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and hope to be of help. Ambassador F. Mehdawi
Rresident ambassador of Palestine to
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BREMER CHOKES AND ANNOUNCES HIS OWN
DEPARTURE
Even before Bremer was
recalled to Washington and the
events of the past week,
MER published on 9 November
that 'Bremer will also be jettisoned'
(see below).
NEWSFLASH -
www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 16 November 2003:
Paul Bremer, American-installed ruler of Iraq, has announced his own
departure. It was all
phrased in convoluted and dupliticous language of course, but the reality
is that the Bush Administration is
strategically
floundering and what Bremer told U.S. Sunday talk-shows
-- "The American occupation is to end by June but the American presence is
to continue" -- attempted to mask a major policy change in Washington.
Asked specifically for
the first time if this meant he would be leaving Iraq definitely by June
Bremer responded, in a low-key uncharacteristic way, "yes"
.
The realities are that Bremer was urgently called
back to Washington just a few days ago where he was told he was failing
and was going to be out. About the same time a 'top secret' CIA
analysis was somehow leaked warning that the US now risked losing in
Iraq. Thus the reasons for
Washington's abrupt shift are largely
political at this point in time. The Bushies want to be sure their
man can claim 'progress' in Iraq by next summer before the election no
matter what. Bremer was told to go back to Baghdad, to shake-up the
American-chosen-installed Governing Council, to change the focus from real
elections and a new Constitution to chosen representatives and an 'interim
Constitution', and to proclaim a return to 'Iraq sovereignty' sooner
rather than later. Oh yes, there is to be a little 'side-
agreement', according to Bremer, between the American-chosen-installed
Governing Council and the U.S. that American troops (and corporations)
will stay. Sovereignty will be proclaimed in words, denied in
reality -- the Americans are getting good at this kind of thing with
practice now in so many places around the world including Occupied
Palestine with all the talk of a 'Palestinian State' that is in reality
will certainly not be anything of the sort.
Wearing
the red-white-and blue -- blue shirt, red and white striped tie -- Bremer
was told to rush his announcement by appearing on a number of the network
Sunday talk-shows. He was not his usually combative and assertive
self. He was doing what he had been told in Washington he must --
announce his own departure no later than next June. But who
knows...Washington is indeed strategically floundering and June is a very
long time to go with the US troops dying and bleeding at an escalating
pace and public awareness growing about how American multi-billions are
flowing from Congress to Baghdad and then into the pockets of US corporate
titans closely linked to top players in the Bush
regime.
Meanwhile...the region is being prepared for
still greater warfare as the Pentagon/neo-con/Israeli 5-year plan to
regime change at least seven countries proceeds (with Pakistan and Saudi
Arabia not even on that list). Of course...this all depends
on Cheney, Rummie, Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams and their dozens of
senior operatives retaining power in the election now less than a year
away. Among other things they may be counting on some new 9/11
taking place so they can rally the country behind their crusade one more
time come what may.
Published by
MER on 9 November:
U.S.
COUNCIL Dumps Turks,
U.S.
Bremer Threatens to Dump COUNCIL,
Pentagon
Wants to Dump Bremer
MID-EAST
REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 9 November
2003: What a tragic situation the Americans, egged
on by the Israelis of course, have now created at the very heart of the
Arab world. Daily now the hate escalates. Hourly
now the resistance attacks. Daily now American troops die -- but of
course never forget FAR more Iraqis are dying and suffering...not to
mention what the US and Israel are doing to the Palestinians. Plus
of course the US and the Israelis are seriously now threatening Iran,
Syria and Lebanon as well. Back home, there aren't even enough
troops left to parade around on patriotic Veterans Day! (see second article
below) and American military
hospitals are having a hard time treating all the horribly wounded -- a
much higher number than the dead.
Meanwhile,
right after the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council told its US-master
not to let in the already paid-for Turkish Army, the man trying to run
Iraq for the Empire, former Ambassador Paul Bremer, quickly let it be
known he may well undermine his own Council if they don't shape up and do
what they were created to do in the first place.
General Jay Garner
(remember him?) the first US Pro-Consul got booted quickly. Now
Bremer is facing growing pressures to either get the job done or be
sacrificed himself. You can bet if things aren't going well in Iraq for
Bush's Washington soon, Bremer will also
be jettisoned. Indeed, there are rumblings in
Washington coming from the Pentagon, the CIA, and the Israeli-Jewish
lobby, that maybe Iraq should be returned to the 1925 constitution and a
'Constitutional Monarchy' be imposed there...to be followed with
American-inspired-imposed reforms in other Middle East countries as well
(think Iran, Saudi Arabia, even Syria).
And then, if
the going really gets rough in American politics, and/or things get
further out-of-hand in the Middle East, expect the neo-cons (egged on by
the Israelis of course) to push still harder for still more American
military action to bring about further 'regime changes' and still more
American-Israeli control of the governing elites and resources of the
region.
"Democracy" screams George
Bush! But it's another grand deception, anothe big lie,
trying desperately to mask reality by co-opt language.
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