Clearly the Sunni/Shia divide is being gamed now that the Baghdad Green Zone Staged(stooge?) Iraqi government has timed out.

The Americans surely will kill many more Iraqis to secure those American military bases.

Setting up the Sunnis for zone control of West Iraq surely plays into this strategy.

Iraq seems to be destined to be blown apart by the Americans effort to site ME military bases no matter the cost to Iraq.

Iraqi refugees? Iraqi dead? The Americans do not care and will cause/inflict much more to achieve Americans ME militarism/hegemonism aims.

Iraqi oil control remains the wild card and here the Americans will still have to work the game much better and harder then they have thus far. The “Iraq Oil Law” is going no where these days and may well have failed at ever being passed.

Any Green Zone “coup” activity/puppet play may well be result of IOL having not passed due to Iraqi resentment/unwillingness to this western energy interests imposed pillage/plunder grab-all.

Those who still believe the Americans did not invade/occupy Iraq largely for desired control of Iraqs oil are displaying very slow/no learning curves.

The American military bases seem to have landed in Iraq early and deeply. WashDC’s two party/one party setup clearly having agreed to not disagree about them in any way from early on funding and build plans.

One may well wonder what happens if the Iraqis state/demand Americans leave these bases at some point.

Sovereign Iraq is fully entitled to do this.

The Americans have displayed great confidence with these bases size and cost that Iraq will or would not do so. This is oddly curious.

The DC DEMS,Hillary,Barack and John evidently all see no issue in this and have remained ever silent about the bases having appeared in Iraq so easily at several $$$ billion during the four years since March 2003.

The DEMS flunk the warmonger/occupier test here.

It is fair to suggest the Americans are so in thrall of the Israeli Arab Palestine occupation model they just had to have their own in Iraq.

The stench grows and grows.

Now let me see if I get this straight. President Bush sneaks into Iraq, onto a distant airbase surounded by 10,000 troops just for a few hours, and the media gushes like this is a good thing!?

Jonathan @ 106

My lesson about war:

If you start it, you lose it.

Well, you know that one of the most common phrases we had was “it don’t mean nuthin”.

JOHNNY CASH LYRICS

“Drive On”
…
Drive on, don’t mean nothin’, drive on

Some people aren’t capable or ready to hear and understand. I never went to war and can’t comprehend how soldiers keep their minds, keep their sh*t wound tight.

I remember about 1970 there was some kind of event downtown and when I was there I saw a soldier, an airman who had flown in Nam. He had a silent quiet non-emotional look, almost of a comatose person and yet you could see he was as hard-edged as a deadly knife. He had been to war and though he lived it left an indelible mark on him.

Perhaps you realize “it don’t mean nuthin’”, but it’s still somethin’.

When all a man has is a choice of how to fall down and die, then falling down is all important.

I might write more words, but it would be redundant or flowery silliness. Life IS important. Live it well.

This from Haaretz:

Bush makes surprise visit to Iraq, rules out hasty decision on troop levels

U.S. President George W. Bush said Monday any reduction in U.S. troop numbers in Iraq would be based on calm military assessments and not the nervous reaction of politicians in Washington.

Sounds like he’s talked to some of those Congressmen who were recently in Iraq and he’s gone there to take a look-see himself.