An Effort To Keep Iraq Occupied?

August 21, 2011

The U.S. has been pressing Iraq for some time to be allowed to prolong its occupation.

There were deadlines set for the end of July and lots of U.S. generals and politicians trotted out to call for troops to stay there.

Still Iraq did not invite the U.S. to stay.

Then, on the 16th, 42 terror attacks took place with over 80 Iraqis dead. These were by al Qaeda we are told. This despite some 50,000 U.S. troops in the country. Obviously they are no help despite their claim of proficiency.

On the 20th Sec Def Panetta claimed that Iraqi politicians hat somehow reached a consensus and would ask the U.S. to stay. The Iraqis immediately denied this.

Next thing we hear is that al-Qaeda in Iraq wants to make 100 attacks in Iraq to revenge the death of Osama Bin Laden.

Call me suspicious, but somehow this all seems to relate.

Is this al-Qaeda in Iraq the real thing? Then how come it seems to coordinated with the U.S. desire to keep Iraq occupied? Why do I get the feeling that something is very wrong here?

Posted by b on August 21, 2011 at 18:08 UTC | Permalink

Comments

Of course no-one knows who carried out those attacks. Could be anybody.
But I don’t think it was an American ‘black’ operation. It would have been better planned.
The great example of a US ‘false-flag’ operation in Iraq was of course, the bombing of the Golden Dome in Samarra. It was very effective. Though I have to say that the second round in 2007 didn’t work.
I don’t think these events are going to have any political effect.

Posted by: alexno | Aug 21 2011 19:07 utc | 1

yeah, but things are not as simple as that, like there are a few parties who might prefer the US to stay there.
like e.g. Iran – as long as the US is next door, they can retaliate directly should anything happen.
or Saudi Arabia, the usual suspect, feeling insecure.
a real cost benefit analysis for the US as a country would be negative I suppose. the world buys oil for the same world market price minus occupation costs.
human rule is that you hate your neighbour not the other side of town. so my guess is this is local politics.

Posted by: somebody | Aug 21 2011 19:11 utc | 2

Well the NYT certainly keeps it’s eye on iran with the following unsourced assertion today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/science/earth/21laser.html?_r=1
In a little-known effort, General Electric has successfully tested laser enrichment for two years and is seeking federal permission to build a $1 billion plant that would make reactor fuel by the ton.
That might be good news for the nuclear industry. But critics fear that if the work succeeds and the secret gets out, rogue states and terrorists could make bomb fuel in much smaller plants that are difficult to detect.
Iran has already succeeded with laser enrichment in the lab, and nuclear experts worry that G.E.’s accomplishment might inspire Tehran to build a plant easily hidden from the world’s eyes.

Posted by: Eureka Springs | Aug 21 2011 22:09 utc | 3

Call me suspicious, but somehow this all seems to relate.

When one has lived through and then discovered that most all terrorist attacks, starting with “Communist” terror attacks in Italy in the decade following WWII, were actually US initiated and sponsored false flag attacks, there is no way my mind cannot believe that the US false flag persuasion has become perfected and is now modus operandi. What a criminally scum bag culture I inhabit here in the US. Al Capone was a piker compared to the CIA/corporate mafia of today.
I pine that we don’t culturally wake up.

Posted by: juannie | Aug 22 2011 1:16 utc | 4

Why do I get the feeling that something is very wrong here?
because it is.

Posted by: annie | Aug 22 2011 2:52 utc | 5

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