January 31, 2007

Relevant Links Official Lies Over Najaf Battle Exposed US 'victory' against cult leader was 'massacre' Confusion surrounds Najaf battle US confirms kidnap, slaying of soldiers: Military's 1st report is contradicted Two Senior Iraqi Generals Eyed in Brazen Attack on U.S. Soldiers Shades Of Judith Miller: NY Times Goes Slam Dunk On Iran George W. Bush is again guiding the nation toward a preemptive war Bush 'spoiling for a fight' with Iran U.S.-Iran tensions could trigger war

Fabricating War With Iran - False Flag Operations on the Cheap

All of a sudden it seems like the Bush administration and their mainstream media propaganda organ grinders see Iran as THE major influence behind escalating violence in Iraq (as if our continued military occupation of Iraq has nothing to do with the violence). 

And as if on cue we have a massive gun battle with a "messianic cult" supposedly planning on killing pilgrims and a spectacular kidnapping that the media is already telling us was so sophisticated and well planned that Iran must have been involved (and if so, well then we might as well bomb Iran back to the stone age as a "warning" not to meddle with affairs in their own backyard). 

Fortunately some papers (in other countries) are beginning to question the official story of the "fierce battle" with a "messianic cult."  If the "Soldiers of Heaven" (not to be confused with "Christian Soldiers") were so well dug in and it was such a fierce battle, then how come so many of them were killed while inflicting so few casualties on the Iraqi army (so few that army casualties were rarely, if ever, mentioned in mainstream media accounts of the battle)? 

The answer is that the battle itself was likely a massacre of pilgrims.  Get it?  Massacre a group of pilgrims and claim it was a grand and glorious victory over a crazed cult that planned to massacre pilgrims (as if the PNAC neocons are not themselves a crazed cult).  Just the sort of humor Bush seems to enjoy.

But no mainstream media seems to be examining the story around the kidnapping and killing of American soldiers in Karbala.  To review: 9-12 "gunmen" driving American GMC Suburbans, wearing new American uniforms, waving American weapons, and speaking American English kidnapped and killed 5 Americans, then, inexplicably, abandoned 5 very expensive vehicles in a remote area without being apprehended by the Iraqi police who were "tailing" the vehicles at the time (were the "gunmen" airlifted out or what?). At the rate of about one GMC Suburban per kill, Iran must be prepared to spend a lot of money to drive US out of Iraq.  GMC stock is surely on the rise at this news.

More likely is that the Karbala attack was a false flag operation on the cheap (with the Iraqi army providing valet service to retrieve the vehicles).  Why bother with the expense and trouble of recruiting and training Iranians to attack us to provide an excuse for bombing Iran when you can simply hire a dozen sociopaths from one of the private security firms operating in Iraq to kill a few Americans in dramatic fashion - they already have all the right stuff and language skills to pretend to be American. 

Seems like it would be easy enough to trace vehicle identification numbers to see who provided the new Suburbans (Ahmadinejad, Blackwater, CACI, Halliburton, Cheney's personal Iraqi fleet, etc.), but don't expect the mainstream media to ask any pertinent questions...

Stray Thoughts from Don Alejandro
Who wonders if Christianity isn't also a "messianic cult" and if American soldiers and mercenaries aren't also "gunmen" and/or "militants"