The Kiss Of Death
By Robin Stringer
Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) — A bomb attack killed the leader of a U.S.-backed Sunni Muslim alliance that was praised by President George W. Bush for trying to drive al-Qaeda out of Iraq.
Sheik Sattar Abu Reesha was head of the “Anbar Awakening,” a tribal council that fought al-Qaeda in the western province of al-Anbar. He was killed today by a bomb as he left his home in the city of Ramadi, state television said. Bush addressed Abu Reesha and other Sunni tribal leaders during a Sept. 3 visit to the al-Asad Air Base, praising them for their efforts against al Queda.
How bright do you have to be before you can understand that praising a muslim in Iraq is automatically a death sentence? It was only 10 days before he was killed. The other tribal leaders that Bush heaped praise on are marked men and it’s a given that their names will be next to head the obituaries.
The U.S. has portrayed al-Anbar, once a heartland for Sunni insurgents opposed to foreign forces, as a success story of efforts in Iraq to win over local leaders and reduce violence.
In other words, the U.S. has named al-Anbar “Special Target” for Sunnis to attack.
Instead of politicising every single little twitch and jerk of progress or positive movement in Iraq and thereby presenting the enemy with a steady stream of new targets to destroy, how about this fresh, new idea of mine?
We keep our flapping lips compressed and stop telling the enemy every slightest detail of our progress, Mr. Bush, just for the sake of making our political selves look good.
Who knows? Maybe some of our allies might just live longer as a result.
September 13th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I agree, things like this should be kept quiet. It’s like making them marked men. I didn’t realize that this man had come to the US and met with Bush in the White House. Now that is really the kiss of death.
September 14th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Insane, but else can one expect from GW?
September 14th, 2007 at 9:48 am
What does the W/Dubya stand for anyway? I can think of something.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
O/T, O/T.
Rasta, you might like to look at this.
http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/070907_nd.htm
September 14th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
O/T O/T
And this.
Shows you’ve been right.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_25/b4039001.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives
September 14th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
post heaven, again.
Yikes.
September 14th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Jordon, thanks for the links. Found the Lost Link (that should be a movie).
All the data manipulation in the world isn’t worth a few moments of calm reflection and common sense. Anyone should be able to see that shutting down our manufacturing industries takes jobs away from American workers and puts the jobs in foreign hands. It also transfers vast wealth away from us and reduces the amount of actual money in circulation.
People who suddenly have to become clerks in a service and sales economy instead of working on assembly lines make less money and suffer financial loss from displacement as well.
Outsourcing manufacturing and the jobs that go with it makes more money for the corporations as long as the economy holds up. However, it can’t, and the eventual crash will destroy a fair portion of those guilty corporations or cause them to be sold off cheaply to foreign owners who do NOT have our best interests in mind.
The whole thing spells disaster.