Elaine Meinel Supkis
The struggle to figure out a way to keep the American public asleep while pretending to exit Iraq while really increasing troops and money spent there has caused the USA to say and do incredible things like pretending that Iran will help us escape or even funnier, demand we STAY in Iraq! Delusional thinking about diplomacy is rooted deep in the Holy Land, our media owners and imperial hubris and delusions of grandeur.
November 16, 2006LONDON — Iran has consistently opposed the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq, but new prospects of a stepped-up American withdrawal are prompting growing unease in the Islamic Republic, where many fear the repercussions of a dangerously unstable neighbor.
Officially, Iran's policy remains flatly opposed to American troops in Iraq and characterizes them as a key contributor to the escalating violence. Iran's government says it wants the U.S. to withdraw at the earliest possible opportunity.
But the U.S. elections this month that swept in a Democratic majority to Congress and subsequent talk of a phased pullout have touched off a discussion in Tehran about the outright anarchy that could result.
On Tuesday night, Tehran's English-language news channel featured commentary from political scientist Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, who called for the U.S. to remain in Iraq until it has established a strong, stable central government capable of providing adequate security.
"The Americans can't simply withdraw from Iraq, leaving the mess as it is," Mojtahedzadeh said in a telephone interview from the Iranian capital afterward. "Who's going to look for the safety of the Iraqis there? The Iranians can't do it. The Turks can't do it…. This is not a question of political rivalry between Iran and the West. It has to do with the fact that the society has to have a government structure in place."
In the run up to this disasterous war, peace marchers were basically banned from TV. I remember how all the major media had trailers at the Mall in DC in January, 2003, and they set up cameras three hours before the march and then went away! Not one of them filmed the actual rally or march! The NYT in a previous march with half a million marchers, claimed no one showed up. This is because the reporter, again, left hours before the march was scheduled to begin.
On TV, according to media watchers on the left, 95% of the commentators talking about the war were pro-war. This included stellar lights in the Democratic party like fomer general Clarke. Donohue, one of the very few voices against the war, had his show cancelled and it was replaced with pro-war right wingers whose ratings were less than half of Donohue's.
So the idea that the government allowed a dissenting voice appear in public in Iran baffles the right wing commentators who are the sole source of commentary in mainstream media so they figure, the government ENDORSES this professor's positions!
This is pure lunacy. It is based on the idea that Iran is as locked-down as the USA with only a one-sided media. Iran is one-sided, of course, just not as much as the USA.
Here is the real, actual position of the government of Iran:
Iran on Thursday urged the United States to give a clear indication as to whether it wants direct talks with Tehran over stabilizing Iraq and said it was ready to take the "final step" in its nuclear program. "We are hearing different voices from the United States," Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani told reporters Thursday after talks with Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahhar."The statements from their side are not very clear, and what is important is that they say clearly what it is they want," he said.
There has been speculation that the final report of a congressionally mandated panel charged with coming up with a new approach to Iraq would endorse contacts with Iran and Syria on ending Iraq violence.
A senior State Department official who oversees Iraq policy said Wednesday that the US was ready "in principle" for direct talks with Iran on Tehran's role in the country.
The USA cannot outright ask for help from Iran because it is verboten by our real bosses, the guys who run our Congress and our emperor: Israel. The USA gains absolutely nothing in confronting Iran. It loses a tremendous amount. It is economic suicide to confront Iran yet we keep on confronting Iran. Robotically.
By C. J. CHIVERSCAMP FALLUJA, Iraq, Nov. 16 — Two former employees of an American private military contracting company have claimed in a Virginia court that they witnessed their supervisor deliberately shoot at Iraqi vehicles and civilians this summer, and that the company fired them for reporting the incidents.
The allegations, made in a lawsuit filed in Fairfax County Circuit Court, say Triple Canopy, one of the largest private military contractors to work with the United States in Iraq, retaliated against the men for reporting that the supervisor had committed violent felonies, and perhaps murder, on the job.
This brutal, criminal chaos our 'contractors' and our 'soldiers' are spreading in Iraq has doomed our attempts at dominating and controlling Iraq, thus the need to ask for help from Iran, help that is being vetoed by Israel.
Bush will draw on his powers of personal diplomacy in meetings Saturday and Sunday with Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Hu Jintao, Japan's Shinzo Abe and South Korea's Roh Moo-hyun. All are partners with the United States in talks aimed at persuading a defiant North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons.
This lunacy, the continuing attempt at diplomacy funnelled through the biggest dolt on earth, is reported with a straight face in the press which is less free here than in Iran. Even as the populace of America finds Bush increasingly disgusting, the media pretends he is this diplomatic wonder-boy who flies around the earth, swinging from his monkey bars, drinks in hand, hooting, is doing 'diplomacy'.
Reading analysis of diplomatic matters, I would say everyone involved in understanding and doing diplomacy in America is totally unhinged. Our spreading diplomatic and military failures for the last 50 years are all rooted in the imperial inability to see reality since WWII. Israel exploits this stubborn blindness which is part of our imperial hubris. This hubris caused us to nearly destroy America, trying to oppress the peasants of Vietnam on behalf of pro-French Catholic converts who were the ruling elites of Vietnam.
By Anne Penketh, Colin Brown and Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
Published: 17 November 2006A rift between Britain and France deepened last night as three European countries launched a surprise Middle East initiative to halt the violence and hold out prospects of an eventual long term settlement.
The plan, agreed by France, Italy and Spain, was announced by the Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, yesterday at a summit with French President Jacques Chirac. Mr Zapatero said stability and security in the Middle East meant stability and security for the world.
The initiative clearly caught Downing Street by surprise. Asked if the Prime Minister was aware of it, his spokesman replied laconically: "We will wait and see."
Blair is Bush's cabana boy vis a vis Europe. He is supposed to keep them in line, in service to Israel and the USA. They see the writing on the wall and are struggling to escape the trap they are sliding into along with our Axis of Evil, the USA/Britain and Israel.
But there is no exit, no escape. Not unless they begin talking about boycotting Israel and putting up a military blockade to all of Israel's ports so the USA can't ship anymore arms there. And boycott the USA, too.
Only we will do business with communist China, Vietnam and other Asian countries who are very eager to extend us credit so we can buy without selling them anything much. Heh. A trap for everyone.
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent, and The Associated PressPalestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Friday said Israel's rejection of a new European peace initiative was proof the country did not want peace.
Haniyeh said the rejection was "proof that Israel doesn't want any form of stability or quiet in the region."
The initiative, sponsored by Spain, Italy and France, calls for increased international intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The USA ignores even 'moderate' Palestinians. They have one job only: to protect the 'Only Jews may immigrate or have privilages' state or die. This inflames popular resistance in all Muslim lands and makes the USA profoundly unpopular and breeds ill-will and makes any form of diplomacy impossible. We have many backers within the upper reaches of the ruling elites of the oil pumping police states and client state, Egypt, but they barely can keep restive populations locked down despite all the brute force they apply.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President George Bush was informed on Tuesday of an initiative to establish a center under his name in Israel, as a sign of gratitude for his support for the country and its security. Outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the United States Daniel Ayalon asked Bush for the go-ahead to establish such a center during a farewell meeting with the president and his deputy, Dick Cheney.Bush told Ayalon that "freedom" would be a worthy subject for the center to focus on.
Freedom. Remember, the chains we wear are a sign we are free. The irony of this center, as the USA, slave to Israel, celebrates freedom in the center of the heart of darkness as the Jews madly build ghetto walls around the captive native populations. Gah.
Looking at history, this is going to fail as the lid holding down Islamic fury blows off eventually and the way to do this is for the USA to be defeated in Iraq and bankrupt to communist China. And I guarantee, both events are going to happen because we are stupid and our government is owned by foreign powers.
And Israel's gravy train from DC will come to a halt if we go bankrupt. I wonder why no one except a few brave souls in Congress like Paul of Texas (who votes 'yea' for all military budgets) dares make even a small peep in protest.
I am surprised that Ron Paul has not been assassinated. Perhaps his yes votes for war money are what keeps him alive.
I have been wondering for a long time now why he is allowed to even speak in Congress, considering what he has to say.
Posted by: DeVaul | November 17, 2006 at 12:35 PM
Audrey's Ancient Egypt
http://ancientegypt.hypermart.net/osirisprecession/index.htm
[...] "The omission of Orion's head and legs in the constellation of Orion, illustrated above, is immediately noticeable. It would seem that Orion has had his legs and his head chopped off!
"A similar practice was observed by the Knights Templar five and a half thousand years later when they were buried. By adopting this practice the deceased Knights Templar became as one with Orion and, by implication, Osiris. The "skull and crossbones" … Orion's missing head and legs … were also adopted by the Knights Templar as their emblem, their symbol of recognition.
"As we shall soon discover, the severed head of Orion is in fact the Sun. Moreover it is the headless Orion which is the source of legends about severed heads" [...]
So this all started long before Moses.
Posted by: blues | November 17, 2006 at 02:08 PM
Interesting, Blues. And they stole Pegasus' body and gave it to Andremoeda.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | November 17, 2006 at 02:13 PM