They STILL can't say the words - mpg - 072807

The two gentlemen, West Point Instructor, Brian Fishman, and Middle Eastern and International Affairs Professor Fawaz Gerges, discussed several issues regarding Iraq

The sectarian conflicts.

How these conflicts might destabilize Lebanon.

The fact that the US military is supplying arms to some of the Sunni’s in Iraq who are apposed to "al-Qaeda like" groups..

The US’s infliction of civilian casualties, although no figures were discussed. -

(Five hundred --- http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/1432233
thousand --- http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0127-23.htm --- to one million Iraqis
killed, --- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html
two million internally displaced, -- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2640418.ece
two million who have fled --- http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12377
the country)

The fact that just a tiny fraction (3%-6%) of the Iraqi insurgency is composed of foreign Jihadists some of whom share al Qaeda's philosophy

The fact that those in Iraq who call themselves “al Qaeda” are not directly related to al Qaeda “central” and have a different command structure. Essentially they’re an al-Qaeda “franchise”

The US’s “cultural” insensitivity toward the Iraqis

The fact that the US’s continual occupation of Iraq is leading to hatred throughout the Middle East for the US and is contributing to the ever widening and successful recruitment of Jihadists by like minded “al Qaeda” groups

The fact that more than 45% of the foreign Jihadists
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-saudi15jul15,0,3132262.story?coll=la-home-center
(3%-6% of the insurgency) in Iraq come from
Saudi Arabia --- http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/saud-j17.shtml

The US’s massive prior support (ten billion dollars or more directly, much, much, more indirectly though our friends Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) for Jihadist groups throughout the Middle East during the last twenty years.

The US’s continual --- http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/24/050124fa_fact
and ongoing --- http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021307J.shtml
support --- http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd15.html
of government --- http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2005/11/18/our_monsters_in_iraq.php
death squads in
Iraq. --- http://www.mdgreens.org/montgomery/blog/2005/11/30/369/
The SCIRI, the Interior --- http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/10/29/iraq14473.htm
Ministry, --- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article347806.ece
the “El Salvador option” --- http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/FUL506A.html
“riding with the bad boys” --- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11180.htm
and other plans --- http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd1101.html
of mayhem.   --- http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK05Ak02.html

That the US, as recently as three months ago,
was encouraging --- http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_hersh
Saudi Arabia to continue --- http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=16442&sectionid=351020205
it’s support for Anti-western Wahhabist Jihadist including groups who share al-Qaeda’s philosophy

The US’s ongoing support for the
MEK, --- http://smintheusblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/us-sponsorship-of-iraqi-terrorists-down.html
PKK --- http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2007/01/04/7069.shtml
the Jundullah, --- http://www.theamericanmonitor.com/articles/jundullah_uk.html
affiliated Baluchistan separatists, and
other groups --- http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK05Ak02.html --- throughout the Middle East.

How all this support by the US throughout the Middle East for these various groups is destabilizing the entire region and ENCOURAGING sectarian conflicts in countries such as Lebanon

How administration officials, including such notables as Condoleezza Rice, publicly lauded and described such efforts to deliberately destabilize the Middle East as
"birth pangs" --- http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060725_robert_scheer_labor_pains/
(“a.k.a. constructive instability”) --- http://mondediplo.com/2005/07/07instability

The DPG, --- http://work.colum.edu/%7Eamiller/wolfowitz1992.htm
PNAC --- http://www.oldamericancentury.org/pnac.htm
and other prior documents,
public statements --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vulcans
and groups --- http://tvnewslies.org/html/pnac_neo-con_artists.html
which describe IN DETAIL the US’s plans to cause all this instability.

How these plans have been in the works for the last twenty years and how they have PREDICTED all of the current ongoing actions by the US government and the terrible strife now occurring in the Middle East

The horrendous crimes committed in these conflicts by US personnel which include the deliberate targeting of civilians on almost every mission, B&E, vandalism, the humiliation and in many cases, rape and murder of Iraqi civilians.

The hundreds of thousands of Iraqis imprisoned and the tens of thousands tortured by US service personnel throughout America’s
Gulag Archipelago   --- http://www.newstatesman.com/200405170016
including such places as Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bagram Air Force Base and many, many other locations throughout the world.

The deliberate --- http://www.energygrid.com/society/2004/11gh-iraqhealth.html
and almost complete destruction of Iraq's infrastructure.
Hospital's, --- http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-lorimer171104.htm
roads, sewage plants, schools, etc.

The diliberate --- http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/11/sprj.irq.pentagon/
and almost complete destruction of
Iraq’s cultural artifacts.
--- http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/4710/chalmers_johnson_on_robbing_the_cradle_of_civilization

The massive unemployment in Iraq, --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iraq
up to sixty percent.
   --- http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2007/07/26/analysis_iraq_oil_refineries_go_private/2001/

The privatization of Iraq's entire industrial sector, i.e. stealing their assets.

The fact that the US turned over --- http://www.amnesty.org/resources/flash/torture/renditions/
(rendered) people it had captured to many governments in the Middle East (Syria, Egypt, and others) for torture and death. Not a practice that would normally inspire the people of the Middle East to support US policies or what the US calls "our" friendly governments.

How these policies of torture and mayhem were
deliberately encouraged --- http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/1433252
by administration officials, one of whom --- http://www.counterpunch.org/andrew05012007.html ---
actually watched and directed the tortures over a video link.
http://dissidentnews.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/andrew-cockburn-how-rumsfeld-micromanaged-torture/
(Donald --- http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/59/19108
Rumsfeld). --- http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=161789

The current ongoing plans --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXS3vW47mOE
(Video-YuTb-1.37m) to attack Iran, Syria and many other countries

The Israeli occupation of Palestine and the horror it entails for the Palestinian people.

The US’s ongoing --- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4834032.stm --- expansion of
permanent --- http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/02/15/tomengelhardt/index_np.html
bases --- http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/04/iraqs-usuk-permanent-bases-intentional.html
in Iraq.

The utter betrayal of "democratic principals" by the US when it encouraged the people in Lebanon and Palestine to go out and vote, and when they voted for those theUS didn't like, Hezbollah and Hammas, the US had Isreal launch their
long --- http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/21/MIDEAST.TMP
planned --- http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,2029732,00.html
attacks --- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14159.htm
against them - attacks which are ongoing to this day.

And of course, --- http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607Z.shtml
most importantly --- http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/032907Hussain.shtml
of all…is the oil. --- http://www.judicialwatch.org/iraqi-oil-maps.shtml