[Peace-discuss] From the Ultra-Left - on what Obama's really doing

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

Begin forwarded message:

> As this issue of our journal goes to press,* four months have elapsed since
> the first of Obama’s “special advisers” officially set their “boots” –
> sorry, their “civilian shoes”, since they were not meant to be there in a
> combat capacity – on Iraqi soil. They arrived on August 1st.
> 
> In fact, whether they wore “boots” or “civilian shoes”, was hardly
> relevant. With 35,000 heavily-armed private contractors operating in Iraq,
> 17,000 employees at the US embassy in Baghdad (the world’s largest!) and
> countless military minders and trainers “embedded” within the Iraqi forces,
> the US government already had “boots” all over the land of Iraq, anyway!
> 
> Western “precision bombings” against ISIS began a month later. They were
> first carried out by the US air force at the beginning of September, then
> by the French from September 19th and, after the Commons vote on September
> 26th, by the British RAF – with a host of smaller players joining the
> US-led coalition over the following weeks.
> Two months on, however. . . .
> 
> full at:
> http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/iraq-syria-the-making-of-a-catastrophe/
> 
> The article is by Workers Fight, the British co-thinkers of Lutte Ouvriere.

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