Our Faux Chechnyan Spring Not Working Out So Well In Baghdad. Four Americans Killed In Sadr City

Definition of Chechnyan Spring: A period of pacification due to the fact that the population has suffered horrific losses because their attackers have used shameful tactics aimed at terrifying the public and killing militants (AKA freedom fighters).  Cross search on Putin and Grozny.  Neo Stalinists often attack other nations, even some areas that have recently broken away from the confines of their own nation, for resources. 

Neo Stalisnists often make up wild excuses for their atrocities like claiming that militants are using human shields when in fact the stalinists are attacking people within a crowded city or near residences in rural areas using methods likely to ensure that civilians are killed along with 'guilty parties'.  (Guilty parties can be defined to include nefarious types that don't want a superior white nation controlling their communities and making a lot of money off their nation's natural resources, while a foreign army occupies their land supporting a rival faction's militia (see Iraqy Army aka Badr brigade) making it a powerful deterrent to rule of law and democracy.

Now that I've explained the above, I will continue with the report: 

Our neoStalinism in Baghdad isn't having the happy effect as the Bush administration as hoped.

Dammit we bombed families into oblivion in Sadr city.  Why aren't they pacified?

Maybe they should call up Putin for advice on how to do it right.   If you're going to be a fascist then you can't try to take short measures.

Dudes, you can't just obliterate a few families and expect the rest to go along.  For some reason you just get more enemies that way. Hint.  They see themselves as freedom fighters and protectors.  

You can't send in nice guys while, either you haven't destroyed a good part of the city (Google "Groznya, Cehcnya" or see Witness to Madness a photo essay by Eric Bouvet at Time magazine) and many families, or at least until the memory of families they knew has dulled a bit. 

The best thing that happened to us in our relations with Vietnam is that we lost and went away for twenty-five years. 

You can even call up Robert Mugabe, though he doesn't have as many heavy munitions and must rely on thugs with small arms and even clubs.  He knows that you can't terrify a population without continued threats and actions until you simply crush them.

Saddam and Stalin are laughing at us from beyond the grave.  What pikers our little fascists in DC and the Green Zone are.  

They thought they could bring Sadr City under their control by killing only a few families and hitting a hospital and a group of children, until the militia hid their arms and said  "Ali ali in free!"

In this way Bush and the Maliki crew could claim they weren't really neo talinists because they stopped after just a few. 

Of course, this wouldn't stand up in any judicial court in... well... in a real democracy, but that doesn't mean the Bush administration can't use the court of public opinion by filtering facts through their pet, the American news media (which are owned by the same fat cats and businesses who control the Republican party).

The latest news out of Baghdad is that of Americans, two soldiers, a State department employee on reconstruction and an Iraqi born Defense Department contract interpreter were killed when a blast erupted behind them as they were about to enter the office of the acting chair of the Sadr City District Council to do the important job of delivering photographs of the council members.  Six Iraqis were killed by the same bomb.

It is disheartening that our reconstruction people are not allowed to do their jobs in our new colony.  I understand that it is important for Iraqis to understand basic tenets of democracy as practiced in nations like ours such as the fact that anyone in any government position is so much more important than any one else in the nation that they must immediately have some glossy photos to prove the point.

Forget over 5 years without reliable or even half day electricity.  Iraqi officials must have photos of themselves looking important, NOW!

Well, all is not lost.  It seems our troops can still be pushed into neo stalinist acts by fear and the air crews are so detached from their killing that they are masters at destroying whole families where ever they're deployed.

Read "8 Civilians Killed in 2 Disputed Attacks, Iraq Says".

This article shows how military air strikes against buildings harboring an assumed 'militant' are carried out without proper checking and notice the strong lies entered in record after the fact. 

Another little problem that comes with neo-Stalinism, or fascist expansionism, Stalinism, or whatever you do want to call it is that the world gets tired of it.  Even those who originally support your actions tend to turn against you, and then groups of nations from a superior force to stop you like the Allies did against the Axis in WW2.  Already Russia and China have indicated they need to make military pacts to counter American military might (even though that strength is being drained away daily by the Iraq War).   India is considering joining them.

I wouldn't consider those nations in the light of their current military preparedness either, as we know that future military strength comes from today's economic and manufacturing strength.

It may take time for them to mobilize completely, but the come down could be just that much worse.  I was reading a book on D Day that said our troops mostly met children and old men (and the war had nearly a year to go still) because most German males of young and middle adulthood had been eliminated by that time.

Payback could include strikes like the Dresden or Tokyo firebombings, or even, of course, nuclear attacks like Hiroshima and Nagasaki not to mention hostile occupations either before or after capitulation. 

This is  one reason why we shouldn't let our government do the neo-Stalinist thing even if they seem to be getting away with it for a while. Another reason, of course, is that we are not the beneficiaries to the results in the first place, though we American taxpayers are the ones who pay for it (and not just our children and grandchildren as promised by most mainstream news and even many anti war groups.  We are already seeing the bitter harvest of the hate, greed, laziness, and bigotry that lulled us into allowing the war on Iraq.  I don't know your situation, so I'm not judging you as to what you've done specifically, but we as a society were completely reprobate in allowing this war.  The affluent were enamored of their ever expanding wealth and ability to by goodies through their home value or credit cards.  Credit cards were sent even to poor families letting them for a brief time live like TV and movies said we could.  

My fear is now were will focus solely on holding on, instead of stopping the war that is sapping us, as well as being a prime example of neostalinism that could engender horrific retribution from terrorists or our fellow world powers.

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