| By Administrator on Uncategorized  If you listen to PNAC conspirator and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, more “Iraqis are dying from the militia violence than from the terrorists.” However, this time last year the CIA’s National Intelligence Council informed us Iraq was a training ground “for the next generation of ‘professionalized’ terrorists,” as the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, characterized the situation. NIC Chairman Robert L. Hutchings described Iraq as “a magnet for international terrorist activity.” Last October, in a speech billed by the White House as a major policy address delivered at the NED (the National Endowment for Democracy, a neoliberal “democratization” NGO that is not an NGO but a front supported and funded by neocon reactionaries) Bush told us if the U.S. left Iraq the “insurgents” would “use the vacuum created by an American retreat to gain control of a country, a base from which to launch attacks and conduct their war against nonradical Muslim governments.”
Prior the invasion, Bush’s neocon handlers went all out to convince us that Saddam had trained “al-Qaeda” terrorists and after the invasion the rationale for invading morphed into an effort to fight terrorists there instead of here. Once again, through Zalmay Khalilzad, the excuses for the invasion and occupation of Iraq have changed and the violence no longer comes from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and “al-Qaeda in Iraq” but from Shia militias. No mention here of the fact the CIA promised to spend $3 billion over three years, beginning in early 2004, to recruit and train “Iraqi exile groups, Kurdish and Shi’ite forces” and “former mukhabarat agents” to “quell the insurgency,” according to the UK Telegraph. Obviously, so long as CIA fostered “militia groups” were “patrolling cities and towns in many areas of Iraq” and engaging in “an increasing number of extra-judicial killings of prominent former Ba’athists,” there was no problem for Khalilzad and the neocons. However, the predictable (and in fact engineered by the neocons) internecine violence must now be portrayed as out of control and a threat to the entire “democracy” project in Iraq—more of a threat, if we are to believe Zalmay Khalilzad, than the “insurgency” itself. It is relatively easy to see where all of this is going. “Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday the United States—probably Khalilzad—will talk to Iran about Washington’s accusations of Iranian destabilization of Iraq, in the first public acceptance of an Iranian offer to meet,” writes Nick Olivari for Reuters. Naturally, any “talk” with Iran is designed to fail and portray the evil mullahs as intransigent, yet another building block pretext for an ultimate shock and awe campaign. Last June, “several top U.S. officials” accused “Iranian intelligence agents” of fomenting violence in Iraq. One such “official” is Iran-Contra figure, “universal fascist,” and neocon éminence grise Michael Ledeen, a “scholar” at the criminal American Enterprise Institute. “We are drowning in information about Iranian activities in Iraq,” Ledeen told NewsMax. “After the battles of Fallujah and Hilla, we found names of Iranian contacts, locations of safe houses, telephone numbers, and photographs that document Iranian activities.” According to Ledeen, the United States has obsessed over the alleged “al Qaeda and/or Zarqawi” connection in Iraq and has thus missed “the full context,” in other words the involvement of Iran and Hezbollah. It appears Zalmay Khalilzad and the Bush neocons are now taking Ledeen’s appraisal to heart. Iran remains firmly in the crosshairs of the Straussian neocons. Earlier this month, Matt Sherman, writing for the New York Times, explained how “the followers of the young anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr” have “gained significant influence over police and governors in the south of the country.” According to the Voice of America, dubbed the official broadcasting service (or propaganda organ) of the United States government, “Moqtada al-Sadr is linked both to terrorist groups and to one of the leading state sponsors of terrorism, Iran.” In short, through a complaisant al-Sadr, the Iranian mullahs are not only calling the shots in Iraq but also exact “significant influence over police and governors in the south of the country.” Get ready for a sustained propaganda campaign against Iran that will rival the one used against Iraq and Saddam Hussein. “Like a roomful of Energizer bunnies,” writes Andrew I. Killgore, the neocons “just keep going and going and going,” marching with determination toward conflict with “axis of evil” Iran, the next target on the neocon hit list. Zalmay Khalilzad is in essence announcing a new sustained propaganda campaign against Iran as the Straussian neocons prepare to sabotage any “talks” with Iran over “how to stabilize neighboring Iraq,” billed as “high-level meetings,” according to the Associated Press, approved by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Of course, these “talks” will fail and fail spectacularly, as the Straussian neocons do not intend to resolve political issues in the Middle East through negotiation. ‘’We announced that we do negotiate with the U.S. on Iraq regarding the interests of all Iraqis and the world of Islam,'’ Ahmadinejad said. However, once again, Ahmadinejad will serve as a useful idiot and the Iranians will be demonized as intransigent terrorists, determined to engage in suicidal attacks against Israel and U.S. proxies in Iraq—and according to Michael Ledeen, the United Stagtes proper. In the meantime, no deviations from the Straussian neocon script for total war in the Islamic and Arab Middle East will be tolerated. |
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