Sunday, April 13, 2014

Hejira

The plan was to address Saleh al-Mutlaq.

That was the plan.

But Jane Arraf is a disgusting propagandist who passes herself off as a reporter.

She has a really bad article for the Christian Science Monitor.  We called out one aspect at The Third Estate Sunday Review earlier.

I'm calling this crap out right now:

A surprise move by influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to withdraw from the political process is expected to benefit Maliki. It allows him to go after large numbers of votes from poor, dispossessed Shiites hoping for more jobs and better services.
Maliki might be aided, too, by political disarray among the Kurds. The absence of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who has been undergoing medical treatment, has led to a leadership struggle for his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the three main Kurdish parties. Almost six months after provincial elections, the main Kurdish parties have not been able to agree on their own regional government.

Can she stop whoring for Nouri?

What a deeply sick and twisted f**k Jane Arraf truly is.

A surprise move by influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to withdraw from the political process is expected to benefit Maliki. It allows him to go after large numbers of votes from poor, dispossessed Shiites hoping for more jobs and better services.

We've repeatedly noted how Moqtada's followers would never vote for Nouri.  They didn't in 2010's parlimentary elections, they didn't in the poll Moqtada held in April (when he asked who he should support).  Moqtada's repeatedly called (including just last week) for Nouri not to seek a third term.

So how much of a lying whore do you have to be to claim at this late date that Moqtada's followers will support Nouri?

They turned out in Basra this weekend to protest him.

The lying whore that is Jane Arraf doesn't tell you any of that.  She whored for Saddam and didn't broadcast stories on CNN -- something Eason Jordan apologized for (after Saddam fell) but that Jane Arraf has never expressed regret for or even acknowledged.

But let's note one more thing about how Moqtada's followers won't be voting for Nouri -- the Sadr bloc has candidates on the ballot.  That's who Moqtada supporters will be voting for.

You have to be a really cheap whore at this point to say, "Moqtada's followers will likely vote for Nouri."

There's not enough penicillin in the world to clean up a whore like Jane Arraf.

Let's deal with the whore's second lie:

Maliki might be aided, too, by political disarray among the Kurds. The absence of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who has been undergoing medical treatment, has led to a leadership struggle for his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the three main Kurdish parties. Almost six months after provincial elections, the main Kurdish parties have not been able to agree on their own regional government.

Might he be aided by that, Jane?

In what world?

She can't stop lying, she's too much of a whore for Nouri.

She really needs to be rebuked publicly for the lies she's putting out.

Jalal Talabani is the head of the PUK.  But he's not in Iraq, is he?

He's in Germany.  He's been there since his stroke.

Jane may not tell you about that but the PUK can.  They can tell you about the screaming Nouri did at Jalal, about the threats he made to Jalal and about how, as soon as Nouri left Jalal's office, Jalal had his stroke.

Even setting aside that, what do Kurds want?

Autonomy to be sure.  The KRG is only semi-autonomous.

But in the immediate future, they want Kirkuk.

Kirkuk is oil-rich, it's also disputed.  The KRG claims it and so does the central government out of Baghdad.

In 2006, Nouri became prime minister.

Per the 2005 Iraqi Constitution -- which Nouri took an oath to uphold -- specifically Article 140, there was supposed to be a census and referendum to resolve the issue of who got Kirkuk.

And that was supposed to have taken place no later than the end of 2007.

But Nouri refused to implement Article 140.

His first term ended in 2010.  He lost that year's parliamentary elections.  Thank to the White House, he got a second term.  This was via a contract known as The Erbil Agreement.  In it, the head of the other political blocs gave election loser Nouri al-Maliki a second term in exchange for his contractual guarantees to them.  What did the Kurdish leaders have put in The Erbil Agreement?

That Nouri would finally implement Article 140.

Nouri signed off on that.  He used the contract to get a second term.

But once he got a second term?

He refused to honor the promises he made in that contract.

So, as happened in his first term, there's been no implementation of Article 140.

Nouri and the KRG are arguing about oil currently.  Nouri's cut off funds to the KRG -- funds they're owed -- in order to blackmail them.  This has hurt government workers in the KRG.

Does any of this say, "I'm a Kurd and so I'll vote for Shi'ite Nouri"?

No.

Only a whore would say that.

And, look at the byline on the article, the whore's name is Jane Arraf.

She lied for Saddam and now she lies for Nouri.

Why this woman is allowed to cover Iraq for any outlet is a mystery to me.  Even more so, you have to wonder why she's not held accountable for her past cover ups?

We were going to cover Saleh al-Mutlaq but then came whoring Jane Arraf.

She may be as deadly to Iraq as a bomb.

Turning to the violence, National Iraqi News Agency reports one police member and one Kurdish security personnel were injured when they shot at each other in Kirkuk, 6 suspects were killed by the military west of Falluja, a Radwaniyah roadside bombing left 1 person dead and four more injured, a Husseiniya roadside bombing left three people injured, 1 tractor owner was killed in al-Idhaim with another farmer left injured, 1 police member was shot dead an an al-Aqwas checkpoint, a Nasiriyah home invasion left 1 person dead ("an employee in the Health Department in Dhi Qar"), security forces killed 5 suspects in Ramadi, a Kherbana bombing left three Iraqi soldiers injured, the bombing of a police officer's Alam home left three people injured, 2 Dujail bombing left 4 people dead, a Tikrit building bombing left 2 people dead and five more injured, a Mosul car bombing left 6 people dead and fourteen more people injured, a Kirkuk home invasion of a police officer's residence left 3 people dead and four women injured, a Baghdad sticky bombing killed 1 person, a Kirkuk suicide bomber took his own life and the lives of 7 police members with eleven more left injured, the military killed 3 suspects in Mosul, 1 police officer was shot dead in Shura, and the corpse of 1 was found dead in the streets of Shura.

Added right after this went up, NINA reports Nouri's continued shelling of the residential neighborhoods in Falluja left 5 people dead (including one child) and eighteen people injured.  NINA reports that.

Whoring Jane Arraf doesn't say a word.  Never does.  Day after day as civilians are killed.





I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away
-- "Hejira," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on her album of the same name

 The number of US service members the Dept of Defense states died in the Iraq War is [PDF format warning] 4489.

On this week's Law and Disorder Radio,  an hour long program that airs Monday mornings at 9:00 a.m. EST on WBAI and around the country throughout the week, hosted by attorneys Heidi Boghosian, Michael S. Smith and Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights) topics  addressed include The Drone War, CIA black sites, prison abuse of the Dallas 6 (guest is activist Shandre Delaney who is the mother of one of the Dallas 6, Carrington Keys) and the embarrassing Deepa Kumar who is a professor at Rutgers and will argue for Condi Rice not being allowed to speak at the college.  That's not really academic freedom, now is it?  It's chicken s**t, whiney ass, cowardice. A belief that you can't win unless you silence your opponent.  How very sad and how very authoritarian.  The hosts need to take a look at how puny they look when they try to stop speech.  Let Condi speak, protest her, call her out.  But banning someone from speaking?  You're saying they and their argument are too powerful for you to take on.

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Kat's "Kat's Korner: Do The Beast" went up earlier today and Isaiah's latest comic goes up after this.


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