And that's why Moon of Alabama is around.
I was reading his latest nonsense at ICH and came across this:
Obama has ordered thousands of unknown people be killed by drone strikes in ten or so countries. He has used clandestine means for illegitimate regime change from Honduras over Ukraine to Iraq where, as he admitted in an earlier interview, let the evil of ISIS grow for the sole purpose of ousting Prime Minister Maliki.
Well that's novel.
Barack did it to oust Nouri al-Maliki.
Moon of Alabama is full of s**t.
Barack gave Nouri a second term as prime minister in 2010.
And he does not say that he let the Islamic State grow to oust Nouri.
The link goes to Thomas Friedman's piece on Barack:
But wouldn’t things be better had we armed the secular Syrian rebels early or kept U.S. troops in Iraq? The fact is, said the president, in Iraq a residual U.S. troop presence would never have been needed had the Shiite majority there not “squandered an opportunity” to share power with Sunnis and Kurds. “Had the Shia majority seized the opportunity to reach out to the Sunnis and the Kurds in a more effective way, [and not] passed legislation like de-Baathification,” no outside troops would have been necessary. Absent their will to do that, our troops sooner or later would have been caught in the crossfire, he argued.
[. . .]
The “broader point we need to stay focused on,” he added, “is what we have is a disaffected Sunni minority in the case of Iraq, a majority in the case of Syria, stretching from essentially Baghdad to Damascus. ... Unless we can give them a formula that speaks to the aspirations of that population, we are inevitably going to have problems. ... Unfortunately, there was a period of time where the Shia majority in Iraq didn’t fully understand that. They’re starting to understand it now. Unfortunately, we still have ISIL [the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant], which has, I think, very little appeal to ordinary Sunnis.” But “they’re filling a vacuum, and the question for us has to be not simply how we counteract them militarily but how are we going to speak to a Sunni majority in that area ... that, right now, is detached from the global economy.”
[. . .]
The
reason, the president added, “that we did not just start taking a bunch
of airstrikes all across Iraq as soon as ISIL came in was because that
would have taken the pressure off of [Prime Minister Nuri Kamal]
al-Maliki.” That only would have encouraged, he said, Maliki and other
Shiites to think: " ‘We don’t actually have to make compromises. We
don’t have to make any decisions. We don’t have to go through the
difficult process of figuring out what we’ve done wrong in the past. All
we have to do is let the Americans bail us out again. And we can go
about business as usual.’ ”
The
president said that what he is telling every faction in Iraq is: “We
will be your partners, but we are not going to do it for you. We’re not
sending a bunch of U.S. troops back on the ground to keep a lid on
things. You’re going to have to show us that you are willing and ready
to try and maintain a unified Iraqi government that is based on
compromise. That you are willing to continue to build a nonsectarian,
functional security force that is answerable to a civilian government.
... We do have a strategic interest in pushing back ISIL. We’re not
going to let them create some caliphate through Syria and Iraq, but we
can only do that if we know that we’ve got partners on the ground who
are capable of filling the void. So if we’re going to reach out to Sunni
tribes, if we’re going to reach out to local governors and leaders,
they’ve got to have some sense that they’re fighting for something.”
Otherwise, Obama said, “We can run [ISIL] off for a certain period of
time, but as soon as our planes are gone, they’re coming right back in.”
That's not about ousting Nouri.
The pressure was the pressure from protesters, from politicians, for Nouri to be inclusive.
That's the pressure Barack's talking about.
Moon of Alabama's an idiot.
Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Friday, March 11, 2016. Chaos and violence continue, the US government
is accused of yet again lying about Iraq, the Iraqi government kills
Sunni civilians, Moqtada al-Sadr holds another rally to back his best
buddy Haider al-Abadi, and much more.
Thursday, the US Defense Dept announced/claimed:
Strikes in Iraq
Attack, fighter and ground attack aircraft and rocket artillery conducted 15 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:
-- Near Baghdadi, a strike destroyed an ISIL vehicle.
-- Near Kirkuk, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit.
-- Near Kisik, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position.
-- Near Mosul, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position.
-- Near Qayyarah, a strike destroyed an ISIL rocket rail.
-- Near Ramadi, four strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed four ISIL heavy machine guns, two ISIL supply caches, 11 ISIL improvised explosive devices, three ISIL vehicles and an ISIL vehicle bomb and denied ISIL access to terrain.
-- Near Sinjar, five strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL assembly area, an ISIL tactical vehicle, 12 ISIL rocket rails, an ISIL supply cache and six ISIL fighting positions.
-- Near Tal Afar, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position.
Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target.
The bombings continue and are passed off as working towards peace.
And the Iraqi government, gifted with weapons and aircraft from the US and Russia, carries out its own bombings to ape the 'peace' efforts of bombings.
And the bombs fall on populated areas, never forget that.
So many in the media work overtime to cover that up, to pretend these bombs hit empty areas and that civilians are never killed.
It's a lie.
The Iraqi government killed Sunni civilians in those bombings.
So much propaganda swirling around such a small piece of land. But Iraq couldn't be made miserable if the truth was acknowledged, could it?
Did someone say Whore of Baghdad?
Yes, Jane Arraf. She Tweets this morning.
Why is Jane Arraf Tweeting about protests?
She spent all her time since the Hawija massacre ignoring real protests.
Oh, that's right, this isn't a real protest.
It's a rally, a propaganda effort on the part of cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr to back the current prime minister Haider al-Abadi.
It's not a protest.
Only a whore like Jane would call it protest.
And remember, her whoring on Iraq goes back to the 90s when she was covering up for Saddam while working for CNN.
Jane's been lying for years.
Decades.
Maher Chmaytelli (REUTERS) offers a truth bomb, "Iraq's powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wants Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to stay in power but replace his cabinet with professionals with no party affiliation so he can fight corruption, the head of the Sadrist bloc in parliament said."
Did that reality just send Jane Arraf scurrying like the rat she is?
Probably.
Mohammad Sabah (AL MADA) reports Haider is scheduled to name his Cabinet members in the coming days.
Well, the reality, he'll name some nominees.
Parliament has to approve them.
Equally true, his efforts to kick out members of his Cabinet currently?
Not covered by the Constitution.
Parliament can strip someone of the post. The person can decide on their own to resign.
But the Cabinet does not serve at the pleasure of the prime minister.
That's not written into the Constitution.
As Haider al-Abadi already knows because it's a reality Nouri al-Maliki had to live with -- publicly -- throughout his second term.
So there's Moqtada whoring his followers to call for the Constitution to be trashed.
And no one wants to go there or address that.
ALSUMARIA notes that State of Law has expressed concerns about these demonstrations. State of Law is the political coalition that is headed by former prime minister and forever thug Nouri al-Maliki. It must rankle Nouri that what he was held in check on, Haider may get away with.
In news of real protests -- the ones you don't hear of because they're real -- AL MADA reports that citizens in Muqdadiyah on Wednesday took the street in large numbers to protest the lack of safety and demand better security.
Jane Arraf never Tweeted on that, of course. Why would she?
Jane Arraf has never been anything but a megaphone for whomever happened to be the leader of Iraq going all the way back to Saddam Hussein.
Let's stay with reality for a moment more.
Western media echoing the US State Dept has made a number of claims this week.
But they may not exactly qualify as true.
ALSUMARIA reports that the Chair of Parliament's Defense and Security Committee has announced that, despite us claims, there has been no chemical weapons officer of the Islamic State that has been captured. These reports, he insists, are attempts to breed fear and terror.
The western world is full of Judith Millers. Damn shame it's so short on truth tellers.
Thursday, the US Defense Dept announced/claimed:
Strikes in Iraq
Attack, fighter and ground attack aircraft and rocket artillery conducted 15 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:
-- Near Baghdadi, a strike destroyed an ISIL vehicle.
-- Near Kirkuk, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit.
-- Near Kisik, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position.
-- Near Mosul, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position.
-- Near Qayyarah, a strike destroyed an ISIL rocket rail.
-- Near Ramadi, four strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed four ISIL heavy machine guns, two ISIL supply caches, 11 ISIL improvised explosive devices, three ISIL vehicles and an ISIL vehicle bomb and denied ISIL access to terrain.
-- Near Sinjar, five strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL assembly area, an ISIL tactical vehicle, 12 ISIL rocket rails, an ISIL supply cache and six ISIL fighting positions.
-- Near Tal Afar, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position.
Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target.
The bombings continue and are passed off as working towards peace.
And the Iraqi government, gifted with weapons and aircraft from the US and Russia, carries out its own bombings to ape the 'peace' efforts of bombings.
And the bombs fall on populated areas, never forget that.
So many in the media work overtime to cover that up, to pretend these bombs hit empty areas and that civilians are never killed.
It's a lie.
#IRAQ شمرية العراق
The Iraqi government killed Sunni civilians in those bombings.
idris sanusi
32 retweets
10 likes
Who's going cover these deaths?
Or is the western media just going to cover them up as usual?
69 Iraqi Sunni civilian killed & 100 injured by airstrikes on #Znkurh #AlRamadi #Iraq #warcrimes
Oh my God HORRIBLE
Are we just supposed to all turn away and ignore these deaths?
Pretend that they didn't happen?
For the good of what?
For the good of whom?
So much propaganda swirling around such a small piece of land. But Iraq couldn't be made miserable if the truth was acknowledged, could it?
Did someone say Whore of Baghdad?
Yes, Jane Arraf. She Tweets this morning.
jane arraf
Why is Jane Arraf Tweeting about protests?
She spent all her time since the Hawija massacre ignoring real protests.
Oh, that's right, this isn't a real protest.
It's a rally, a propaganda effort on the part of cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr to back the current prime minister Haider al-Abadi.
It's not a protest.
Only a whore like Jane would call it protest.
And remember, her whoring on Iraq goes back to the 90s when she was covering up for Saddam while working for CNN.
Jane's been lying for years.
Decades.
Maher Chmaytelli (REUTERS) offers a truth bomb, "Iraq's powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wants Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to stay in power but replace his cabinet with professionals with no party affiliation so he can fight corruption, the head of the Sadrist bloc in parliament said."
Did that reality just send Jane Arraf scurrying like the rat she is?
Probably.
Mohammad Sabah (AL MADA) reports Haider is scheduled to name his Cabinet members in the coming days.
Well, the reality, he'll name some nominees.
Parliament has to approve them.
Equally true, his efforts to kick out members of his Cabinet currently?
Not covered by the Constitution.
Parliament can strip someone of the post. The person can decide on their own to resign.
But the Cabinet does not serve at the pleasure of the prime minister.
That's not written into the Constitution.
As Haider al-Abadi already knows because it's a reality Nouri al-Maliki had to live with -- publicly -- throughout his second term.
So there's Moqtada whoring his followers to call for the Constitution to be trashed.
And no one wants to go there or address that.
ALSUMARIA notes that State of Law has expressed concerns about these demonstrations. State of Law is the political coalition that is headed by former prime minister and forever thug Nouri al-Maliki. It must rankle Nouri that what he was held in check on, Haider may get away with.
In news of real protests -- the ones you don't hear of because they're real -- AL MADA reports that citizens in Muqdadiyah on Wednesday took the street in large numbers to protest the lack of safety and demand better security.
Jane Arraf never Tweeted on that, of course. Why would she?
Jane Arraf has never been anything but a megaphone for whomever happened to be the leader of Iraq going all the way back to Saddam Hussein.
Let's stay with reality for a moment more.
Western media echoing the US State Dept has made a number of claims this week.
But they may not exactly qualify as true.
ALSUMARIA reports that the Chair of Parliament's Defense and Security Committee has announced that, despite us claims, there has been no chemical weapons officer of the Islamic State that has been captured. These reports, he insists, are attempts to breed fear and terror.
The western world is full of Judith Millers. Damn shame it's so short on truth tellers.
