Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Patrick Martin nails it

Ruth and I are both appalled at the storming of President Trump's attorney's office and home.  She will be writing about it at length at her site.  I told her I would highlight Patrick Martin (WSWS):





As reactionary as Trump and his administration are, there is nothing progressive or democratic about the mobilization of the intelligence and police agencies of the state against him. The campaign against Trump being spearheaded by the Democratic Party, based on concocted claims of Russian “meddling” and “fake news,” is aimed at whipping up a war hysteria against Russia and justifying Internet censorship. The escalating political warfare in Washington is a struggle between opposed factions of the same corporate-financial elite, largely over US imperialist foreign policy issues.
Trump cannot fire Mueller directly, but he can order Rosenstein to do so and fire Rosenstein if he refuses. The latest stage of the conflict sets up the possibility of a repetition of Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre,” when the two top officials of the Justice Department resigned rather than fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. Nixon prevailed on the third-ranking official, Solicitor General Robert Bork, to do the dirty work.
Democratic Party leaders, who have made the Russia investigation the sole axis of their opposition to Trump, responded to Trump’s comments with a further public defense of Special Counsel Mueller. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued a statement Monday night denouncing Trump’s “disparagement of special counsel Mueller’s investigation” as “a grave reminder of his utter contempt for the rule of law.” She reiterated the unsupported claim that “the Russians perpetrated a strategic attack on the 2016 elections to support the Trump campaign.”
Most Democrats and some Republicans have suggested that if Trump fired Mueller, it would trigger impeachment proceedings by the House of Representatives.







I think Mueller should be fired.  I think he's out of control and is a runaway prosecutor.  I also think this is a deliberate trap being set for Donald Trump.  I think the office has been intentionally disrespected.


I am aware some could accuse Donald of disrespecting it.  I don't see him as smart.  If I did, I'd agree.  But there are people who know better who are being disrespectful of the office.


Senator Tammy Duckworth is pure trash as far as I'm concerned.  Her remarks about him have been disrespectful not only of him but also of the office.  She's a pretender anyway.  A centrist, War Hawk who tries to act like she's anything but.  She is the nightmare the Democratic Party settled on and, far too often, they settle on these nightmares instead of people who will fight for what We The People need.



Donald Trump?  He's not been as bad as I expected but my expectations were admittedly low.  The people who know better?  I am grossly disappointed in them.  They have crossed every line in the book and, those of us with any wisdom at all already know, when one party does that, the other party does it next.  It's a sick cycle.


Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


Tuesday, April 10, 2018.  As May 12th elections approach, candidates attempt to shape their public images.  Oh, and look who War Hawk Anne Marie Slaughter is trotting out.


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خلالَ استقبالنا سفير الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية في (دوغلاس سيليمان) تمَّتْ مناقشة المستجداتِ السياسية والأمنية في والمنطقةِ، وأجواء الاستعداد للانتخابات المقبلة، حيثُ بيّنا الحاجةَ إلى ترسيخ التنافس على وفق البرامج التي تقدمُ رؤيةً أفضل لبناءِ العراق وخدمة شعبه..
 
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ALSUMARIA reports that Ammar al-Hakim met with US Ambassador to Iraq Doug Silliman today (see photos above). Ammar al-Hakim leads the National Alliance (Shi'ite group).  Ammar called for a move away from sectarian differences to a cohesive unity.  This meet up follows an earlier one with the British Ambassador.


  2.  Apr 7
The British Ambassador in Iran # (Nicholas Hapton) and t in Iraq # (Janaten Felix) have met Nuri # Al-Maliki ,Hadi # Al-Amiri and Ammar # Al-Hakim.
 
 
 Apr 7
British ambassadors to and jointly met with Nouri al-Maliki, Ammar al-Hakim and Hadi Al-Ameri top Iraqi Shia politicians and candidates in the upcoming elections in Baghdad.
 
Useful discussions in with some of the candidates in 's upcoming elections
 
 
 Apr 7
  1. UK ambassadors to Iran and Iraq meet with Iraqi political leaders Nouri al-Maliki, Ammar al-Hakim and Hadi al-Ameri (of the Iran-backed Badr Organisation).
     
    Useful discussions in with some of the candidates in 's upcoming elections




Meet ups are important right now.  It's the lead up to the May 12th elections and being able to point to a meeting with some foreign official might -- a candidate hopes -- leave an impression on Iraqi voters.

If you have no meet up with a foreign official?

Do like Osama al-Nujaifi.


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نائب رئيس الجمهورية يلتقي بالدكتور صالح المطلك رئيس ائتلاف العربية زار السيد أسامة عبد العزيز النجيفي نائب رئيس الجمهورية رئيس تحالف القرار العراقي مساء الأثنين 9 نيسان 2018 الدكتور صالح المطلك رئيس ائتلاف...
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Iraq's Vice President Tweets about meeting up with Saleh al-Mutlaq.  Though both are Sunni, al-Mutlaq's remains a questionable figure with Sunnis.  In fact, he's campaigning more carefully -- locations are selected with great care -- due the fact that his more prominent appearances in recent years were accompanied by booing and jeering and, in one case, thrown rocks and bottles.  It's surprising Saleh could get a high profile meet-up like that even though both men are Sunnis.  Osama is the most powerful Sunni official in Iraq as a vice president.  He previously served as Speaker of Parliament.  His brother is Atheel al-Nujaifi, the former Governor of Nineveh Province.  Earlier this year, KURDISTAN 24 reported:

An Iraqi court sentenced in absentia the former Governor of Nineveh Province, Atheel al-Nujaifi, to three years of imprisonment and banned him from traveling abroad as well as seized his assets.
Iraqi judicial authorities issued an arrest warrant against Nujaifi, the brother of the current Vice-President of Iraq, Osama al-Nujaifi, on charges of “communicating” and “collaborating” with Turkey.
The Iraqi Parliament in May 2015 removed Nujaifi from his post as the Governor of Nineveh following the fall of Mosul and the province into the hands of the Islamic State (IS) in mid-2014.
Nujaifi leads the Nineveh Guard, which consists of volunteers who previously served as officers and soldiers in the Iraqi army and who were later trained by Turkish troops in a camp on the outskirts of Mosul to fight the jihadist group.

Whether the move was warranted or not is up to debate -- as is anything with regards to 'legality' in Iraq.

How much of a joke is the rule of law in Iraq?  Even Raghad Hussein mocks it today.  As reported by ALSUMARIA, the daughter of Saddam Hussein, notes that "there is a flagrant violation of laws in Iraq."  Raghad resides in Jordan where she is under the protection of the royal family there.  Iraq continues to insist that she is part of the insurgency -- an assertion that she denies -- and they have put her on their most wanted list.  ALSUMARIA quotes Raghad declaring the day will come where she will sue various people/entities.  One wonders if that would include the US government?  Would Raghad have legal standing -- in world courts or US courts -- as the daughter of Iraq's former leader to sue the US over a war built on lies?

As DEUTSCHE WELLE noted this week in a piece entitled "The Iraq War: in the beginning was the lie:"


On April 9, 2003, US soldiers toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. Fifteen years later we know that this war cost hundreds of thousands of lives, plunged the Middle East into chaos — and was based on lies.




Returning to Osama al-Nujaifi for a moment more, KURDISTAN 24 reports:


Iraqi Vice-President Osama al-Nujaifi warned on Monday towards adopting the precept of “majority rule” as a substitute for the system of power-sharing in place because the fall of the previous regime in 2003.
“Majority rule,” many Iraq politicians say, is a thinly-veiled euphemism for “Shia rule,” as Iraq is likely one of the few nations with a Shia Muslim majority.
Nujaifi, a former Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament and distinguished Sunni politician, shares the view not too long ago voiced by Kurdish officers that widespread acceptance of the idea would profit one get together or sect on the expense of others in Iraq’s multi-ethnic and multi-religious society.


Iraq remains a failed state and if a candidate admitted that publicly, they might get a strong reception from voters.

Instead, they focus on photo ops.  One photo op many candidates would like would be one with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani; however, the Shi'ite cleric does not participate in personal political campaigns.  He does use his authority to make general calls and he's made one call already this month.


  1. Apr 6
This is important. The representative of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Al-Sistani says the reputation of 's Hashd should not be exploited for political goals. A message to Iran-backed factions ahead of the upcoming May elections .
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Najaf's religious authority warns against the use of 's reputation and popularity among people for electoral purposes. This comes after the repeated attempts of some politicians to use resources in their election campaigns and their claims that they represent the .
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The prime minister of Iraq is scrambling for anything to use to prove he's worthy of holding the post for four more years.  So, even though the profile was far from flattering, Hayder al-Abadi thinks the TIME magazine coverage was impressive enough -- being covered by TIME -- to make it his pinned Tweet for a month now.



 Pinned Tweet
 Mar 10
مجلة التايم الامريكية الشهيرة تضع صورة السيد رئيس مجلس الوزراء الدكتور حيدر العبادي على غلافها الرئيس وتصفه بالرجل الذي انقذ البلاد من حافة الهاوية، وانه قائد حقيقي وليس نسجاً من القصص الخيالية، وصاحب بلاغة كلامية.
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Click here to read Vivanne Walt's TIME article.  Possibly a little more media savy, Iraq's Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi uses his Twitter feed to promote a media appearance that will take place later today.

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سيكون السيد أسامة عبد العزيز النجيفي نائب رئيس الجمهورية رئيس تحالف القرار العراقي ضيف قناة بغداد الفضائية الساعة 8,00 مساء اليوم الثلاثاء 2018/4/10
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Any nit-wit can Tweet, as Anne Marie Slaughter makes clear.  The War Hawk is offensive all on her own but check out this Tweet.

. : no more appetite for Sunni-Shia war in Iraq. "Iraq is the only democracy in the Middle East." ISIS presence no longer threatening to the Iraqi order; 3000 Sunni candidates in the elections. Saudis have accepted the new Iraq.
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I'm sorry, does anyone take Nir Rosen seriously?  He imploded, or have we forgotten.  He made homophobic comments about Anderson Cooper and made jokes about the assault on Lara Logan.  That's just for starters.  Why in the world is piece of scum Anne Marie quoting him?  Yes, she is scum but it's also true that she tries to pretend she's a feminist.

If she's quoting him correctly, he's even more insane than he was during his meltdown.  Iraq is not a democracy.  Rosen was speaking yesterday at Arizona State University proving some people will host anyone.  (He was part of a war conference.)


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    We do have some real issues to address

    Porn star Stormy Daniels, shut the f**k up.  Seriously, just go away.  You’re beyond trash at this point.  We’ve got Iran upset and steaming.  We’ve got North Korea supposedly ready for talks.  We’ve got people pushing for war on Syria.  There’s a lot going on.  No one gives a s**t whose cock you took inside you.
     
    You had your 15 minutes,  go away.  No one cares.  You said it wasn’t abuse or assault.  Fine.  You told your stupid story – violating the NDA you signed and were paid for.  Go away.  The president has real issues to deal with.  You’re decade old one night stand is not important to the country nor are you.
     
    Go away.  Shut up and go away.
     
    The World Food Program noted this:

    Heavy rains and flooding in the second half of February affected around 33 camps and sites and 200,000 displaced people, predominantly in northern and central governorates. From mid-January 2018 until the end of February, the Camp Coordination and Camp Management Cluster has reported the arrival of 23,208 displaced people in camps in Ninewa governorate.
    In a joint announcement, published on 6 March, the Government of Iraq, the United Nations and its partners launched their 2018 humanitarian plans for Iraq: the Government’s Plan for Relief, Shelter and Stabilization of Displaced People and the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP).
    The humanitarian community is appealing for US$ 569 million through the HRP to respond to the needs of the 3.4 million most vulnerable people in Iraq. This year, approximately 8.7 million people, nearly half of them children, will require some form of humanitarian assistance while as many as two million displaced Iraqis are expected to return.
     
    I’m not really seeing how a porn actress and her one night stand over ten years ago are going to help Iraq.  We have real issues,  and your decision to sleep with someone even trashier than your usual co-stars is on you.  You should be hanging your head in shame instead of trying to get all this press attention.  You are useless and have nothing to offer anyone.  Go away.
     
     
     
     
     
    Kamran Karadghi has a column about all that’s wrong with the Iraq government and also notes this:
     

    So quo vadis Iraq? Fifteen years after Operation Iraq Freedom, Iraqis still ask the burning question about the future of their country: can a united Iraq survive? Last year a report on the future of Iraq was published by the Iraq Task Force, a group founded a year earlier by the Washington-based Atlantic Council. The group consisted of many politicians, academics and experts. In conclusion, the authors of the report offered a series of recommendations to the US administration. One recommendation stated: "It is in the interest of our national security that we do our best to help bring about an Iraq that is independent, stable and prosperous: one at peace with its neighbours; one reflecting legitimate and effective governance and one strongly inclined to cooperate closely with the United States in the Middle East and beyond."
    Many Iraqis are not so optimistic and not convinced that such a goal can be achieved without changing the status quo. And change is not coming at least for the next few years. For the fourth time, next month's elections will be fought between political blocks formed on sectarian bases.
     
     
     
    How is the porn star helping with that?  She’s not.  She needs to go away. We have real issues.  Over a decade ago she elected to have a one night stand with Donald Trump.  We heard her, we don’t need to hear her again.  She needs to go away and the media needs to stop covering her idiotic case.
     
    I remember, let me be damn clear, that a man came forward in 2008 stating he had sex with Barack Obama multiple times.  I remember he wanted to hold a press conference.  I remember one of Joe Biden’s sons was in government – Delaware or Rhode Island, wherever they’re from – and they suddenly arrested the man.
     

    I do not remember him getting much publicity.  Larry Sinclair was his name.   He said they had sex multiple times.  He said they did cocaine together.  He’s stuck by his story to this day.  But the press wasn’t interested in him.  Maybe if he’d been a female porn star, they would have been.  Porn star go away.


    Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


    Monday, April 9, 2018.  Elections approach but not a lot of optimism about them in Iraq.

    May 12th, Iraq is scheduled to hold elections.  In a sign that the campaigning has already begun, violence has already started.  AFP reports:

     A suicide attack targeting a political party headquarters in western Iraq has killed four people and injured seven others, including a candidate in polls set for May, officials said Sunday. On Saturday evening "two suicide bombers disguised as soldiers entered the Al-Hal Party headquarters", one of most prominent parties in the Sunni-majority province of Al-Anbar, a local security official told AFP on the condition of anonymity. 


    A lot of countries are interested in the elections -- or, in the case of the US and Iran, 'interested' (the governments of both countries have always felt they could dictate the outcome to Iraqis).


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    The al-Fateh electoral coalition, composed of backed Hashd al-Shaabi militia factions running for the Iraqi parliamentary elections in May, held a meeting on Sunday in with the participation of an Iranian military and diplomatic delegation 📸
    ‪The al-Fateh electoral coalition, composed of #Iran backed Hashd al-Shaabi militia factions running for the Iraqi parliamentary elections in May, held a meeting on Sunday in #Baghdad with the participation of an Iranian military and diplomatic delegation‬ ‪#Iraq‬ ‪📸‬
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    The elections for 2018 look a lot like the elections for 2014 and for 2010.



    And you will find
    while in the wind
    something that you lost
    The dream was never over, no
    The dream was only lost
    "Straight Back," written by Stevie Nicks, first appears on Fleetwood Mac's MIRAGE

    And, yet again, it appears to many that the election will be lost again.  Majed al-Samarai (ARAB WEEKLY) explains:



    In the race for the 2018-22 parliament, we still find the same old figures who refuse to withdraw from the playing field. All the big names, such as Nuri al-Maliki, Haider al-Abadi, Iyad Allawi, Ammar al-Hakim, Osama al-Nujaifi and Muqtada al-Sadr (even though the latter has a special status) are present.
    Of course, some new faces, always from the Shia house, have been injected into the tired and boring game. These new elements usually give a hint about the identity of the most influential playmaker in Iraq, namely Iran.
    The game was rigged right from the beginning, following a well-timed plan and with the consent of a former partner in the crime, namely the Americans.
    In perfectly choreographed speeches, the different stars play their cards. Maliki still holds to his old religiously inspired political programme. He never tires of repeating “Election Day is like judgment day.”
    Hakim has the wisdom to call on young Iraqi Shias to step forward and bear the responsibility of the coming phase but seems to have overlooked that those young people are ravaged by unemployment and drugs.
    In a surprising move, Allawi chose to innovate by striking alliances with traditional Sunni leaderships. His discourse, however, has not changed. He is still pushing to move to reforming the political system.
    Finally, Abadi is still trying to cash in on the victory over the Islamic State but his promises of fighting corruption produced no tangible results.


    Hayder al-Abadi staked his future on the premature claim that he vanquished ISIS in Iraq.  That, of course, hasn't proven to be the case.  XINHUA reports, "At least two security forces members were killed and seven others injured Monday in a clash with four suicide bombers from the extremist Islamic State (IS) group in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, a local security source said."  ISIS was supposed to be Hayder's big claim to fame.


    Instead, his biggest claim to infamy is just how ineffective he can be.  MEM reported last month, "Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi yesterday ordered an immediate investigation into allegations that fake jobs in the public sector were being offered to citizens by political parties in order to win votes in the country’s upcoming general elections."  ALSUMARIA reported last week that the Badr Organization's Hadi al-Amiri stated they would eliminate corruption.  He stated that they would create needed jobs and punish those who had stolen Iraq's wealth.  Hadi is a militia thug and he's also one of the corrupt -- most infamously, he ordered a plane  to remain on the runway and wait for his spoiled son Mahdi to make the flight but the plane left Lebanon without Mahdi on board so al-Amiri, then-Minister of Transportation in Iraq, refused to allow the plane to land.  It caused quite an uproar -- as CNN noted in real time.

    THE BAGHDAD POST reports, "Candidates in the upcoming elections' behaviors will make the elections process the worst in Iraq's history, MP Kazim al-Sayadi said on Saturday.  In a press statement, Sayadi said the candidates are trying to bribe voters or intimidate them and that will produce a weak and corrupt parliament."


    Corruption also includes the seeling of voter cards.

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    The price of the voter card in Nineveh is "$200" . According to the MP Nahla al-Hababi. .
     
     





    Adnan Hussein (AL ARABIYA) offers:

    Now that we are ahead of parliamentary elections, reasonable men must realize that those who caused all this damage to the country and its people cannot be counted on and granted confidence again.
    These representatives have had their chance and much more, and they do not even feel guilty for not improving the situation and they have not admitted to their mistakes. This signifies stubbornness and arrogance. Saddam Hussein himself was stubborn and arrogant thus leading to Iraq’s destruction. The damage of the past 15 years due to political Islam groups is a result of Saddam’s destruction and it further completes it.


    With elections weeks away, IRAQI SPRING MC lists the voters' concerns:

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    The anniversary of the occupation of Iraq: The concerns of the Iraqis have focused on the services enjoyed by our ancestors in the last century, such as drinking water, electricity and hospitals. Press reports
     
     
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    On the occasion of the anniversary of the occupation of Iraq The Security is still the primary concern as for the citizen. Press reports
     
     



    The people who have been in charge of Iraq post-2003 invasion have not been Iraqis.  They've been exiles, cowards who fled and only returned after the US invasion.


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    The government has so little legitimacy among the people because it is not of the people.  It is a government of exiles who chose to leave Iraq and live outside it for decades.  They were installed as puppets by the US after the invasion.

    The reason US troops remain on Iraqi soil is to prop up this government.

    It's a point few appear willing to concede.  (They grasp it, even if they pretend otherwise.)


    Marc Thiessen spent the lead up to the Iraq War writing speeches for Bully Boy Bush and Donald Rumsfeld.  That alone should leave him sidelined today.  Instead, THE WASHINGTON POST has made him a syndicated columnist.  Does he use that platform to atone for his actions?  Nope.  Does he try to learn from his mistakes?  No.

    He just calls for more war.  In his latest piece of garbage, he's saying that President Donald Trump would be making a mistake if he pulled US troops from Syria.  He says this is the mistake Barack Obama made while president with regards to Iraq.  Here's Thiessen:
    What should Trump be doing in Syria? He should maintain a U.S. presence to secure our military’s gains, protect our Kurdish allies, keep the Islamic State down and prevent al-Qaeda from capitalizing on the Islamic State’s demise. He should prevent Iran from entrenching itself in Syria, expanding its military presence and threatening Israel. And in the longer run, he should work to separate the Sunni population from al-Qaeda by cultivating Sunni partners in Syria who are allied with the United States against the Salafi-jihadist cause, as well as the growing Iranian-Russian-Assad-Hezbollah alliance.
    The temptation to declare victory in Syria and withdraw is understandable. But before he does so, Trump should ask himself:
    What would Obama do? Then, he should do the opposite.

    Barack's mistake was not pulling (most) US troops out of Iraq at the end of 2011.  His mistake was not doing it in his first ten months (as promised) if not sooner.

    What happened was not surprising.

    It will happen when the US pulls out.  It happened when the US left Saigon.

    Unless the American people are willing to allow their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers to spend forever on the ground in Iraq, Americans have to come home at some point.

    The hope of the John McCain crowd (he was okay with US troops in Iraq for 100 years -- he said while campaigning for president) is that the longer US troops are in Iraq, the more the government sinks in and the will of the people cannot triumph.

    ISIS rose in Iraq not because US forces pulled out of Iraq.  It arose because the US government refused to honor democracy.  Barack gave Nouri al-Maliki a second term that the Iraqi people didn't want him to have.  In that second term, Nouri really nursed his grudges and screwed the country over.

    The Islamic State might have taken Baghdad in 2014, it might not have.  There's no indication it was going to.  But what if it had?

    The Iraqi people would either fight it or they wouldn't.

    That's for them to determine.  It's their country.

    The United States is not leasing Iraq to the Iraqis, it's their country.

    And their will is what should determine the future.

    When the US finally leaves Iraq, things will be different.  But staying isn't saving anyone and is only preventing the will of the people.  That's what happened with Vietnam (which is still recovering).  It's what happens with any occupied country.

    Here, we advised Barack Obama to pull out immediately upon becoming president.  Why?  We stated he was voted into office in order to do that.  By doing it immediately, when the collapse came (and we knew it would), he could say, "That's on Iraq.  The American people spoke in the 2008 election."

    But he just knew so much better than anyone.  He just had to dabble with Iraq.  Move a few pieces around.  And pretty soon, he owned Iraq.  It's as much his failure as it is Bully Boy Bush's failure.  The smart thing is to get out of Iraq and Syria and let their people determine their future.
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