BITCHY GIRL BARRY O GOT ALL PISSY TODAY WHEN A REPORTER, CBS' MAJOR GARRETT, DARED TO ASK HIM ABOUT THE 4 AMERICANS HELD HOSTAGE BY IRAN.
"YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER!" SQUEALED BARRY O WHILE TUGGING ON HIS NAUGHTY PARTS. "YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER."
ACTUALLY, BARRY O, IT'S YOU - YOU - YOU - YOU WHO OUGHT TO KNOW.
FROM THE TCI WIRE:
Nouri al-Maliki did his part to destroy Iraq and then some.
The Iraqi Parliament wanted Ibrahim al-Jaafari to be prime minister
following the December 2005 elections but the Bully Boy Bush
administration opposed his being prime minister (for a second time) and
instead installed Nouri al-Maliki in the spring of 2006.
The CIA profile on Nouri suggested he would be a good fit for the job
due to his paranoia which the US government could use to sway and to
control him.
It was his paranoia that marked his first time.
Otherwise, he had no accomplishments to speak of.
It was one failure after another for Nouri.
For example, he promised the Iraqi people that the Bremer walls/blast
walls the US put up around Baghdad in the summer of 2006 would come down
immediately.
That did not happen.
For example, in 2007, he agreed to the White House's benchmarks for
measuring success/progress in Iraq and then failed to complete the list.
In the lead up to the 2010 elections, he had Shi'ite rivals kicked out
of the election, he barred various Sunnis from running and he bribed and
bribed again.
His State of Law still lost to Ayad Allawi's Iraqiya.
And Ayad should have been the next Prime Minister of Iraq.
But Barack Obama played Supreme Court and turned Allawi into the new Al
Gore as Barack installed the loser Nouri into a second term as prime
minister.
And then things really grew rotten.
Despite repeatedly lying and insisting he would, Nouri wanted no power-sharing government and began demonizing all opponents.
He then went after the people insisting peaceful protesters staging sit-ins were "terrorists."
No one was safe in Nouri's second term and he unleashed his goons on the
peaceful protesters (as well as on Members of Parliament) resulting in
one violent incident after another.
In 2010, the Iraqi people saw their votes overturned by US President Barack Obama.
The Iraqi people saw their leaders attempt to create a representative
government and fail. (Largely due to interference on the part of Barack
Obama -- such as when the Parliament attempted to hold a vote of
confidence on Nouri but the White House prevented it.)
The Iraqi people then took to the streets to protest.
For over a year, they protested -- with little attention from the world media.
And Nouri responded by burning down the areas they gathered in.
This is what gave rise to the Islamic State.
A people who had been stripped of their votes, whose leaders were unable
to protect them and who had attempted protest were denied every avenue
of redress in a democracy.
As the raving lunatic Nouri got more and more despotic, even Barack had to step away.
Which is how, in the fall of 2014, Haider al-Abadi became the new prime minister of Iraq after Nouri was forced out.
But he wasn't forced too far.
He became one of Iraq's three vice presidents and, in a typical Nouri
narcissistic move, Nouri declared himself the premier vice president.
As usual, some idiots in the press corps went along with that lie.
As we've noted before, Nouri will never stop attempting to destroy Iraq until he's six feet under.
And he's used his time out of the post of prime minister (while
remaining in the home of the prime minister, please note) to plot his
return.
This month,
Ali Mamouri (Al-Monitor) reports on the latest developments in Nouri's possible efforts to take back the post of prime minister:
During his rule, Maliki’s policy was characterized by its sectarian and divisive tone and was a key reason behind the recent military defeats in Mosul and Ramadi. Now Maliki is urging people to back away from the national reconciliation policy initiated by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi when he took office. Proof of this is that during a tribal gathering June 13 in Karbala, Maliki said that the Anbar province’s tribes
were protesting against him. He accused the rival political parties of
supporting the objections against his rule when he was prime minister,
which he called illegal. Finally, he described the fall of the Sunni
areas at the hands of the Islamic State (IS) as “a Sunni sectarian revolution against the Shiites.”
In his speech, Maliki used three forms of extremist thought to incite
to sectarian conflict. First, regional division, by generalizing and
accusing the tribes of a particular area of being all against the Iraqi
government; second, deepening the political dispute by accusing his
rivals of standing with the terrorists; and third, describing the
dispute in Iraq as religious and sectarian.
All three points contradict reality. There were tribes — such as the
Sunni Albo tribe — in Anbar that were always against the protests and
the ensuing developments, and the opposition parties to Maliki called
for the peaceful resolution of the sit-ins and did not back those up.
Finally, the Sunnis who were killed and displaced by IS exceed those
from other communities; therefore, what happened cannot be described as a
Sunni revolution against the Shiites.
In another speech, on the anniversary of the Popular Mobilization
Units June 13, Maliki seemed to have a strong belief in the conspiracy
theory that the fall of Mosul at the hands of IS was brought about by
internal parties — such as the Kurds and the Mosul Provincial Council —
to overthrow his government. He clearly said that the denial of the conspiracy is a conspiracy in itself.
This month has also seen
Ibrahim Saleh (Niqash) report on what is seen as an effort to return Nouri al-Maliki to power:
Recently there have been calls for major
changes to the Iraqi political system, moving it from a parliamentary
system to a presidential one. This would mean that rather than elected
MPs in Baghdad choosing the country's President, voters would choose the
President, who could then work somewhat separately from the
also-elected Parliament. For example, the US is a presidential system.
Iraq currently has a parliamentary system.
However politicians in Iraq are concerned
that if this comes any closer to happening that it will be a way for
former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to slip back into power, but this
time through a legal back door. They are also concerned that while it
may not be something that can happen immediately, there is potential for
some changes to occur during the next elections.
The call for these changes were started by
one of the Shiite Muslim militias involved in the fight against the
extremist group known as the Islamic State. The group, League of the Righteous, or Asaib Ahl al-Haq in Arabic,
is known to be closely linked with al-Maliki. It is also known to be
one of the more hard line and extremist of the Shiite militias.
Which is why many local politicians saw
this as a call to bring al-Maliki, who is currently somewhat sidelined
as one of Iraq's three Vice Presidents, back to power. Al-Maliki's
divisive policies and attempts to centralise power have taken a fair
share of the blame for the country's current security crisis and,
although his party was successful in the last elections, al-Maliki lost
the post of Prime Minister to colleague, Haider al-Abadi late last year.
While Haider remains in power, he uses his time to seek "revenge" (his
term) on the Islamic State. The problem with seeking "revenge" (as
opposed to seeking peace)? You leave a lot of collateral damage in your
wake.
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