Punch a Righty (commenator) in the nose..!

Several articles in the past day or two indicate that it is LONG_PAST_DUE for America's blowhard Righty commentators & pundits to face the music for their half-decade (or two) of lies and deceptions, insufferable arrogance, ignorance, and self-righteous bullying and bigotry. People like George Will, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Weiner (aka "Savage"), Bill O'Reilly, William Safire, and all the others from the legions of the Right-Wing punditocracy have been so wrong, for so long, that it is absurd that ANYONE takes them seriously anymore.

First up, we have: "Iraqi police also found 35 bullet-riddled bodies that had been bound and blindfolded and left in different parts of the capital."

That is TODAY's blindfolded, handcuffed, tortured, and murdered bodycount, which is roughly comparable with yesterday's, and the day's before, and from the days before that. This appalling, grisly toll of human victims indicates that Baghdad and Iraq are indeed in a full-scale CIVIL WAR, or to be more precise, a full scale ETHNIC CLEANSING slow-burn genocide.

While item #1. In today's compilation may be just like those from the days before it, article #2. in today's selection is unique... the first time we have heard or seen anything like it breaking the envelope of the mainstream media.

<< SAUDIS REPORTEDLY FUNDING IRAQI SUNNIS >>
By Salah Nasrawi, Associated Press Writer 7 Dec. 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_insurgency_saudi

THIS IS OF COURSE a "Duh!" story for ANYONE who has been paying ANY attention to the Iraq war, for the simple reason that the Saudis (and Kuwaitis) paid BILLIONS of dollars for SADDAM HUSSEIN to oppose (fight) the Iranian threat to the Arab state(s); including Saddam's ruthless (a wimpy word in this context, we confess) SUPPRESSION of Shiite and Kurd power and influence. JUST BECAUSE les_Americans have killed Saddam's sons and captured (and put on trial in a kangaroo court) their former ally (insert picture Don Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam here) does NOT mean that the Saudis have developed a newfound approval for either the Shiite majority and their militant mullahs in Iraq, or an approval for the Iranian mullahs whose nation out-populates Iraq by almost three to one, much less the tiny population of those Arabs in Saudi Arabia riding those enormous, liquid gold oil fields .

There have of course been articles which beat around the bush of any flat-out assertion "Saudis AIDING THE IRAQI (Sunni) INSURGENCY," but reading between the lines, this is the unmistakable conclusion when an article reports that Iraqi Sunnis see AL QAIDA as "their LAST HOPE and DEFENDER", one _knows_damn_well_ that the Al Qaida Martyrs (suicide fighters) are being supplied by their Sunni kin across the (Iraq-Saudi) border.

WHAT IS AMAZING, is how thoroughly the American whore press/media CAN B_S_ this simple fact, this fact-of-daily-life so at the very center of the Iraq war insurgency and occupation.

And of course the corollary is, that the BUSH ADMINISTRATION is trying to CENSOR, OBSCURE, MISINFORM, and DISTRACT from the simple fact that Iraq is now a SLOW-BURN GENOCIDE, with the United States AIDING ONE SIDE (the Shiite-dominated government of Al Malaki and (his) government's Mahdi army core supporters) against the other.

Corollary #2. is that, the more the US tries to militarize ("create a working police force and army") its Shiite "allies," THE MORE THEY FEEL COMPELLED TO KILL any (even potential) future opponents, that is whatever Sunnis are still surviving last week's slow-burn ethnic cleansing.

The whore DC punditocracy, in their determination to polish Bush-Cheney's boots, has spent the past 2 or 3 years ignoring and obfuscating these simple facts.

Message to the whore DC punditocracy: Saddam Hussein MAY HAVE REQUIRED US ASSISTANCE to fight a war with Iran and gas the Kurds, but he needed NO help from the United States to QUELL THE SHIITE REBELLION in 1991.

So American pundits LECTURING about the need for the US military to "TRAIN THE IRAQI ARMY AND POLICE" is pure BS... Saddam needed NO "TRAINING" from America to police his regime, and neither does Iran or Libya or Sudan or other "terrorist friendly" nations need ANY US TRAINING to ruthlessly police their respective nations. Indeed, the US aiding and supporting the Sha's secret police, SAVAK, was THE factor which united resentment of ALL Iranian opposition groups against the Sha and the US. (Although we will concede that the Sha and his SAVAK were mere cubs compared to the ferocity of the Iranian revolution's lust for criminal tribunals and summary justice, and many of those who allied with the radical theological militants paid the ultimate price, and came to look back on the Sha's reign as being far more tolerant if not benevolent.)

Next time a DC whore pundit talks about "TRAINING THE IRAQ ARMY AND POLICE TO STAND UP", someone PLEASE give them a friendly punch in the nose! (To ruin only their day and not their entire week or lives, we recommend using 16 oz. boxing gloves and even head protectors.) The Iraqi Shiites DESPISE taking orders from Americans, and every time we "train" them to kill insurgents, they go out and round up as many POTENTIAL insurgents as they can find (surviving Sunnis) AND KILL THEM.

While the DC punditocracy is collecting their $100,000 paychecks every month or two, they are contributing to a NEW ANFAL GENOCIDE in Iraq, this time by the victims of Saddam's 1991 Anfal campaign (Shiites) against those whose clan perpetrated the atrocities. (Sunnis)

Either which way (back then or today), the Punditocracy acts as if they have some inalienable right to spout real-politik BS, and consign the victims of the policies they advocate to the "disappeared and forgotten " bin.

And then of course there is the case of American servicemen stuck in the crossfire, trained to kill "insurgent" Sunnis, but in so doing empowering the Shiite Mahdi army (and other Shiite units).

HOW can the WHORE punditocracy give a FREE PASS to the Bush administration IGNORING THE OBVIOUS, while America's men and women bear the brunt of it?

HOW can the whore punditocracy give a FREE PASS to George W. Bush strutting around claiming to the "the WAR PRESIDENT," while Bush gives NO LEADERSHIP for ANY sense of NATIONAL SHARED SACRIFICE, and instead indeed goes the OPPOSITE direction, giving HUGE TAX CUTS FOR America's wealthiest individuals and corporations?

HOW can the WHORE punditocracy NOT CONTRAST Mr. Bush's "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED _PHOTO-OP_ with his relentless mantra, "We will stay the course" (presumably until the "mission is accomplished")??

IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK OF THE DC WHORE PUNDITOCRACY, to get them to DEMAND of the president even ONE LITTLE ADMISSION that maybe the mission was NOT accomplished, that "BRING IT ON!" was a STUPID case of arrogant bravado, and that the president likewise has FAILED his "GIT 'em DEAD OR ALIVE!" pledge for Osama bin Laden?

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(PS: Michael Lind's "George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics" explains how genocide and subjugation of "inferior" races is at the heart and soul of the radical-right (neo-confederat/neo-conservative) worldview. During Manifest Destiny, America could actually try to carry through genocidal policies, even up to (for example) the early 1900's Philippine's war, aka "the Philippine INSURECTION, where US troops dug mass graves for Moro tribesmen slaughtered in the dozens. But manifest destiny, and the ruthlessness behind it, becomes problematic when you pit a professional army of only 150,000 men against a population of at least 20 million, a target population armed not with bows and arrows, but AK47s and IEDs.)
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Saudis reportedly funding Iraqi Sunnis

By SALAH NASRAWI, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_insurgency_saudi

CAIRO, Egypt - Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash.

Saudi government officials deny that any money from their country is being sent to Iraqis fighting the government and the U.S.-led coalition.

But the U.S. Iraq Study Group report said Saudis are a source of funding for Sunni Arab insurgents. Several truck drivers interviewed by The Associated Press described carrying boxes of cash from Saudi Arabia into Iraq, money they said was headed for insurgents.

Two high-ranking Iraqi officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity, told the AP most of the Saudi money comes from private donations, called zakat, collected for Islamic causes and charities.

Some Saudis appear to know the money is headed to Iraq's insurgents, but others merely give it to clerics who channel it to anti-coalition forces, the officials said.

In one recent case, an Iraqi official said $25 million in Saudi money went to a top Iraqi Sunni cleric and was used to buy weapons, including Strela, a Russian shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile. The missiles were purchased from someone in Romania, apparently through the black market, he said.

Overall, the Iraqi officials said, money has been pouring into Iraq from oil-rich Saudi Arabia, a Sunni bastion, since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq toppled the Sunni-controlled regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Saudi officials vehemently deny their country is a major source of financial support for the insurgents.

"There isn't any organized terror finance, and we will not permit any such unorganized acts," said Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, a spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry. About a year ago the Saudi government set up a unit to track any "suspicious financial operations," he said.

But the Iraq Study Group said "funding for the Sunni insurgency comes from private individuals within Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states."

Saudi officials say they cracked down on zakat abuses, under pressure from the United States, after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

The Iraqi officials, however, said some funding goes to Iraq's Sunni Arab political leadership, who then disburse it. Other money, they said, is funneled directly to insurgents. The distribution network includes Iraqi truck and bus drivers.

Several drivers interviewed by the AP in Middle East capitals said Saudis have been using religious events, like the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and a smaller pilgrimage, as cover for illicit money transfers. Some money, they said, is carried into Iraq on buses with returning pilgrims.

"They sent boxes full of dollars and asked me to deliver them to certain addresses in Iraq," said one driver, who gave his name only as Hussein, out of fear of reprisal. "I know it is being sent to the resistance, and if I don't take it with me, they will kill me."

He was told what was in the boxes, he said, to ensure he hid the money from authorities at the border.

The two Iraqi officials would not name specific Iraqi Sunnis who have received money from Saudi Arabia. But Iraq issued an arrest warrant for Harith al-Dhari, a Sunni opponent of the Iraqi government, shortly after he visited Saudi Arabia in October. He was accused of sectarian incitement.

Saudi Arabia is a key U.S. ally in the Middle East. The Iraq Study Group report noted that its government has assisted the U.S. military with intelligence on Iraq.

But Saudi citizens have close tribal ties with Sunni Arabs in Iraq, and sympathize with their brethren in what they see as a fight for political control — and survival — with Iraq's Shiites.

The Saudi government is determined to curb the growing influence of its chief rival in the region, Iran. Tehran is closely linked to Shiite parties that dominate the Iraqi government.

Saudi officials say the kingdom has worked with all sides to reconcile Iraq's warring factions. They have, they point out, held talks in Saudi Arabia with Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militia is accused of killing Sunnis.

These officials say zakat donations are now channeled through supervised bank accounts. Cash donation boxes, once prevalent in supermarkets and shopping malls, have been eliminated.

Still, Iraq's foreign minister expressed concern about the influence of neighboring Sunni states at a recent Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo.

"We hope that Saudi Arabia will keep the same distance from each and all Iraqi parties," Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari later told the AP.

Last month, the New York Times reported that a classified U.S. government report said Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgency had become self-sufficient financially, raising millions from oil smuggling, kidnapping and Islamic charities. The report did not say whether any money came from Saudi Arabia.

Allegations the insurgents have purchased shoulder-fired Strela missiles raise concerns that they are obtaining increasingly sophisticated weapons.

On Nov. 27, a U.S. Air Force F-16 jet crashed while flying in support of American soldiers fighting Anbar province, a Sunni insurgent hotbed. The U.S. military said it had no information about the cause of the crash. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman, said he would be surprised if the jet was shot down because F-16's have not encountered weapons capable of taking them down in Iraq.

But last week, a spokesman for Saddam's ousted Baath party claimed that fighters armed with a Strela missile had shot down the jet.

"We have stockpiles of Strelas and we are going to surprise them (the Americans)," Khudair al-Murshidi, the spokesman told the AP in Damascus, Syria. He would not say how the Strelas were obtained.

Saddam's army had Strelas; it is not known how many survived the 2003 war. The Strela is a shoulder-fired, low-altitude system with a passive infrared guidance system.

The issue of Saudi funding for the insurgency could gain new prominence as the Bush administration reviews its Iraq policy, especially if it seeks to engage Iran and Syria in peace efforts.

Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, wrote in a recent leaked memo that Washington should "step up efforts to get Saudi Arabia to take a leadership role in supporting Iraq, by using its influence to move Sunni populations out of violence into politics."

Last week, a Saudi who headed a security consulting group close to the Saudi government, Nawaf Obaid, wrote in the Washington Post that Saudi Arabia would use money, oil and support for Sunnis to thwart Iranian efforts to dominate Iraq if American troops pulled out. The Saudi government denied the report and fired Obaid.