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Date: June 10, 2007 2:20:43 PM PDT
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Subject: Neocon America's Two-Party System -- Israelocrats and
Israelicans
"Government OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people."
Nowadays that appears to mean only the Jewish people.
Lieberman advocates military strike on Iran
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/
Senator_Lieberman_advocates_military_strike_on_0610.html
"Iraq is now the main front in the long war we are fighting against
the Islamist terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. In fact 90%** of
the suicide bombers in Iraq today killing Iraqis and American
soldiers are FOREIGN AL QAEDA fighters ... IRAN is training and
equipping [these terrorists] to come in and kill American soldiers
and Iraqis," said Lieberman.
"If we're going to sit and talk with the Iranians, tell them what
we want them to do, which is to stop doing that because it's
killing Americans, we can't leave it at that. I think we have to
be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians
to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq," he said. "To me, that
would include a strike [on Iran], across the border into Iran,
where we have good evidence that [there is] a base at which Iran is
training these [enemy combatants] coming back into Iraq to kill our
soldiers."
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**Official US intelligence and US military estimates, by contrast,
quote the number of "Al-Qaeda" fighters in Iraq at around ONE
PERCENT of the "insurgent" opposition.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency
While it is not [definitively] known how many of those resisting
the U.S. occupation in Iraq are from outside the country, it is
generally agreed that foreign fighters make up a very small
percentage of the Resistance. Major General Joseph Taluto, head of
the 42nd Infantry Division, said that "99.9 per cent" of captured
Resistance are Iraqi.[21] The estimate has been confirmed by the
Pentagon's own figures; in one analysis of over 1000 Resistance
captured in Fallujah, only 15 were non-Iraqi.[4] According to the
Daily Telegraph, information from military commanders engaging in
battles around Ramadi exposed the fact that out of 1300 suspected
Resistance arrested in five months of 2005, NONE were non-Iraqi,
although Colonel John Gronski stated that foreigners provided money
and logistical support: "The foreign fighters are staying north of
the [Euphrates] river, training and advising, like the Soviets were
doing in Vietnam"[5] In September 2006, the Christian Science
Monitor reported, "It's true that foreign fighters are in Iraq,
such as the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. But they are a small
minority of the Resistance, say administration critics. Most Iraqi
mujahideen are Sunnis who fear their interests will be ignored
under Iraq's Shia-dominated government. They are fighting for
concrete, local political goals - not the destruction of America."
Despite the low numbers of foreign fighters, coalition forces
believe the majority of suicide bombings are believed to be carried
out by non-Iraqi foreigners. Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East expert
with the Congressional Research Service, stated: "80% of the
Resistance, the day to day activity, is Iraqi -- the roadside
bombings, mortars, direct weapons fire, rifle fire, automatic
weapons fire...[but] the foreign fighters attract the headlines
with the suicide bombings, no question."[6][7]
On September 7 2005, an Iraqi Army Captain claimed that Iraqi
forces arrested 150 non-Iraqi Arabs in Tal Afar.[8] But other
accounts of the same battle do not mention these arrests[9], and
U.S. Army commander Colonel H. R. McMasters said the "vast
majority" of Resistance captured there were "Iraqis and not
foreigners."[10] Iraqi journalist Nasir Ali claimed that there
were "very few foreign combatants" in Tal Afar and charged "Every
time the US army and the Iraqi government want to destroy a
specific city, they claim it hosts [foreign] Arab fighters and Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi."[11]
There are allegations that the Bush Administration has attempted to
inflate the number of foreign fighters in order to advance the
theory that the Resistance is not a local movement. U.S. Army
Specialist Tony Lagouranis spoke about his job identifying the
nationalities of many of the bodies after the assault on Fallujah:
"We had women and children, old men, young boys. . . [U.S.
commanders] were trying to prove that there were a lot of foreign
fighters in Falujah, so that was mainly what we were going for.
Very few of them had foreign IDs. . . In an effort to "cook the
books"they would find a Qu'ran on the guy and the Qu'ran was
printed in Algeria and they'd mark him down as an Algerian, or guys
would come in with a black shirt and khaki pants, and they'd say,
this is the Hezbollah uniform so they'd mark him down as a
Lebanese. Which was ridiculous. . . I [objected] to the Staff
Sergeant, but I just got yelled down."[23]
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http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/30289.html
Judith Apter Klinghoffer
POLL: AL QAEDA LOST HEARTS AND MINDS IN IRAQ
Al Qaeda has decisively lost the Iraqi battlefield.
Overall 94 percent have an unfavorable view of al Qaeda, with 82
percent expressing a very unfavorable view. Of all organizations
and individuals assessed in this poll, it received the most
negative ratings. The Shias and Kurds show similarly intense levels
of opposition, with 95 percent and 93 percent respectively saying
they have very unfavorable views. The Sunnis are also quite
negative, but with less intensity. Seventy-seven percent express an
unfavorable view, but only 38 percent are very unfavorable. Twenty-
three percent express a favorable view (5% very).
Views of Osama bin Laden are only slightly less negative. Overall
93 percent have an unfavorable view, with 77 percent very
unfavorable. Very unfavorable views are expressed by 87 percent of
Kurds and 94 percent of Shias. Here again, the Sunnis are negative,
but less unequivocally—71 percent have an unfavorable view (23%
very), and 29 percent a favorable view (3% very).
Iraqi confidence in Iraqi forces (as opposed to militias) is
increasing, whereas its confidence in US forces is decreasing.
Given US policies there can be little doubt but that US forces have
lost significant Shia support and gained some Sunni support.
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