Q2N: Outright Lying War Pimps

Apprently no one’s even bothered the corporate press (at last) reports the entire administration from Bush down implemented torture. Is everyone numb? Because unless they get impeached it looks like they are still keen on attacking Iran, I would guess within a few weeks before the election to help McCain’s chances. So here is the new lie via the dependably stenographing Washington Post-

Last week’s violence in Basra and Baghdad has convinced the Bush administration that actions by Iran, and not al-Qaeda, are the primary threat inside Iraq, and has sparked a broad reassessment of policy in the region, according to senior U.S. officials.

Evidence of an increase in Iranian weapons, training and direction for the Shiite militias that battled U.S. and Iraqi security forces in those two cities has fixed new U.S. attention on what Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday called Tehran’s “malign” influence, the officials said.

The intensified focus on Iran coincides with diminished emphasis on al-Qaeda in Iraq as the leading justification for an ongoing U.S. military presence in Iraq.

In congressional hearings this week, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus said the U.S. military has driven al-Qaeda from Baghdad, Anbar province and central Iraq, and he depicted the group as now largely concentrated in a reduced territory around the northern city of Mosul.

During their Washington visit, Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker barely mentioned al-Qaeda in Iraq but spoke extensively of Iran.

The administration has long tried in vain to build Arab diplomatic and economic support for the Iraqi government. But the Arabs, led by Saudi Arabia, consider Shiite Iran a competitor for regional dominance and have rejected Maliki as “a stooge for Tehran,” as one U.S. official called him.

“The Saudis appear to feel that the current Iraqi government is pretty much in thrall to Iran,” said a State Department official involved in Middle East policy. The administration’s hope, “in the wake of Maliki’s decisions on Basra,” the official said, “is that the Saudis will take a step back and take another look.”

After consultations with Crocker and Petraeus this week, Bush cut short their Washington visit and dispatched them to Riyadh. During a luncheon at The Washington Post, Crocker said that at a White House meeting Thursday morning, they “reviewed where we are in Iraq.”

The message to the Saudis, he said, “is going to be . . . it is time, more than time, for the Arab states to step forward and engage constructively with Iraq. Get their embassies open, get ambassadors on the ground, consider visits, implement debt relief, treat Iraq like the country it is, which is a central part of the Arab world.”

Again they are relying on an uninformed yet belligerent public to assent to their machinations because the forces the US fought were the least aligned with Iran there were. The forces connected to Iran were the ones the US fought alongside, Maliki & co’s separatists. The mention of the Saudi’s suggests this is getting to a serious stage as they wouldn’t move without their awareness. So the deal they may be looking top pull off is, while using Maliki as the puppet ruler they will deal with his Iranian affiliations when they attack Iran, thus isolated him and his separatists chums can be relied on to go along with US plans, most likely splitting into regions along ethnically cleansed lines each with US bases within to give muscle to imperial edicts. The Saudis would be happy with a damaged Iran and familiar corporations running Iraq’s sacking. And reconstruction in Iran would open the way to the usual suspects and the neoliberalisng of that ‘market’. I don’t think you can underestimate US arrogance about what it’s weaponry can achieve, the real world however is proving less cooperative and any attack on Iran would be disastrous for America. But as warfare is now structured so as to generate profit, a growing conflagration to many corporatists is no problem, every act of violence helps the balance sheet, these are the global criminals who use countries to enrich themselves. The Bush regime is their ideal.

So the Whitehouse is trying quite a complicated con game, they are telling idiot rightist supporters at home Iran is backing the attacks on the US, while in Iraq the US is allied to the Iranian backed Vichy Maliki bloc. A plain lie to the domestic audience. Their arrogance, the neoconservative fugue delusion that they can recreate the world to their design means they reckon they can attack Iran and somehow contain the turmoil that causes both in the straits of Hormuz and in Iraq, maybe Maliki -if he doesn’t knuckle under- will find himself on the wrong end of a car bomb. Again a brutal divide and rule strategy and all the time the destruction and warfare makes profits for those planning this and their cohorts. Which leads me back to impeachment, it is the only tool left to stop this unfolding.

War turns Republics into dictatorships. The logic is actually quite simple. The Constitution says that the Congress is responsible for declaring war. But in 2002 Congress turned that responsibility over to Bush, gutting the constitution and allowing the American Right to start referring to him not as president but as ‘commander in chief’ (that is a function of the civilian presidency, not a title.)

Now Bush has now turned over the decision-making about the course of the Iraq War to Gen. David Petraeus.

So Congress abdicated to Bush. Bush has abdicated to the generals in the field.

That is not a Republic. That is a military dictatorship achieved not by coup but by moral laziness.

And below Raed Jarrar talks about how both the US and Iran support the same parties-

So here we are again very obvious lies being distributed in America via media owned by corporations who will profit from the destruction, leaders knowingly propagandising with falsehoods to move their agenda forward- Q2N -The only thing different is the last letter and a million or so people dead since the last time they pulled this shit. But Americans really need to pay some attention this time, because Iran is not Iraq. It has not been weakened by years of punitive sanctions, it has a huge army, it is not a dictatorship and it can block the straits of Hormuz in a heartbeat and sympathetic forces in Iraq, well do you think they will sit by as the occupiers prove once again their violent intentions of dominance. Blood soaked imperial hubris is the Bush regime’s legacy but he may yet invent new nightmares. Just impeach the motherfuckers already.