Breaking: Old News - Our Current CIA Chief Is A Terrorist

[bellatrys]

Why do I have to keep finding these things? There's something wrong with this picture.

Okay, this isn't the post on Minitrue Ascendant or Condimelda going to put the screws to the EU or the reason why we need things like Blog Against Racism Day - or any of the other old things I keep trying to write about while new outrages keep cropping up,

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Re: Serendiptity?

[anonymous]

And last but not least,
"4) The West. From Britain's point of view, Iraq and the Arabian Gulf were strategically important because they lay on the route to India. In 1914, the Ottoman Empire was allied with Germany and so Britain invaded the Ottoman terrority of what is now Iraq. General Stanley Maude was the British general who took the capital in 1917 and conquered Mesopotamia (now Iraq). After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, both the Shia and the Sunni wanted independence for Iraq as a whole but disagreed on who should be king; some Kurds wanted an independent state; Britain wanted overall political control of the entire country so it could ensure security for the Arabian Gulf and deny Turkey any influence in the region, so the British government installed a puppet monarchy and saw to it that Iraq as a whole was retained by Great Britain as a League of Nations "mandate terrority". From 1927 Iraq also started to become important because of its vast oil resources. In 1932 the country became independent under the pro-British monarchy but the oil industry remained under largely British corporate control. British forces were used to maintain the monarchy in power." (Any of this sounding familiar?)
"After the Second World War, British influence declined and the monarchy was overthrown in a leftist coup in 1958. The policy of the new left-wing, pro-Communist government alarmed the U.S.A., which started giving active, though covert, C.I.A. support to the violently anti-Communist Ba'athists." (Yes, the very same eeeevil Ba'athists which Iraq has had to be de-Ba'athificated from!) "The U.S.-backed Ba'athists successfully overthrew the leftist government in 1963. U.S. backing for the Ba'athists - now under Saddam Hussein's leadership - resumed discreetly wiht the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s - despite the gassing of an estimated 5,000 Kurds in Halabja in 1988 - ceasing only when Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990."

In other words, folks, you broke it, you bought it, and never mind an 'exit strategy' when the polls don't look good due to the bodybags returning home...

Deiseach