Published on 23 February 2013, by M. Tomazy.
"Thursday, February 21, 2013. Chaos and violence continue, Nouri tries to bully protesters, KRG President Massoud Barzani makes friends in Russia, the US State Dept spent 80% of its time last year focusing on four countries (none were Iraq), the US Ambassador to Bitchy (Frederick Barton) insults an artist that Barack was giving a medal just a little while ago, and more.
Despite getting billions to run the US 'mission' in Iraq, the State Dept doesn't spend much time on Iraq. In Fiscal Year 2012, Congress began giving the State Dept and USAID billions of dollars for Iraq. The American taxpayer has a right to expect that with those billions comes some additional level of focus. But that's not the case.
"Our focus in the past year, 80% of our interest has been in Syria, Kenya leading up to the elections, Burma and North Central America, particularly Honduras. That doesn't mean that we've negleceted the rest of the world but that's where 80% of our effort is," declared the State Dept's Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations Frederick Barton declared yesterday.
So you take billions, you pump up the State Dept with billions of extra dollars, you tell the Congress -- the American people's representatives -- that you need this money for Iraq and with DoD stepping out of the leadership role, now the State Dept will lead on Iraq.
And yet 80% of time by the State Dept was spent on Syria, Kenya, Burma and Honduras? We are aware that violence has gone up, right? We're aware that just as the bulk of US troops were leaving Iraq in December of 2011, Nouri began going after political rivals, sending the Iraqi military to circle their homes? We're aware that there are no gains to speak of in Iraq? And hopefully, the State Dept is also aware that since 2009, Iraq has had three US Ambassadors: the awful Chris Hill, James Jeffrey who now works with the Kurds and the current US Ambassador to Iraq Robert Stephen Beecroft? In four years, three ambassadors." >>>read more
(Uruknet)
Despite getting billions to run the US 'mission' in Iraq, the State Dept doesn't spend much time on Iraq. In Fiscal Year 2012, Congress began giving the State Dept and USAID billions of dollars for Iraq. The American taxpayer has a right to expect that with those billions comes some additional level of focus. But that's not the case.
"Our focus in the past year, 80% of our interest has been in Syria, Kenya leading up to the elections, Burma and North Central America, particularly Honduras. That doesn't mean that we've negleceted the rest of the world but that's where 80% of our effort is," declared the State Dept's Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations Frederick Barton declared yesterday.
So you take billions, you pump up the State Dept with billions of extra dollars, you tell the Congress -- the American people's representatives -- that you need this money for Iraq and with DoD stepping out of the leadership role, now the State Dept will lead on Iraq.
And yet 80% of time by the State Dept was spent on Syria, Kenya, Burma and Honduras? We are aware that violence has gone up, right? We're aware that just as the bulk of US troops were leaving Iraq in December of 2011, Nouri began going after political rivals, sending the Iraqi military to circle their homes? We're aware that there are no gains to speak of in Iraq? And hopefully, the State Dept is also aware that since 2009, Iraq has had three US Ambassadors: the awful Chris Hill, James Jeffrey who now works with the Kurds and the current US Ambassador to Iraq Robert Stephen Beecroft? In four years, three ambassadors." >>>read more
(Uruknet)
