The "Surge" is a Red Herring (PC Roberts)

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The “Surge” Is A Red Herring

By Paul Craig Roberts

01/12/07 "Information Clearing House"


Bush’s assertions are propagandistic lies.

The Iraq insurgency is Sunni. Iran is Shi’ite. If Iran is supporting anyone in Iraq it is the Shi’ites, who have not been part of the insurgency. Indeed, the Sunni and Shi’ites are engaged in a civil war within Iraq.

Does any intelligent person really believe that Iranian Shi’ites are going to arm Iraqi Sunnis who are killing Iraqi Shi’ites allied with Iran? Does anyone really believe that Iranian Shi’ites are going to provide sanctuary for Iraqi Sunnis?

Bush can tell blatant propagandistic lies, because Congress and the American people don’t know enough facts to realize the absurdity of Bush’s assertions.

Why is Bush telling these lies? Here is the answer: Bush says, “We will disrupt the attacks on our forces. We will interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria. And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.”

In those words, Bush states perfectly clearly that victory in Iraq requires US forces to attack Iran and Syria. Moreover, Bush says, “We are also taking other steps to bolster the security of Iraq and protect American interests in the Middle East. I recently ordered the deployment of an additional carrier strike group to the region.”

What do two US aircraft carrier attack groups in the Persian Gulf have to do with a guerilla ground war in Iraq?

The “surge” is merely a tactic to buy time while war with Iran and Syria can be orchestrated. The neoconservative/Israeli cabal feared that the pressure that Congress, the public, and the American foreign policy establishment were putting on Bush to de-escalate in Iraq would terminate their plan to achieve hegemony in the Middle East.

Because a destabilized Middle East is so safe for Israel.

And there I was agreeing with him about the insurgents being Sunni, and Iran being Shia. Of course, Iran is not an Arab nation and considers Arabs scum of the earth so you might want to include that little factoid. Sunnis are what the Saudis are and the possibility that we are staying to prevent the Shia massacre of Sunnis at the request of George's best buds, the Saudis, which George is hardly likely to admit, is another possibility you might want to consider.

But thank you for publishing your anti-semitic rants here. Really, we hardly get enough of them.