Iraq

The “Iraq’s most wanted” deck being circulated in Iraq after the war, which later became a souvenir hit, the magazine NewsMax has issued a new “America’s enemies” deck entitled the “United Nations of Weasels.” This is a hoot. The spades are foreign leaders who caused us trouble. The Ace of Spades, of course, is none other than Jacques Chirac. Vladimir Putin warranted the ten of spades. His inscription reads “helped arm and defend Saddam despite his ‘friendship’ with Bush.” The hearts are Hollywood “activists,” like Michael Moore (don’t even get me started about what a fraud and loser he is) and Susan Sarandon. Diamonds are American politicians such as Ramsey Clark and Dennis Kucinich. Lastly, the clubs are journalists and writers spoke out against the war, such as Peter Arnett and Ted Turner.

Just as post-WWII West Germany was divided into sectors adminstered by the US, England and France, so too will Iraq be divided into sectors, this time administered by the US, England, and Poland. “Why Poland?” one might ask. Part of the answer is obvious: other likely candidates actively opposed the war, and now they can’t or won’t join the rebuilding effort. This knocks off France, Germany and Russia. Why not Australia? They were an important part of the coalition. To be honest, I have no idea, I haven’t seen any discussion of this.

The author, Aleksander Dugin, Chairman of the political party “Eurasia,” writes that the war in Iraq as divided Europe into two camps divided by philosophy and outlook. On the one side we have England and large parts of Southern and Eastern Europe: Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, the Baltics. On the other side we have France, Germany, Belgium. So far, so good, this is fairly obvious.

The folks at Izvestia speculate that the Coalition victory in Iraq did not so much demonstrate a “New Way of War,” made possible by precision guided munitions and real-time command and control, so much as use of a very old trick, that of buying out the leadership. This article suggested that the US cut a deal with Saddam Hussein such that he and his buddies could get out of the country alive if he agreed to arrange it so that the Iraqi military fell apart quickly. The majority of the captured leaders from the most-wanted deck have been sixes and eights, not face cards, and certainly not the old Ace of Spades himself. The authors also suggest that a similar deal was made with bin Laden.