Fierce Iraq Fighting Forces War Back Onto Campaign Trail

If you want to check out Hillary's double dealing on her shifting positions regarding the invasion/occupation of Iraq, check out the following article by Stephen Zunes entitled "Hillary's Iraq lies" at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canpalnet_news/message/14279

McCain chance of getting elected were slim and none,Because of the way the economy is going south. But now with Iraq going down the tubles it is just none.

Meaning, the war has been a central issue all along, but the media are having trouble pretending otherwise.

We can not leave Iraq because of negative consequences, so we will stay there a 100 years to forestall negative consequences. The negative consequences will be the descent of America into the "Dark Ages" as a third world nation.

It is long past time for us to wake up and come together with a determination and common purpose to rescue this nation we love from the abyss. Our soldiers need us to be their advocates here at home, even as they are looking out for one another on the battle field. In this season of hotly contested presidential politics, we truly do have the opportunity to set the agenda and insure that our voices are heard. We simply have to participate in numbers too great to be ignored. The stakes are too high not to take part. Lives are on the line. And even though we haven't been asked as a citizenry to share the burden or the sacrifices, at a time of war, we cannot afford not to step up voluntarily. Our military, treasury and faith in honest leadership have been broken, and we'll all ultimately pay the price. The war in Iraq has not made us safer, had nothing to do with 9-11, (remember Afghanistan) has cost the lives of untold thousands of innocent Iraqi lives (so much for winning hearts and minds!), created a monumental refugee crisis, and there doesn't seem to be light at the end of the tunnel. Bush's war is a travesty, and a stain upon our nation. The blood spilled will be on all our hands if we do not speak out. Whose child is going be the last to die for this lie, and what will that number be?

"We'll stand down when they stand up," "We're winning the war on terrorism," "The surge is a success," "Our troops will return on success", -- all political slogans and propaganda meant for public digestion to make sure Bush can last out his term of failed foreign policies and collapsing house of cards economy.

Not to worry though. CIA director, Michael Hayden, said on Meet The Press Sunday that there is now evidence that al Qaeda are training people who look like ordinary American citizens, meaning non-Middle East or "swarthy skinned" Arabic people as Ann Coulter described Iraqis. He further added that the CIA has proof that Iran has nuclear-ready weapons and fissile material to make them. This is great news for John McCain who can't wait to bomb Iran and expand the Bush War Forever foreign policy.

Somehow, Bush, his military commanders and the CIA director Michael Hayden conveniently forgot that when they took sides in supporting the anti-Semitic Shiite regime of Nouri al-Maliki, that the radical, Shiite militant clerics like Muqtada al Sadr with his Mahdi army and Aziz Hakim's Badr Brigade, would come back to bite them in the long run.

The message of Fear, of course has always been the Republican Party mainstay and a powerful weapon that has been used successfully against the American people ever since September 11, 2001. "Win one more for the Gipper" seems an appropriate slogan once more.

Bush has delivered permanent war, a shredded Constitution, a back-breaking $9 trillion national debt, torture, a flood of illegal black market labor, outsourcing of middle class jobs, health care that is now unaffordable and an economic crash caused by unrestrained Wall Street thieves, all slathered with his sticky Jesus syrup.
We"re told that if we hope have a chance to correct any of these things, we must pander to people who believe scientific facts are liberal lies, who treat blacks and gays with contempt and who plan to fly into the sky like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell when they "Rapture."
Sorry, but if we have to out-lie and out-stupid the Republicans, then I doubt that we"ve got enough cynicism or enough stomach for the job.

The surge is working about as well as this web site.

You can be sure Cheney vigorously urged al Maliki into the disorganized offensive. When someone really shouldn't be in government...

"The Democrats, ... , are beginning to point to the fighting in Basra as evidence that the American troop buildup has failed to provide stability and political reconciliation..."

Okay. If you agree with that reasoning then you all need to agree that since global temps dropped more than 1/2 degree C in 2007 then AGW is a hoax. Same logic.

And he will continue saying the same thing. Hey, he is not going to talk out of both sides of his mouth. He will continue saying that the surge is working no matter what the actual facts on the ground

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM AND BILL KRISTOL BLATANTLY LYING ON FOX NEWS SUNDAY ABOUT "IRANIAN BACKED SHIITE MILITIAS"

Graham and Kristo are spinning the new neocon lie that al-Sadr"s Mahdi Army is being backed by Iran this morning on Fox News Sunday.

THIS IS AN OUTRIGHT LIE. Iran in fact supports our puppet in Iraq, Prime Minister al-Maliki. The new intra Shiite fighting is all about local control of political power and resources (i.e., oil).

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/weekinreview/30glan.html?ref=worldspecial

http://www.slate.com/id/2187564/

Because this fight doesn't involve al-Qaeda--and actually goes to the heart of the complete dysfunction of the Iraqi government and Iraqi civil society--the neocons and their Repug shills need to adjust their propaganda and disinformation campaign to create some other bogeyman. i.e.. Iran, to justify continuing the war in Iraq and expanding it to attacking Iran.

These neocons and Repugs are counting on the ignorance of many Americans as to what is going on in Iraq. These lying rat bastards must be challenged on this directly (as if that really mattered).

What are the right wing parrots squawking about now???? It's obvious their surge isn't working. It was a lull in the militia's fighting until they could use the money the US is paying them to buy new weapons!

"Or it could show the Iraqis are incapable of defending themselves, shattering a fragile cease-fire in the process. "

I thought this was an interesting line, that the "Iraqis are incapable of defending themselves." Keep in mind that the militias are Iraqis, also. A better statement would be that the "official" Iraqi army is incapable of defeating the Iraqi militias. The original statement implies that the militias are somehow not Iraqis.

This is a mess beyond belief. McCain is not equipped to handle this. Here's his spokesperson:

said Randy Scheunemann, the McCain campaign"s senior foreign policy adviser. "Would you rather have the Maliki government in control, or the Iranian-backed special groups in control, or Al Qaeda in control?"

Keep in mind that Maliki is the one who welcomed Iran's President Ahmadinejad to Iraq a few months back and is more closely aligned to Iran than most of the militias. Al Qaeda doesn't have enough presence in Iraq to take control, and Iran would certainly send aid to Iraqi Shia groups to battle any Al Qaeda take over attempt.

The difficulty in resolving this is that every interested party has its own groups to back and its own interpretation of events to defend its own agenda. For example, Bush's surge is working when the violence drops, and the surge is working when the violence spikes. Bush and McCain's goal is to defend the surge, not resolve this mess.

I'm No Einstein, No Nostradamus. But I knew the Minute this Corrpt Regime put OUR kids boots down In Afghanistan- this was going to be a Cluster F*ck.
I have watched this Agenda be played out for the Last 35 yrs - with the pennical being the Last 7.
When The Second Plane Hit- my first words 'That was No accident' . In fact I had the hair stand up on my neck the First time I finally Saw & Heard DICK on the Campaign trail in '99
Moving From the Iran Hostage Crisis to Today I see STRINGS
I watch & read about the War, the Economy, The Campaigns and I still See Strings.
None of this has been an Accident . It has been a well thought out and Well Executed Plan.
WE are on our knees and the Inc's and their Gov't Operative have the gun at the back of OUR head. We have been the last Great Domino to Fall- they had to hit US from every advantage Point- Reputation, Fear, patriotism, financial, communications....We have been Infiltrated and Surrounded.
We Must Show THEM and the World - We have NOT BE DEFEATED!
time for TRIALS that Will make Nuremburg look like OJ's - Real Crime, but failed to bring down the Real Beast Imperialism,/Totalitarianism,......Corporationism. Then we will Porve we are Still the Greatest Democracy in the World and Honor those who have given theri lives for this Goal fro over 2 centuries.

Only 9 months until this lunatic 8 year nightmare is over.

President Bush: Your assertion that the "surge is working" is conflicted by information on the air waves that tht Green Zone is under constant bombardment and seige and whole sections of the country are witnessing rebellion and mayhem. Are you receiving the proper information? Or are you being fed only that information that your advisors think you want to hear?
the most difficult challenge of leadership is to recieive unfiltered facts and prevent subordinates from draping grim reality with store front props from old movie sets. Also, you may wish to consider firing those sychophants surrounding your Administration and appointing a bipartisan group of patriotic administrators to assist you in beginning to extricate ourselves from a distant land that is now hemorhaging our sustenance, wealth, will and ability to act rationally.

Some lessons are never learned or at the least the leaders of this nation are too stupid to calculate problems that may arise. France, when VietNam was known as French Indo-China, was wise enough to get out of what was a civil war after Dien Bien Phu. Ike stepped in and got us started in interfering in that very same Civil War with the landing of a thousand "advisors". Ike would not let the free election he promised to all Vietnamese to take place in 1957. The Nam civil war broke out again. Again we backed such despots as Bao Dai, later Thieu and Ky. Johnson ended up sending a half million of our boys, on a trumped up excuse, to back up a portion of a nation that was unwilling to do its own fighting for its own freedom. Am I the only one who sees these parallels? Where is the Vaunted Press? Why are they not asking the piercing questions? Why do they accept patently phony answers at Press Conferences?