- Whenever Dick Cheney rushes off to the Middle East it
is always in response to a crisis. He is the "enforcer," the
president's handler and the one who really calls the shots. When Condi
Rice failed to get the supporting factions (Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt)
to agree on the US strategy at last week's Iraq Summit conference, the
Vice President had to rush off to patch things up and "bring them
around." What kind of Big Stick does Cheney possess that Condi Rice
does not?
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- For starters, he is privy to the globalists' secret understanding
with the "moderate" Arab leaders (all Sunni) that provides them
protection and immunity in exchange for oil. The regimes in Saudi Arabia
and the United Arab Emirates (UEA) are all corrupt. The US covers for and
even facilitates that corruption because it keeps them on the hook-knowing
that the US could engineer their overthrow at any time. It's a not-so-subtle
form of blackmail that Cheney carries in his hip pocket whenever he makes
these emergency visits.
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- Cheney had a very full plate on his agenda. He had to
put out brush fires among the Sunnis who are threatening to leave the government,
relay more threats to keep the al Maliki regime and his al Sadr allies
in line, and dampen growing discontent among US troops. Last, but probably
most important, he had to rush off for emergency talks with Saudi Arabia
and the UEA, chief sources of Sunni support in Iraq, as well as main financiers
of the new globalist Mecca in Dubai.
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- Basically, the globalists are building a new empire in
the Middle East, centered around Dubai-the new Casablanca of the Middle
East, where secret dealings, money laundering, and legal shelter is provided
for the world's major players. Why else are billions in capital flowing
into a desert isle with international companies like Haliburton moving
their headquarters there? Dubai's building boom is a telling indication
that world powers have decided to centralize their Middle East wealth and
power in a new city, leaving behind old financial capitols like Beirut
which beset by civil war and destruction. Here's a Power Point Presentation
link showing the huge building boom going on in Dubai: http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/123828.html
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- Cheney's most telling public comments, however, came
on board the US aircraft carrier Stennis, where he stated, "With two
carrier strike groups in the Gulf, we're sending clear messages to friends
and adversaries alike, [the United States] will stand with others to prevent
Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region." he
said. He was prepping them for further use of force, even though he did
not say that directly.
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- Earlier, Cheney tried to reassure the troops near Baghdad
who were reeling from the bad news that deployments to Iraq are being increased
from twelve months to fifteen months. Cheney told them: "Many of you
have had your deployments extended and that puts unexpected hardship on
you and your families. I want you to know the extension is vital to the
mission." That's hardly a comfort to the ever-increasing number of
troops (35,000) that don't consider Iraq essential to the mission of the
US.
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- Martin Sieff of the UPI commented on Why Cheney Failed
[incorrectly assuming that calming Iraq is the real purpose of this administration]:
"Meanwhile, some 10 weeks into the much-touted U.S. 'surge' strategy,
the rate of violence in Iraq is running as high as ever. April, as we have
noted in these columns, was the worst month for U.S. military fatalities
in Iraq since President Bush authorized the beginning of military operations
to topple Saddam Hussein on March 19, 2003. The same day Cheney met with
Maliki in Baghdad, 14 people were killed and 87 injured by a car bomb in
the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil.
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- "The attack further confirmed the continuing ability
of the Sunni insurgents to strike with increasing impunity at relatively
'soft' civilian targets around the country precisely because so much of
the U.S. troop presence in the country is being concentrated in Baghdad
to stem the insurgent and sectarian militia killings there. Cheney's failure
to make any headway with Maliki on oil revenue sharing (stalled for more
than a year) and the continuing effectiveness of the insurgents both stem
from the same basic failure of the U.S. grand strategy on Iraq.
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- "Cheney was sent to Baghdad to play the 'bad cop'
with the Iraqi government. A senior administration official said it was
'game time' for the Iraqi government. ... To say that it's finally 'game
time' more than four years into the war is a pretty startling statement.
'The administration is becoming increasingly desperate because they know
time is running out,' explained Lawrence Korb, a former Reagan Defense
Department official who now works at the liberal Center for American Progress.
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- "What's really going on here is a classic example
of the White House's good-cop/bad-cop approach to thorny issues. For months,
the president has been playing the good cop--gently prodding and coaxing
Maliki along."Yochi J. Dreazen reported on the vice president's trip
to Baghdad, in light of other arm-twisting to be done: "Vice President
Dick Cheney's surprise trip to Baghdad today was meant to deliver a tough
message to the Iraqi government--put off your vacation plans and get back
to work. U.S. officials have been livid since discovering that Iraq's fledgling
parliament--hardly a hive of activity in the first place--was planning
to take a two-month summer recess, postponing work on a bill spelling out
how oil money would be shared among Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups
or a law authorizing new regional elections."
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- The new oil law, which gives preference to Western oil
companies over state-run Iraqi companies, is a tough sell to this angry
group of lawmakers. The Parliament is so fractionalized they can't agree
on anything anyway, so why not go on vacation? Increasingly, Iraqis are
losing confidence that any real democracy exists. What they are seeing
of democracy, they don't like because nothing is getting done.
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- However, there is an even more pressing reason for the
VP's visit: to stop the Sunnis from quitting parliament. If that happened,
the charade of democracy would be over. It's almost to that point now.
Sunnis are threatening to quit the parliament by May 15 if their demands
are not met (more power sharing, and oil sharing). Tariq al-Hashimi says
Sunnis are feeling "meaningless" in the government and if Sunnis
aren't an equal partner, he says it's time to quit the political process.
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- If that weren't bad enough the Shiites in Parliament
had enough votes to pass a draft bill that would require that the government
begin setting a timetable for withdrawal of US troops. Naturally, the puppet
al Maliki regime quickly denounced this attempt to assert Iraqi sovereignty.
Nobody in the Iraq government wants to do something that the US would surely
veto--exposing the fact that Iraqi sovereignty is really only a charade.
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