Its very obvious now:US want @HaiderAlAbadi to stay in power.they Will let him show the iraqis his muscle bc its election in iraq next april
Yes, it is very obvious.
It was very obvious before that when the US government looked away from thug Nouri al-Maliki's crimes. Even more so when he lost the 2010 election and they created The Erbil Agreement to give him a second term anyway.
Time and again, the US government -- regardless of who occupies the White House -- pimps and promotes despots who attack the people they are supposed to represent.
The motives of the US government never have a damn thing to do with humanitarian causes or issues. That's the fig leaf liars like Samantha Power hide behind.
The Iraqi people have not even had the pretense of self-determination and, as long as the US occupies Iraq, they probably never will.
NOVEMBER 19TH, THE LEGENDARY DIANA ROSS WILL BE PRESENTED WITH THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ON THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS.
ONE PERSON NOT PLANNING TO WATCH ABC THAT NIGHT?
CRANKY CLINTON WHO TOLD THESE REPORTERS, "WORKING OVERTIME? THAT HEFFER DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT WORK! NO WOMAN HAS WORKED HARDER THAN ME! EVER! THAT SHOULD BE MY AWARD! CLEARLY RUSSIA 'WORKED OVERTIME' TO ENSURE THAT I DID NOT GET THAT AWARD! THIS IS ALL BECAUSE I POOTED THAT TIME I WAS STANDING BESIDE VLADIMIR PUTIN. PUTIN HAS NEVER FORGIVEN ME FOR POOTING! I AM AT WORK ON ANOTHER BOOK ABOUT THIS ROBBERY -- WHAT HAPPENED AGAIN!"
Emma Sky pens a column for THE GUARDIAN and does so with little grasp of how much a part of the problem she was and remains: For months, we had been beseeching Baghdad to grant Kirkuk a special
status. We argued that the “Kirkuk issue” could derail the national
discussion on Iraq’s new constitution. There was real potential for
conflict within the province that we feared could spill over into other
parts of the country and encourage the involvement of external actors.
Some form of special status could defer the determination of Kirkuk’s
final standing for five years – to provide the time and space to resolve
the issues, and strengthen local leadership. We believed special status had the support of the local population –
and would stop Kirkuk being a political football between Baghdad and the
Kurds. But despite our arguments, the coalition did not grant such
status. Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution set out a process for resolving
the status of those territories disputed between Baghdad and Irbil (the
capital of Iraqi Kurdistan). But it was never implemented. Over the intervening years, the Kurds exerted greater control over
the province. Kirkuk became a stronghold for the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan party, which selected the governor.
How can you have a dialogue with a Baghdad-based government that has refused to follow the Iraqi Constitution?
Article 140 -- a delaying tactic -- was supposed to be implemented by the end of 2007.
The Iraqi Constitution states it will be implemented by that time.
It was never implemented.
Thug Nouri al-Maliki was prime minister then.
He went on to lose the 2010 election but Barack Obama had the US
negotiate The Erbil Agreement to give him a second term that the voters
would not. That contract called for Article 140 to be implemented. And
Nouri swore it would be in one month.
A month later?
Nouri called it off.
Article 140 calls for a census in Kirkuk and a referendum to determine its fate.
Ten years after it was supposed to be implemented, per the Iraqi Constitution, it still has not been.
This is what The RAND Corporation has called out noting that this is going to be a huge problem.
Instead of addressing the problem, the plan by non-Iraqis (like Emma
Sky -- she's British) has been to repeatedly postpone reality.
On Monday, as Iraqi regular forces and Shiite militia rolled
into the city of Kirkuk that lies at the center of the territories and
oil fields disputed between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and
the Iraqi government, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad issued
this statement: “ISIS remains the true enemy of Iraq, and we urge all
parties to remain focused on finishing the liberation of their country
from this menace.” The U.S. commander on the ground, Maj. Gen. Robert
White, said
the same thing: “We continue to advocate dialogue between Iraqi and
Kurdish authorities. All parties must remain focused on the defeat of
our common enemy, ISIS, in Iraq.”
Translation: We have been given no political strategy from
Washington, so please, everyone, just stick to our military plan until
we work one out.
[. . .] But here we go again: We are nearing a military success against the
Islamic State but have failed to define the peace that follows, because
no serious attempt has been made to even define what that peace should
look like in advance. This is what happens when you fixate on defeating
an enemy militarily but don’t bother with political strategy.
HILLARY CLINTON'S FALL EARLIER THIS WEEK RESULTED IN HER WEARING A MEDICAL BOOT AND IN WAGS INSISTING SHE WAS "DRUNK AGAIN."
BETWEEN HAVING CONFESSED IN HER RECENT TELL-ALL TO SELF-MEDICATING WITH BOOZE AND A FACE THAT APPEARS TO BE FINALLY SHOWING THE YEARS OF HEAVY DRINKING, MANY ASSUME SHE HAD TO HAVE BEEN DRUNK AGAIN.
BUT SHE WASN'T A BOOZE HOUND.
AT LEAST NOT ON THAT DAY.
NO, THE TRUTH IS THAT SHE'S TAKEN ON A LITTLE MORE THAN SHE SHOULD.
THE WOMAN BILL'S TAKEN TO CALLING "MY TUG BOAT" MAY HAVE STRONG CANKLES BUT EVEN THEY CAN ONLY HOLD UP SO MUCH WEIGHT AND WITH A BADONK-A-DONK THE SIZE OF THREE LARGE WOMEN, THE TUMBLE AND INJURY ARE SEEN AS A LONG TIME COMING.
REACHED FOR COMMENT, CRANKY TOLD THESE REPORTS, "I'M EATING! CALL BACK LATER!"
It's being called The Talabani Treason on social media -- the Talabanis taking money to sell out the Kurds and pull the peshmerga out of Kirkuk (see yesterday's snapshot).
Yet it's not being mentioned in the US press.
It's reported by the Arabic press, what the Talabanis did, how they betrayed their own and how this will hurt their political party in the next elections.
But there's silence in the US.
And the pretense that the Iraqi military 'won' Kirkuk.
There was no fight.
The Peshmerga were ordered back by the Talabanis. Jalal Talabani, it turns out, represented his family quite well, they were/are all whores for money. They will sell out anyone for a few coins tossed their way.
Talk about FAKE NEWS. How are Americans supposed to be informed when the press lies so badly?
Buried deep in Nahih Bulos' LOS ANGELES TIMES 'report,' they can find this: Massoud Haider, a Kurdish member of parliament, said the government takeover was part of a deal negotiated by Iran between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan — a skittish partner of Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq’s Kurdish region — and Shiite-dominated paramilitary groups that are collectively known as Popular Mobilization Forces and backed by Iran.
Buried deep. How deep? It's paragraph 13.
And it's misleading.
"Skittish partner of Massoud Barani"?
Is Nancy Pelosi the partner -- skittish or otherwise -- of Donald Trump?
The PUK is the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan -- the political party controlled by the Talabani family. It began in the 70s when the Talabanis broke with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (founded in 1946) which is led by the Barzanis.
They are not partners, they are rivals.
KDP is the dominant party in the Kurdistan Region.
The next most popular party, as of the last election cycle, is the CIA-backed GORAN party. In third place is the PUK.
They're in third place exactly because of this sort of back stabbing move by the Talabanis on Kirkuk.
They are not the partners of Barzani and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES has misled every reader they have -- granted it's not as many as they had ten years ago -- or even five -- but they still have a few.
IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD OF HIM, THANK HILLARY CLINTON.
SAID CRANKY CLINTON TO THESE REPORTERS, "MY PLAN IS TO SUCK ALL THE OXYGEN OUT OF THE ROOM FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS AND THEN, IN THE FINAL MONTHS, SWOOP IN, GRAB THE NOMINATION AND RUN WITH IT. MY SLOGAN IN 2020 WILL BE 'YOU BETTER BE WITH ME, DAMN IT!, OR IT'S A BULLET TO THE HEAD!' I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING PEOPLE CAN GET BEHIND."
Iraqi militia burning a Kurdish flag in a position they took over near Kerkuk.
Why Kurds don't trust these sectarian & racist scum.
Oil rich Kirkuk has always been a hot spot.
Bully Boy Bush had to send troops to defuse the situation at one point, former President Barack Obama had to do the same.
Baghdad wants Kirkuk due to the oil, the KRG wants it due to the oil.
The RAND Corporation, at the end of Bully Boy Bush's occupying the White House, identified Kirkuk as the hot spot noting that the unresolved status meant problems for the future.
