Real wimps go to Tehran via Baghdad

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MJ27Ak02.html

The new Holy Trinity mythology peddled by Washington to an unsuspecting world is that the Libya war is over, the Iraq war will be over by New Year's Eve, and the Afghan war will be over by 2014.

Oh yes; and Lindsay Lohan is a reincarnation of the Virgin Mary.

Let's focus on Iraq. There is one real reason for the United States troop withdrawal in December; the Nuri al-Maliki government in Baghdad bluntly denied blanket immunity from prosecution of war crimes to US soldiers. This implies, crucially, the Maliki


government evicting the Pentagon from very convenient military bases in Iraq out of which a strike on Iran could be conducted.

It's essential to remember that this Shi'ite-majority Iraqi government - which inherited a totally devastated country - was arrived at via US-approved democratic elections. Now that entails two poetic justice developments; a democratic Iraq getting closer to the Islamic Republic of Iran; and democracy expelling the militarized face of empire.

No wonder Washington is dazed and confused. Naturally the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the State Department and/or all of the above are already working around the clock to come up with any number of mischief scenarios.

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1. Everybody told them that would happen

and they went and killed millions anyway. They put the Iraqi people through hell for 10 years plus all the time Saddam was our puppet. Can't make friends and influence people with bubble gum and chocolate while beating the life out of them.

And those war criminals should be prosecuted, all the way up to the head of the rotten fish that is our government. Then maybe we could boast of being Americans again.

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