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Is Petraeus McChrystal’s Replacement or Obama’s
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By Paul Craig Roberts
People elected Obama, because they were tired of Bush’s wars based on lies. So Obama gave us a new war in Pakistan and reignited the Afghan war. No one knows what these wars are about or why the bankrupt US government is wasting vast sums of
money, which it has to borrow from foreigners, in order to murder the citizenry in two countries that have never done anything to us.
Just as Bush/Cheney and their criminal neocon government deceived the world that Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass
destruction” that threatened white people everywhere, Obama has conflated the Taliban with al
Qaeda. Obama has sold the tale to white countries that unless the US determines how Afghanistan is ruled and by
whom, white people are in danger of being exterminated by al Qaeda Taliban
terrorists.
The most telling aspect of the McChrystal-Obama
contretemps is that it has caused no one in the US government, or media, to ask why the US is still killing women and children in Afghanistan after 9
years. The US government is prepared for everyone except itself to be tried at the War Crimes Tribunal.
Five million Iraqis were killed, maimed, tortured and displaced by an American invasion based on lies told by the highest officials in the American
government. Yet, no one has been held accountable. Petraeus “won” in Iraq by paying protection money to the Sunnis who were effectively resisting the US
occupation. Petraeus figured out that it was far cheaper and more efficient to put the Sunnis on the US military payroll and to pay them to stop
fighting, which is how the war between the Sunnis and the Americans ended. To keep the Americans out of the ongoing large scale violence that continues to slaughter
Iraqis, the US military was confined to remote bases.
The Afghans will also accept Petraeus’ protection money, and Petraeus has just enough time to buy the Afghan war before the next presidential
election. The Afghans will take the money and wait us out, just as the Iraqis are
doing.
All of this drama is playing out despite the continuing lack of any valid reason for the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Washington
idiots, trying to dictate how Iraq and Afghanistan are governed, are destroying constitutional government in the United
States. In our hubris to determine how Iraq and Afghanistan are ruled, we are losing our own
government.
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