Do you think we are out of Iraq on June 30, 2004? I mean if President George Bush said it, it must be true, right ? If you think on it for a minute, you know that is not true, and even those who are saying it over and over in the, ‘controlled-media’ know it is not true, I mean not even close to true. What do you call a truth that is not even close to true ? A fib? Let’s be nice and just call it a fib.
I know there are those who believe anything told them by their cathode ray nipple. The un-informed, who think if Dan, Pete, or Tom say it, it must be truth; especially if there is a video or graphic to support it. Still others think, if you don’t want Bill O’Reilly to dis-respect you, cut you off, call you insulting names on national television, you’d better believe it, or at least not say anything about it in public (as in, “ …you pinko, communist, terrorist bottom-wiper. Got to go, my word will have to be the last word. I’ll be back with a comment on this un-American, terrorist lover after this commercial break”) or he may not accept you as his follower anymore.
We all know the facts though, and if you don’t, I’m getting ready to tell a few of them to ya. If it walks like an occupation, talks like an occupation, kills like an occupation, costs like an occupation, then folks - it’s an occupation. Occupations are those straws a government sticks in a loser-Nations resources to suck the life-blood and value out to the last drop. They just sit there and grow stale in our memory, like the American soldiers who were on trash detail in Haiti, picking up their refuse, long after we all but forgot we had troops there anymore.
Of course this is not as inexpensive as Haiti was, a place having only limited resources for our exploitation, more valuable geographically than naturally. In Afghanistan, our efforts have brought up the most productive tonnage of opium in years. We got tons now in Nepal, and our two ally former Soviet states, Uzbek, and Khazak, also growing new record crops to ship. Oh yeah, that’s crazy whacko conspiracy talk, and therefore can’t be happening, even though it is numerically recorded, to the ton, in several UN and foreign studies. As much money as these crops will generate for the NEW economy of ‘liberated’ States, it is dwarfed by what we are making – well, not we, just done under our flag – in Iraq. [Did you know the father of President Bush is jokingly called, “Poppy” Bush by close friends, one or two of whom killed themselves with shotgun blast suicides to the back of their own head one hour before testifying about him]
So on June 30, 2004, let me take a wild guess and say there will be film of troops boarding planes with signs - maybe even the same one Bush used a year ago – proclaiming, “Mission Accomplished”, in the background. There will be interviews with soldiers yelping about how they are so glad to be out of there, and can’t wait to get home to their own kid. They’ll get to try out that new ‘Diebold’ voting machine for democracy in America like they are supplying to Iraq. American youth, you got to love that innocent naivete. Then the smiling anchor will take us to a commercial break for some of that hemmoroid cream we need now.
Meanwhile, and behind the scenes, there will be John Negroponte as the new US ambassador in Baghdad. “Bush described Negroponte as, "a man of enormous experience and skill," who, in his current job as US ambassador to the United Nations, had done a "really good job of speaking for the United States to the world about our intentions to spread freedom and peace."
Now, “he is to function as an imperial proconsul, wielding unfettered power over a militarily occupied country. The embassy he is to direct will be the largest ever assembled by any country in the world, with a staff of close to 4,000. Initially to be housed in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces, it will act as the US colonial administration.”
Those American troops are not going to be coming home for real, although many of our allies’ troops will be leaving. But don’t take my word for it, “As[Paul]Bremer made clear, the 135,000 US troops currently deployed in Iraq will remain indefinitely, exercising the only real sovereignty in the occupied country.”
Mr. Negroponte, “brings to his job no direct experience in the Middle East, and, while he
reportedly speaks five languages, they do not include Arabic.” Let’s look at his credentials a bit. “[As former Ambassador to Honduras during Iran-Contra years, and]under Negroponte's stewardship, …Honduras [became] a giant base of operations for the CIA-organized Contra war against the Sandinistas, which was to claim some 50,000 lives.”
From 1981 to 1985, Negroponte [oversaw] operations that included the illegal funding of the Contra mercenaries and a massive buildup of the Honduran armed forces, including the construction of bases, air fields and supply dumps throughout the country.
Among these facilities was the El Aguacate air base, built on the pretext of providing a temporary facility for the thousands of US troops that were rotated through Honduras on "training" exercises. In reality, it was used to provide a permanent facility for the Contras and to funnel aid to these right-wing mercenaries in violation of restrictions imposed by the US
Congress.
In 1999, mass graves were discovered at the site, along with blood-stained jail cells.
But before we sell him short, observe that, “Negroponte supervised a 20-fold increase in US military aid to the country, which he aggressively defended as a model of democracy in Central America.” Great, go hide your tax-dollars everyone.
While issuing report after report that there were not political prisoners in the Country, “hundreds of people were kidnapped and "disappeared," including a number of union leaders, student organizers and other opponents of the military-dominated regime. Prisoners were routinely tortured on the direct orders of the chief of the Honduran armed forces.
Much of this dirty work was carried out by a unit known as Battalion 316, whose members were trained in the United States and "advised" by the CIA in Honduras. While issuing his glowing endorsements of the Honduran regime's human rights record, Negroponte was intimately familiar with the grisly work of these killers.
He worked to silence reports of the killings and torture, threatening dissenting Honduran officials by accusing them of aiding "communism." When the head of Honduran military intelligence fled into exile and publicly warned about the "death squad" activities of Battalion 316, Negroponte dismissed his testimony as unfounded.”
Also on his resume, Mr. Negroponte was in Saigon embassy from 1964-68; worked under Henry Kissinger, 1969-1973; “Thus, for nine years he played a direct role in prosecuting a US war that killed millions of Vietnamese.” BUT before you go saying the Democrats are the solution, “Democrats had no qualms about approving an individual directly tied to acts of terrorism carried out against the people of Central America.” It was with their votes in the Congress, this man was installed in power.
As a matter of fact, let’s just say something really whacko and crazy, like Bush IS NOT GOING TO BE RE-ELECTED. Well, if not, what a coincidence; it seems, “One of [Mr. Negroponte’s] most enthusiastic backers is Richard Holbrooke, who served as US ambassador to the UN under the Clinton administration and has been named as a likely choice for secretary of state in a Kerry administration.” What a coincidence that the newly installed occupying General Consul of Iraq will be a friend of our new Sec. of State. I mean if the whacko idea of Bush losing the election turns out to be true that is. Watch me now.
So have a happy June 30th everyone, because the next day, reality will have to be faced - and paid for, for the next decade.
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The source document with regards to Mr. Negroponte is found at the link provided. Blog ON.