Tuesday, June 18, 2013

CODEPINK and other whores who lie about Iraq


Still reeling from the wave of violence that began Saturday, Iraq is yet again slammed.  National Iraqi News Agency reports a suicide bomber has blown himself up in Habib Bin Mudhaher al-Asadi Mosque.  The Baghdad mosque was attacked by two people.  There is confusion as to what happened before the bomb went off inside the mosque.  Wang Yuanyuan (Xinhua) reports, "The attackers first shot dead the guards of the mosque by silenced weapons before they entered the mosque and blew up their explosive vests among worshippers during noon prayers at the mosque in al-Qahira district in northern Baghdad, the source said."  Reuters leaves out any gunfire and instead reports, "The first bomber detonated his charge at a checkpoint about 100 metres (yards) away from the mosque in al-Qahira district of northern Baghdad. He was followed minutes later by a second who blew himself up inside the building."  Reuters matches Sameer N. Yacoub's report for AP.   AFP's report acknowledges gunfire and two bombings, "According to witnesses and officials, the bombers, who were dressed in suits, began by gunning down the building's guard, followed by the first attacker blowing himself up at the entrance to the hall.  The second militant took advantage of the ensuing chaos and ran through the crowd before setting off his explosives inside the husseiniyah itself."  Citing police sources, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Joe Sterling (CNN) report that the two bombers first used guns outside the mosque, then both entered the mosque and detonated their bombs.  That tracks with what NINA reports here,  and with what All Iraq News reports here.  While those two offer an overall description that matches the basic details of CNN, Alsumaria is reporting there's just one bomber and that was inside the mosque.  All outlets at least seem in agreement that there was at least one bomber detonated inside the mosque.   Ahlul Bayt News Agency reports, "Furat Faleh, an Iraqi police officer near the incident scene, said the bomber inside the mosque 'detonated himself among the worshippers, who were gathering after the call to prayer'."

Right now, Xinhua has 32 dead and 57 injured.  IANS also counts 32 dead. Those numbers have been rising all morning.

That's not the only violence.  Alsumaria notes 2 Baquba bombings have injured five people, and a Tikrit sticky bombing claimed the lives of 2 farmers.   NINA reports a Kirkuk bombing has injured one police officer,  a western Baghdad roadside bombing injured four people, and, dropping back to last night, 1 man was stabbed to death and another left injured from a Sulaymaniyah attack.

These wave of attacks hit as Iraq Body Count counts 280 violent deaths this month through yesterday.


NPR returns to Iraq finally today.  Finally.  Maybe if there's another Iraq report in the week, we might get some honesty.  Kelly McEvers is flat out lying today.  She lies about the Hawija massacre. She allows an "analyst" to LIE that the protests are responsible for the violence -- she allows this bastard to lie and to lie without giving his name.  He's a supposed political analyst.

I'm sorry, you don't get that when you slander like that.

It's the usual crap NPR's been so proud of.

Kelly also claims that Nouri's government is meeting Sunni protesters demands.

In what world? 

She lies that US troops left in 2011.


I'm so damn sick of the whores who lie like this.  Ava moderated "The Iraq Dialogue" Sunday, from that discussion.


 Kat: Sure.  Through yesterday there have been 211 violent deaths this month according to Iraq Body Count.  If the war is over, someone forgot to tell Iraqis that fact.  In addition, let me quote from C.I.'s June 7th snapshot:
December 6, 2012, the Memorandum of Understanding For Defense Cooperation Between the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Iraq and the Department Defense of the United States of America was signed.  We covered it in the December 10th and December 11th snapshots -- lots of luck finding coverage elsewhere including in media outlets -- apparently there was some unstated agreement that everyone would look the other way.  It was similar to the silence that greeted Tim Arango's September 25th New York Times report which noted, "Iraq and the United States are negotiating an agreement that could result in the return of small units of American soldiers to Iraq on training missions.  At the request of the Iraqi government, according to [US] General [Robert L.] Caslen, a unit of Army Special Operations soldiers was recently deployed to Iraq to advise on counterterrorism and help with intelligence."
Kat (Con't): When the US government is sending US troops back into Iraq and signing MoUs stop claiming the Iraq War is over unless you're a cheap, dirty whore.


[. . .]

 
Isaiah: Wally, Kat, Ava and C.I. talk to various groups and organizations about the ongoing wars -- including the Iraq War.  I'm wondering how that's going?
Wally: In terms of?
Isaiah: I'm thinking of Barack sending US troops back into Iraq, for example.
Wally: That's never been a problem because C.I. can cite from memory, so when anyone had a question, she would say whatever day of the New York Times it was that Tim Arango's article ran and whatever page it was and for them to look it up.  But one thing I do now is carry copies of "Iraq: Politics, Governance, and Human Rights" from the Congressional Research Service.  I explain that this is Congress' think tank, this is who gives the facts to Congress and if they have a friend who might be doubtful, they can grab one of these copies from me and use it to back up the claims.  I usually end up giving out at least five of those every time we speak.
Kat: And he gave out none when he would say, "If you need to back that up, you can refer to this."
Wally: Right.  If I sell it as, 'In case your friends doubt you,' they'll grab it.
Isaiah: It's really amazing that you four have to be like Paul Revere, riding through the country, proclaiming, "Barack's sent troops back into Iraq!" and you're having to do that because other people won't do their job.  I'm thinking of Phyllis Bennis, for example.
Stan: I would agree with that.  And these people present as experts.  Does Phyllis grasp how many people stop listening to her on Syria or whatever this week's pet cause is after she lies that all US troops are out of Iraq?  I don't think she does.  But if she can't get that correct, why would we expect her to get anything else right?

[Roundtable credits: "Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man; C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review; Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills);  Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz); Trina of Trina's Kitchen; Wally of The Daily Jot;  Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends; Mike of Mikey Likes It!; Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts; Ann of Ann's Mega Dub and me, Ava, of  The Third Estate Sunday Review."]


Like Isaiah said, we have to be Paul Revere.  And we are getting the word out in one discussion after another.  But it sure would be great if worthless piece of human s**ts like Kelly McEvers and Charlie Rose -- who are paid to do a job -- could learn the facts.  It's really too late to claim, "Oh, I didn't know."  Yeah, you damn well do.  You just make the choice to lie.  That's what makes you a whore, you're supposed to be reporting, you're supposed to be factual but you keep repeating a known lie.

They're whores.  Just like Jodie Evans.  Ann left a comment -- read the Iraq dialogue -- at CODEPINK, they won't approve it.  Her comment?  It's in the dialogue, she copied and we put it in.  She's noting Tim Arango's report.  They've refused to allow the comment out of moderation and Jodie's whorish blog post contains this at the bottom "No one has commented yet."

You need to stop trusting these people, you really do.  You're creating your own dysfunction by doing so. And those of us who've been honest, we're getting real damn tired of carrying all the damn weight.

The fact that US troops went back into Iraq last fall (and are still there) is a fact that whores -- like Jodie Evans, like Charlie Rose, like Kelly McEvers -- just won't tell the American people.

They're whores.  (We're noting the NYC event because of Joan Wile and because I Need Attention Benjamin and I Don't Believe In Washing Down There Jodie have nothing to do with the NYC chapter.)


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