Follow the Money

Cartoon by R.J. Matson


Recently, a Brazilian news caster was arrested for creating his own news. He was hiring people to do break ins and other criminal activity, so that he and his crew seemed to always be in the right place at the right time.

The recent co-ordinated attacks in Iraq on August 18th reinforce my long held belief that we create the mayhem so that the Iraqis appear inadequate in their own defense, and therefore need our continued occupation to maintain security.

At some point in the beginning of the occupation of Iraq, a car dealership was attacked by a "suicide" car bomber. I remember thinking aloud, 'how odd that there would be a "crowded car dealership" in northern Iraq in the middle of a war'. Then I wondered aloud 'who would attack a car dealership'? Clearly whoever perpetrated this crime was against the Iraqi civilians, as they would be the only ones at a car dealership.

Then a very unsettling thought occurred to me; what if there were no "suicide" bombers at all? What if the people in the cars were already dead? Their hands taped to the wheel of a remote controlled car?

Now why would anyone do that? Well, what are the effects of these bombings? And take a look at the timing of the attacks; seems to me to always be around the time the Iraqis decide to hold some vote on how the hell they can get us out of there.

And now these recent bombings; six bombs going off in intervals, designed to make it impossible to react to any one of them. Then let's look at the buildings chosen for demolition; all of them governmental, and even two of them inside the so-called 'green zone'.

Who has the ability to pull that off? In the capital of a fully occupied country, that has been reduced to rubble? All communications, in or out, are fully monitored. All persons, young or old, male or female, are subjected daily to full searches and renditions. Who would have the capability to store such massive amounts of explosives? Who would have the ability to co-ordinate such an attack, spread throughout the city?

And then, who stands to make money rebuilding the structures and highways taken down? Why that would be our private no-bid contractors.

And lastly, doesn't it seem odd to anyone else as to the timing of this attack? On the eve of a mandated referendum on whether the U.S. should leave sooner than agreed.

And now the 'prime minister' is suggesting the Iraqis are not ready for us to pull out at all.

This is all so sickeningly obvious, and yet not one news organization has even suggested the possibility of our involvement. Maybe we could send the F.B.I. in there and do a real crime scene investigation and figure out who, exactly, is responsible for this shit.

Or maybe we could just keep on believing that a group of radical Muslims are holed up in a burned out, blown up building somewhere in the city with caches of supremely sophisticated equipment and explosives, and have the technical capability of pulling something of this scale off.

I also have a tooth under my pillow, can't wait for the tooth faerie to come.

Can someone please do some investigative reporting? Please?

My wish has been granted; definately check out Jeremy Scahill's blog, Rebel Reports. This man is a true patriot; putting his life on the line to bring us facts, so that we may be able to make informed decisions. Democracy can not work without an well informed electorate. Thank you, Jeremy, for having the balls to be a reporter, not some corporate whore.