In Iraq, a perilous alliance with former enemies 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!
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.
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!
Now why would the State Department want to "Hire' private choppers if the "Surge" is working so well?
Fearing an imminent drawdown of U.S. troops and equipment from Iraq amid escalating violence, the State Department is hiring its own private helicopter squad to ferry its personnel around the country.
Or could it be that the Cabal just wants to drain an already empty Treasury even further, what the Hell are they gonna do with all that money!
possibly valued at more than $100 million a year for up to the next five years
And they think they'll be safe for the next five years?
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and some other diplomats already travel around the country via private helicopters because ground transport is considered dangerous.
Again, I thought 'The Surge' was working??
Visions... Of escapes from the roof of the U.S. Embassey {Pallace} and the buildings in the Green Zone!
Cobra also found a cleaned and pressed U.S. military uniform and an array of Nazi paraphernalia.
"Every place he stayed was near a military base," Cobra told ABC News. "This guy had a problem with the military. This guy had guns, more than he could shoot in any one time...and a lot of ammunition and bombs."
The World's Jason Margolis reports that researchers in Georgia are using "virtual reality technology" to help Iraq veterans to cope with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. An alternative treatment helps veterans use meditation to cope with PTSD.
* Parents of a U.S. Marine Who Committed Suicide After Returning Home from Iraq File Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Veterans Affairs *
Joyce and Kevin Lucey say their son Jeffrey hanged himself after the U.S. military refused to deal with his post-traumatic stress disorder. In May 2004, Jeffrey's parents had him involuntarily committed to a VA hospital. But the hospital discharged him after a few days. Two weeks later, Kevin Lucey came home to find his son hanging from a hose in the cellar. Lying on his bed were the dog tags of two unarmed Iraqi prisoners Jeffrey had said he was forced to shoot.
His mother, Mary Burazer, said her son seemed to be in good health. She said he contacted family from a pay phone in Clarksville, Tenn., on Thursday evening and said he had driven the more than 450 miles to visit friends stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky. He told family members he had slept at the Salvation Army. His mother said the family's not sure why he did not call home.
Burazer left the Mount Holly apartment he shared with his brother at 9:30 p.m. July 19, saying he was bound for their parents' home, only 10 minutes away. His disappearance sparked a statewide search led by the Mount Holly Police Department and the State Bureau of Investigation.
I have removed the Video News Report, about his disaperance, that I posted at YouTube.
Hopefully Paul found what he was looking for with his friends, and from what family members and co-workers had stated about his being troubled that he will seek the care needed and the country give that care for his service to. And that All our present veterans Receive what this Country Owes Them, No Apathy This Time Around, us older Vets will make sure of that!!
Please Read the following: Just Received The Following In My E-Box
GCMN organizer George Burazer’s son, Paul Burazer, a young, 25 year old, Iraq veteran disappeared July 19, 2007 from the Mt. Holly, NC area. The attached bulletin has a photograph of him, vehicle information and his family's contact telephone number. Paul has been depressed and possibly suicidal since his return from Iraq.
A missing person report is on file at the Mt. Holly, NC Police Department. If you see him or have any information or leads please direct them toward the Mt. Holly, NC Police Dept. at 704-827-4343, ATTN: Detective Division or the family at the number on the attached bulletin. The family has also hired a private investigator to assist in the search and their contact information is as follows: Select Investigations, Dale Pleasant 980-581-1757.
The following links are to the local press coverage of Paul’s disappearance:
"Post - Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops"
Author's Hour.. July 12, 2007 Ilona Meagher discusses "Moving a ... all » Nation to Care: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops" at the U.W. Bookstore in Seattle.
This was filmed at the booksigning for "Moving A Nation To Care.." by author Ilona Meagher
Ilona put up a link to a News Report, where she had a small part in when in Arizona, there were two reports about Iraq Veterans gravely wounded in the War.
The report comes from one of the TV Stations that recently were in the News as to theirs, and anothers, crashing into each other while covering a car chase, All Aboard Were Killed!
More than one, from each station, will be effected by their own recent traumatic experiance of the choppers colliding, and probably for quite awhile, even though they weren't near the scene of the accident!
Beyond the Battlefield, Part 1
July 23rd, 2007 They were on routine patrol, but what happened next was anything but routine. One after another, rocket-propelled grenades slammed in to their Humvees.
Beyond the Battlefield, Part 2
July 23rd, 2007 Castro spent six months at the medical center. During that time, his hospital room was rarely quiet. A string of politicians and celebrities came knocking on his door, including President Bush, Bruce Willis, and Cher. But nothing could erase the painful memories of an ambush and the painful reality of life without his left leg.
Both are combined in the video above.
This is an example of Great Reporting, well put together and with feeling.
Washington politicians like to embrace the flag, apple pie, motherhood and our fighting men and women, then forget about them as they drag home bloodied, battered and disenchanted by the indifference of those charged with their care and who failed to plan for war's grisly human byproducts, the disabled.
