In a retort to a previously posted item: "The Iraqi Resistance, once again" May 31, 2009 by Dahr Jamail, an old friend (see Friend1 in a posting here of November 26, 2005), who adamantly eschews non-resistance in Iraq, had this reservation:
"From this article we realize that former military intelligence "general" leads an Al-Sahwa group and a "resistance" group and that money - not principle!!- is the main motivation for their shifting alliances (see paragraph 11).
I congratulate Dahr Jamail on this analysis! He is preparing us for more mayhem in the days ahead."
Surely one is not forgetting the astute patriotic “principles” of the present Iraqi puppets (among them those that are still on the CIA payroll (see posting of Novemebr 12, 2008) in the Iraqi government; by the way, they are four now with Muwaffaq Al-Rubaie's departure two months ago) and their failed pathetic attempts to distance themselves from partaking in the endemic "corruption money”.
Yet it does behoove one not to be that blind as to what is also at one of the roots of the real "mayhem" in Iraq, whether in some of the atrocities of the past few years, the present relatively large scale readily attributed “suicide" bombings or in future American "Balck Ops" operations, and until these Death Squads are thoruoghly neutralized:
“The Iraq Special Operations Forces (ISOF) is probably the largest special forces outfit ever built by the United States, and it is free of many of the controls that most governments employ to rein in such lethal forces. The project started in the deserts of Jordan just after the Americans took Baghdad in April 2003. There, the US Army's Special Forces, or Green Berets, trained mostly 18-year-old Iraqis with no prior military experience. The resulting brigade was a Green Beret's dream come true: a deadly, elite, covert unit, fully fitted with American equipment, that would operate for years under US command and be unaccountable to Iraqi ministries and the normal political process.
According to Congressional records, the ISOF has grown into nine battalions, which extend to four regional "commando bases" across Iraq. By December, each will be complete with its own "intelligence infusion cell," which will operate independently of Iraq's other intelligence networks. The ISOF is at least 4,564 operatives strong, making it approximately the size of the US Army's own Special Forces in Iraq. Congressional records indicate that there are plans to double the ISOF over the next "several years."
Iraq's New Death Squad June 3, 2009
By the way, an Update on the new American version of "Democracy in Iraq"
"An Iraqi national referendum on last year’s security pact with the US is currently scheduled to take place on July 30. According to Iraqi law, if voters reject the pact, which calls for the US to remove all troops by December 31, 2011, Washington would have to remove its military 17 months sooner—by July 30 of 2010. Should the vote be held as scheduled, it is a virtual certainty that the Iraqi masses will repudiate the pact.
Washington, of course, has no intention of obeying any popular referendum. Yet it wishes to avoid the political embarrassment of a broad repudiation of its occupation of the oil-rich country. “American diplomats are quietly lobbying the government not to hold the referendum,” the New York Times notes. The US has long justified its invasion and occupation of Iraq—which has resulted in the deaths of well over 1 million Iraqis and made refugees out of millions more—as a selfless exercise in building “democracy.” "
US opposes Iraqi popular vote on troop withdrawal, June 13, 2009
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