Munaeem's Blog

President Bush has made a request to the U.S. Congress for an extra $46 billion Iran and Afghanistan. He says money is needed to provide resource to American troops to do their job perfectly.

The present Administration has spent more than $455 billion in war without any results. The Congress should him where did he spent this huge money.

In my opinion, all the money went into the pockets of American politicians, military contractors and corrupt officials. If they had spent this money on Afghan and Iraqi people, they would have killed bin laden and associates.

Once again US have hurled accusations at Iran that It is supply weapons to insurgents in Iraq. US military spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox said Iran was Iran smuggling advanced weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, into Iraq.

We know that US do not have any evidence to prove it’s allegations. Its own officials have said many times that they do have any evidence to prove that.

What is the motive behind all this actions?

In my opinion, the US wants to put pressure on the Sunni dictators to keep them under its influence. US foreign policy in the Middle East is benefiting the extremist in the Middle East. 

Greenspan, a lifelong Republican, writes in his book ‘The Age of Turbulence’,that War in Iraq about oil. It looks that this has outraged the Bush Administration.

Defence Secretary Robert Gates rejected this charge. He said :

“I know the same allegation was made about the Gulf War in 1991, and I just don’t believe it’s true.”

Republican senator John Cornyn told CNN.

“I don’t believe that 77 United States senators on a broad, bipartisan basis would have authorised the use of force... if it was only about oil.

What are the reasons Senator then ?

International community would like to know that. .

Iraq

The British government's decision not to grant asylum to Iraqi translators who worked with the British army is deplorable.

These translators worked with the British army since 2003. Their lives would be in even greater danger.

According to reports, many translators had been kidnapped and killed in Basra by insurgents. Some of them were tortured before being killed.

It has been reported that When the Danish troops left last month, they took 200 translators and their families with them.

There is a prevalent belief within the Sunni community that the Iraqi government is systematically trying to target Sunni politicians. Two recent incidents underscore this perception.

Recently, Iraq’s Sunni speaker Mahmud al-Mashhadani was voted out by 113 of the assembly's 168 legislators during the June 11 session after it came to light that he or his bodyguards had allegedly attacked a Shi'ite lawmaker.

On June 26, a raid was conducted on Culture Minister As'ad Kamal al-Hashimi home and 40 of his bodyguards were arrested. He was accused of he killing of Sunni lawmaker Mithal al-Alusi's two sons in Baghdad in 2005. Many wondered why the government was aggressively looking into an incident that occurred two years ago.

Critics say that war in Iraq gas become a liability for Republican Party. Now they are planning to dump Iraq on UN.

According to reports US wants to hand over its responsibilities to in Iraq to UN.

Norman Solomon , author of ‘War Made Easy’ commented that after creating a bloody disaster of huge proportion . Now US wants to shift the responsibility and blame to UN.

Richard Holbrooke, former US Ambassador to UN said in an interview that Bush could not win Iraq War.

He opined that President was following a discredited Iraqi policy. First he said that Americans were in Iraq to implant the seeds of democracy. Now he said that we wanted to stay in Iraq to avoid a mess.

He added :

“You cannot ask people to die simple to avoid something. If they risk their lives , they have to risk it for a positive outcome. The President has to produce that outcome."

On his blog, www.billroggio.com and in pieces for publications such as The Weekly Standard, Mr. Roggio offers a more positive view of the military campaigns. What follows is an e-mail discussion we had last week about the MSM's coverage of Iraq:

Chinni: I know you weren't particularly pleased with the media's coverage of Iraq as of December. Has it gotten better, worse, or more accurate since then?

Roggio: In some respects the media coverage in Iraq has improved, such as the recent spate of reporting on the remarkable success in suppressing Al Qaeda and the insurgency in Anbar Province. But as a whole, the coverage in Iraq lacks context, and reporters as a whole display a lack of knowledge of counterinsurgency and the role the media plays in an insurgency's information campaign.

For instance, the success in Anbar was immediately negated when Al Qaeda conducted a suicide attack in Ramadi in early May, and the Associated Press "reported" that the attack dealt "a blow to recent U.S. success in reclaiming the Sunni city from insurgents." Al Qaeda conducted the attack to generate such an opening paragraph. This type of reporting is all too common in Iraq.

In the media reporting, the Baghdad Security Plan (the troop surge) was practically declared a failure before it even began. Al Qaeda and insurgent groups have clearly reduced attacks in the capital (even though the full complement of forces are yet to arrive, and much of Baghdad has yet to be cleared) and increased attacks in the provinces. Yet these attacks are generally lumped together. The goal posts have been shifted, and Al Qaeda achieves the desired effect – Iraq is a failure.