It’s Not an Insurgency

By ReasonOne, aka Kyle

Why is it the Iraq War gets worse whenever George W.Bush and FOX news brag about how well the surge is working? Why does the Administration and our boot licking media insist on calling this blood bath an insurgency?

As you might have already heard this was another bad day in Iraq. Insurgents killed at least 40 people in Baquba, the capital city of Diyala Province, using car bombs to destroy restaurants, shops, and several cars. Of the dead 15 were so severely burned that their bodies could not be recognized. Meanwhile, in the Iraqi city of Ramadi a suicide bomber walked into Al Sahl Al Akhdar Restaurant, wearing a suicide belt and blew himself up. This particular restaurant is a popular haunt for police officers and with students from a near by university. According to local policemen, four policemen we killed and15 people were wounded. A total of four cities were struck with a death toll of at least 66 people.

I find it interesting that this takes place despite the escalation, the so-called Surge, which Bush, Petreus, Fox News, and the delusional Neocons maintain has been working. But as the left has pointed out on past occasions ,the Surge won’t work, it will only change the nature of the insurgency. And that has been proven true. We have said before that the escalation will only only succeed in moving the insurgency from one area to another, suppressing it in one locale only to see it erupt in another. Is this not what we are seeing today? Isn’t the insurgency disappearing from one area only to reappear in another?

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The Failing Escalation

Orwellian half truths and distortions from the Regime in Washington

By PraetorOne and  ReasonOne

You really have to give the Bush Administration credit–when it decides to engage in Orwellian Doublespeak it doesn’t go half way. On March 19th, the fifth anniversary of our invasion of Iraq we kept hearing about all the wonderful things that “the surge” had accomplished, but at no time did we hear the term “escalation,” which is a more accurate and more descriptive term than the term “surge” ever could be. In this sense the word “Surge” is no different than the titles this administration gives to various forms of legislation. Think about “No Child Left Behind” which might better have been described as the “Loss of Local Control Act” or “No Child Left Unrecruited” and various pollutant-friendly environmental bills which do little to clean the environment but actually help corporate polluters. In a similar vein, the term “Surge” not only describes an escalation and prolongation of our presence in Iraq, it also tends to distract from some truly horrific policies which border on ethnic cleansing. In early 2007 the Bush Regime struck a horrific deal with Iraq leader Nouri al-Malaki which went something like this. In essence we promised al-Malaki that we would disarm Sunni Arab Guerrillas in Baghdad before we asked Shi’tes to disarm. We then promised Muuqtada al-Sadr that we would destroy some of his (Sunni) enemies for him if he stopped the paramilitary activities of his Mahdi Army Militia. As if that weren’t sweet enough American military leaders in Iraq began to pay Sunni Arab Iraqi guerrillas to turn on foreign insurgents. At the same time American forces began a counterinsurgency in Sunni neighborhoods. This involved clearing out armed insurgents and then replacing them with American troops who essentially took control of those neighborhoods, playing the part of an over-glorified police force.

On the surface it all seemed very logical. Clear out the Sunni insurgency and you might stand a better chance of reducing the level of hostility. And to a certain degree it worked. There had been a slight lowering in the amount of violence in Iraq but (or so Bush and his sycophantic generals tell us), but what the Bush Regime fails to mention is that it was achieved through a policy of revenge, a policy of ethnic cleansing by an angry Shi’ite majority which suffered horribly under Saddam Hussein. By disarming the Sunnis before the Shi’ites the Bush Regime again opened the gates of hell and set the stage for the ethnic cleansing of the Sunni minority by the Shi’ite majority.

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