FOLLOWING A MONTH LONG INVESTIGATION, U.S. NAVY REAR ADMIRAL JOHN RING HAS BEEN FIRED AS THE COMMANDER AT JOINT TASK FORCE - GUANTANAMO.
ALMOST IMMEDIATELY, TARAJI P. HENSON, TV ACTRESS WHO KEEPS FAILING IN THE MOVIES, ISSUED A PRESS RELEASE CALLING FOR JOHN RING TO JOIN THE CAST OF THE SIXTH SEASON OF EMPIRE. "YOU ARE MY BROTHER," TARAJI DECLARED, "AND YOU ARE MY FAMILY. YOUR ACTIONS DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU ARE EMPIRE PEOPLE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU."
REACHED BY THESE REPORTERS, HENSON ADMITTED SHE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT JOHN RING BUT "IF HE'S SCREWED UP, HE'S MY KIND OF PEOPLE."
FROM THE TCI WIRE:
In October, the CIA's long beloved choice for prime minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, was finally made prime minister of Iraq. He was one of their top candidates in 2006 and, since 2010, had been their top candidate. Apparently, as if further proof was needed, the CIA can't even handle basic analysis. Adil is an utter failure as prime minister.
Had the Iraqi Constitution been followed -- it's never followed -- is that because the US government wrote it? Had the Iraqi people been allowed to write their own Constitution and select their own leadership, how different would things be today?
At any rate, after the election, per the Constitution, the president of Iraq is declared. She or he then names someone the prime minister designate and he or she then has 30 days to form a Cabinet. If they can do that, they are named prime minister. If they can't, a new person is supposed to be selected and given 30 days to form a Cabinet. (Due to the wording, it's also true that the same candidate who failed could be given a second thirty day period to try to form a Cabinet.)
Adil failed at forming a Cabinet. But he was moved on to prime minister anyway -- and he promised he'd have that Cabinet filled in a matter of weeks.
In less than a week, it will be May. Adil still does not have a Minister of Interior (over the country's police forces) or a Minister of Defense (over the country's military). He has still not filled those positions. We are mere days away from seven months -- seven months where he has failed to fill those positions.
Now Nouri al-Maliki, former prime minister and forever thug, did not fill those positions in his second term. He didn't fail at it, he just didn't want them filled. Why? Because, with the help of a whorish international press, he could pretend he did. He would name someone the Defense Minister and the US and European press wold then refer to that person as the Minister of Defense. But they weren't. The way it works is that the prime minister nominates someone and the Parliament confirms them. That's how it works. And then if the person must be removed, it requires Parliament to do so. This is how the minister remains independent (in theory). By refusing to nominate anyone for those posts, nominate to Parliament, Nouri controlled them. The 'minister' had no power because Parliament didn't confirm them. They did what Nouri told them or they were out of a job -- one they really didn't hold.
This was not an accident on Nouri's part, he did not want the security ministries filled because he wanted to control them.
For those who have forgotten, Nouri's second term (the one we're talking about) saw Iraq lose control over a number of areas -- including its second most populated city, Mosul -- to ISIS. ISIS rose because of Nouri al-Maliki's actions.
When ISIS rose, there was no real Minister of Interior or Minister of Defense. Do we pretend that never happened?
Apparently, we do pretend that because nearly seven months after Adil became prime minister, Iraq once again has no Minister of Defense and has no Minister of Interior. US troops remain on the ground in Iraq -- supposedly to fight ISIS. (Supposedly? US forces have remained in Iraq -- including during the drawdown that the media painted as a withdrawal -- US military leaders never called it a "withdrawal" because it was not -- and the reason they remain in Iraq is because these puppet governments and leaders the US government keeps trying to graft onto Iraq refuse to take. But it's also true that the press coverage -- limited though it was -- of Spc Ryan Dennis Orin Riley's death last Saturday in Iraq included outlets that insisted he was stationed there to fight ISIS and outlets that insisted he was there to fight al Qaeda. They are two different groups. And, for the record, US troops are supposed to be there to fight ISIS.) So you have US troops on the ground in Iraq to fight ISIS at the same time that the Iraqi government can't find people to head the security ministries? We're wasting time and money and human lives defending a country whose own prime minister feels no need to have a Minister of Defense, for example?
Yet again, the Iraqi people have had the US impose another 'exile' to be prime minister of their country. For the US government, the chief trait you must possess to be prime minister? You have to have fled Iraq like a coward and stayed hidden for years and years, not returning to Iraq until after the 2003 US-led invasion.
These cowards have been very good at nursing their personal grudges -- which helps to keep Iraq trapped in a pattern of violence -- but really poor at governance.
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