Petraeus' Reassignment Means War Rules the US.

An analysis by the LA Times (linked here at the Houston Chronicle "Petraeus' promotion tied to future war policy ") says that the Petraeus promotion means many more years of high troop levels in Iraq and an eye towards invading Iran.

Since Hillary is doing everything possible to destroy Barack Obama we will probably  be following John McCain down a black hole where our children, grandchildren and other loved ones will be sucked into a killing machine to be spat out in pieces. 

Cheap natural resources for big business and fat cats.  Dust and shit for the rest of us.  

Wave goodbye to your Social Security, Medicare, jobs.  With the War on Terror sham struggle (that never seems to get any closer to bin Laden mainly because it doesn't try) dragging down the economy we can wave goodbye to good jobs, too.

One more  a presidency like Bush's (and most likely McCains)  and they will be able to drown those programs we paid so much into in their bathtub of debt.

Thank you Hillary!  Thank you!  Thank you for doing your best to destroy any hope we have of staving off another fascist administration willing to spill our children's blood for oil and other resources. 

Excerpt article linked above: 

Petraeus has been the prime advocate of Bush's policy of a large troop presence in Iraq. By naming Petraeus to a job that lasts into the next administration, Bush ensures the new president will confront the military's strongest voice for maintaining a big force in Iraq.

Petraeus also has emerged as a leading critic of Iran's interference in Iraq, making his appointment a signal of heightened U.S. attention to Tehran. His expertise with Iran's military and political leadership will allow him to take a more hands-on approach to dealing with the government.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that Bush will nominate Petraeus to take over as chief of U.S. Central Command, which also oversees Afghanistan and Pakistan. The job was left vacant in March when Navy Adm. William Fallon stepped down after appearing to criticize U.S. policy in the region, especially on Iran.

The analysis also claims that Petraeus is being rewarded for "a job well done", but other analyses say that all the successes that Petraeus is supposed to have won actually were accomplished before the surge was well underway, and the effectiveness has been hampered because of the faction that the US has chosen to back politically and militarily. 

The Awakening Councils were formed before Petraeus took command.  They were Sunni tribesmen who saw that it wasn't a good thing to be backing the murderous little popinjays in Al Qaeda in Iraq.  So they worked out a deal before Petraeus time to rent their militiamen to the US to effect some security in the Sunni tribal areas.

The nations was less bloody in the months after the surge was in full swing, because a sectarian divide of Iraq and even Baghdad had been effected in the years before the surge and in which nearly a quarter of the nation had been driven from their homes or killed (21 m Iraqis before war 4 million displaced, over 1 million dead).

 Petraeus' surge has not been a success

• The political programs needed have not been installed during the surge to protect high Iraqi officials precious little arses
  

• If the surge had allowed the Iraqi forces to regroup, retrain, and go and fight better the drawdown of the surge wouldn't have been halted as Petraeus recently announced.  I'm not the only one who thinks that.  See New York Times "Iraq’s Military Seen as Lagging ".

• Now Maliki feels strong enough with our military backing to go after his main political rivals.  Yes, we are doing a Stalinist cleansing job for Maliki in Basra and Sadr city.  They are relying on our air power to blast residences that Iraqi officials claim have"criminals" in them, usually the attacks end up with more civilians dead than militia members.  Who are the criminals now?  I guess our troops and us for allowing this.
  

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