Hah.. this is the new Obama’s name of old Bush’s “WOT” (War on Terror)

Steve, I think this already been the case after the surge and all these scenario of uncle SAM.

Many US official and military spoken they are their to keep things in order

Thank you for your response. I agree with your overall view of Iraq and its people. My comments were about the effects of American media narrative building from the beginning of the occupation onwards which have, indeed, made an enormous contribution to the pain that Iraq has suffered during that period.

Had the view of the overwhelming majority of Iraqi’s prevailed in the post-invasion political arena the way that US and coalition forces were utilized would have been entirely different. For the sake of brevity I will use but one example: the training of Badr and Peshmerga militia’s and their use against resistance groups would not have taken place, nor would the entrenchment of those groups in the interior ministry have been allowed to happen.

The American military has always allowed itself to believe it was supporting Iraqi unity when the diplomatic community was pushing a highly divisive and destructive decentralisation program. This fundamental contradiction was wholly encouraged by the use of information that became the life blood of American discourse – that Iraqi’s could not live together in a country that was nothing more than a modern day illusion.

It remains to be seen whether the majority can withstand this ongoing assault. That Iraqi’s managed to hold firm through 2006 gives us reason to be optimistic. I do hope your day will come but be prepared for Americans to claim the credit.

Perhaps Mother Jones or the Nation may do something but for the rest, I won’t be holding my breath. Mainstream America (and I don’t just mean the media) have so absorbed the “ancient sectarian hatreds” narrative of their involvement in Iraq that it becomes nigh impossible for the media (even if they wanted to) to provide any kind of alternative to the history they’ve worked so hard to build. To do so would be to begin hacking away at the foundations of a belief system. Unfortunately, even the centre left Brits have contracted this disease.

I think the following story illustrates part of the problem. Last Sunday, I noticed that I suddenly had like 2,000 website visitors in the course of one hour, which is a lot more than normal. I checked and found that most of it came from http://democraticunderground.org/ where someone had linked to my story.

Among the comments that ensued were the following:

1. who would unrec this?! This is the forgotten part of the Iraq story that every progressive pol should preface their comments about Iraq with.

2. I JUST RECCD IT

4. I see the problem: this guy is an appointee who more often works for Democrats, and…
the story was posted on National Review. However, anything that drags the oil motive for the Iraq War (and natural gas pipeline motive in Afghanistan) is all for the good.

9. wonder if that charge has something to do with this one? Sacked envoy Peter Galbraith accuses UN of ‘cover-up’ on Afghan vote fraud

I guess the problem is the way the decentralisation theme in Iraq is so systematically associated with powerful voices in the Democratic camp. “Thou shall not make any comment that in any way can be construed as an attack on Joe Biden” etc.

But I wouldn’t dismiss the entire US press just yet!

Apologies your point taken

The west never stopped interfering in the region so long as they new the richness of the area with oil and other mines, Bill Clinton side US got Uranium enough for decades fro north Iraq after 1991 when US control the area.

So not surprising if the Kurds who were in control of the area had offered their kickbacks or promised sharing area resources to expand their power on the land.

After 2003 invasion of Iraq the facts speak to the more complex truth around Kirkuk, the aggressive activities of Kurdish militias continue under the auspices of the United States and the puppet regime in Baghdad. But what is most disturbing is that the events concerning Kirkuk are just another testament to the ideology of institutionalised racism imposed on Iraqi society.

As for the case of Peter Galbraith not the only or first one repeated here with Kurds and money/Oil there many case similar or may be bigger one of them Baroness Emma Nicholson with her stories about Halabja and advocate for the marsh Arabs in iraq with all the donations and found rising which ended with big blow of Scotland Yard is to study accusations that millions of pounds in donations went missing in a fundraising drive for the Kurds of Iraq headed by Jeffrey Archer. More here with Oil involved and money and Kurd politicians.