September 3, 2006- Untrue Assessment

   Everywhere that you look these days, it seems as if if the Administration isgetting more bad news on Iraq. First we had those Mariens that were charged with massacring people, and then we saw the numbers and frequencies of sucide and car bombs and the like increase dramatically, taking even more lives, and then we saw the poll numbers take a stiff dive, with President Bush's approval ratings on the war way down in the shithouse, and last week there was more seemingly bad news. This news came from the Pentagon themselves, as it was part of the reports on the war's progress that they have to present to Congress every so often so that the image is crafted of concerned politicians  overseeing what the Pentagon is doing so it looks as if this is not just money being thrown away in the wind, and when you think of these reports, you would assume that all that they would be is the Pentagon spouting its own political propaganda and patting itself on the back and saying what a great job they were doing, but last week, that was not the case. The Pentagon's own people actually went before these Congressmen and painted a very bleak assessment of the conditions in Iraq. They essentially said that Iraq was out of control and sliding into a Civil War, one that is pitting Sh'ia Muslims agaunst Sunni Muslims, with roving death squads all over the nation, assassinating and terrorizing at will. The Pentagon said that the White House is not adequately dealing with the situation in Iraq and was actually making the whole thing worse by their actions. They said that the White House seemed to be "out of touch" with the situation in Iraq and in danger of losing all control that they have left over there. Needless to say, the shit hit the fan at high speed when that came out, especially the part about the White House being out of touch. Those poll numbers of Bush's fell even further intoi the shitter, and his political oponents saw a chance to make political hay and went right at it. The cries for America to end its involvement in Iraq now and bring the troops home have intensified, as those that support this cause say that when even the Pentagon calls its own bosses out of touch, it shows that things are way out of control and that nothing more can possibly be gained from this. Indeed, it looks pretty bad for the dudes that are put in charge of running the war to say something like that about their bosses, but they did just that last week, saying that they were just giving an honest assessment of the situation. Even the spin that the Administration gave to this, where they took the head General  in Iraq and had him say that this was not so, that he saw a way that America could indeed complete its objectives in Iraq made any difference, when this story was coupled with the other stories pouring out of Iraq last week about bombings and killings and all that shit, people did see an Administration out of touch with reality in Iraq, one that adamantly refuses to change much of anything, one that was headed for disaster. So that has greatly intensified the calls for America's withdrawl from Iraq. once again dividing America into factions and against one another, as yet another debate breaks out and rages across America.  Is the Administration really as out of touch as their Pentagon boys said that they were, or is it all really a bunch of Washingtonians playing politics with one another in an election year, the Pentagon wanting things their way and the White House another, so they do the only thing that anyone in Washington knows how to do, posture and play politics with the issue.

  It seems very hard to think that the Administration is not way the fuck out of touch with things over there, because all they ever seem to say is pep rally style talk, like the shit that Bush spewed in the days aftere this report came out, or make these wild, sweeping statements about all sorts of shit, they never seem to talk about the situation in Iraq rationally. If they admit to failings, they always pass the buck and make excuses and shit and eventually end up blaming things on their enemy, the terrorists and their minions. Over and over again, Bush has talked about free and democratic elections in Iraq and how they were destined to change that society forever, and there have been several rounds of elections and a duly elected government has been in place in Iraq for a while now, and still it gets worse and worse there. It seems surreal to hear the Admninistration talking about how the Iraqi's lives are better now than ever before, and see those daily images of extreme carnage  on yout TV. All of that makes it look as if this war is being run by a bunch of chickenhawks, folks that never really served in the military or fought in any conflict other than a fencing match, but now are in charge, and making others do the fighting while they sit back and party. That is suposed to translate to people that have zero experience making the decisions that affect so many others, and lead to disaster, and many feel that is why America is in the situation that it is  with Iraq, and that the Pentagon are heroes for finally standing up and saying something about it. Many have chafed under seeing the White House and the Administration that are manned by people that did not serve in the military at all telling long time Generals what to do and how to do it. Lots of long time Pentagon people sure do not appreciate it, and their voices have been heard loud and clear by Washington, and that ball has been put squarely in the Administration's court. So many things that Administration people have said aboiut Iraq have been disproven that it look as if they were never in touch with things to begin with, let alone now. Nothing that they can say to the cameras  can overcome the images of the death and dstruction that pour in from Iraq every day, that just keeps making them look farther and farther out of touch. The theory has been going around for years that this is because the Administration has a Messianic complex, that they think that they are Christ or something and take their orders directly from God, President Bush has said things like that every so often, and that sort of attitude would certainly lead to becoming out of touch with the reality  of Iraq, as would the  rumored utter refusal of Bush to hear anything negative in his reports, that everything has to be way upbeat, so that would make it sem that these reports had to be made up especially  for him and would never contain  much truth of any kind,  and if that was the case, then he certainly would be far out of touch with things. So there are many different reasons for why the Administration would be so far out of touch with reality in Iraq that even their own employees would say so, and that would explain everything that we have seen thus far.
 
   All that shit about Iraq falling tinto a Civil War are indeed true, in fact, many feel that this war started a while ago. There seems to be no question that almost everything that America has tried in Iraq has failed miserably, that elected government that was supposed to make so much difference has been very quiet lately, maybe because they are in fear for their lives by thise roving death squads that are everywhere, and it looks as if there is no central authority in Iraq at all. That pentagon report even said that the insurgents and other warriors are the only ones providing any services at all to the citizens of Iraq, the only way that they can get food or water or electiricty or anything.  This has made the citizens look on them as the representatives of them, not those fuckers hiding away somewhere in Baghdad or the Americans, so they swear no loyalty to either one of those, despite what Washington says about who runs Iraq. It has become evident that no one runs Iraq, not Washington, not any Holy Men, not any militians, that the country is essentially in a state of anarchy and Civil strife. Every poll taken of the Iraqi people now shows that they do not believe  anything that America says any more and wish that they had never come to begin with, and that all that they have come to dol is to steal the oil anyway. The same folks that Geraldo Rivera wanted to kiss for going out to vote in Iraq last year  now would like nothing more than to see America go back home and leave them the fuck alone and let them get back to their lives. The problem is that there are many that will stay there in Iraq and fight it out with one another over who gets to run things, so America's leaving would not put an end to the war at all .it might even make it worse, if that is possible. So Bush is not that far out of touch when he says that America needs to stay in Iraq and not leave now, because he knows that the entire colossal mess there is his doing to begin with and that splitting the scene now would not have any positive consequences at all. America is forced to stay around for this Iraqi Civil War and even to eventualy take sides, if for no other reason other than to protect themselves. That is about as far from the freedom that Bush promised the Iraqis as you can get, and that would make it look very much as if an out of touch Administration had made a fucked up mess out of everything, and that America needs to look at what the fuck they are going to do now in the light of the new developments and situation in Iraq. and that requires the Administration to come down off of that Messiah complex that they may have and quit with the hysterical talk and name calling and get their spoiled asses down to brass tacks and deal with what they have done and try and get something crafted to get some kind of  a resolution here before it is too late. No  one with any concept of reality whatsoever can say that iraq has not turned into a disaster and problem for America of the highest scale and that the Administration has made it worse with their high handed rhetoric, and that they need to quit that shit now and get to work, if even your most trusted henchmen at the Pentagon are saying that, it has to be a reality, or does it?

   The Administration has not been very quick to defned itself against these charges here, and even if they were way off on a Messianic trip or something, they could not ignore the firestorm that this has caused. If they were really doing that badly in Iraq, they would have spin doctors and nurses and orderlies all over the place spouting their side of the story andtrying to make themselves look good again. However, all that they did was to trot out that General to say shit that nobody believed and they left it at that. This does not seem consistent with someone that would think that they had done a bad job and needed damage control, no, it seems like something that one would do if they had done a great job, and that was no accident. For far from being out of touch like that report said, the Administration has succeeded tremendously in everything that they set out to accompish in Iraq. They were never serious about that democratic government shit, they knew that was not plausible at all. they also knew that any elected government would just sit around and do nothing until they were assassinated, and that without any centeal authority at all, Iraq would slide right to where it is now, Civil War. The Administration wanted  this Civil War all along because to begin with, it continues the state of perpetual warfare that they thrive on, that makes so much money for so many corporationsm and it also helpsp to spread the climate of fear back in America that they need so, perpetuate that image of "if we don't fight them there, then we'll have to fight them in America" that scares the shit out of so many people. that  all will be enhanced these next two weeks with the endless spectacles concerning September 11th, 2001, the constant airings of the videos of the towers collapsing, the endless recollections of horror from those involved in that day, and all the rest that will surround it. That will make it easy for the Administration to make Americans think that if they split Iraq now, these warring factions will chase right after them to the streets of the USA and then no one will be safe from their madness. That wil ensure that the endless war gets at least another year of life, so they have that long to rake in more money and to come up with a new story to perpetuate it then, and a Civil War in Iraq will be perfect for that, it should last until January 20, 2009, when Bush and Company are due to leave the White House. There is another reason that America wants Civil War in Iraq, and that is so that the Iraqis will go ahead and kill as many of each other as they possibly  can, because then America does not have to do it. Washington knows that a Civil war there would make the American one back in the 19th Century looklike a schoolboy snowball fight in terms of carnage and death. Especially if they drag their feet real hard in trying to put an end to it, the longer that it goes on, the more Iraqis will be killed, and then America can ship in their own people to fill the voids and populate the country with American friendly people. Washington has its war machine set to strike in other places like Iran soon, so the fighting in Iraq needs to be turned over to the Iraqis so that Washington can take  their troops and deploy them elsewhere. So when you look at  all of that, the Administration has done a perfect job in Iraq, and not been out of touch with the real objectives of it at all. they are just pretending to do otherwise, they told the Pentagon to say what they said  in that report so the people would not know. So that was a very unfair assessment of things that was given to the Congress last week, the Administration has succeeded fabulously in Iraq and is accomplishing everything that they set out to do with flying colors. All that you have to do is to see the real objectives here as opposed to the stated ones and you see the true measure of success here as defined by those that have been behind it all from the start.

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