Senate Agrees to Disagree with Surge. Nothing Going On Here. Now Please Move Along.

Kurt Nimmo
Feb. 03, 2007

Senator John Warner “announced that he was amending his nonbinding resolution that says the Senate ‘disagrees’ with the buildup, adding clauses opposing any cutoff of funds for troops in the field and calling for written commitments from the Iraqi government to achieve certain goals,” according to the Los Angeles Times. “The revised resolution drew the immediate endorsement of Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine). Both had been pushing an alternative resolution that more forcefully opposed the president’s plan” to kill more troops and Iraqis.

In short, this eminently forgettable resolution does not even amount to a wrist slap. No doubt neocons are rolling over on their sides, laughing out loud.

But what is really laughable are the absurd and wholly unworkable “benchmarks” to be imposed on Bush’s Iraqi puppets, taking the brunt of criticism for the “failure” of the Pentagon to eradicate a popular and persistent resistance in the country.

Admitting as much, Admiral William Fallon, the Navy commander replacing John Abizaid, told the US Senate Armed Services Committee what the Pentagon has “been doing is not working” and the “likelihood that Iraq is suddenly going to turn into something that looks close to what we enjoy here in this country is going to be a long time coming,” reports Today’s Zaman. True enough, unless Fallon is talking about the enjoyment of inner city Detroit, actually a paradise by way of comparison, as they have running water and electricity.

As it turns out, Mr. Fallon is indeed clueless, no doubt the reason he is the neocon nominee to lead Central Command. Fallon, according to Media Matters, “has ‘not gotten into the detail’ of Bush’s plan to increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq and does ‘not know the details of how he [Bush] plans to use’ the additional troops.” Fallon’s “comments did not appear in the January 31 print editions of The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, or The Wall Street Journal,” not exactly a surprising revelation, as the corporate media serves only to read Pentagon handouts.

Meanwhile, worried about his chance to be a presidential selectee in 2008, Barack Obama has “introduced a bill that would see US combat troops withdrawn from Iraq by spring 2008,” reports the Guardian. Obama’s “bill would require troops to start returning to the US in May and all combat forces to be back by March 31 2008. But, unlike Democratic presidential rivals, such as Senator John Edwards and the former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, Mr. Obama would stop short of cutting congressional funding for the extra troops,” in other words, Obama’s bill is toothless, little more than a political stunt designed to exploit the will of the American people, who have voiced their desire to get the heck out of Iraq and pronto.

Additionally, the Guardian cites a Los Angeles Times report, stating “that the US air force might use aggressive new tactics designed to deter Iranian assistance to Iraqi militants. The efforts could include more ‘forceful’ patrols by air force and navy fighter planes along the Iran-Iraq border to counter the smuggling of bomb supplies from Iran.”

In other words, the Pentagon will kill more people along the border in a sincere effort to drag Iran into the Iraqi quagmire and thus build yet another pretext for the coming attack against Iran, as dictated by the neocon “clash of civilizations” plan. Thanks to the above mentioned newspapers and the corporate media in general, it is now taken as gospel that Iran supports and supplies the Iraqi resistance, primarily Sunni and thus adversaries of Iran’s Shia leadership. But never mind the absurd inconsistencies.

Recall Osama and Saddam were buddies, according to the media, even though it made little sense for a secular dictator to hobnob with an austere Wahhabi fanatic, even though both were valued CIA assets at various points in their careers.

Finally, in regard to Iran, the neocons have “postponed plans to offer public details of its charges of Iranian meddling inside Iraq,” according to the Los Angeles Times, as they obviously don’t have a case, not that it matters, as they have decided to attack Iran regardless, as demonstrated by the seven-vessel battle group amassed in the Gulf, soon to be joined by the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis and its associated warships. A US Navy strike group led by the assault ship USS Bataan steamed through the Suez Canal on Tuesday, on its way to join the attack fleet, waiting for orders to kill Iranian toddlers and grandmothers.












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