November 12, 2007- Downturns

  One of the things that washington says a lot is that the coverage of the war effort in Iraq is biased. By that, they mean that the media only wants to report things like casualties and American losses and scandals like Abu Gharib and the like, and to an extent, they are right. The media looks at this as a war, so they want war stories, and those would involve death and mayhem and such, stories about rebuilding a nation are not the stuff of war, that is some kind of social shit, so they are not that gung-ho on covering that aspect of it ,much to the chagrin of Washington. However, Washington needs to realize that they started this thing as a war, not as some social project, so they should expect the media to look at it in terms of war, so on that hand, they have zero reasons to get all upset over it. Yet they do, and it has been a major bone of contention between the Pentagon and the American media for years now. So the Pentagon has taken it upon the,selves to find the shit that they want covered and point it out to the media and then see what happens, but they stil bitch and moan over it. But lately, they have founnd something big to point  out, and it is something that the media cannot ignore. The stories of school reopenings and roads opening and shit are of no importance to the media, but the latest triumph that the Pentagon has pointed out has been a very large affair. The statistic that they pointed out this time was that the numbers of violent attacks and killlings and general mayhem in Iraq are down all across the board. Less people are being slaughtered every day, and there are not as many car bombings and assasinations as there use dto be, so Iraq is a "safer" place now than it was. The American media can no longer ignore that fact because the mere fact that this is so means that they just do not have the everyday stories of violence and killing and mayhem like they used to have so they have to look at this as a real deal. They can see right in front of thei rown eyes that things are not as bad as they used to be, although that does not mean things are good by any means. However, a country that looked like it was sliding inevitably towards a Civil War is now showing downturns in all categories, and it is starting to look as if the American efforts are finally starting to bear fruit. This is what Washington has been saying all along, that if everyone had patience and faith in what they are trying to do in Iraq, that things would turn around. Things would not turn around right away or even soon, but they would eventually, and now looks like that eventually according to these new statistics. Even those that are opposeed to America cannot deny that these numbers all indicate downturns, it is that obvious. For an Administration that desperatley needed something to grasp on to, the Bush Administration has been making as big a deal as they possibly can out of this. Looking at these facts, it looks like they had been right all along, that the Ameriucan efforts in Iraq were not just something to enrich Mr. Businessman and such, that they were serious nation building efforts, and they also said from day one that it would not quick or easy. They say that this is because the Iraqi people are now serious about wanting that new society that American promised them and they are now acting serious about it as well. They are stopping short of saying that things are going so well in Iraq that they can start bringing troops home, but they are saying that things are starting to go America's way in Iraq, so anything can happen from then on. These downturns are definetly good news for America, but can they last is just one of the questions that needs to be asked due to this.

   Washington says that this is all due to one thing, and that would be the troop surge that we had earlier this year. As we recall, that was a scontroversial as it got, as many in America did not want that to go down at all. They just thought that it was another way for the fat cats to get fatter off the war, and wanted no part of it. This became a political fight and the democrats did everything that they possibly could to try and get Bush's surge stopped. There were something like four or five different plans for ths surge, all involving different troop numbers, as no one knew what was going to be allowed to get through, if anything. The argument from washington for this was that this was a necessary thing, that the problem in Iraq was that Washington had not adequately prepared for what they found there and that they needed extra help to get the job done right. There was a lot that seemed to make sense in that argument, no matter what you thought of it politically, that America needed more manpower to make things happen, and the problem became just how long would they be needed for. Washington refused to answer that question, as always, and that was a major sticking point, and the political battle was on. The White House used every advantage that it could get, and eventually, Bush got his troop surge, albeit with strings attached. he was suposed to start bringing them home after a certain time, and shit, but he goit what he wanted, and when he did, he said that this will show everyone that he had been right all along and that this is what is needed to achieve that victory in Iraq that they so prematurely celebrated on the deck of that battleship a few years back. Now, just a few short months after Bush got the troop surge that he so wanted, everything is on the downturn in Iraq and it sure looks like the surge did the trick. In the last few months, America has made far more headway towards rebuilding Iraq than they did in the years preceding it and all that has happened after the surge. Now that things are down across the board, Bush can use these extra troops for the other part of the mission, nation building and restoring some semblance of society to Iraq. There is no question that ever since these extra troops came to Iraq, that violence has been down, assassinations are down, car bombings are down, everything is down across the board. These results are making Bush look like some sort of a genius, although it was his Pentagon opeople that cooked up this plan, not him, but since he is the guy at the top, he takes all the credit when things go good like this. Even his harshest critics have to admit that something is up here in Iraq, that shit like this does not just happen in a chaotic war zone, that circumstances have to change drastically and it looks like America has finally brought about that change. Politics have been holding Bush back ever sionce thwe start of this war, and maybe if he is freed from their constraints, he can do what he said he was going to do in Iraq befored he leaves office in 2009. Ever since he got his troop surge, Iraq has settled down, so maybe let him do his thing unfettered and this whole sordid mess may be over sooner rather than later. However, ther eare always at least two sides to everything, and with something as complicated as a war, ther eare multiple sides to everything, and this downturn stuff is no exception. The Pentagon  might like to think that it is their brilliant planning and executions of the war that are bringing this all about, but if they do, they are giving themselves too much credit for things. For the statistics do not lie, but they have a lot larger story to tell than the one that the Pentagon spits out.

   There is one major fact that Washington leaves out when the crow about the downturns in things in Iraq, and that is the fact that this war has spawned one of the greatest mass exodus events that man has ever seen. The Iraqi people have not finaly seen the light and are now accepting the American ways, they have seen enough of everything and are getting the fuck out of the cxountry in record numbers. Millions of them are leaving Iraq for anywhere and that has drasitcally reduced the numbers of people left to continue fighting and car bombing and assassinating and all that good shit. Add to that the fact that the neighborhoods in Baghdad have been segregated now, so that no two ethnic or religious groups live anywhere near one another, in the past, they had all lived together even thjough they did not like one another, they tolerated each other enough to live, but since America has come in, they have all been moved to enclaves amongst themselves. So the enemies cannot het at one another so easily anymore, and that would be another reason that all these things are on the downturn in Iraq. That means when you lok at the whole picure in Iraq, the fact is that there are just a whole lot fewer people there to do any of these things, so the sheer numbers of them would have to go down automatically. That is not exactly nation building, it looks more like genocide and ethnic cleansing. The Iraq that America has created is one where the peopl that were supposed to be so thankful and happy to be liberated from tyranny cannot get away from fast enough, and the tropp ssurge had zero to do with this, this process was well underway long before Bush got the extra troops. The chaos of the war was what startede that and what continues to fuel it, the numbers of troops means nothing, the Iraqi people just see an endless war with no way out for them except leaving and that is what they are doing. This exodus is so large that neighboring countries like Syria are having to start turning Iraqis away because they are being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of refugees now. There is simply no one left to fight in Iraq, only the die-hards are left shooting at everyone, the rest have all fled or are in the process of fleeing. This is the result that Bush's policies have had in Iraq, a country where its inhabitants cannot get out fast enough or far enough away. Mothers are traking their children out, meaning that the future of Iraq that America said it was there for is leaving in record numbers as well. The birth rate in Iraq simply cannot match the numbers that are leaving, and add to that a high war zone mortality rate, and you have a population going nowhere but way down. Therer is nothing in Iraq that is on an upturn at all, meaning not just things like violence and death are on the downturn, but things like business, education, transportation, they are all on a downturn in Iraq as well, because there is no longer anyone left to do these things.  The entire Iraqi society is on a severe downturn and that si what Washington leaves out of its reports. The media that they are supposedly so at odds with also spout the party line and say nothing  about this, making the shit that Washington says look like the truth, when it is only a partial truth at best. he knew that going into the whole thing, that this process had already begun, and that troop snumbetrs meant zero. But he sent extra  ones anyway to make himself look good because he knew that this process would acelerate and that he could say that it was because of the extra troops and make the people think that he was telling them the trugh all along. When no one is left in a country, all statitics go down, and Washington gets to cherry pick which ones they want to use.

   However, do not think that they are sad or upset that this mass exodus in going on, they love every minute of it, if they did  not, it would not be continually accelerating like it is, they would have stepped in and stopped it, the fact that they don't shows that this was the plan for Iraq all along. In fact, the Iraqi people are making it a lot easier for Ameria by doing what they are doing, leaving like they are. That way, America does not have to kill so many of them to get rid of them, and the Iraqis have figured that out and that is why they are leaving is such record numbers. What Washington wants to do is to get out all these malcontent Iraqis that might dare not worship America as a god  and replace then with a society of sycophants and toadys that will do anything Washington says. This is the same plan that Washington followed with the native Americans as they wexpanded westward, they either killed them or they fled elsewhere so that Washington could take over and populate the land with its own people. This worked fabulously for them here at home, so they figured that they could easily do it in Iraq, and they are doing it more easily than they thought. America had every intention of destroying Iraqi society becausew they knew that they could never builld the puppet state that they wanted to on the old one, that was a Middle Eastern Islamic culture, and America does not know how to work with that at all, nor wants to try and learn either. Ameriuca wants to raise a generation of Iraqis in an Iraq that is an American satellite state at best, and that makes it easier to ruin the society the  way they see fit. However, to start that process, you have to get rid of the current generation of Iraqis, because they'll never do, and the way that Washington came up with was war. They figured that they'd just bomb and kill the Iraqis to a point where they would not be enough of them anymore to stand up to them. But the chaos that they turned Iraqi society into was the real key here, in  today's world, people are more free to move than they were in the past, and it makes it easier to get the fuck out of a war zone that way, and that is what the Iraqis are doing. They saw what the Americans were doing, and they had read their world history books and saw that they were up against a society that had been founded on these genocidal principles, so rather than end up like the Native Americans, the Iraqis have decided to leave instead. That is just  fine with Washington too, in fact, it is better, because now, America does not have to do so muich killing and shit and take the inevitable flak that comes with it, they can quietly go about the business of first driving the Iraqis out of the country, and then re-populating it with their own people. If thi sshortens the war there, the American people will not give a fuck about this even if they see it happening, they just want the war done with as soon as possible, so there is little opposition or problems for Washington on that end. If Iraq has to be an American puppet state, the people want it to be like Guam, some place they never hear about at all, and do not even remember belongs to America. What happens to these displaced Iraqis no one cares about, they all look at it as that is their tough shit, the thinking is that most of them will end up somewhere or another eventually. Then, the thinking turns to how to carve up the immense cash pie that these refugees left behind in Iraq, the true purpose of the war all along. So the downturn in violence in Iraq does not mean any kind of upturn for the Iraqi people, in fact, it is a bigger downturn for them than anyone else, but we do not hear from them in the media, so they do not matter, and that is the way that it always has been on this subject.

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