Saturday, January 13, 2018

No improvement, no turned corner, things worsen in Iraq

The PMUs are the militias in Iraq.

They're not supposed to be allowed to run in elections.  This was stopped under Nouri al-Maliki.

That's just changed thanks to Hayder al-Abadi.


This is confirmed: PM Haider al-Abadi have reached a final agreement with the PMU fictions including Badr, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Hiblollah and al-Nujaba to run for the election in a united coalition.
12:35 PM - 13 Jan 2018
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    1.  6 hours ago
      The coalition which is led by Abadi is called Nasr al-Iraq or The Victory of Iraq: all PMU factions, Ibrahim al-Jafari, Shahristani's party and Islamic Supreme Council among others.
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    2.  6 hours ago
      Haider al-Abadi will run on the top of the coalition in Baghdad followed by Hadi al-Amiri and sources tell me the coalition will go into alliance with Maliki's State of Law coalition and Muqtada al-Sadr's coalition after the elections.
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    3.  6 hours ago
      There are few Sunnis in the coalition including Iraq's former defence minister Khalid al-Obaidi.
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    4.  5 hours ago
      Iran has played a major role in the agreement between Abadi and PMU.
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    5.  5 hours ago
      And two last notes: the US is not happy with Abadi’s agreement to run with the PMU and the agreement will largely kill Abadi’s ‘anti-corruption battle’ given many of those in the list of targeted are close to the parties that are in his coalition now.
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    6.  2 hours ago
      And now several Iraqi sources say Qasem Soleimani was in Baghdad in the afternoon of Saturday in which he attended a long quadrilateral-meeting with Abadi, Hadi Amiri and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis which resulted in the final agreement to run for elections together.
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Well one good thing -- the US government can stop utilizing their CIA assets in the foreign press to blather on about Hayder taking on corruption.

He hasn't.

And he won't.

And now that he's made this deal with the PMUs, even the CIA funded 'reporters' will most likely drop that talking point.

Hayder is corrupt and the corpse rots from the head.

Remember this 'feel good' moment?

 Jan 3
White Beard, the loathsome executioner of men for (and not the warm jolly guy at malls) has been captured in .
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  1.  Jan 3
    Islamic State leader who appeared prominently in execution videos has been captured in Iraq
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They caught him.  Hayder had him.  And unlike the bulk of those accused of being ISIS, there was actually video -- multiple videos -- of this man committing crimes, killing people.

And it's Hayder's Iraq.  Meaning you can buy your way out of anything.


  1.  23 hours ago
    WHITE BEARD: Abu Omer has escaped prison after bribing Iraqi authorities with $7,500: via



 Jan 9
The , identified by locals as , was captured on Friday in
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And grasp that not only did he kill people but he will likely kill residents of Mosul if he can pick some suspects since they're the ones who turned him in.

They've let out a killer to kill again.

Hayder's going to fight ISIS -- unless it's a leader who can bribe his way out -- unless it's a killer who kills women and gay men (and men suspected of being gay).  In the Iraq the US-invasion created, the fundamentalist cowards that the US government put in control of Iraq -- the cowards who fled -- it's okay to kill women and gay men.

Nothing changes in Iraq.  They sell you the lies over and over that things are getting better but they're not. 

When you use the false baseline of 2007 - 2008, you can sell a lot of lies.

But the reality is that nothing has improved.

And yet American lives and dollars are still being used to prop up these 'rulers' that do not represent Iraq or the Iraqi people.

Shame on anyone stupid enough to still believe that democracy is -- or ever was -- the goal.

And shame on anyone still thinking that things have improved.


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