U.S. commanders offering large sums to enlist their former enemies
We've gone down this road many many ....... times before. We helped create what later would cause extremely horrifying death and destructive, in this country, while our elected leaders were in denial of what they were getting on intelligence, or were they!
That creation was al Qaeda, growing from whatever happened after we were dealing with bin Laden, and others, in Afganistan during the Afgan/Soviet Debacle.
We've created and helped to create the leaderships of countries, supposedly for ours and the worlds Security and to best help become important buffers between the enemies of our imaginations later to become our friends or at the very least tolerated for our monatary gain.
The Saddams of the World were mostly created by us knowing full well who and what they were and what they would do, to their own people, for our standing on this World Stage, Power and Greed the ruler be!
How we create the Saddam's and bin Laden's:
"Thanks for the Memories"
Their fighters had battled U.S. troops. Balcavage suspected they might have attacked some of his own men. The trio accused another sheik of having links to the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. That sheik, four days earlier, had promised the U.S. military to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq and protect a strategic road.
"Who do you trust? Who do you not trust?" said Balcavage, commander of the 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division, his voice dipping out of earshot.
U.S. commanders are offering large sums to enlist, at breakneck pace, their former enemies, handing them broad security powers in a risky effort to tame this fractious area south of Baghdad in Babil province and, literally, buy time for national reconciliation.
Enemy of our Enemy {Warning-Graphic Violence}
Newly formed 'Killing Squads', we've been here before, in other places and times!
What will happen when these Sunni groups join together, which they probably already have, creating an established leadership, and turn on the Shiites, which they probably already are doing!
What will happen when they turn back on our forces, which they probably already have or are close to doing!
We are creating another, once again, regime like the last we supported. Only this time we're In-Country doing the Creating!
U.S. generals said they vet the backgrounds of every recruit, but ground commanders here said that is all but an impossible task.
Vet? We don't Vet a Damn Thing! We just jump headfirst into what will be thought of as easy solutions to correct our failed policies Quickly! Never a thought given of the possibilities of the eventual Blowback those policies almost always seem to bring!
Some of the subject titles in the report:
‘It’s like rent-a-cop’
In this fertile region, divided by the Euphrates River and torn by violence, U.S. soldiers are overstretched and Iraqi troops are in short supply. Isolated Sunni tribal lands have provided extremists with havens that are off-limits to U.S. patrols and Iraq's mostly Shiite security forces.
‘They took everything’
Most of the new recruits hail from the Jenabi, the largest and most influential tribe. Under Saddam Hussein, the Jenabi were considered a "golden tribe," filling the ranks of his elite Republican Guard and army. After the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, the Jenabi, like so many other Sunni tribes, joined the insurgency.
And next to Balcavage: Fadhil Youssef, a former Sunni insurgent who had spent six months in a U.S. military detention center. He was Balcavage's conduit into the arcane world of Iraq's tribes. Balcavage said he trusted him.
‘We will support you’
It was the sheiks' turn to speak.
They immediately accused Sheik Sabah of having links to al-Qaeda in Iraq and of playing a role in driving them off their lands.
"Sheik Sabah represents the leaders of al-Qaeda who did the killing," Fahad said.
'Wave the American flag'
Later, Youssef told Balcavage that Sabah had been trying to force other sheiks to join his faction. "They take their guns and wave the American flag in the air," Youssef said. "No one can say no."
‘I can do a better job’
Khadr said he planned to use the U.S. money to buy more arms on the black market. "We have some personal protection arms, but if we want to really fight al-Qaeda and destroy them, we need more weapons," said Khadr, with a faint smile.
‘I could be horribly wrong’
After the meeting, Balcavage discussed with another commander whether they should give a cache of weapons to help the sheiks retake their lands in Howija from al-Qaeda in Iraq. They quickly decided against it.
Meanwhile Bill Moyers, last week, had this televised essay. A soldiers originally from Trinadad and the thoughts of those who say they are the stronger on National Security.
Moyers on Sacrifice
Bill Moyers reflects upon sacrifice, democracy and war.
respond to the essay on the blog
I'm sure some of the latter will become employees of ours, in the National Government, and more than willing to repeat the mistakes of the past, for they don't learn in their present!
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