Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi discusses the conflict for Kurdish independence from Turkey, Iran and Syria, U.S. support PKK/PEJAK, MEK, Jundullah and other terrorist groups, the high chances of war with Iran and the risk it will ignite a regional war, the willful ignorance of the Bush/Cheney administration, the neocons’ attempt to undermine Rice’s deal with the North Koreans, the belief of the “intelligence community” that the story of DPRK-Syrian cooperation on a nuclear weapons program is “some kind of fraud,” waterboarding, war crimes and American withdrawal from Iraq.
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Philip Giraldi is a former DIA and CIA officer, partner at Cannistraro Associates, Francis Walsingham Fellow for the American Conservative Defense Alliance, contributing editor at the American Conservative magazine, blogger at the Huffington Post and columnist at Antiwar.com.
Yes indeed, it appears that Bush/Cheney/Kissinger, unbalanced/haters/wizened-close-to-death fools, want to kill us all, the end result of their plan to attack Iran. The most/only pressing issue for this time is: how to stop us/US from attempting to conquer Iran. Am I getting too melodramatic? I wish!
Quite a visionary and realist. Hopefully, Mr. Bush will not read Philip Giraldi’s vision because he will want to play the starring roll in the war.
Mr. Bush lives on emotional highs. That’s what gets him up in the morning. He does not understand the consequences of war and when losing double ups his bet. Unfortunately, Mr. Bush is poorly trained for a presidency and selected glory seekers for advisors. Too bad.
Funny how last July the US was “mising” weapons and now the PKK shows up with those very same guns. Oded Yinon wrote in 1982 “Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi’ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north. It is possible that the present Iranian-Iraqi confrontation will deepen this polarization”
Every internal conflict betwen Muslims is goof for Israel. The US constantly “misplacing” money and weapons. Cheney said in 94 that invading Iraq would threaten the teritorial integrity of Turkey. The whole point of the US indirect support of this and support for a Kudistan (as the Israeli plan desired) is to cause conflict with Iran. We know what these neocons are up to and we know who is pulling the strings.
Israeli’s president is brought on charges of rape and that is no news, but if the president of Iran even almost says something then the MSM will put word in his mouth and right the witch trial bells.