Cue: The Iraq War Cool Down

Are we Seeing Evidence of Covert Management of Appearances in the Iraq War?

Facts:

Insurgent attacks are down in Iraq.

Deaths of Americans and Iraqis are down in Iraq.

IED incidents are down in Iraq.

What we are meant to believe:

The "surge" worked.

The "bad guys" are on the run or have, in effect, switched sides.

The war is not the chaotic mess that it has been and Bush was right to stick to his "surge".

Speculation:

The U.S., the U.K. and the Israelis have been covertly manipulating events in Iraq to cause maximum carnage and ethnic division for four years, the intent being the division of Iraq per a standing Western-approved Zionist plan.

The Western-authored religious/ethnic killings and bombings - in keeping with the Western-authorship of Al Qaeda in general - has always been distinct from the insurgent activities that are genuinely nationalistic.

However, Iraq has either recently reached a point of no return in terms of ethnic division and national reconciliation (the public face of U.S. policy) is now impossible or unlikely or the political problems for the Neocons in the U.S. have become so acute that the covert divide-and-conquer agenda can and must be abandoned, at least temporarily.

The surge can be seen to have worked, and the war can now be seen as winnable or even to be winding down.

Next stop on the Neocon warpath, Iran.

Comments

[Don Nash]

Yippee! The Bush war plan MUST have worked. The boys and girls can now come home and all is well. Isn't it? Well, one should probably forget about the lies and the atrocities and the war crimes but, what the hell, mission accomplished. Yippee, the war is over!

[nolocontendere]

What happened to your picture? You look a lot like me - wryly cynical, jaded, full of passion and quite dangerous.

[Twain's Ghost]

Hey Nolo,

Just changed it for the H of it. Got tired of looking at my own mug! Besides, isn't the Twain pic cool?

TG

[Big service]

Really a good post for the teaching and professionals.