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Bombings in Baghdad Threaten DC Security
According to the Associated Press, Iraq’s deadliest bombing in more than two years killed at least 155 and wounded more than 500 Sunday. Two suicide car bombs blew up almost simultaneously outside the Justice Ministry in downtown Baghdad having passed through multiple check points. At least 25 staff members of the Baghdad Provincial Council, which runs the city, are among the dead.
Security issue? Not for those watching US TV.
The deadliest coordinated attack in Iraq in two years merited no mention on the Sunday TV shows. Except for CNN, they’ve moved on to Afghanistan, the so-called “Right War.” There, 14 Americans and three civilians were reported dead, victims of two helicopter crashes. By Monday, that was dominating the news.
Too much attention to what’s actually going on in Baghdad — 155 dead and 500 wounded and all the rest–might unsettle a very convenient consensus.
It’s a security issue indeed, but the priority in US media isn’t the life and death of Iraqi people; it’s the security of the war consensus in Washington.
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Show AllOne wonders if the true purpose of the USA invasions is primarily the complete destruction of victim nations.
Over here in Canada, with most of my friends, there WAS hope that Obama would make a difference, that the wars, war crimes, torture, extraordinary rendition, murder..etc, etc would come to and end. That hope has been thoroughly dashed to pieces as the wars escalate and the war profiteers make a 'killing'....pardon the pun! The suffering of children and mothers and fathers that are the victims of the US madness and unbridled violence has demonstrated beyond all doubt that the US has fallen into complete and utter moral and spiritual depravity! We here in Canada have a great deal to be ashamed of as well, as Bush the Butcher was recently welcomed by our own brand of elite fascists on his speaking tour to some of our major cities. It is truly a spectacle of insanity and injustice that this war criminal should be allowed to continue living freely and to get paid exorbitant amounts of money to speak!! All the Canadians that i know see him for the monster that he is, dark and evil. All of us are shocked that he was welcomed by anyone in our country!!!!! Our prime minister is cut from the same unholy cloth, however, so we must hang our head in the deepest shame for our allegiance to the evil empire to our south!!
I am beginning to find a little bit of value in Vice-President Biden's suggestion to divide Iraq into three entities: one Shia-dominated, one Sunni-dominated, and one Kurd-dominated. In fact, these should be urged to become real sovereign states. Will these states then start wars against one another? Almost certainly yes but they will not be civil wars but "real" wars in which we need not be involved since all of our soldiers have already been taken out of the former Iraq. One or two of these states jointly will win and establish a military or else religious dictatorship possibly with the aid of Iran which will bring transient stability to the "old" Iraq, absence of bombings, the return of the international oil companies, and lakes full of crude for our voracious consumption.
peacekeepertwo : Who is the winner in this Round of Terror? not the Insurgents or the Iraqi people,all our enemies want us to go home. The bad guys can't get past our security. Was this an Inside Job? The Defense department is in the business of war. Every Corporation want's to keep the Empire.
" Every Corporation wants to keep the Empire". Unfortunately true. Folks, there are no good guys or bad guys to the corporatocracy, only the flow of power and $. If a foreign government is perceived as a threat to the Empire, they are demonized no matter how good or bad their government really is,just like Chavez's democratically elected government in Venezuela is labeled by the whore press as a dictatorship and evil; or if any foreign government are perceived as not a threat to the 1% wealthy elite that own most of America's wealth; it does not matter if they are good or the most evil thugs in the world.
The beginning of a new escalation of violence in Iraq is not surprising when put in context. It has been said that it was the act of Sunni factions which feel disenfranchised in the political arena. Okay, the Sunni "Awakening Councils" had been paid by the US to patrol against "Al-Qaida" in Iraq, and to police their walled off sectors, etc. The US stopped paying these councils a number of months ago giving the responsibility to the Al Maliki regime (Shia) which has not been keeping up the payments. Now, those who felt that they had some measure of political power and some form of remuneration in a devastated country with little secure employment have been cut out of the loop. The Shia dominated government overall and the Kurdish independent north have locked up most of the economic and political power now in Iraq.
So, like everywhere else the US sticks its fingers in, stirs up conflict, war, bloodletting and buying "friends" when the US stops funding its "friends," those factions tend to blow things up. Strangely, no one ever seems to figure it out. Think CIA sponsored Al Qaida, Northern Alliance, the Taliban, etc. etc. etc. You cannot buy allegiance - when the money stops, so does the "friendship."
If I was empowered to change one thing in this world, I would choose to disempower the US warmongers and their military apparatus.
Begezzus, I dunno! That about sums it up for today.
The bombings in Baghdad could be a covert U.S. operation, but this is only a possibility and the first point of this post is only to provide the link for the following article. I don't know of the value of the source, but will post the link anyway.
"Iraq: Deadly car bombs 'made inside' Green Zone",
by AKI, adnkronos.com, Oct 26 2009
http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=59405
EXCERPT:
Baghdad, 26 October 2009 (Aki) - The twin car bombings which on Sunday killed over 150 people and injured 500 in the Iraqi capital Baghdad were made inside the heavily fortified Green Zone, Iraq's deputy interior minister Ahmad al-Khafaji told Adnkronos International (AKI).
"The two vehicles that exploded yesterday in the al-Salihiya area of Baghdad were made in a location right next to the blasts," al-Khafaji told AKI.
"This is why the devices were not detected at the police checkpoints," he added.
END OF EXCERPT