Petraeous' Long History of Bribing Muslim Killers

Petraeous Has Long History of Bribing Muslim Killers to Pretend Cooperation

Knee-Jerk Conservative Supporters of US Communist Generals Are Refusing to Admit the Truth. The Crimes of the New group of US Criminal Communist Generals That Afghanistan-Iraq Has spawned, Just Will Not Be Believed by Military Worshipping CONservatives!


For the past two decades, America’s incompetent and treasonous Pentagon Generals have used false media reports of “success” to cover up their stupid criminal behavior. They know that the US communist media can turn every defeat into victory and every lie into truth.

As of 2006-07, militarily incompetent but politically facile, U.S. Commanding Gen. David Petraeus was applying the "successful" Anbar bribery formula to other areas, including Shi'ite neighborhoods. "Anbar progress spreads to Diyala," blares a recent lead story in USA Today.
What's spreading, more accurately, is millions in dinars, and they're being used to buy the temporary loyalty of insurgents to give the appearance of "progress" in Iraq. Some 25 tribes in Diyala province now have men once branded "terrorists" on the U.S. payroll.
The neocons dismiss as apocryphal firsthand, on-the-ground reports of U.S. cash payments to tribal sheiks. They say Sunni sheiks switched sides because, as Bush clucked, "we're kicking ass." They also allegedly were "sick" of pushy al-Qaeda foreigners.
In fact, the reports of payments have been confirmed by Petraeus himself. He didn't acknowledge it in his own report to Congress. He let it slip out, ironically, in an "interview" with Fox News.
Only, Fox News anchor Brit Hume was too busy guiding Petraeus through his PowerPoint presentation of propaganda to notice. Let's go to the transcript:
PETRAEUS: The tribes and the sheiks decided to say no more to al-Qaeda. They were tired of the indiscriminate violence, tired of the Taliban-like ideology and other practices.
HUME: And they're Sunnis, right?
PETRAEUS: They are Sunni Arabs rising up against a largely Sunni Arab al-Qaeda Iraq. And, again, you can see just a plummeting [in violence]. From the height back in October, somewhere in there is where one of the key sheiks [now dead] stood up and said, "Would it be OK with you, would you support us, in fact, if we, instead of pointing our weapons at you, pointed them at al-Qaeda?" And we obviously supported that.
But then I will tell you: We have not armed tribes. Initially, the sheiks paid their men themselves. We eventually did help with that. But then we have tried to transition them to legitimate Iraqi security force institutions.
So, the general concedes that "we eventually did" bankroll the sheiks and their men, formerly known as "terrorists." A red-blooded journalist would have pounced on the news, but Hume didn't bother to follow up. Apparently he didn't want such messy details complicating the heroic Anbar success story he was helping sell.
Then in the same "exclusive" Fox interview, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, who had accompanied Petraeus, revealed that the client government we set up in Baghdad has been paying millions in "compensation" to the tribal sheiks in Anbar.
"In the case of Anbar, just a few days ago, when I was out there," said ambassador Ryan Crocker, "central government representatives brought out a package to Ramadi, the capital city, an additional $70 million for their capital budget, a 70 percent increase, and $50 million for compensation for damages suffered in the struggle against al-Qaeda."
So there you have it. This is how Anbar became safe for presidential photo-ops. Dinar by dinar, greenback by greenback, the Bush administration has quietly been expanding the green zone.
Again, Hume didn't seize on the news from Crocker and moved right on to Iran and Syria, the next areas of propaganda.
Bush followed Petraeus with a press conference, in which he repeatedly praised "the success in Anbar" and the "blow" it delivered to al-Qaeda, which he made sure to mention no less than 12 times.
The local sheiks "pledged they would never let al-Qaeda return," the president said, and "they can count on the continued to support of the United States."
What he didn't say is that they'd signed contracts to cooperate with our operations in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars each, paid in bricks of dinars worth $40,000 each, so that they can eventually finance their own personal armies.
He also neglected to mention suspicions shared among U.S. commanders in Anbar that those who vowed never to let al-Qaeda return were aiding and abetting "al-Qaeda" all along. This explains the sudden drop in attacks more than anything. No wonder they were so confident of their pledges.
"They used to want to kill me," said Army Capt. Henry Moltz, who has passed out bricks of cash to Sunni tribal leaders. "Now they want to sign a contract with me."
"It's hard to get your head around," he added, "but it is working."
Sure, as long as we keep stuffing their pockets. But what happens when the protection money dries up?
How long before these Sunni fighters, who formerly resisted the American "crusaders," turn on us as a fifth column in the Iraqi police and army, where they'll be read in on intelligence concerning troop movements and gain access to secure areas?
This is the devil in the details of the success story we're being sold about the surge. The assertion that al-Qaeda is the main source of violence, the principal enemy, in Iraq is more sleight of hand.
According to former Pentagon analyst Anthony Cordesman, so-called "al-Qaeda in Iraq" (as opposed to al-Qaeda central in Pakistan) was responsible for only 15 percent of this year's attacks there. He got the figure from a recent U.S. military background brief in Iraq. Even then, the military uses a loose definition.
But don't listen to me. Let Gen. Petraeus tell it in his own words. Here's another moment of unexpected candor from that Fox interview.
HUME: Is this, in an ultimate sense, turned out to be, more than anything else, a war with al-Qaeda?
PETRAEUS: Well, it is al-Qaeda and associated movements, I think, or affiliates, if you will.
In other words: No, Brit. The general went on to describe the larger battle with "insurgents" and "resistance fighters."
Where Petraeus was not candid was on the subject of Iranian interference in Iraq. Over and over, he suggested Tehran was fighting a proxy war in Iraq.
But if the general were really a straight shooter, as the Right claims (and not Bush's political poodle, as the Left charges), he also would have mentioned Saudi Arabia's support for the insurgency in Iraq. Every commander on the ground in Anbar province and other Sunni hotspots knows that most of the foreign fighters and suicide bombers attributed to al-Qaeda in Iraq are really young jihadists streaming across the border from Saudi Arabia. They also know that the bulk of money funding the insurgency is coming from the Kingdom, not Iran.
U.S. Central Command has just as much evidence, if not more, that our Saudi "allies" are fighting a proxy war in Iraq against us and the Shi'ites as it has on Iran.
Yet Petraeus failed to mention Saudis' role in either his interview with Fox or his report to Congress.
In fact, the U.S. military is currently in a bidding war over Sunni insurgents with the Saudis, who are raising millions at mosques and charities and sending it into Iraq by the bus and truck load. We're paying them to stop the jihad; the Saudis are paying them to wage it.
If there's any success in Iraq, we've bought it with good old-fashioned bribery. Add that to the $2 trillion tab annexing part of hell is expected to cost us in the final analysis.
Meanwhile, Osama bin Laden, the real and proven terrorist threat, sits and laughs unpunished six years after ordering the murder of thousands of Americans.
Where's the surge to get him? Red-blooded journalists and true patriots want to know. Partisans like Hume, not so much.
In the middle of Petraeus' dog-and-pony show in Washington, America's Enemy No. 1 reared his ugly head again after three years of silence, issuing an ominous threat.
"We take revenge on the people of tyranny and aggression, and the blood of the Muslims will not be spilled with impunity," bin Laden threatened. "And the morrow is nigh for he who awaits."
Sounds like a go-ahead signal to sleeper cells for the next "blessed" attack. Yet all Hume or anyone in Washington could talk about was the phony surge in the false front of Iraq.

US Generals Traditionally Grovel Before Islamic Iman Thugs

US Generals Traditionally Grovel Before Islamic Iman Thugs

A sick Example: U.S. General Apologizes for Desecration of Koran
Published: May 19, 2008
For the record, no Muslim has ever apologized for the thousands of annual desecrations of the Christian Bible or US Flag. However, pro-muslim, black supremacist, communist US generals are always apologizing to the enemy. They disgrace all who subscribe to their weakness. Groveling before the Muslims is only more proof of the weakness of their opposition. (I have desecrated numerous Korans. You got a problem with that? If so kiss my ass and bring it on!)
BAGHDAD — The commander of United States troops in Baghdad asked local leaders and tribal sheiks this weekend for their forgiveness after the discovery that a soldier had used a Koran for target practice at a shooting range.
Responding to an episode ripe with the potential to stoke unrest, the commander, Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, held a meeting Saturday with Iraqi leaders.
“I come before you here seeking your forgiveness,” General Hammond said at the meeting, in remarks carried by CNN. “In the most humble manner, I look in your eyes today and I say, please forgive me and my soldiers.”
General Hammond also read a letter of apology from the soldier, who was not identified. “I sincerely hope that my actions have not diminished the partnership that our two nations have developed together,” the general read from the letter.
Another American officer kissed a Koran and gave it to the tribal leaders, according to news agency reports.
A statement Sunday from the American military called the desecration of the Koran, in Radwaniya, just west of Baghdad, “serious and deeply troubling” and said the soldier had been disciplined and sent out of Iraq. Iraqi police officers had found the Koran on May 11 perforated with bullet holes after American forces withdrew from the area.
Elsewhere in Iraq, the interior minister, Jawad al-Bolani, warned insurgents in the northern city of Mosul that they would become “targets” if they did not take advantage of an amnesty and weapons buyback offer made on Friday by the prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
The Iraqi government is conducting an offensive against Sunni insurgents in Mosul.
The government also announced details of the weapons buyback offer.
It is offering $167 for a 60-millimeter mortar tube and $416 for a machine gun. In a reflection of the surfeit of guns in Iraq, payments for handguns and assault rifles were lower, ranging from $41 for a pistol to $120 for a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Iraqis are allowed to possess one assault rifle or pistol for self-defense.
In Baghdad, the Oil Ministry said that it had compiled a list of 35 foreign companies eligible for contracts to raise production at Iraqi oil fields, in a step toward meeting the government’s goal of pumping an additional 500,000 barrels per day by the end of the year.
After years of neglect, Iraq’s oil fields are decrepit and produce far less oil than they did at their peak, in 1979, when Saddam Hussein took power. The companies are bidding for contracts to make repairs and improve performance of existing fields.
Also on Sunday, Iraqi television, citing a government spokesman, reported that a court in Baghdad had sentenced to death the killer of the Chaldean Christian archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, 65, who was kidnapped Feb. 29 and found dead two weeks later.
Gunmen had sprayed his car with bullets, killed two guards and shoved him into the trunk of a car. Still, Archbishop Rahho managed to reach his cellphone and call church officials and implore them not to pay a ransom for his release, saying the money would only finance more violence.
The slaying elicited a statement of regret from the Vatican, condemning the senseless violence that has hit the Christian minority particularly hard. The Chaldeans are the largest Christian group in Iraq. The Chaldean Church is an Eastern Rite church that is part of the Roman Catholic Church but maintains its own customs and liturgy.