COUNTERINSURGENCY/GUERRILLA WAR DEGENERATES ON SCHEDULE --- OUR TROOPS ARE IN TROUBLE

• U.S. troops are being forced to take drugs like Prozac and Seroquel for anxiety and depression.

• Troops cannot refuse to take the drugs without consequences from their superiors.

• Resistance by U.S. troops to their orders is also running high.

• Some U.S. military patrols decline to carry out their "search and kill" missions and, instead, return to their bases claiming they carried out their orders.

• Another neo-con outrage: Pentagon forcing U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq to take Prozac and other drugs for anxiety and depression.

• Incidents of suicide among U.S. troops in Iraq is also reaching troubling levels.

• There are also reports of defections by U.S. troops to neighboring Turkey, Iran, and Syria, where they can get passage to Europe and Russia.

• Incidents of fighting between regular U.S. military personnel and private military contractors, who wear uniforms similar to those worn by regular U.S. soldiers and Marines, is also increasing.

• U.S. troops are frustrated that they come under attack for atrocities carried out by private contractors who receive triple and quadruple the salaries U.S. military personnel receive.

• This situation has created a tinderbox between U.S. troops and private contractors.

Visit http://www.veteransforamerica.org/ for more information on the plight of our troops in Iraq and veterans of the quagmire into which the neo-cons have plunged our military.

REPEAT...RINSE...REPEAT...RINSE...

"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

-- President Bush in a talk at the Athena Performing Arts Center at Greece Athena Middle and High School Tuesday, May 24, 2005 in Rochester, NY. Bush traveled to Rochester, trying to win support for his proposed overhaul of the Social Security system.




“The rank and file is usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly... it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” - Joseph Goebbels

WINNING IRAQI HEARTS AND MINDS

Nir Rosen, an American reporter who has lived for the last three years in Iraq and who can pass as Middle Eastern, describes what it’s like to live under the boot of a culturally callous—and sometimes criminal—occupying force in Iraq. “The occupation has been one vast extended crime against the Iraqi people, and most of it has occurred unnoticed by the American people and the media.”

THIS IS A MUST READ

Nir Rosen goes "underground" and watches the occupation army as an Iraqi.

This war is a classic guerilla war and it is being lost like classic guerilla war for all the same reasons. Nir Rosen paints in clear relief.

Like all guerilla wars in the end there is only two options. Eradicate the population or leave.

More Nir Rosen here

Moscow Blames U.S. for Russian Hostages Death in Iraq

Russian presidential envoy for international cooperation in fighting terrorism and transnational organized crime Anatoly Safonov quoted by Interfax has said.

“We are saying openly that it is either governmental institutions or coalition forces that are responsible for order,” Safonov told journalists in Moscow on Tuesday.

First Vice-Speaker of the Russian State Duma, Lyubov Sliska, joined Safonov in blaming the coalition.

“We can see how the coalition forces are ’restoring order’,” she said.

“Every day dozens of innocent people are dying, and now diplomats are geting killed, too. The responsibility for what is going on in Iraq lies upon those who sought mass destruction weapons here, but found nothing,” she said.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Krivtsov declined to say whether any Russian special forces currently were in Iraq but noted that there are "people responsible for security at the embassy" in Baghdad.

Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent defense analysts, told The Associated Press that "We don't have real special forces in Iraq."

An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Sunday showing the killings of three Russian embassy workers abducted earlier this month in Iraq. A fourth also was said to have been killed. An accompanying statement by the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization linking seven insurgent groups including al-Qaida in Iraq, said all four Russians had been killed.

THE MANY FACES OF ABU MUSAB AL ZARQAWI

Living in a thought control state is an eduction. Why is it that "public opinion" believes that these are all photos of the same man?

An interesting investigation would be how the people of Germany made the transition from the nazi era to the post nazi era. This might enable the people of the US to begin the process earlier.

THE TERRORISTS HATE OUR FREEDOM. THEY HATE LIBERTY"...

The following is a David Cross quote on his album It's Not Funny:

"The terrorists hate our freedom. They hate liberty"...

I don't think Osama bin Laden sent those planes in to attack us because he hated our freedom. I think he did it because of our support for Israel, and our ties with the Saudi family, and all our military bases in Saudi Arabia.

You know why I think that?

BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HE FUCKING SAID.

DEMOCRATS ARE LABELED "CUT & RUN", WHILE REPUBLICANS WIND DOWN WAR

PUH.....LEASE ! ! !

AND IT'S ONE, TWO, THREE, WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR...

Regarding what “our troops” are fighting for, it comes out to a lot more than nothing, just nothing good.

• They are making politicians, bureaucrats, and their military-industrial complex cronies rich.

• They are expanding the U.S. global hegemony

• as well as the Israeli middle-eastern hegemony.

• They are securing strategic territory for bases and (potentially) diminishing strategic resources.

• Also, endeavoring toward a colossal project that no individual or group of individuals could ever hope to achieve through voluntary means; namely, high-industrial age mechanized state warfare.

• This last, for some, is its own justification.

Thankfully, as 4GW theory convincingly shows, this being the information age, the institution of the state can’t even successfully fulfill its original purpose for existence; the perpetration of mass warfare.

OUT OF 2500 DEAD US SOLDIERS, HOW MANY HAVE DIED LIKE THIS AND WITH THIS KIND OF PUBLICITY

Who killed Private Kristian Menchaca, 23, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25.

Tell me, were they wearing orange jumps suits this time like Nick Berg wore? Were they sitting in those white plastic chairs.

OH YEA, THE FRAGGING. SHADES OF VIETNAM

Iraqi Troops Are Turning on Their American Counterparts
Friendly Fire Ambush

By MARJORIE COHN

Sergeant Patrick R. McCaffrey, Sr. and First Lieutenant Andre D. Tyson died on this day two years ago in Balad, Iraq. Back then, military officials reported that enemy insurgents ambushed them. The Army subsequently conducted an investigation and learned the men were targeted and killed by Iraqi troops they were training.

It took a May 22 letter from Senator Barbara Boxer's office to force the Army to finally come clean.

A month before he died, Patrick told his father that Iraqi forces they were training had attacked his unit.

Patrick "was told to keep his mouth shut," his mother said.

The Army denied requests to see autopsy reports.

...insurgents were offering Iraqi soldiers about $100 for each American they could kill.

our chain of command is awfully reckless; they don't seem to give a damn about what's happening to soldiers."

"It's god-awful," said Bob, himself an Army veteran. "It underlies the lie of this whole situation in Iraq. It's all to me a pack of lies."

Boxer noted, "You have to ask yourself, 'What are we doing there with a blank check and a blind eye,

THEY LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE

BUSH ADVISES EUROPEANS THAT THEIR OPINIONS OF THE US ARE ABSURD

U.S. a bigger threat than Iran? Bush calls idea "absurd"

By Seattle Times news services

VIENNA, Austria — An angry-sounding President Bush said Wednesday it was "absurd" to call the United States a greater threat to world stability than Iran, despite a poll showing that's what many Europeans say.

But the atmosphere of goodwill during Bush's meeting with Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel and other EU officials was tested when European reporters pressed Bush on widespread anti-American sentiment in Europe.

"I thought it was absurd for people to think that we're more dangerous than Iran," Bush snapped when asked, in general terms, about the poll results. His irritation grew when an Austrian reporter read him some specific poll numbers.

"Look, people didn't agree with my decision on Iraq, and I understand that. ... People can say what they want to say. But leadership requires making hard choices based upon principle," he said during a news conference in historic Hofburg Palace.

In Vienna, a few hundred students chanted "Bush Go Home" at a train-station rally. Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq and who has protested outside the president's ranch in Texas, led student protesters in Vienna.

WHERE'S THE FOX PROPAGANDA NETWORK AND THE PRESELECTED AUDIENCE

SHOWDOWN OVER US THREAT OF NUCLEAR ATTACK

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 18 minutes ago

• President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday thatIran will respond in mid-August to the package of incentives on its nuclear program

• "We are studying the proposals. Hopefully, we will present our views about the package by mid-August,"

• Bush said that the mid-August timetable "seems like an awfully long time" to wait for an answer.

• "It shouldn't take the Iranians that long to analyze what's a reasonable deal," Bush said.

• Tehran has to suspend its uranium enrichment entirely before the six powers will start negotiations on a framework for its nuclear program.

• Since Iran resumed enrichment this year after a three-year suspension, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly vowed never to halt it again.

(Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, shakes hands with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, at the start of their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 18, 2006. (AP Photo))

WHO IS ZALMAY KHALILZAD AND WHY IS HE SAYING THESE THINGS

President Bush says things are improving in Iraq. His ambass
ador, Zalmay Khalilzad, seems not to agree. Two weeks ago Khalilzad sent a long cable to the State Department that laid out how things are really going according to Iraqi staff members at the embassy:

Zalmay Khalilzad, the most senior Pashtun-American and highest-ranking Muslim to serve in the Bush administration,[1] became the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan in November 2003. He headed the Bush-Cheney transition team for the Defense Department in 2000 and has been a Counselor to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. [2]

He is a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, PNAC Letter (http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm) sent to President William Jefferson Clinton.

Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad was nominated Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Iraq by President Bush on April 5, 2005. Dr. Khalilzad was sworn in on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 in Baghdad and presented his credentials to President Talabani the same day.

Khalilzad's presence, however, is the fruit of an older agenda, one that reaches back at least to the Reagan era, and Khalilzad has more connections to that agenda than meets the eye.

Simply put, Khalilzad's appointment means oil. Oil for the United States. Oil for Unocal, a U.S. company long criticized for doing business in countries with repressive governments and rumored to have close ties to the Department of State and the intelligence community.

Zalmay Khalilzad was an advisor for Unocal. In the mid 1990s, while working for the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Khalilzad conducted risk analyses for Unocal at the time it had signed letters of approval from the Taliban. The analyses were for a proposed 890-mile, $2-billion, 1.9-billion-cubic-feet-per-day natural gas pipeline project which would have extended from Turkmenistan to Pakistan. In December 1997, Khalilzad joined Unocal officials at a reception for an invited Taliban delegation to Texas.

Khalilzad's appointment as special envoy to Afghanistan raises suspicions about the priorities of the Bush administration. Long-standing political and business ties connect Khalilzad to an oil agenda. The United States has been bombing Afghanistan in retaliation for terrorist attacks on this country. But Khalilzad's appointment makes it clear that oil is now -- and perhaps has been since before 9/11 -- behind U.S. Afghan policy.

IRAQ: SUCCINTLY STATED

Permanent War?
Dealing with Realities in Iraq and Washington
By Robert Dreyfuss

• Use military force to destroy the political infrastructure of the Iraqi state

• shatter the old Iraqi armed forces;

• eliminate Iraq as a determined foe of U.S. hegemony in the oil-rich Persian Gulf;

• build on the wreckage of the old Iraq a new state beholden to the U.S.;

• create a new political class willing to be subservient to our interests in the region;

• and use that new Iraq as a base for further expansion.

• keep as much military power as he can in Iraq for as long as it takes,

• while recruiting, training, funding, and supervising a ruthless Iraqi police and security force that will gradually allow the American military to reduce their "footprint" in the country without entirely leaving.

The endgame

• permanent U.S. military presence in the country

• including permanent bases and basing rights

• and a predominant position for U.S. business and oil interests.

WE'RE HISTORY'S ACTORS ---- WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY

Ron Suskind wrote in the NYT Magazine :

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.


The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism.

He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

NOAM CHOMSKY AT WEST POINT

US SENDS IDIOT TEAM FOR CHESS GAME IN PERSIA

From F. William Engdahl
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Iran events

... further underscore the dramatic change in the geopolitical position of the United
States

Today the SCO, which has to date been blacked out almost entirely in US mainstream
media, is defining a new political counterweight to US hegemony and its ‘one-polar’ world.

Iran has been invited to become a full SCO member.

.. pending oil and gas deal between China and Iran worth at least $100 billion,
The US had been trying to put massive pressure on Beijing to halt the deal
Another major defeat for Washington.

Iran is also moving on plans to deliver natural gas via a pipeline to Pakistan and India.

The pipeline progress is a direct rebuff to Washington's efforts to steer investors clear of Iran. Ironically, US opposition is driving these countries into each others’ arms, Washington’s ‘geopolitical nightmare.’

India, which Bush is personally attempting to woo will also be invited to join SCO.
Mongolia and Pakistan will be invited to join SCO. SCO is gaining in geopolitical throw-weight quite substantially.

Iranian membership in SCO could ‘make the world more fair.’
... building an Iran -Russia ‘gas-and-oil arc’ in which the two giant energy producers would coordinate activities.

US out in cold in Central Asia

By virtue of SCO membership, Iran can now take part in SCO projects, which in turn means access to badly-needed technology, investment, trade, infrastructure development.

Iran sits on the world’s second largest natural gas reserves, and Russia has the largest. Russia is the world’s second largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia. These are no small moves.

India is desperate to come to terms with Iran for energy but is being pressured by Washington not to.

The Bush Administration last year tried to get ‘observer status’ at SCO but was turned down. The rebuff - along with SCO's demands for a reduced American military presence in Central Asia, deeper Russia-China cooperation and the setbacks to US diplomacy in Central Asia – have prompted a policy review in Washington.

Gennady Yefstafiyev, a former general in Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, says, ‘The US's long term goals in Iran are obvious: to engineer the downfall of the current regime; to establish control over Iran's oil and gas; and to use its territory as the shortest route for the transportation of hydrocarbons under US control from the regions of Central Asia and the Caspian Sea bypassing Russia and China. This is not to mention Iran's intrinsic military and strategic significance.’

Washington had based its strategy on Kazakhstan being its key partner in Central Asia. The US wants oil transportation via Baku-Ceyhan pipeline. But Kazakhstan isn’t playing ball. President Nursultan Nazarbayev went to Moscow on April 3 to reaffirm his continued dependence on Russian oil pipelines. And China is making major energy and pipeline deals with Kazakhstan as well.

Washington's relations with Uzbekistan today are disastrous. The US effort to isolate President Islam Karimov, along lines of the Ukraine ‘Orange Revolution’ tactics, is not working.

Tajikistan relies heavily on Russia's support. In Kyrgyzstan, despite covert US attempts to create dissensions within the regime, President Burmanbek Bakiyev's alliance with Moscow-backed Prime Minister Felix Kulov, is holding.

In the space of 12 months Russia and China have managed to move the pieces on the geopolitical ‘chess board’ of Eurasia away from what had been an overwhelming US strategic advantage. It’s potentially the greatest strategic defeat for the US power projection of the post World War II period.

This is also the strategic background to the re-emergence of the so-called realist faction in US policy.