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Published on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 by GRITtv
The US Withdrawal: Rebranding the Occupation or Changing the Game?
The US media have reported on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraqi cities. But 130,000 troops remain in Iraq and many argue that the occupation will continue only under a different guise. Have things really changed? Or has the occupation simply been rebranded?
Jeremy Scahill, best selling author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Patrick Cockburn, journalist and author most recently of The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
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Show AllThe will of the people denied.
A withdrawal can be defined as: coitus interruptus. Seeing as the the US is still screwing the Iraqis how is it a withdrawal?
Another war is around the corner, if the US Military doesn't leave Iraq in 2012, we may end up fighting the Iraq military,the one we are training.
Why is that not as disturbing as it sounds.
The new American school of thought is to never know how many people we kill in the name of American Imperialism.
The corporate controled media in America has yet to tell the good Christians of America that 600,000 women,children and men have been killed in Iraq over the last 7 years.
But who cares, the criminal act of 21 men on 9/11 and the death of 3000 Americans by a mastermind terrorist budy of the Bush Family warrants global death by the millions in the name of God.
It is all a shell game folks. Just move the soldiers outside the city limits, or change the definition of city. The fact is that there has been no reduction in the number of troops in Iraq. And now just look at the build up in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And oh those lovely drones, the troops don't even have to leave the States. Why do we continue to allow this?