporary government. If the public can’t see a war, as far as they’re concerned, there is no war.

Bill Noxid writes:

"There’s no way to comprehend the scope and facets of this operation, because you would need a Pentagon for that. From the first day after initial conquest when the money disappeared from the banks and their record of civilization was decimated by the looting of their museums, it was like any other colonial conquest in history, except every excruciating moment of this one was on television…

From control (denial) of power, water, and even seed monopolization, to toxic contamination of the gene pool and re-education ‘schools,’ to monopolization of natural resources, to fostering drug addictions and self-perpetuating violence, etc., what took a hundred years to do to Native Americans was accomplished in under a decade. Quite an example of lessons learned from hundreds of years of colonization."

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