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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

    Iraq War Will Worsen--Take Two
    <http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2007/01/iraq-war-will-worsen-take-two.html>

The day after US national elections last November, I wrote a post 
entitled "Iraq War Will Worsen 
<http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2006/11/iraq-war-will-worsen.html>." 
Here's part of what I said:

    ... The Dems now have the power of the purse (US Const. Art. I, Sec.
    7
    <http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html>)
    and could force a US withdrawal but I expect US troop levels to
    increase in Iraq in the next two years and more Iraqis and Americans
    to die.

    Here's why: Both parties are in the grips of the arms industry and
    the Israel Lobby
    <http://electronicintifada.net/v2/israellobbywatch.shtml>. If
    anything, the Democrats are even more pro-Israel--albeit only
    slightly (think about the difference between 97% and 99%).
    Furthermore, when the new Congress is seated we will be less than
    two years away from the 2008 presidential election. ...

Tonight, George Bush made it official 
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070110-7.html> that 
he has already "... committed more than 20,000 additional American 
troops to Iraq 
<http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2006/11/impending-us-troop-buildup-in-iraq.html>." 
Moreover, in a move that so far has generated little attention, Bush 
stated that previously there have been "too many restrictions on the 
troops we did have." What exactly this means is unclear but, apparently, 
Bush is going to relax the rules of engagement for US troops in Iraq 
<http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36098>. It seems that, in part, Bush 
is referring to where US troops are deployed in Iraq. He said:

    ... In earlier operations, political and sectarian interference
    prevented Iraqi and American forces from going into neighborhoods
    that are home to those fueling the sectarian violence. This time,
    Iraqi and American forces will have a green light to enter those
    neighborhoods -- and Prime Minister Maliki has pledged that
    political or sectarian interference will not be tolerated.

All of this means more Iraqis and Americans will suffer and die in an 
illegal, undeclared war waged on false pretenses primarily for the 
benefit of Israel 
<http://www.leftcurve.org/LC28WebPages/WarForIsrael.html>. The 
Democratic 'opposition' to the war is mostly smoke and mirrors although 
there are probably a handful of Democrats (and Republicans) who truly 
want to end the war.

Even before Bush announced the troop increases, the Democratic 
leadership was already making it clear that their party would not 
support using Congressional power to end the war 
<http://www.acsblog.org/separation-of-powers-guest-blogger-the-congress-as-surge-protector.html>. 
Presidential aspirant 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/19/AR2005061900693.html> 
and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Joe Biden 
<http://biden.senate.gov/> falsely bleated 
<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2777463&page=2>: "As a 
practical matter, there's no way to say, 'Mr. President, stop' ... You 
can't go in and, like a tinker toy, and play around and say, 'You can't 
spend the money on this piece and this piece.' CNN reports 
<http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/08/democrats.iraq.funding/>: 
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, told reporters at a Capitol 
news conference Monday, 'Democrats will not cut off funding for our 
troops.' "

CNN also reports 
<http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/08/democrats.iraq.funding/>:

    Regardless of what Democratic leaders decide about funding, Sen. Joe
    Lieberman <http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamhughes1.html>, a
    Connecticut independent who organizes with the Democrats, predicted
    most Democrats won't support cutting off funds for the troop increase.

    Lieberman held a news conference with Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-South
    Carolina, to release a letter they sent Bush urging him to send
    additional troops to Iraq.

The "hawkishly pro-Israel 
<http://www.forward.com/articles/the-jewishness-of-joseph-lieberman/>" 
Lieberman, Chair of the Senate's Homeland Security Committee, was 
singled out by Bush in his speech: "Acting on the good advice of Senator 
Joe Lieberman and other key members of Congress, we will form a new, 
bipartisan working group that will help us come together across party 
lines to win the war on terror." This will undoubtedly include 
pressuring or attacking Iran 
<http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2007/01/ritter-israel-lobby-behind-hostilities.html> 
and Syria <http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1219-04.htm>, which 
not coincidentally is Israeli policy, too. Bush set the stage in his 
address:

    Succeeding in Iraq also requires defending its territorial integrity
    and stabilizing the region in the face of extremist challenges. This
    begins with addressing Iran and Syria
    <http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061226/wl_mideast_afp/syriapoliticsussenator>.
    These two regimes are allowing terrorists and insurgents to use
    their territory to move in and out of Iraq. Iran is providing
    material support for attacks on American troops. We will disrupt the
    attacks on our forces. We'll interrupt the flow of support from Iran
    and Syria. And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing
    advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.

One of these days, I hope, the peace movement will wake up to the fact 
that Zionists are driving US Middle East policy and, for starters, throw 
the Zionists out of the peace movement 
<http://zionistsout.blogspot.com/>. Then, we will finally be able to 
begin truly working for peace. We can start with the Zionist shill 
Leslie Cagan 
<http://www.forward.com/articles/orderly-protest-lacks-anti-israel-vitriol/>, 
National Coordinator of United for Peace and Justice 
<http://www.unitedforpeace.org/>. Cagan has, more than once, teamed up 
with Darfur deceiver <http://ww4report.com/node/2582> Ruth Messinger, 
president and executive director of the American Jewish World Service, 
to make sure the American anti-war movement does not see the links 
between the Iraq war and American Zionist support for Israel 
<http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=17760>.

See also:

    * The Impending US Troop Buildup in Iraq
      <http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2006/11/impending-us-troop-buildup-in-iraq.html>
    * The Israel Lobby and the US War Against Iraq
      <http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2006/10/israel-lobby-and-us-war-against-iraq.html>
    * Four Ways To Stop the War <http://www.slate.com/id/2157392/>
      (Emily Bazelon in Slate)
    * "Out of Iraq, Into Darfur?"
      <http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp05022006.html> (Gary Leupp in
      Counterpunch)

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<h2><a
 href="http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2007/01/iraq-war-will-worsen-take-two.html">Iraq
War Will Worsen--Take Two</a></h2>
The day after US national elections last November, I wrote a post
entitled "<a
 href="http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2006/11/iraq-war-will-worsen.html">Iraq
War Will Worsen</a>." Here's part of what I said: 
<blockquote>... The Dems now have the power of the purse (<a
 href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html">US
Const. Art. I, Sec. 7</a>)
and could force a US withdrawal but I expect US troop levels to
increase in Iraq in the next two years and more Iraqis and Americans to
die. 
 
Here's why: Both parties are in the grips of the arms industry and the <a
 href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/israellobbywatch.shtml">Israel
Lobby</a>.
If anything, the Democrats are even more pro-Israel--albeit only
slightly (think about the difference between 97% and 99%). Furthermore,
when the new Congress is seated we will be less than two years away
from the 2008 presidential election. ...</blockquote>
Tonight, <a
 href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070110-7.html">George
Bush made it official</a> that he has already "... committed more than
20,000 <a
 href="http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2006/11/impending-us-troop-buildup-in-iraq.html">additional
American troops to Iraq</a>."
Moreover, in a move that so far has generated little attention, Bush
stated that previously there have been "too many restrictions on the
troops we did have." What exactly this means is unclear but,
apparently, Bush is going to relax the rules of engagement for <a
 href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36098">US troops in Iraq</a>.
It seems that, in part, Bush is referring to where US troops are
deployed in Iraq. He said: 
<blockquote>...
In earlier operations, political and sectarian interference prevented
Iraqi and American forces from going into neighborhoods that are home
to those fueling the sectarian violence. This time, Iraqi and American
forces will have a green light to enter those neighborhoods -- and
Prime Minister Maliki has pledged that political or sectarian
interference will not be tolerated. 
</blockquote>
All of this means more Iraqis and Americans will suffer and die in an
illegal, undeclared war waged on false pretenses primarily <a
 href="http://www.leftcurve.org/LC28WebPages/WarForIsrael.html">for the
benefit of Israel</a>.
The Democratic 'opposition' to the war is mostly smoke and mirrors
although there are probably a handful of Democrats (and Republicans)
who truly want to end the war. 
 
Even before Bush announced the
troop increases, the Democratic leadership was already making it clear
that their party would not support using <a
 href="http://www.acsblog.org/separation-of-powers-guest-blogger-the-congress-as-surge-protector.html">Congressional
power to end the war</a>. <a
 href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/19/AR2005061900693.html">Presidential
aspirant</a> and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair <a
 href="http://biden.senate.gov/">Joe Biden</a> falsely <a
 href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2777463&amp;page=2">bleated</a>:
"As a practical matter, there's no way to say, 'Mr. President, stop'
... You can't go in and, like a tinker toy, and play around and say,
'You can't spend the money on this piece and this piece.' <a
 href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/08/democrats.iraq.funding/">CNN
reports</a>:
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, told reporters at a Capitol
news conference Monday, 'Democrats will not cut off funding for our
troops.' " 
 
CNN also<a
 href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/08/democrats.iraq.funding/">
reports</a>:
<blockquote>Regardless of what Democratic leaders decide about funding,
 <a href="http://www.mediamonitors.net/williamhughes1.html">Sen. Joe
Lieberman</a>,
a Connecticut independent who organizes with the Democrats, predicted
most Democrats won't support cutting off funds for the troop increase. 
 
Lieberman
held a news conference with Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-South Carolina, to
release a letter they sent Bush urging him to send additional troops to
Iraq.</blockquote>
The "<a
 href="http://www.forward.com/articles/the-jewishness-of-joseph-lieberman/">hawkishly
pro-Israel</a>"
Lieberman, Chair of the Senate's Homeland Security Committee, was
singled out by Bush in his speech: "Acting on the good advice of
Senator Joe Lieberman and other key members of Congress, we will form a
new, bipartisan working group that will help us come together across
party lines to win the war on terror." This will undoubtedly include
pressuring or attacking <a
 href="http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2007/01/ritter-israel-lobby-behind-hostilities.html">Iran</a>
and <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1219-04.htm">Syria</a>,
which not coincidentally is Israeli policy, too. Bush set the stage in
his address: 
<blockquote>Succeeding
in Iraq also requires defending its territorial integrity and
stabilizing the region in the face of extremist challenges. This begins
with addressing Iran and <a
 href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061226/wl_mideast_afp/syriapoliticsussenator">Syria</a>.
These two regimes are allowing terrorists and insurgents to use their
territory to move in and out of Iraq. Iran is providing material
support for attacks on American troops. We will disrupt the attacks on
our forces. We'll interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria.
And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced
weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq. 
</blockquote>
One of
these days, I hope, the peace movement will wake up to the fact that
Zionists are driving US Middle East policy and, for starters, throw the
<a href="http://zionistsout.blogspot.com/">Zionists out of the peace
movement</a>. Then, we will finally be able to begin truly working for
peace. We can start with the <a
 href="http://www.forward.com/articles/orderly-protest-lacks-anti-israel-vitriol/">Zionist
shill Leslie Cagan</a>, National Coordinator of <a
 href="http://www.unitedforpeace.org/">United for Peace and Justice</a>.
Cagan has, more than once, teamed up with <a
 href="http://ww4report.com/node/2582">Darfur deceiver</a>
Ruth Messinger, president and executive director of the American Jewish
World Service, to make sure the American anti-war movement does not see
the links between the <a
 href="http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=17760">Iraq war and
American Zionist support for Israel</a>. 
 
See also: 
<ul>
 <li><a
 href="http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2006/11/impending-us-troop-buildup-in-iraq.html">The
Impending US Troop Buildup in Iraq</a></li>
 <li><a
 href="http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2006/10/israel-lobby-and-us-war-against-iraq.html">The
Israel Lobby and the US War Against Iraq</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2157392/">Four Ways To Stop the
War</a> (Emily Bazelon in Slate)</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp05022006.html">"Out of
Iraq, Into Darfur?"</a> (Gary Leupp in Counterpunch) 
 </li>
</ul>
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