BULLY BOY
PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID
TABLE
CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BARRY O SUFFERED A SIGNIFICANT SET BACK AS SNARLY RICE DECIDED TO 'HELP' BY WITHDRAWING HER NAME FROM CONSIDERATION. SHE'D BECOME A DISTRACTION AND STOLE ALL THE FOCUS.
BUT SOMEONE WANTING TO 'HELP' AND STOP THE DISTRACTION DOESN'T USUALLY THEN PEN A COLUMN ABOUT WHY THEY WITHDREW THEIR NOMINATION.
POOR UNQUALIFIED SNARLY RICE, SHE STILL HAS TO MAKE IT ALL ABOUT HER. DOESN'T SHE KNOW THIS IS BARRY'S TURN TO CRY?
FROM THE TCI WIRE:
Tuesday at that day's State Dept press
briefing, spokesperson Victoria Nuland pretended to care about Syria
when discussing Iraq but it's really about oil for the neocon Kagan
family (Nuland is the wife of Robert Kagan) and that's why she works as the face of the State Dept today.
QUESTION:
Yes. Turkey is negotiating, or already finished an oil deal with the
Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq. Are you encouraging Turkey not to
go along with this, since it will be a provocation to the central
government in Baghdad?
MS.
NULAND: Well, first of all, let me say as a general matter, once again,
Samir, that the United States supports a constitutional solution to the
dispute over the management of Iraq's hydrocarbon resources. This is
our longstanding position. We are continuing to urge the Iraqi
Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to reach an agreement
over legislation so that they can enhance investment so that everybody
knows what the fair legal basis is for this.
We
don't support oil exports from any part of Iraq without the appropriate
approval of the Iraqi Government, and we're calling on the Government
of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government to continue to try to work
through their differences. We also call on neighboring states to
similarly avoid any action or comment that can contribute in any way to
increasing tensions.
Officially, the US State Dept is a 'good faith' organization. They claim their mission statement is:
"Advance freedom for the benefit of the American people and the
international community by helping to build and sustain a more
democratic, secure, and prosperous world composed of well-governed
states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread
poverty, and act responsibly within the international system." You see
oil in there? Me neither.
Victoria Nuland has
never spoken out in defense of Iraqi women -- not when the
'independent' electoral commission had new commissioners and refused to
make 1/3 women despite that being the mandate, not during the current
prison torture scandal where women have been, at the very least,
threatened with rape -- including an 11-year-old girl according to a
Committee in Iraq's Parliament. Victoria Nuland had no concerns about
Iraqi women.
When bombs go off and their mass
deaths and many injured? She doesn't note it. She gives a press
conference hours later and doesn't even mention it. I'm no fan of Condi
Rice, but a spokesperson that pulled that under Condi would have been
sent packing. Under Condi, every mass attack in Iraq was condemned that
day. But Victoria Nuland, by her focus and what she chooses to stress
and or ignore, clearly doesn't care about the safety of the Iraqi
people.
In 2009, when Iraq's LGBTs were being
terrorized by Nouri's forces and by militias in Iraq, the State Dept
went out of their way to say nothing. When the BBC was able to get
someone on the record (for a mealy-mouthed statement), it wasn't
Nuland. And this year, when Nouri's Ministry of the Interior (that he
never nominated anyone to be minister of so he is in charge of it) went
to schools to spread fear and rage at Iraqi youths who were Emo or LGBT
(or just appeared to be either or both), Victoria Nuland wasn't
interested.
Over and over, when the Iraqi
people are in trouble, the US State Dept plays dumb. And no one plays
dumb better than Victoria Nuland who has has so many years to perfect
her craft of stupidity.
She had nothing to say about human rights crises in Iraq. But she finds the time to speak on oil?
That
might be puzzling if you didn't grasp how the US government defines
oil. In 2001, Dick Cheney, then President of Vice in the United States,
serving under Bully Boy Bush, met with oil companies in what was called
the "Cheney Energy Task Force." This was about developing an energy
policy, supposedly. What it was really about was looking at the world's
oil map and figuring out where to start a war and how to control the
oil.
If Dick Cheney had has his way, we wouldn't know that. But Judicial Watch sued for the records he refused to release. Click here for the maps and charts Cheney's 'energy task force' drew up on Iraq in March 2001.
And try to pretend that the illegal war that would start two years
later wasn't connected. Cheney's US 'energy task force' needed to label
Iraq's "supergiant oilfield" (don't you picture Dick jizzing in his
shorts over that one) as well as "other oilfield"s and "earmarked for
production sharing" and all these other little tags, little price tags,
in fact, that's what they were. It was a tag sale on the belongings of
the Iraqi people.
Victoria Nuland's very familiar with these reports. As
we noted in 2004 when NPR's idiotic ombudsperson was pretending that
there was nothing wrong with Robert Kagan critiquing the John Kerry
campagin, Icky Vicky was working for Dick Cheney, she was his deputy
national security advisor. As his deputy national security advisor, Vicky Nuland was up to her armpits in these discussions of how to carve up Iraq.
And
now she's a front person for the US State Dept. The reason being, the
theft of Iraqi oil isn't really dismaying to Democrats in power. Those
who objected in real time (or, more often, after the war was a clear
loser) did so out of partisanship. Even now, no one's standing on the
floor of Congress expressing outrage over this war for oil. If you're
not grasping how disgusting the current administration is, remind
yourself that Dick Cheney's deputy national security advisor -- Dick
Cheney's -- is now the spokesperson for the State Dept.
Let's go back over what Little Vicky The Small Blunder said:
Well,
first of all, let me say as a general matter, once again, Samir, that
the United States supports a constitutional solution to the dispute over
the management of Iraq's hydrocarbon resources. This is our
longstanding position. We are continuing to urge the Iraqi Government
and the Kurdistan Regional Government to reach an agreement over
legislation so that they can enhance investment so that everybody knows
what the fair legal basis is for this.
We
don't support oil exports from any part of Iraq without the appropriate
approval of the Iraqi Government, and we're calling on the Government of
Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government to continue to try to work
through their differences. We also call on neighboring states to
similarly avoid any action or comment that can contribute in any way to
increasing tensions.
That's
not a position of neutrality. That's a position (yet again) backing
neocon Princess Nouri al-Maliki, the man Bully Boy Bush installed as
prime minister in 2006 and that Barack Obama insisted in 2010 -- despite
the Iraqi people's vote and the Constitution -- must have a second term
as prime minister.
Mayada Daood (Niqash) explained some time ago:
The roots of the crisis date back to the year 2007 when the Iraqi government refused to recognise contracts concluded independently by the independently with foreign oil companies, declaring them illegal.
Hamza al-Jawahiri, an oil expert, said that the KRG and the central government in Baghdad interpret the constitution differently.
"While KRG believes that it is its right to develop its oil industry, conclude oil contracts and control oil production, the Oil Ministry in Baghdad considers that crude oil belongs to all Iraqis, not to citizens of any area be it in the center, the south or the north," he reveals.
So when Nuland says the following, she's not being neutral, she's picking a side:
We
don't support oil exports from any part of Iraq without the appropriate
approval of the Iraqi Government, and we're calling on the Government
of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government to continue to try to work
through their differences. We also call on neighboring states to
similarly avoid any action or comment that can contribute in any way to
increasing tensions.
Note that Nuland
doesn't say the Constitution. Because many observers feel the KRG is
correct in their interpretation of the Constitution (legally, they also
have custom on their side now as a result of the practice in place in
the last years). This was not neutrality. This was taking a position
which is that the US State Dept doesn't want the KRG to be able to sell
its oil.
While it was largely ignored in the US press, it was clear to the world's press what was going on. Murat Yetkin (Hurriyet Daily News) grasped it. Or as the headline to another article made clear, "U.S. warns Turkey over Iraqi oil."
Nuland is picking a side and someone should have asked her, "What is
the KRG supposed to do?" Iraq was supposed to pass a hydrocarbons law
long ago. Princess Nouri gave his word to Bully Boy Bush that he would
see to it in 2007. It didn't happen then. It didn't happen in 2008.
It still hasn't happened. So no oil sold until one is passed? Is that
what Nuland's advocating? No, of course not. She's advocating on
behalf of Princess Nouri al-Maliki.
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