Tuesday, October 02, 2012

THIS JUST IN! MAYBE HE GOT HIS NAILS DONE!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE

CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BARRY O WAS IN CHARGE WHEN THE TERRORIST ATTACK TOOK PLACE ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 ON THE U.S. CONSULATE IN LIBYA.  INSTEAD OF ADDRESSING IT, HE CHOSE TO FLY TO LAS VEGAS FOR A FUNDRAISER.

MORE TROUBLING NEWS COMES VIA DEROY MURDOCK:


Obama skipped his briefings between last Sept. 4 and 11, the entire week before the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya suffered an Islamic terror attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, technical officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

Who knows if a briefer’s classified utterance, or a particularly astute question from Obama, might have triggered tighter security in Benghazi and, perhaps prevented the murders of four Americans?
 
 
WE'LL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE CELEBRITY IN CHIEF WASN'T DOING HIS JOB.
 
THESE REPORTERS ATTEMPTED TO REACH BARRY O BY PHONE FOR A RESPONSE BUT HE WAS BUSY IN NEVADA . . .  YET AGAIN DOING SOMETHING OTHER THAN HIS JOB.



FROM THE TCI WIRE:



 
 
In its final act before leaving town earlier this month, Congress passed a continuing resolution (CR) that failed to reauthorize the main mission of the Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq (OSC-I), despite Pentagon warnings that the move could force the military to withdraw hundreds of U.S. troops who are still in Baghdad helping to develop the Iraqi security forces and working with them on counterterrorism. The authority for U.S. forces to train and assist the Iraqi security forces expired Sunday.
 
 
 
B-b-but, everyone says all US troops left Iraq!  September 2nd, Scott Horsley declared on Weekend Edition (NPR), "There are no more US troops in Iraq."  And Horsley's NPR's correspondent for Barack Obama's re-election campaign so he should know, right?
 
He damn well should know but he's just one more whore passing themselves off as a reporter (which is why we awarded him "Biggest Damn Liar of the Week" at Third).  Why is so damn difficult for the US media to report the truth?  Are they that vested in whoring for Barack Obama?  We've noted the truth here and lived to tell.  We've received thank you e-mails from the families of US troops still in Iraq, glad that someone, anyone, doesn't repeat the lie, doesn't pretend that their loved ones aren't in Iraq.  Why the hell does the media lie? 
 
 
Most Americans have been led to believe that all US forces besides those guarding the massive American Embassy in Iraq have been withdrawn since the end of last year. But small units of up to 300 troops have remained in Baghdad to train Iraqi security forces and provide aid and support, allegedly for counter-terrorism operations.
In reality, US troops have been providing this support to elite Iraqi forces that report directly to the increasingly authoritarian Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. They have essentially been used as a secret police force for Maliki to attack, detain, and torture his political opponents and crack down harshly on public dissent.
 
 
Some are just stupid.  Case in point, Roger Cohen, columnist for the New York Times and the bare remnants of the International Herald Tribune, who writes today:  "He has extracted the United States from a costly war (Iraq); [. . .]."  Just how stupid are you, Roger Cohen?  And shouldn't you be required to read your own damn paper?
 
Last week, Tim Arango (New York Times) reported, "Iraq and the United States are negotiating an agreement that could result in the return of small units of American soldiers to Iraq on training missions. At the request of the Iraqi government, according to General Caslen, a unit of Army Special Operations soldiers was recently deployed to Iraq to advise on counterterrorism and help with intelligence."
 
Repeating: How stupid are you, Roger Cohen?  And do you even read the paper that pays you a salary?  You look like an ass in front of the whole world and that's on you because you can't even read the coverage from your own paper.
 
Of course, Roger may not be stupid, he may just enjoy whoring like so many of his peers.
 
 
Regardless, the American people are not being informed by the alleged news media.  Despite Tim Arango's report, there were no headlines about the negotiations for a return, there were no headlines about more Special-Ops going into Iraq (Tom Hayden did cover the Special-Ops aspect in a blog post at The Nation -- no, that doesn't seem like a lot but it's more than The Progressive, Democracy Now!, In These Times, et al did.).
 
So much gets ignored including yesterday's attacks which mainly served to remind the country of how few US outlets have reporters in Iraq.  Mohammed Tawfeeq (CNN) notes Iraq witnesses its second deadliest day of the month on Sunday. (September 9th was the deadliest day).   BBC (link is text and video) offered, "Civilians were among those killed and injured in the attacks around the capital, but the aim of the attackers seems to have been to kill as many security personnel as possible, wherever they could reach them, says the BBC's Rami Ruhayem in Baghdad."  Jamal Hashim (Xinhua) counted 34 dead and 85 injured while explaining, "In and near the Iraqi capital, eight car bomb explosions and gunfire attacks killed up to 25 people and wounded 59 others, according to the police reports." Kareem Raheem, Suadad al-Salhy and Sophie Hares (Reuters) added, "Two more policemen were killed when a car bomb went off in the town of Balad Ruz, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad, and bomb planted in a parked car in al Qaeda stronghold Mosul killed a civilian."

Most reports floated al Qaeda in Iraq as the culprit.  The Irish Examiner quotes MP Hakim al-Zamili who sits on the Security and Defense Committee stating, "Al-Qaida leaders have no intention of leaving this country or letting Iraqis live in peace.  Thus, we should expect more attacks in the near future. The situation in Iraq is still unstable ... and repetition of such attacks shows that our security forces are still unqualified to deal with the terrorists."
 
Today Alsumaria reports that Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc has stated that Nouri's prime responsibility as prime minister is to ensure security and that he's failed at that.  So in today's press conference they announced the need for an emergency metting by the National Alliance to explore Nouri's fate.  All Iraq News reports the Sadr bloc is questioning whether it isn't time to replace Nouri due to the continued violence. 
 
 
If the series of assaults were part of the Islamic State of Iraq's Breaking The Walls campaign, they will no doubt claim credit in the next few days.    July 22nd, the Islamic State of Iraq released an audio recording announcing a new campaign of violence entitled Breaking The Walls which would include prison breaks and killing "judges and investigators and their guards."  (They also threatened to attack America on US soil.)  They are only one group in Iraq resorting to violence.  On the continued violence, Mohammed Tawfeeq offered this framework, "The violence comes just days after dozens of prisoners broke out of a jail in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit. Among those who got out Thursday were several al Qaeda members on death row, according to authorities. The jailbreak occurred when armed men detonated two car bombs at the gates of Tasfirat jail. The explosions triggered clashes with security forces."
September in Iraq ended with a wave of violence.  Mohammed Tawfeeeq (CNN) reports last month was the deadliest month in Iraq "since August 2010" according to figures supplied by the Ministry of the Interior which states there were 365 deaths.  AFP adds, "It was the highest monthly toll given by the government since August 2010, when figures showed 426 people were killed and 838 wounded in attacks." All Iraq News notes the ministry's figures for number injured is 683.
Which outlet tabulating came the closest to the number provided by Iraq's ministries?  The Associated Press counted "nearly 200 people" and  AFP's tally for the month is 253 killed.  365?  Looks like everyone got it wrong and -- Oh, wait.  Iraq Body Count's total was 356.  By Price Is Right logic (closest without going over), Iraq Body Count wins.  And if those number succeed in demonstrate anything, hopefully, they indicate that it's past time for the press to return to citing IBC in their monthly look-back pieces.
 
 
 

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