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Some comments to "Ethnic Cleansing in Iraq" yesterday said things such as 'read up before you post!'
I was a national security consultant to the Department of Defense at a time when that meant I took my martinis "shaken not stirred." Under contract to the DoD, I co-authored a conflict prediction study forty years ago that set forth today's MidEast situation with perfect accuracy. Yesterday's commenters implied I don't understand the MidEast. In fact, I predicted it 40 years in advance, perfectly! Which made me the only Presidential candidate who actually has foreign affairs competence. My writings here are not from readings, but from hands on experience.
I met the Shah, and spent time with the CIA controllers who lived in the palace "furnishing advice" on his every act. The Shah was our puppet, owned lock, stock and barrel. British MI-6 created the Shah by kidnapping him when they killed his father for collaborating with Hitler, and MI-6 agents raised and educated the Shah. Our CIA took him over in the 1960s. Yes, he used torture. Duh! Iran is in Central Asia!
Everyone between Poland and China uses torture as casually as Columbia University undergrads deprive their opponents of the right to free speech and freedom of assembly.
Jimmy Carter ordered our CIA out of Iran and cut off all support and supplies. The Shah had the most modern Air Force in the world, all state of the art American technology because Iran was the armored firewall protecting Arabia and oil from takeover by the USSR, with whom they shared a long, and viciously battle torn border.
When Carter cut off replacement parts and withdrew the thousands of American contractors who maintained the advanced technology air force, armoured brigades, and communications systems, Iran's military was rendered immobile within weeks.
When Carter withdrew the hordes of American intelligence gatherers, the Shah lost much of his knowledge of the Russian sabateurs infiltrating Iran and who were organizing, supplying, paying salaries to, and training the so-called "popular uprising."
Every day there was military action of both Soviet organized phony internal "rebels" as well direct small scale invasions by USSR secret police groups operating in every poluation center inside Iran. As soon as Carter crippled Iran's military, death loomed large.
The Ayatollah Khomeni lived in exile in Paris financed by the USSR. Just as we had CIA sitting alongside the Shah every day, Soviet Russia had agents walking beside Khomeni all day long, every day. Iran was the biggest prize of the Cold War. Remeber, this was immediately after the Soviet/China alliance whupped us in Vietnam.
As soon as the Russian terror squads verified that Carter really had, with monumental stupidity, removed all support from the Iranian government so that the Soviet guerrillas could operate inside Iran with impunity, Soviet agents took control of the Tehran aerodrome, and chartered, using Russian bank accounts for payment, an Air France plance to fly Khomeni back into Iran while a US Air Force plane flew the Shah to safety.
Ever since then Russia and Iran have functioned as a single weapon against American interests.
Iran controls the "democratically elected" government of Iraq. Iraq's President and his top officers have large personal offices in Tehran! They shuttle back and forth getting their instructions from the Ayatollahs.
This is no different from the way the Chinese Communist Secret Service had a so called "Arkansas restauranteur" with an office and satellite dish accross the street from the White House. That "restauranteur" was never vetted for White House access by the Secret Service but had a special, one of a kind pass, that let him run in and out of the White House and barge in unannounced on Bill Clinton's meetings. He was Clinton's best friend and confident. When the "restauranteur" was supoened by Congress, he boarded a plane to Hong Kong and nobody including our CIA has been able to find him.
Intelligence agencies have enormous influence behind the scenes of all governments. How do you think French President Sarkozy got together with the Russian President on 90 minutes notice and negotiated a Treaty that let the Russinas do anything they want in Georiga and still be in compliance with the Treaty?
And Sarkozy loves Nobama.
WHY THE SUNNIS FEEL BETRAYED
We promised them a role in the Iraqi government if they fought on our side against Al Quada. Now the Iraqi government is not embracing them, but exterminating them. And the Iraqi government has its real offices in Tehran. The President of Iraq commutes to his Tehran office for instructions from his masters before making any decisions.
The Iranians hate the Sunnis as much as Pakistan hates India. Fallujah was the site of a massacre of Shiites by Sunnis many centuries ago. For Shiia, the annual pilgrimage to Fallujah ranks almost equal with the pigrimage to Mecca, for Shiia to reiiterate their hatred of Sunnis and reinforce their desire for vengeance. US public television regularly broadcasts coverage of this annual Shiia convention to pledge vengeance against the Sunnis. Nobama's withdrawal makes it possible.
Indeed, today's news reports that Shiite Extremist Muqtada al-Sadr is rousing his militia to protest our withdrawal as too slow.
We are following the Nobama timetable to leave Iraq, so the Iranian Shiites can exterminate their enemies for ten centuries, the Sunnis.
For the most part, your blog is not factual.
1. The Sunnis started fighting Al Qaeda before the surge started. Petraeus knew a good thing when he saw it & took full advantage of it, but didn't start it.
2. I don't know about promising the Sunnis a role in the government. We certainly have paid them for their support in the form of weapons and lots of money.
3. It is true that the Iraqi government is now turning on the Sunni Awakening people, which is sheer idiocy afaik.
4. Obviously, the Sunnis feel betrayed--that's a no-brainer.
5. I don't doubt that Iran & Russia see us as fools. So does everybody else.
6. Everything from "[t]he next world war will be..." is completely tinhat wacko stuff.
Carter didn't turn anything over to the Shiites--the Iranian people (across the board--not just Ayatollah Khomeini & his crowd) rebelled against the Shah, who the US installed as dictator after overthrowing the democratically elected government of Mohammed Mossadegh in the 1950s. The Shah stayed in power via the use of torture, in which his secret police, the Savak, were trained by the CIA. The Shah embarked on an ambitious and very rapid modernization program with no input from the public (since he felt that his military & secret police eliminated any need for their support). Khomeini & his supporters exploited public anger over being steamrolled by the Shah's modernization program to overthrow the Shah in a revolution in 1979, after which they revealed their true colors and began enforcing strict Sharia law & arresting, torturing and sometimes murdering their secular (particularly, their leftwing) former supporters.
I'm sure Obama is aware of this stuff, although I'm equally sure that McCain's ideology prevents him from acknowledging much of it, or at least leads him to force the empirical square peg into a round hole labeled "Us Good--Them Bad, and Anyone Suggesting Otherwise is Neville Chamberlain in Munich." By the way, Iran supports both the current Iraqi government, and Muktada El Sadr, the cleric in opposition to it. And there's no evidence that the Shiites want to take over the entire Middle East. In fact, claims that a given ideology will take over [enter region here] have been made numerous times throughout history and have generally been proven to be false. It seems that just as with scope in computer programming, local political interests seem to override global ideologies. (Compare the series of border wars between the USSR & China, between China & Vietnam, and between Vietnam & Cambodia with the claims made by supporters of US involvement in Vietnam that withdrawal from that conflict would lead to the engulfment of Asia by a monolithic communism. Some monolith.) I'm willing to predict that attainment of political power by Shiites in more than one country will be followed eventually by conflict between those countries.
Second, re your rejection of my post that Shiia want to take over the region:
If Hitler taught us anything, it is that when dictators repeatedly, year after year, promise to do something, there is nothing more disasterous than to not believe them.
The Shiia Extremists controlling Iran despotically, state year after year that they intend to take over all Arabia and impose Sharia law.
And right now, today, we see them taking over Iraq.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
The "revolution" was organized and financed by the USSR.
The Shah's modernization (which you criticize as not being voted on by the people) actually was conceived, organized and performed by the US State Department and the CIA as, blare of trumpets, "nation building."
Actually it was conceived of as a MidEast successor to the Marshall Plan in Europe and was highly successful.
The Shiia, of course, oppposed it, because they, apparantly like you, prefer the sixth century.
Before the Shah, Iran was close to the stone age.
As a result of the CIA's and the Shah's modernization, Iran today, even after the Shiia rampage, has the highest educational level, highest literacy rate, best health care system, highest per capital GDP, and highest standard of living of any country south of Europe and West of South Korea.
Not bad for a CIA program, hey?
But Jimmy Carter stopped it, and Nobama is merely Jimmy Carter with a buzz cut.
And brainless Joe Biden can't bail him out.
Why do we Democrats keep committing suicide by nominating unelectable idiots?
Can't we find candidates with brains and new ideas, instead of puppets of corruption?
Nobama is created, packaged, and owned lock, stock and barrel by the most corrupt machine in America, Mayor Daley of Chicago. Nobama is merely corruption wrapped up in glossy tinfoil, Paris Hilton dancing on the pot-bellied pig of Mayor Daley.
1. You write that "Your claim the the Shah was overthrown by a popular revolution is nothing more than a silly repetition of the Soviet propaganda.
The "revolution" was organized and financed by the USSR.â€
Really? Here’s a pretty good general summary of modern Iranian history from, of all places, Encarta (not exactly a hotbed of Soviet propaganda the last time I looked):
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Here’s a very detailed account from the inside by Henry Precht, Country Director for Iran in the State Department, 1978-80:
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Here’s an account by an Iranian historian, also confirming that the Iranian revolution was in fact a popular uprising:
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If you want to see what real socialist propaganda looks like, btw, read this account of the Iranian revolution:
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It’s got all the Marxist jargon we all know and love, and the argument is fairly predictable. I thought you might find it interesting that according to them, the Soviet Union was very uncomfortable about the Iranian revolution. (There are many other, non-socialist, sources that agree on that, btw.)
2. You write that “The Shah's modernization (which you criticize as not being voted on by the people) actually was conceived, organized and performed by the US State Department and the CIA as, blare of trumpets, "nation building."
Actually it was conceived of as a MidEast successor to the Marshall Plan in Europe and was highly successful.
The Shiia, of course, oppposed it, because they, apparantly like you, prefer the sixth century.â€
A few points here:
a. In what way does the fact that the Shah’s modernization program was conceived as a Middle Eastern Marshall Plan in any way contradict the statement quoted by you above? Obviously, the plan wasn’t developed with any input from the Iranian public. Even you don’t claim that. In fact, when you say that “[t]he Shiia [sic] opposed it,†you betray your total ignorance of Iran. The population of Iran, for your information, is almost entirely Shiite. Was the plan implemented with the broad support of the populace, which would have ensured its acceptance? Obviously, even according to your own statements, no.
b. Your statement that “The Shiia, of course, oppposed it, because they, apparantly [sic] like you, prefer the sixth century,†seems to imply that simply explaining the point of view of the Shah’s opposition is tantamount to taking sides in the conflict. The underlying implication of your comment is that in considering historical/political events, the only acceptable approach to take is that of a hyperventilating cheerleader, blindly parroting whatever the U.S. government’ s official version of events happens to be. That’s a common enough approach if you’re a fanatical sports fan rooting for your team; it’s ridiculous when the goal is to understand events so we can figure out intelligent, workable responses that will work in our country’s interests. To do that, you have to put aside emotions, step back, gather and absorb as much information as you can on the subject (from all points of view, btw), and then develop ideas based on your synthesis of all that info. Anyone can react—babie s and dogs can do that. We adult humans ought to be a bit more ambitious than that.
c. Btw, if the modernization plan worked so well, why did it contribute so much to the opposition that led to the overthrow of the Shah? Maybe if the Shah had ruled democratically and sought public support, there wouldn’t have been so much opposition in the first place. Oh, but there I go, being logical & relying on empirical evidence again. How naive of me...
3. Aside from all that, don’t you have enough self-control to put together an argument that isn’t full of ad hominem attacks & juvenile insults? Maybe you ought to learn how to read and spend some time in a good library. You have heard of libraries, haven’t you?
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Hint: They were far from positive about it. (It’s interesting to note, btw, that right-wingers at the time claimed the Soviets were behind the Iranian revolution while leftists claimed the US was behind it. You might surmise from this that the conclusions reached were influenced by the positions of the claimants vis a vis the Cold War.)
The fact is I was there.
The USSR secret service organized, financed and led the phony "popular" revolution and continues to be Iran's Shiite Extremist despots' best and only friend in the world.
I was there and experienced the facts, your ability to find irrelevant kooks writing at all levels cannot change the facts.
Sorry, but your ranting and name calling cannot change the data that I experienced in person.
You simply cannot tell a person who watched the sun rise that it was really Saturn's moons circling backwards.
I was there.
Russia did it.
Stop calling me names: all you do is demean yourself with your lack of firsthand knowledge.
Oh, do not forget: 40 years ago I co-authored the study the correctly predicted the entirety of the current MidEast situation. The uninvolved observers whom you quote never predicted anything, and fail to understand how much of what they see and read is propaganda.
Here is a rule to help you with foreign affairs: If it comes from any Russian, or from our own State Department, it is not true.
Good luck in your struggle to comprehend the world.
Google Frank Lynch for President and you may find a wee bit of qualifications
Thank you.
I got so frustrated when others quoted people, who quoted still others, who derived their info from still another layer of people, who were never there, but heard about from someone else who read about it without being there, and then claimed that their fourth hand and fifth hand indirect quotations from uninvolved comentators who were never there, somehow disproved the truth:
I was there. The sun really did rise in the East. Hard intelligence was gathered from many Russian guerillas captured inside Iran in the act of organizing, financing and controlling the phony rebellion inside Iran.
For the last thousand years every so called revolution was fomented by intelligence services of other countries, just as France instigated the American Revolution, armed us, supplied all our ammunition, financed us, sent their top General to train and direct us along with 2,000 Regular French Army professionals in full French Uniforms plus a 200 warship fleet to defeat the British at the final battle of Yorktown.
No amateur assistant professor at cowplop U. working from fifth hand sources can tell me I did not experience what I experienced.
Yes, at the time I liked my martinis shaken, not stirred.
The Russians did it.
Every week the Shiite Extremists in Iran proclaim they will establish Sharia Law over the entire MidEast. I am not saying it: THEY ARE SAYING IT!
Time to believe their words.
Bombng Iran will not solve the problem.
Russia is the key, and Georgia must NOT join NATO.
More later. . .