Sunday, November 21, 2021

Ditzy and others distort reality

THE NEW ARAB offers:


The Iraqi army denied rumors on Saturday about postponing the withdrawal of US troops, which is scheduled to take place by the end of the year.

“The date for the departure of (US) combat forces on December 31 is fixed and there is no change,” Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji, spokesman of the Joint Operations Command, told the Iraqi News Agency.

The denial came after the Kataeb Sayyid al-Shuhada, a pro-Iran armed faction, said it was seeking volunteers to fight the American forces after the end of this year, sparking speculations that American troops were extending their stay.


It's cute the way they slip "combat" in and out, isn't it?  Cute . . . and dishonest.  In related news, Ditzy:


Recounts were finished a month ago, and internationally there are calls to respect the results of Iraq’s election. The Election Commission though says the results are about to be “strongly affected” by legal challenges.

The Shi’te militia party Fatah was very publicly unhappy with losing the election. Now, after weeks of threats and condemnations, the expectation is that they will be faring better soon.


Did honesty at ANTIWAR.COM die with Justin Raimondo?  

Let's drop back October 3rd:

There's been a set back for one voting bloc.  YENI SAFAK reports:

Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission on Saturday announced the exclusion of the Hashd al-Shaabi militia, or Popular Mobilization Forces, from the list of security forces who will vote in next week’s parliamentary elections.

"The commission formally addressed the Popular Mobilization Authority to submit the names of their members to be included in the register for the security forces eligible to vote," spokesman Jumana Al-Ghalai said in statements cited by the Iraqi News Agency.

But the Shia militia group did not submit the names of its members on the specified date, according to Al-Ghalai.


They're referring to early elections which take place October 8th.  As Mina Aldroubi (THE NATIONAL) explains, "This means fighters must return to their home districts to cast their ballot."


I don't get how this is so difficult to understand.  But let's be honest, it's not hard to understand.  It's just doesn't fit into the whoring the western press loves to do.  


This move deprived voters of their votes.  I don't like the militias.  That doesn't give me the right to lie about them.  They were supposed to vote in the early elections on October 8th along with the other security forces.  The security forces voted early because on the 10th -- election day -- they were deployed around the country to protect polling stations.  Depriving them of the early vote disenfranchised them.  They are part of the security forces, they are legally part of them.  


They were disenfranchised -- that is a legitimate complaint.  It needs to be rectified.


Dilwan Siran (RUDAW) reports:


Appeals against the preliminary results of the Iraqi parliamentary elections had a “strong impact” on the final outcome, a member of the Iraqi electoral commission told state media on Sunday.

“The appeals had a strong impact on the results, as the stations canceled by the judiciary changed the number of seats,” Imad Jamil Mohsen, a member of the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), told the Iraqi News Agency (INA). 

Mohsen added that the commission will announce the results once all appeals are decided by the judiciary. Final results will come within two days of the decision.


It's cute, isn't it, the way Ditzy and others at ANTIWAR.COM lie over and over and get behind crap like they do while avoiding really news than an outlet named "ANTIWAR.COM" should be covering?  Such as?  Fazel Hawramy (RUDAW) reports:


“The United States is not going anywhere. This region is too important, too volatile, too interwoven with American interests to contemplate otherwise,” Brett McGurk, White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, said during the Manama Dialogue organized by UK-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

“So if tested, we will protect our people, including through the use of military force when necessary. And if we need to use force, we are prepared to do so, decisively. We are not going to be drawn into tit for tat exchange of fire with Iranian-backed proxy groups and they know it,” he said.


So Brett McGurk, a hawk, is making threats to Iran and we all look the other way?  Well, ANTIWAR.COM does.  


Brett is, was and remains trash.  It goes to how awful the US government is that he still has a role in it.  And it goes to how awful the so-called 'left' is that they refused to all him out once he stopped being Bully Boy Bush's boy and became Barack's boy.  


Hey, FAIR, I'm looking at you and the whores of your ilk who ignored how Brett controlled the product published by THE WALL ST JOURNAL.  (CJR tried to as well until they got caught in their own ethical hypocrisy.)



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