"two US generals have admitted the presence of targeted killing squads, and last February the Wall Street Journal let slip the presence of six US-trained secret militias. In the same month, Lt General William Boykin, the deputy undersecretary of defence for intelligence, told the New York Times: "I think we're doing what the Phoenix programme was designed to do, without all the secrecy." US death squads assassinated about 40,000 people in Vietnam before Congress halted "Operation Phoenix"." Sami Ramadani Wednesday February 8, 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1704901,00.html MOVING TARGETS Will the counter-insurgency plan in Iraq repeat the mistakes of Vietnam? by SEYMOUR M. HERSH http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031215fa_fact Phoenix Rising in Iraq? By S.R.Shalom http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=7227 ** Winning hearts and minds…..? I know some people will say that the targets are only insurgents, but a death squads, even if called something different, is still a death squad and it doesn’t instil a society with a sense of justice being done or seen to be done. It is the law of the vendetta.
But yet, suggest that the sensationalistic "made for media" tapes of beheadings could have been the work of anyone other than "the Insurgents" or "Terrorists" (notwithstanding the laughably transparent intended and actual impact of motivating Western public opinion to the "stay the course" camp) and it's all "conspiracy theory". Nevermind that beyond these revelations Iraq has for sometime now been home to the largest concentration of psychopathic CIA and Mossad agents of any foreign theatre of covert operations in the world (let alone the presence of an unaccounted for level of private military contractor mercs who specialise in abductions, torture and psyops). Noooo, if it isnt in the tabloids or on CNN it simply couldnt be happening.
Did you think we were going to have a pretty war? Look what happened in Algeria. Look at the occupied territories. Look at Lebanon during the Israeli invasion (O I’m sorry - operation Peace for Galilee) When you are trying to fight an opponent that has the support of the people then it always ends up with murder. How are you going to fight insurgents who do not wear uniforms in an urban environment? This war is going to get worse and worse. Look how many people it cost us to defeat a small portion of the Japanese army in WWII. You do not want to fight people who do not care if they die.
I didn't know there was a difference between the corporate news shows and the tabloids. They look the same to me. .
Substantially you are correct shaggie, but the tabloids tend to appeal to those who prefer just a tad more inane sensationalism to their misinformation.
Yes, even as people parade down the streets of London shouting their praise of beheading, over in Brussels there are actually people dumb enough to believe that when it actually happens, it must be the work of Mossad.
Been to any beheadings in London then have you? Yes we realise that you gullibly believe the Mossad and CIA are wonderful folk who do nothing but sit around drinking coffee all day. Denial becomes you well.
Which of course has no relevance. Which of course I never said nor do I believe. Anwyay, jihadis beheading people? Ridiculous! It was the jews in disguise. How fortunate for us that you combine slimy anti semitism with mind-numbing stupidity.
Which is undoubtedly why you raised it as some valid point in your irrational and deluded worldview of "turr-ist" boogeymen amassing to get us. Ah yes, as expected the truly "mind-numbing" fallback response of the unread and tv-news fed populist dupe, call reference to a well recognised and long documented history of CIA/Mossad false flag ops for public perception manipulation "anti-semitism" and "stupidity". Ah the utterances of a uncritical and slothful mind. It would be amusing if it werent the shameful status quo of our smug majority.
