Re: [Marxism] Obama joins O'Relly in salute to "the surge"

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 7, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx wrote:

>
>
> Surge Protectors: Obama Embraces Bush-McCain Spin on  Iraq
>
>
> Friday, 05 September 2008
>
> Barack Obama_ has now declared_  -- on Fox News, no less -- that  
> George  W.
> Bush's escalation of _the flagrant war crime_  in Iraq has  
> "succeeded beyond our
> wildest dreams." He also proclaimed his "absolute" belief in the  
> "_War  on
> Terror"...

What a piece of work is this Obama! Surge succeeded "beyond our  
wildest dreams"???That violence in Iraq has lessened since the start  
of 2007 is entirely due to three (two certain, one probable) factors:
1.) The bribery of Sunni tribals (classical imperial tactic for the  
last three millennia) to fight against the so-called Al-Qaida in  
Mesopotamia (who they hated maybe even more than they did the  
Americans).
2.) The Iranian government's heavy-handed backing of Maliki against Al- 
Sadr, enforced by  imprisonment of Iraq's most popular politician in  
an Iranian "seminary."
3.)  A military operation whose main weapon is the suicide bomber  
probably began, as it inevitably had to, running out of weapons.

Not one of these factors was given as rationale for the "surge" and  
none of them was caused in any way by the relatively small increase in  
US combat troops glorified by the propaganda label "surge."

All of which is obvious to any informed observer.

And since all of these are building blocks of an Iranian-dominated  
Iraq once the US, as it soon must, gives up political control of Iraq  
the present US policy can rightfully be called a "faith(Islamic)-based  
solution."

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to  
be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos




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