Time Bandit Magazine

Gonna make this short and sweet, because I am really getting pissed off. I am tired of al Qaida being trotted out everytime the Iraqi Civil War escalates.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18072203/

“Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said witness accounts indicated a suicide attack. “We don’t know at this point who it was. We do know in the past that suicide vests have been used predominantly by al-Qaida,” the U.S. military spokesman said in an Associated Press broadcast interview.”

Bullshit.

This is a civil war we started. Iraq is the fucking Yugoslavia of the Middle East, all drawn up by mad insane English cartographers. Like Yugoslavia, it is made up of ethnic groups who have, and probably never will, really get along. And like Yugoslavia needed Josip Tito to hold together, Iraq needed Saddam Hussein as their strongman. But we killed him, and without a Plan 4.

That is the biggest fuck up ever.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9927782.htm

Franks’ Central Command did have an extensive plan to restore order and begin rebuilding the country, called Operation Desert Crossing, said retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, who drew up the plan and updated it continuously when he led Centcom until 2000. It was never utilized.

We all know what happened to General Zinni.

Disbanding the Iraqi Army and police comes a close second in the fuck up department. This cost us the only organization that had a command structure that included every ethnic group in the country. From here we could have rebuilt the country using an existing asset for both security and development. But no, we fucked this up too:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63423-2003Nov19?language=printer
Before the war, President Bush approved a plan that would have put several hundred thousand Iraqi soldiers on the U.S. payroll and kept them available to provide security, repair roads and prepare for unforeseen postwar tasks. But that project was stopped abruptly in late May by L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, who ordered the demobilization of Iraq’s entire army, including largely apolitical conscripts.

Bremer reversed himself a month later, but by then the occupation had lost not merely time and momentum but also credibility among former soldiers and their families, an important segment of Iraq’s population.

Now, the Americans are trying to recover — including rehiring some of the same soldiers they demobilized — at what one top Defense Department official called “warp speed.” And while the administration’s handling of the Iraqi army has been widely viewed as a fundamental decision of the occupation, a number of U.S. officials and analysts are saying it was fundamentally wrong.

“This was a mistake, to dissolve the army and the police,” said Ayad Alawi, head of the security committee of the Iraqi Governing Council. “We absolutely not only lost time. The vacuum allowed our enemies to regroup and to infiltrate the country.”

So without a plan and making the worst occuptation mistake outside of wrapping a Mohammad statue in pigskin, everyone seemed shocked to watch Iraq turn into a killing field. This is Bush’s fault, because he is the Commander and Chief, not matter how hard he looks for a War Czar fall guy.

And instead of owning up to the mistakes that have lead to the current day blood bath, Bush and the Gang trots out al-Qaida every time their fucking idoitic mistakes leads to a new and astounding atrocity. Thank God General Caldwell is on message for them and the MSM picked it up.

Besides the fact that this boming, of the fucking Parliment building no less, shows that McCain is a liar, it also shows the “Surge” is nothing but political theater for the masses demanding red red meat.

But no surge, no more troops, not even a coalition of the willing can stop the bloodshed in Iraq. It is a Civil War, and will be a Civil War until we let the Iraqis sort it out for themselves.

We had our chance, but without a Phase 4 and dissolving the in-place security apparatus, we dropped the ball and lost all credibility and became an occupation force.

So please, Bush and the Gang and the MSM, do not trot out al-Qaida as a bogeyman to scare us off from looking under the curtain. This is a fucking civil war that you started because you are to fucking stupid to even invade one of our client states correctly.

To repeat, this is a civil war, not al-Qaida.

Take your memes and STFU.