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Washout USA!
by nano Tuesday, Apr 28 2009, 9:19pm
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America, "on the wrong side of history"

Today’s new torture tolerant, civilian holocaust, America, now ranks with the world’s most obscenely inhuman, criminal regimes. Laotian and Cambodian children continue to die from the millions of tons of unexploded ordnance ILLEGALLY DROPPED in their respective nations during the Vietnam war – no attempt has been made by Christian (hypocritical) America to ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY and assist -- bombed into impoverishment -- nations in the removal of unexploded ordnance. The world capital of DENIAL is loath to face itself and its true murdering, criminal nature!

The INDISCRIMINATE (by nature) CARPET-BOMBING campaign designed and implemented by kiss of death, Henry Kissinger, resulted in over 3 million innocent civilian deaths – Kissinger today not only enjoys his freedom but this AMERICAN MASS MURDERER has been and continues to be protected by successive regimes since serving under the technically impeached, criminal president, Nixon!

America has a track record now approaching the slaughter record of Nazi Germany, yet it continues to justify its invasive, imperial expansionism by citing its own ‘black op,’ 9/11 (now a thermite proven INSIDE JOB) as an excuse! This excuse for waging warfare on numerous sovereign states and innocent citizens around the globe no longer holds water outside the USA; no person with ‘half a brain’ accepts the official version of 9/11 or the assassinations of JFK, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King jr!

However, it is CLEAR that this is the manner in which the USA conducts its ‘business’ – compare with China peacefully negotiating with other nations for the resources it requires!

[Is there any doubt as to be true nature of this vile, star-spangled, BEAST? The key to understanding the nature of the game, with a view to removing/razing this vile criminal nation lies in understanding the nature of the beast!]

The USA today continues to probe and encircle Russia, desperately seeking an advantage in order to launch a nuclear strike – that is FACT! The feeble attempts to destabilise China via the CIA puppet Dalai Fraud have resulted in profound failure, yet the maniacal USA refuses to desist or live in peace with other nations; it accepts only subservience -- cringing Australia -- or confrontation/WAR!

If the nation were a person there would be no doubt as to its psychopathic nature and the danger it poses to others – 1 million innocent civilian dead in Iraq are mute testimony to the FACT!

Today, America remains firmly entrenched in DENIAL and dissociation; rather than showing remorse for the heinous TORTURE it continues to inflict on others, the population prattles over the first hundred useless days of its new show-pony, slave, President Obama -- a black puppet that facilitates a minority white status quo! The world is mocked by America’s brazen criminal nature yet the U.S. population seems to take perverse comfort in its brutal arrogance.

It is evident the majority of Americans are unwilling to hold the leadership to account regardless of how heinous or reprehensible its crimes. However, I would remind an obviously sociopathic nation that the remainder of the world does not so readily abandon its humanity nor its sense of justice.

Allow us to offer a little home truth regarding your new, black, show pony, president; until such time as he and the nation acknowledges their crimes and holds the criminals to account, American credibility remains at ZERO, as does any legitimate political influence it hopes to wield in the future – in other words it's all down hill from here!

Arrest the TORTURERS and WAR CRIMINALS and HOLD THEM ALL TO ACCOUNT – only then does this pariah nation stand a chance of survival in the long term. America is no match for the entire OFFENDED international community.

The first 100 days are marked by continuing decline and major disappointments – that is the REALITY!

TORTURE and war crimes are COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE; they MUST be addressed and the guilty dealt with according to CIVILISED law and convention!

'Can we?'

http://cleaves.zapto.org/news/story-1346.html

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[Custard] Rudd confirms Afghanistan troop boost
by Emma Rodgers via reed - ABC Tuesday, Apr 28 2009, 9:46pm

Around 450 extra Australian troops will be sent to Afghanistan to train local troops and help with upcoming elections.

Announcing the boost today, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said troops would remain in the country until local forces and authorities were able to maintain peace and stability.

Mr Rudd says around 100 soldiers will form two teams to join the the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRTF) in Uruzgan province.

Around 70 will join the Special Operations Task Group (SOTG), the special forces units on the front line in the fight against the Taliban.

Another 120 troops will be sent on an eight-month deployment to help with security for the Afghan elections in August.

A team of around 40 engineers will be sent to work on upgrades for the Tarin Kowt airfield and up to 70 staff will also be embedded in other US or Coalition headquarters.

Ten Australian Federal Police (AFP) will help train local police forces.

Those troops sent to join the MRTF will help train Afghanistan National Army soldiers in a brigade of around 3,300 personnel.

Mr Rudd says until the brigade is properly trained, Australian troops will not be able to withdraw.

He also says it is clear the current strategy in the war-torn country is not working and the world is at "grave risk" of allowing the return of intensified terrorist activity.

"We cannot ignore this cold hard strategic fact - less security in Afghanistan means less security for Australians," he said.

"Handing Afghanistan back to terrorist control will increase the threat to all Australians."

Mr Rudd discussed the extra commitment with US President Barack Obama last week after deliberations with the National Security Committee.

He has warned that he fears more lives will be lost in the war but says Australia cannot bow to the threat of terrorism.

He also admitted that the war in Afghanistan would become increasingly unpopular.

"I accept that for the reality that it is," he said.

Former Defence Department head and diplomat Ric Smith has also been appointed as Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Mr Rudd said Australia must engage with Pakistan over the threat of terrorism training camps its border with Afghanistan.

Around 1,100 Australian soldiers are already stationed in the country, mainly in Uruzgan Province.

Ten Australian soldiers have died in Afghanistan since 2001.

© 2009 ABC

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/29/2555859.htm

Obama's Iraq: The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Jeremy Scahill via quill - Rebel Reports Wednesday, Apr 29 2009, 2:54am

Remember when Barack Obama made that big announcement at Camp Lejeune about how all US combat troops were going to be withdrawn from Iraqi cities by June 30? Liberals jumped around with joy, praising Obama for ending the war so that they could focus on their "good war" in Afghanistan.

Of course, the celebrations were and remain unwarranted. Obama's Iraq plan is virtually identical to the one on Bush's table on January 19, 2009. Obama has just rebranded the occupation, sold it to liberals and dropped the term "Global War on Terror" while, for all practical purposes, continuing the Bush era policy (that's why leading Republicans praised Obama's plan). In the real world, US military commanders have said they are preparing for an Iraq presence for another 15-20 years, the US embassy is the size of Vatican City, there is no official plan for the withdrawal of contractors and new corporate mercenary contracts are being awarded. The SoFA Agreement between the US and Iraq gives the US the right to extend the occupation indefinitely and to continue intervening militarily in Iraq ad infinitum. All it takes is for the puppets in Baghdad to ask nicely...

In the latest episode of the "Occupation Rebranded" mini-series, President Obama is preparing to scrap the June 30 withdrawal timeline.

As The New York Times reports: "The United States and Iraq will begin negotiating possible exceptions to the June 30 deadline for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraqi cities, focusing on the troubled northern city of Mosul, according to military officials. Some parts of Baghdad also will still have combat troops."

According to the Times, the US is playing with the definition of the word "city" when speaking of withdrawing combat troops from all cities:

[T]here are no plans to close the Camp Victory base complex, consisting of five bases housing more than 20,000 soldiers, many of them combat troops. Although Victory is only a 15 minute drive from the center of Baghdad and sprawls over both sides of the city's boundary, Iraqi officials say they have agreed to consider it outside the city.

In addition, Forward Operating Base Falcon, which can hold 5,000 combat troops, will also remain after June 30. It is just within Baghdad's southern city limits. Again, Iraqi officials have classified it as effectively outside Baghdad, so no exception to the agreement needs to be granted, in their view.

Combat troops with the Seventh Field Artillery Regiment will remain in the heart of Baghdad at Camp Prosperity, located near the new American Embassy compound in the Green Zone. In addition to providing a quick reaction force, guarding the embassy and noncombat troops from attack, those soldiers will also continue to support Iraqi troops who are now in nominal charge of maintaining security in the Green Zone.

Camp Victory is of tremendous strategic importance to the US occupation. In addition to the military's share of Baghdad International Airport, it includes four bases-Victory, Liberty, Striker and Slayer-as well as the US-run prison "Camp Cropper." That's where the US keeps its "high value" prisoners. While the US officially handed control of Forward Operating Base Freedom to "Iraqi control," the US military is keeping the swimming pool.

Meanwhile, future plans are being laid for other US bases. Camp Prosperity is going to house US contractors and other personnel, while at Camp Union III housing is being built for several thousand soldiers, trainers and advisers.

What is abundantly clear is that there are enough cosmetic changes going on in Baghdad intended to make it look like the occupation is ending, while continuing it. Again, from the Times:

The Green Zone was handed over to Iraqi control Jan. 1, when the agreement went into effect. In addition to the United States-Iraqi patrols, most of the security for the Green Zone's many checkpoints and heavily guarded entry points is still done by the same private contractors who did it prior to Jan. 1.

"What you're seeing is not a change in the numbers, it's a doctrine change," said First Sgt. David Moore, a New Jersey National Guardsman with the Joint Area Support Group, which runs the Green Zone. "You're still going to have fighters. Every U.S. soldier is trained to fight."

The Iraq occupation is like The Picture of Dorian Gray. No matter what public face the Obama administration attempts to present, it only grows more heinous with each passing day.

http://rebelreports.com/post/100759562/obamas-iraq-the-picture-of-dorian-gray