Sunday, September 12, 2021

Finally, the US press notes that Iran's been bombing Iraq for days now

So Thursday, we were noting that Iran attacked the Kurdistan (northern area of Iraq) with bombs and drones (called "suicide drones" by the press for some reason as we noted on Friday).  Saturday's "Kurdistan attacked again" noted that the western press -- which ignored Thursday's attack -- was still playing dumb and wondering who -- who! -- could possibly be behind the attack.  Today?


Kaelan Deese (WASHINGTON EXAMINER) reports:

The U.S. military struck down two Iranian drones attacking the Erbil airport in Kurdish-held Iraq on Saturday, defense officials said.

The late attack on the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11 did not come with any reports of casualties or damage, according to a spokesperson for the U.S.-led coalition in northern Iraq.

"Each attack against the GoI, KRI and the Coalition undermines the authority of Iraqi institutions, the rule of law and Iraqi National sovereignty," Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Wayne Marotto tweeted on Saturday. "These attacks endanger the lives of civilians and the partner forces from the ISF, Peshmerga and Coalition."


MSN reposts Deese's report here.  Abdulla Hawez Tweets:

Within 24 hours, Iraqi Kurdistan has been bombarded in three fronts: in northeast Erbil province by Iran, in west Duhok by Turkish airstrikes and drone strikes on Erbil airport (likely by Iran-backed Iraqi militias).
6:41 AM · Sep 12, 2021



Meanwhile Michael Schwartz and Richard Lachmann (JACOBIAN) observe:

               


The invasion and occupation of Iraq was arguably the most consequential result of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. 9/11 did not motivate the Iraqi invasion, for which the Bush administration had begun actively planning before the hijacked planes hit the Twin Towers. But it did create the political atmosphere needed to justify an unprovoked invasion.

Relying on the shattered sense of US invulnerability, the Bush administration argued for a so-called preventive attack on Iraq to stop Saddam Hussein’s alleged project to build “weapons of mass destruction” and use them against the United States in the near future — a project which was entirely mythological. National security advisor Condoleezza Rice eloquently and dishonestly encapsulated this tortured logic with a celebrated comment: “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, a growing cadre of political, economic, and social elites had been advocating for the United States to assume its rightful place as the hegemon in a “unipolar” world, and to exercise direct control over countries that challenged its leadership. For these imperialists — most visibly located in the national-security apparatus — and their media cheerleaders, Iraq was the lynchpin for reestablishing US control over the Middle East.


Kat's  "Kat's Korner: TREES OF THE AGES: LAURA NYRO LIVE IN JAPAN   " went up earlier today.  The following sites updated:






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