Message to New York Times Editors: "Endgame in Iraq" -- NOT.

[understandinglife]

The World Tribunal on Iraq bestowed special recognition of the New York Times by not only charging it but specifically naming one of its reporters - Judith Miller - for her extensive propaganda in support of Bush's unilateral decision to wage war of aggression on Iraq:

http://www.worldtribunal.org/main/?b=91

Perhaps, then, it's not surprising that the Editors of the New York Times begin yet another deceptive portrayal of the situation in Iraq with:

Iraq is becoming a country that America should be ashamed to support, let alone occupy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/opinion/02sun1.html

Excuse me.

"... ashamed to occupy."

So, our illegal occupation of Iraq is something we are either proud or ashamed. Wow.

They title this piece of revisionism and phony chastisement of the Bush Administration - The Endgame in Iraq.

Excuse me.

"Endgame" - not even close.

Bush, as we all now know, waged war of aggression on Iraq and fully intended to do so before he and his neoconster minions entered the White House in January, 2001.

Bush has American soldiers, mercenaries (BlackwaterUSA, etc), and corporations in Iraq for three reasons:

Strategic strike bases.

Oil.

Control of the Euphrates & Tigris River basin.

And, any doubt about how long he intends to stay is readily erased by the following:

Elaborate U.S. bases raise long-term questions

March 21, 2006

EDITOR'S NOTE — This report is based on interviews with U.S. military engineers and others before and during the writer's two weeks as an embedded reporter at major U.S. bases in Iraq.

By Charles J. Hanley

Associated Press

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq — The concrete goes on forever, vanishing into the noonday glare, 2 million cubic feet of it, a mile-long slab that's now the home of up to 120 U.S. helicopters, a "heli-park" as good as any back in the States.

At another giant base, al-Asad in Iraq's western desert, the 17,000 troops and workers come and go in a kind of bustling American town, with a Burger King, Pizza Hut and a car dealership, stop signs, traffic regulations and young bikers clogging the roads.

At a third hub down south, Tallil, they're planning a new mess hall, one that will seat 6,000 hungry airmen and soldiers for chow.

Are the Americans here to stay? Air Force mechanic Josh Remy is sure of it as he looks around Balad. "I think we'll be here forever," the 19-year-old airman from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., told a visitor to his base.

The Iraqi people suspect the same.

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Link:

http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/NEWS/603210348/1002/NEWS01

The New York Times editors, of course, avoid any recognition of the extent and obvious permanence of the operations platforms being expanded and hardened by the American military and their no-bid corporatist partners.

Instead they pen vile deflections of their considerable responsibility for both the illegal war and the expansive occupation:

The stories about innocent homeowners and storekeepers who are dragged from their screaming families and killed by those same militias are heartbreaking, as is the thought that the United States, in its hubris, helped bring all this to pass.

It is conceivable that the situation can still be turned around.

... the only hope that Iraq can make a successful transition from the terrible mess it is in now to the democracy that we all hoped would emerge after Saddam Hussein's downfall.

It is also the only way to redeem the blood that has been shed by Americans and Iraqis alike.

Oh, so it was the "United States" hubris -- how about Szulberger's and Keller's and Miller's and all their AEI neoconster buddies, along with Bush's crime syndicate.

"... conceivable ... turned around ... democracy we all hoped ..." - Excuse me, but millions of us, well before the war started knew that it would not result in "democracy" and, besides, no amount of revising is going to erase the role the New York Times' propaganda contributed to deceiving Americans and others that any justification existed for outsiders effecting Saddam Hussein's downfall.

"... only way to redeem the blood that has been shed ..." - Bull. The blood of brave Americans and innocent Iraqi citizens will never be redeemed. All of those who have died and been injured NEVER should have suffered. NEVER. All that can be done now is to bring to justice the perpetrators of the atrocities, the deceivers and the torturers and the corporatists and the members of the Bush administration and Congress who have persisted in conducting an illegal occupation of Iraq, after waging an illegal war.

The United States of America is in Iraq for oil, for controlling access to water, and for military strike capability. Period.

Stop lying, New York Times Editors. The most important "Endgame" is for you to stop the deception as a first step toward ending the ongoing crimes of America in Iraq.


Peace.