http://uk.news.yahoo.com/iraq-christian-killed-100-000-ransom-demand-110806259.html

There’s stuff, y’know, that goes on …..

Timothy R. Anderson

(Don’t let me down.) You know what I am talking about.
Yes you, the person who thinks that it is some one elses job to comment about Jesse the Body Vnetura.
By the way I hear he does not like it when the N gets to close to the V beccause it might attaract an A. Is his appeal strictly regional? Would it reach as faer south as say St. Louis?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/07/17/72051/once-worlds-bread-basket-iraq.html

How can the civilians in the USA – farmers and nonfarmers alike -
possibly acquire knowledge about life in Iraq these days ? How ?

Timothy R. Anderson

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/26/report_despite_obamas_vow_combat_brigades

It is so fitting that the Mainstream American Media, as is customary, makes scant mention of any of this ………….. isn’t it ?

But there are Iraqi security forces, police and army, that have been killing U.S.A. military personnel. Some in January of this year. That’s the thing about staying in the wrong place for a loooooooong time. Dangerous.

Timothy R. Anderson

by Timothy R. Anderson

You’d never know it by the emphasis on Japan these days, but there are still 40,000 + U.S.A. military
servicemembers serving in Iraq.

Two of them were killed, by an Iraqi, on Jan. 15, 2011. A bizarre footnote to a bizarre (ongoing) intervention.

There were signs all along that keeping the American mil. personnel in Iraq probably wasn’t that good of an idea

http://articles.latimes.com/2004/apr/13/world/fg-troops13/2

A man whose last name is Nash tried to point the facts out about staying too long. More specifically, he
tried to point out the problem with getting it wrong at the beginning and the bad consequences, the DEADLY
consequences that would eventually overwhelm Iraq if
too few ” coalition ” servicemembers were used during March 2003.

So here it is. March 2011. Iraq’s Checklist:

Refugees ? Internally Displaced. Syria. Jordan. Sweden.
Hospitals ? Not very good hospitals anywhere within Iraq, sad to say …..
Gasoline ? Need to wait in long lines to purchase it.
Deaths ? Lots Of Them.
Democracy ? Nope.

Here’s a summation of what Iraq caught during January 2011, already deeeeeeeeeeeep within The Dust-Bin Of History :

my local newspaper, Section B, page 1
” Baghdad: A car bomb exploded outside a funeral tent
Thursday ( 1 / 27 / 11 ) in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad, killing at least 48 persons – the latest in
a wave of attacks that has triggered fury
over the government’s inability to stop the bloodshed.”

It is strange, though, how it was supposed to be so
different to this, right ?
Anyone ?

Timothy R. Anderson

But Anthony Cordesman hit a nail on the head earlier…….. within
the past ten years, and it sums up something about The (Neglected)
War In Iraq ; it sums it up efficiently :

” There are cities in Iraq that are going to be losers, and the
people know they are going to be losers. ” —– Anthony Cordesman,
military expert at The Center For Strategic And International Studies.

The State Of The Union Speech. Go ahead and count how many individual Iraqis the USA’s leadernames by name during the State Of The Union Speech. Go ahead and count how many Iraqi cities the USA’s leader
names by name. Cities.

Timothy R. Anderson

( Note: Please forgive any mis-spelling’s ; I’m operating lo-fi
in an advanced technological world ! )

Hi there. News from Iraq is that the man with the name Mouqtada Al-Sadr is back in Iraq. He’s seen by some in the Shiite population of Iraq as more respect-worthy than the “official” government of Iraq (al-Maliki’s government). This is worth noting.

I realize that Iraq news is ” so passe” in the overall scheme of jockeying for the “average” American’s brain-cells…….. yet,
IT IS The COUNTrY WhERE MoRE THAN Forty-FiVE Thousand AMERiCAn MilitA
Ry SerVICEMEMberS ARE STATIONED AND ArE AS SUCH In A DaNGEROUs SpOT. Iraq is not happy-land, y’all. As much as Pentagon unofficial mouthpieces such as Hannity would like to relegate Iraq to “nothing here to talk about” status, the facts on-the-ground say ” Several Things Very much Worth Talking About, Actually.”

Here’s a link :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/27/suicide-bomb-attack-iraq-government-compound?INTCMP=SRCH

There are no reports on the losses-of-lives of Iraqi Army members AND Iraqi police officers on American t.v. shows such as ” 60 Minutes” and ” Nightline” and Hannity and O’Reilly. All that would do is make American civilians aware that Iraq is still a mess, all this time
later. From March 2003 to now, January 7, 2011.

And it is you know, a mess. Truly.
Timothy R. Anderson

No coverage of this factoid on PBS, NPR, CNN, See B.S., Fox News,
ABC, MSNBC, nor NBC, the non-terrorist civilian population of Iraq
is STILL suffering. Suffering mightily. No one there to ” cover”
their stories.
No one.

Timothy R. Anderson

Also waiting to see the professional sports-athlete that abandons his
/ her professional sports-playing career to join the USA ‘s military.
Evidently Tillman’s tragic demise has made an impact, yes ? There’s a lot of money being spent to recruit new military personnel, y’all, but not everyone takes the bait. Word is getting out. Not all that
glamorous after all is it…….. ?

And as this all continues it becomes “normal.” When’s the most-recent time Hannity has said any of these phrases on his radio-show ?
” military sexual assault victim, ” ” family devastated by military
father’s suicide,” ” untreated psychologically-damaged mil. vet. detained”, ” Rumsfeld visits Walter Reed,” ” Iraqi civilian death toll higher than Associated Press’s count”, and ” US mil. veteran takes
his own life” ? The shadow of what is not announced on- the -air,
y’all, the shadow of what is NOT announced.

Timothy R. Anderson