disrupter
09-12-2007, 02:45 AM
The way what little proffered success has been offered is by handing wads of cash over to Sunni groups who have already been 'ethnic cleansing' Shiites from their towns & region.
All that does is arm the future & inevitable civil war.
By forestalling the inevitable & trying to buy off the ethnic militias, we are simply making the coming civil war even worse, by arming & training them.
Petraeus is just spinning Bush's insanity to make it sound like solid progress, instead of the cans of gasoline that will explode at a future date.
A fresh round of rebuilding spurred by the U.S. military's recent alliance with some Anbar tribes — 200 new projects are scheduled — provides another opportunity for militant groups such as al Qaeda in Iraq to siphon off more U.S. money, contractors and politicians warn.
"Now we're back to the same old story in Anbar. The Americans are handing out contracts and jobs to terrorists, bandits and gangsters," said Sheik Ali Hatem Ali Suleiman, the deputy leader of the Dulaim, the largest and most powerful tribe in Anbar. He was involved in several U.S. rebuilding contracts in the early days of the war, but is now a harsh critic of the U.S. presence.http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/19232.html
we saw American military commanders hand wads of cash to tribal militias. And when he says that they are facilitating their integration into the country’s security forces, what he means is they're pressuring Iraq's government to incorporate these militias wholesale into the police forces. In fact, that's one of the promises that these tribes are given, that after working with the Americans for a few months, they'll become Iraqi police, be armed by the Iraqi state and be put on regular payroll. So it's completely disingenuous, what he’s saying.
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But the far more troubling issue for Iraq is that many of these groups are war criminals who are responsible for sectarian cleansing in the region.http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1424208
Petraeus is just adding lighter fuel to the tinderbox awaiting full blown civil war.
These NeoNuts are complete liars.
All they care about is stealing Iraqi Oil for ex-patriot oil companies at the price of American blood, American tax dollars, & global hatred of America.
When are you going to stand up like American Adult Patriots & DEMAND of your congress that they stop this looting of America for Criminal Corporations?
All that does is arm the future & inevitable civil war.
By forestalling the inevitable & trying to buy off the ethnic militias, we are simply making the coming civil war even worse, by arming & training them.
Petraeus is just spinning Bush's insanity to make it sound like solid progress, instead of the cans of gasoline that will explode at a future date.
A fresh round of rebuilding spurred by the U.S. military's recent alliance with some Anbar tribes — 200 new projects are scheduled — provides another opportunity for militant groups such as al Qaeda in Iraq to siphon off more U.S. money, contractors and politicians warn.
"Now we're back to the same old story in Anbar. The Americans are handing out contracts and jobs to terrorists, bandits and gangsters," said Sheik Ali Hatem Ali Suleiman, the deputy leader of the Dulaim, the largest and most powerful tribe in Anbar. He was involved in several U.S. rebuilding contracts in the early days of the war, but is now a harsh critic of the U.S. presence.http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/19232.html
we saw American military commanders hand wads of cash to tribal militias. And when he says that they are facilitating their integration into the country’s security forces, what he means is they're pressuring Iraq's government to incorporate these militias wholesale into the police forces. In fact, that's one of the promises that these tribes are given, that after working with the Americans for a few months, they'll become Iraqi police, be armed by the Iraqi state and be put on regular payroll. So it's completely disingenuous, what he’s saying.
. . . .
But the far more troubling issue for Iraq is that many of these groups are war criminals who are responsible for sectarian cleansing in the region.http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1424208
Petraeus is just adding lighter fuel to the tinderbox awaiting full blown civil war.
These NeoNuts are complete liars.
All they care about is stealing Iraqi Oil for ex-patriot oil companies at the price of American blood, American tax dollars, & global hatred of America.
When are you going to stand up like American Adult Patriots & DEMAND of your congress that they stop this looting of America for Criminal Corporations?