We did that already. Then, when the time came...
Saddam's troops made themselves part of all the other Iraqi War refugees.
We didn't stop all of Iraq's forces. We could never have stopped them all. They were sheltered in place by many of their brethren. And before we left Iraq-
Egypt had Iraqi refugees.
Syria had Iraqi refugees.
Jordan had Iraqi refugees.
Lebanon had Iraqi refugees.
Some richer countries got Iraqi refugees. Time passed.
America built up the remainder of the 'new' Iraqi forces. Then...
America left Iraq to end the wars of the Bushes.
POTUS, however, told America we would have to continue to fight terrorism wherever it landed.
Today, Saddam's people have reemerged.
While they were embedded with their own groups in every country where they fled, they waited to be stronger.
When they came back together to be fighting forces, they were fragmented; but officials here
believed they would not have to be called terrorists because they'd changed their names from Al Queda to many other monikers.
They do have to be called terrorists; and they have to be be contained, no matter where they are, as our President has told us many, many times.
If we put boots on the ground, we will lose many of our armed personnel in a variety of awful ways.
When we see no one left to fight there, what is left of Saddam's forces will scatter again, and again with as much of our money and armaments as they can gather.
Once more, we won't be able to account for them all.
Some of them are twelve and thirteen right now.
In ten years they will be twenty-two and twenty-three.
They will have older commanders, who can see to it that some in the Mid East will make sure their
hatred of the West gets well-funded.
If Iraqi government forces have been built up and funded once more by America, when they see they must fight their brother soldiers in forces previously split off from them by our 'boots', they may once again tear off their uniforms, turn over their weaponry ( now even more advanced than it was years before) and go home until they figure out what force they may want to join.
That is exactly what they did in June of this year. History, even a history so odd, will repeat itself.
America will have a different President by then.
Will he have learned by then, that "boots" can be 'made for walkin'.
They don't have to be made for warfare.
Lest we allow ourselves to forget, Iraq does not exist. Maliki was not the biggest problem.
Iraq hated us during the first Gulf War.
Iraq hated us during the Iraq War.
Many, many groups in Iraq hate us now. ISIL is not lonely.
Iraq was divided up after WWI because they sided with Germany.
The country was divided up by the west.
If Russia were to come to your street right now, and put down a dividing line in the middle of the road, and tell you you on one side did not live in America any longer, would you feel you no longer
lived in America?
We can contain terrorism more effortlessly if we hit on the right formula for reuniting Persians with their brothers.
We are not going to succeed by gunning them all into 'live and let live' regarding western civilization,
or American aggressors.
We split them up unnaturally, now it is our job to find out what divisions they can actually live with; and help them get to the desired boundaries if that's still possible.
'Live and let live' will have to be a sentiment they embrace toward one another.
Then, and only then, will they be able to turn it outward.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Thank You Hong Kong For Standing With Ferguson And Mike Brown Jr.
Once again, black culture has travelled the world, and we can all encourage one another.
Here in the U.S. the criminal police officers are a principal cause of the wrong police
officers getting shot.
We cannot be quiet and honor laws which allow for the slaughter of our young children.
Has everyone in America gone mad?
Well, last night, though Ferguson gangster police were as inappropriate as ever, more white
people did come to help with the protest.
Umbrellas are such a great idea. I hope Americans can adopt that practice!
For those of you who don't know why you are holding up hands- Mike Brown Jr. was holding
up both his hands when the freak shot him down, unarmed, in the middle of the street, in the
middle of the kids' day- and left him lying there more than four hours.
Justice in America can never be taken for granted in our community. Way to many freaks
abound here.
In Detroit, where I live, we had to petition the UN in order for many residents to have fresh water
reinstituted into family dwellings.
Here in the U.S. the criminal police officers are a principal cause of the wrong police
officers getting shot.
We cannot be quiet and honor laws which allow for the slaughter of our young children.
Has everyone in America gone mad?
Well, last night, though Ferguson gangster police were as inappropriate as ever, more white
people did come to help with the protest.
Umbrellas are such a great idea. I hope Americans can adopt that practice!
For those of you who don't know why you are holding up hands- Mike Brown Jr. was holding
up both his hands when the freak shot him down, unarmed, in the middle of the street, in the
middle of the kids' day- and left him lying there more than four hours.
Justice in America can never be taken for granted in our community. Way to many freaks
abound here.
In Detroit, where I live, we had to petition the UN in order for many residents to have fresh water
reinstituted into family dwellings.
POTUS and Ferguson, MO In Dubai
My niece was in Dubai a couple of days after Mike Brown Jr. was killed.
She sat at a hotel restaurant where the overhead televisions were all on the news.
Her waiter looked up at the broadcasts in absolute disbelief, asking her- 'What did the black
people do to make the police so angry they got out tanks and gas?'
She had to answer. embarrassed- "Nothing, really."
While she was there too, Palestinians in the middle of terrible life-losing and children-losing
bombings were tweeting understanding and solidarity to American black people in Ferguson.
People all over the world are wondering how democracy has a bona fide leg to stand on in this world
when this is what we inflict on our own citizens- the citizens who actually did build this country.
If we are thinking six billion people all over the world still believe American exceptionalism should
survive based in the slaughter and exploitation of others by the white of skin, I think we certainly fool
ourselves.
POTUS was right to acknowledge to the rest of the world we haven't gotten it right yet.
We are three hundred million, torturing twelve million. Do we pretend the world doesn't know
and make the 'notes to self' they think could be appropriate? POTUS knows better than that.
And for what are we attacking a minority without provocation? For bringing in the crop which ultimately paid for the war and defeat of the the most
powerful army and navy on the planet at the time- the British crown forces?
For providing the cash crops which built Wall Street?
For providing the cash Harvard and Yale had in order to rise to existence from the mud?
See, even if America was fair to all its Black citizens, it would have to be fair to only about 3%
of its citizens at most.
We are about 4% of the population here, and some of us are too young to embrace full citizenship,
even though we don't want to be shot to death before reaching full adulthood.
She sat at a hotel restaurant where the overhead televisions were all on the news.
Her waiter looked up at the broadcasts in absolute disbelief, asking her- 'What did the black
people do to make the police so angry they got out tanks and gas?'
She had to answer. embarrassed- "Nothing, really."
While she was there too, Palestinians in the middle of terrible life-losing and children-losing
bombings were tweeting understanding and solidarity to American black people in Ferguson.
People all over the world are wondering how democracy has a bona fide leg to stand on in this world
when this is what we inflict on our own citizens- the citizens who actually did build this country.
If we are thinking six billion people all over the world still believe American exceptionalism should
survive based in the slaughter and exploitation of others by the white of skin, I think we certainly fool
ourselves.
POTUS was right to acknowledge to the rest of the world we haven't gotten it right yet.
We are three hundred million, torturing twelve million. Do we pretend the world doesn't know
and make the 'notes to self' they think could be appropriate? POTUS knows better than that.
And for what are we attacking a minority without provocation? For bringing in the crop which ultimately paid for the war and defeat of the the most
powerful army and navy on the planet at the time- the British crown forces?
For providing the cash crops which built Wall Street?
For providing the cash Harvard and Yale had in order to rise to existence from the mud?
See, even if America was fair to all its Black citizens, it would have to be fair to only about 3%
of its citizens at most.
We are about 4% of the population here, and some of us are too young to embrace full citizenship,
even though we don't want to be shot to death before reaching full adulthood.
A Young White Officer In South Carolina
If he was genuinely afraid of the man doing as he asked, then he may have Darren Wilson to thank.
Oh, wait- a lot of Darren Wilsons in Ferguson to thank.
He had no reason to stop a man coming out of a seat belt in a gas station- and he definitely should have been the one apologizing.
He wasn't the one about to get shot.
He was the one letting his crazy imagination run away with him.
I still think he owes Ferguson, and America in general, a lot for that unfortunate reality.
Oh, wait- a lot of Darren Wilsons in Ferguson to thank.
He had no reason to stop a man coming out of a seat belt in a gas station- and he definitely should have been the one apologizing.
He wasn't the one about to get shot.
He was the one letting his crazy imagination run away with him.
I still think he owes Ferguson, and America in general, a lot for that unfortunate reality.
Black Men In The News
You people! No- kidding.
The media are in a tizzy.
Black men are punching their wives and girlfriends.
And they all seem to be heterosexual.
Is there a connection?
I guess white men don't hit.
Gay men don't hit.
And black men are getting killed for doing less.
Lots o' news.
Here's the catch- unarmed black men are getting killed.
Police are afraid, apparently, of unarmed teenagers and young men.
In Florida, police got a gang of robbers this year- but didn't shoot them until they had laid down
their arms and were flat on their bellies. They even gave up their own informant to a shooting.
Young black men will be killed if they are unarmed.
Well, not only if unarmed.
Black teenagers can't wear hoodies in the rain. They can be shot dead.
Young black men can't wave down the police when having car trouble. Shot dead.
Black teenagers can't jaywalk. Shot in the back, shot in the head- all at close range.
Young black men can't buy gun-like items at big box stores. A barrage of bullets.
Young mentally challenged black men can't wave a knife. Gunned down- two against one.
Young men can't submit to handcuffs while in back of a police vehicle. Shot down.
Older black men can't be accused of selling loosies. Choked to death with E.M.S. complicit.
A young black man can't look for a license when ordered to- four bullets in a blaze of fire; and
such a black man can't take off a seat belt when entering a gas station either.
A young black man can't get into a limousine on his wedding day. Shot down.
A young black man can't break up a fight on the subway. Shot while lying flat on his face.
A young black man can't have a sword slung over his shoulder. Shot in the back.
A young black man can't reach for a license even if it is not in his car. Shot multiple times.
These young men are unarmed. Is that the problem, really- police are that afraid of young, unarmed
black men?
Are we yet done with the "can'ts" for young black males?
I know I have had enough of it.
Is it that young white males don't do any of these things?
And if we are sick of all this, what can we do about it?
I have heard from many, many officials that what we need to do is 'remain calm'.
Do they mean remain calm as in "young, black, and unarmed"?
I don't see one, single solitary thing about which we need to remain calm. I truly don't.
Were our Nelson Mandela-type activists right in the sixties? Are we going to be eating chicken if
a revolution comes?
I always knew we could go down because we are a small minority in a racist world.
But I don't think we can be required by "da laaw' to go down as sitting ducks.
Rumplestiltskin went to hell in a self-imposed rage.
We don't have to turn over our first-born, last born, or middle born son because those of little faith
want to sit around the way some want to sit around to see how many heads ISIL can get t' rollin'.
Right now, Ferguson is doing what it has to do to show 'badges' they have lost all moral authority
over black citizens.
I don't know what can be done; but if we are waiting for the Law and Order "ding ding" to
straighten things out, we are obviously going to lose more young people each month.
I can see why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had begun to come to a meeting of the minds with Malcolm X.
Plymouth Rock (back to which most of these "Americans" cannot trace their heritage, ) has 'shorely'
landed on us- real talk.
Or maybe we need to remember, Burkina Faso is nice this time of year.
The media are in a tizzy.
Black men are punching their wives and girlfriends.
And they all seem to be heterosexual.
Is there a connection?
I guess white men don't hit.
Gay men don't hit.
And black men are getting killed for doing less.
Lots o' news.
Here's the catch- unarmed black men are getting killed.
Police are afraid, apparently, of unarmed teenagers and young men.
In Florida, police got a gang of robbers this year- but didn't shoot them until they had laid down
their arms and were flat on their bellies. They even gave up their own informant to a shooting.
Young black men will be killed if they are unarmed.
Well, not only if unarmed.
Black teenagers can't wear hoodies in the rain. They can be shot dead.
Young black men can't wave down the police when having car trouble. Shot dead.
Black teenagers can't jaywalk. Shot in the back, shot in the head- all at close range.
Young black men can't buy gun-like items at big box stores. A barrage of bullets.
Young mentally challenged black men can't wave a knife. Gunned down- two against one.
Young men can't submit to handcuffs while in back of a police vehicle. Shot down.
Older black men can't be accused of selling loosies. Choked to death with E.M.S. complicit.
A young black man can't look for a license when ordered to- four bullets in a blaze of fire; and
such a black man can't take off a seat belt when entering a gas station either.
A young black man can't get into a limousine on his wedding day. Shot down.
A young black man can't break up a fight on the subway. Shot while lying flat on his face.
A young black man can't have a sword slung over his shoulder. Shot in the back.
A young black man can't reach for a license even if it is not in his car. Shot multiple times.
These young men are unarmed. Is that the problem, really- police are that afraid of young, unarmed
black men?
Are we yet done with the "can'ts" for young black males?
I know I have had enough of it.
Is it that young white males don't do any of these things?
And if we are sick of all this, what can we do about it?
I have heard from many, many officials that what we need to do is 'remain calm'.
Do they mean remain calm as in "young, black, and unarmed"?
I don't see one, single solitary thing about which we need to remain calm. I truly don't.
Were our Nelson Mandela-type activists right in the sixties? Are we going to be eating chicken if
a revolution comes?
I always knew we could go down because we are a small minority in a racist world.
But I don't think we can be required by "da laaw' to go down as sitting ducks.
Rumplestiltskin went to hell in a self-imposed rage.
We don't have to turn over our first-born, last born, or middle born son because those of little faith
want to sit around the way some want to sit around to see how many heads ISIL can get t' rollin'.
Right now, Ferguson is doing what it has to do to show 'badges' they have lost all moral authority
over black citizens.
I don't know what can be done; but if we are waiting for the Law and Order "ding ding" to
straighten things out, we are obviously going to lose more young people each month.
I can see why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had begun to come to a meeting of the minds with Malcolm X.
Plymouth Rock (back to which most of these "Americans" cannot trace their heritage, ) has 'shorely'
landed on us- real talk.
Or maybe we need to remember, Burkina Faso is nice this time of year.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Why ISIL?
President Obama has said on many occasions, in many ways: ISIL is an immediate threat to the U.S.
We ask how immediate because if they aren't on their way within the next half day we want to leave them to it?
Our President has said many times, he could not predict Iraqi forces would have strengthened these terrorists by turning over all the weapons, ammunition, tanks, etc. gotten from America to the ISIL forces in June.
Truly- what army willingly surrenders all its weaponry to the army it has been tasked to fight? The incidences of the Iraqi forces doing that are surely ones for the history books.
In the meantime, maybe the President should keep doing a 'Dennis Hopper talking to
Christopher Walken' in the movie True Romance- "Am I Lyin?"
Some men are bold-faced liars, and so are many of their cohorts.
Some men are not...bold-faced liars.
They just aren't.
We ask how immediate because if they aren't on their way within the next half day we want to leave them to it?
Our President has said many times, he could not predict Iraqi forces would have strengthened these terrorists by turning over all the weapons, ammunition, tanks, etc. gotten from America to the ISIL forces in June.
Truly- what army willingly surrenders all its weaponry to the army it has been tasked to fight? The incidences of the Iraqi forces doing that are surely ones for the history books.
In the meantime, maybe the President should keep doing a 'Dennis Hopper talking to
Christopher Walken' in the movie True Romance- "Am I Lyin?"
Some men are bold-faced liars, and so are many of their cohorts.
Some men are not...bold-faced liars.
They just aren't.
Three Years Ago?!!
Some White House attack guy did $97,000.00 worth of damage aimed at or in the White House three
years ago and it has been hushed up all this time?!
I am aghast with worry and upset.
The Secret Service is secretly full of the worthless and the dangerous.
At the time, one of the children was 'home alone', and one was trying to come 'home'.
Poor babies.
Unimaginable!
years ago and it has been hushed up all this time?!
I am aghast with worry and upset.
The Secret Service is secretly full of the worthless and the dangerous.
At the time, one of the children was 'home alone', and one was trying to come 'home'.
Poor babies.
Unimaginable!
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