Draft update:Uncle $am admits troops in Iraq indefinitely, again
*See our update on the draft situation in 2006 Uncle $am undertook a series of dizzying moves to confuse the public about Iraq in mid-May. Of course there are the prison torture cover-up tactics, with 1600 photos including murder and rape not released, but here we want to talk about how the government is trying to pacify the public by leading it toward its own fondest illusions. The global outcry against u.$. torture of Iraqis has led to a need for the imperialists to cover u.$. public opinion, its last redoubt. The first move was by imperialist Colin Powell, the Secretary of State who said that if the new Iraqi stooge regime coming in on July 1 wants, the U.$. troops will leave. Powell also said that he was sure they would not leave,(1) but only some papers and outlets covered that aspect. Powell admitted that the new regime of July 1, 2004 will be a U.$-lackey regime: "Well, I think we have some say in who should be receiving governmental authority. We now have governmental authority under the Coalition Provisional Authority. Before we yield that, we have to have some level of confidence of the individuals to whom we are giving the country back are prepared to act in the best interest of the Iraqi people." (2) That is not to mention that U.$. military forces will continue to operate, arrest people and award contracts. It's such a dismal area that even the U.S. Government propaganda radio program admits that sovereignty will have flaws on July 1 in Iraq.(3) Powell also acknowledged that 82% of Iraqis want U.$. troops to leave now.(2) Moreover, Powell admitted that his UN speech with photos of supposed WMD sites in Iraq in 2003 was a load of manure: "'When I made that presentation in February 2003, it was based on the best information that the Central Intelligence Agency made available to me,' Powell said yesterday on NBC's 'Meet the Press.' "'It turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading. And for that, I am disappointed, and I regret it,' he said."(4) The CIA and military intelligence are also taking a beating on the Iraqi prison torture, so this is a question of which of these factions of butchers is going to claim successfully to be innocent angels. Colin Powell admitted that the Iraqi torture photos reminded him of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, explained further by PBS here.
Famous My Lai massacre carried out by U.$. soldiers photo from Vietnam. Yet after conciliatory statements by Bush and Powell and after some cosmetic orders to stop torturing prisoners, the truth still came out: U.$. troops are to stay in Iraq "indefinitely," according to Assistant Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz. He even left open the door that they may increase in number in 2005. People paying close attention would have heard Wolfowitz admit that there were no "rules" for treatment of prisoners. Likewise, they would have heard that he did not expect any UN/European troops until after the violence in Iraq subsides. He even gave unexpected praise to the thousands of Iraqi urban fighters: "'They seem to have a dangerous capability for urban guerrilla tactics.'"(5) In remarkable flexibility for u.$. imperialists, they cut occupation troops in Korea by 10% to move them to Iraq.(6) This sort of move is bound to incite backward members of Congress opposed to Korean "communism" to ask for the draft.
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