BREAKING NEWS: US State Department LIES in its 10 January 2007 "Weekly Iraq Status Report"
OK, here's where I scoop the traditional media!
Friends, you can't make this stuff up. But I am proud to say, that I am PERSONALLY breaking the news on this one, since I seem to be the first person to notice.
The State Department is actually blatantly lying in its most recent Weekly Iraq Status Report. Did they actually think no-one would notice?
Just follow this link to the January 10 Iraq Status Report. (In case they change the link or page #25, I've placed the ORIGINAL file on my website.)
Then head to page 25 of that report for a list of troops they say are serving there.
They list:
"25 Countries with forces in Iraq (in addition to US)
TOTAL ~ 14,138 Forces
Data as of December 22, 2006
Albania
Armenia
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Slovakia
South Korea
Ukraine
UK
Denmark
El Salvador
Estonia
Georgia
Japan
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Moldova
Mongolia
Poland
Romania
Singapore"
Um.... Small problem... as far as I know Singapore and the Ukraine withdrew in 2005! Japan was out in July of last year!
According to GlobalSecurity.org (a leading military monitoring organization):
"Countries which had troops in or supported operations in Iraq at one point but have pulled out since: Nicaragua (Feb. 2004); Spain (late-Apr. 2004); Dominican Republic (early-May 2004); Honduras (late-May 2004); Philippines (~Jul. 19, 2004); Thailand (late-Aug. 2004); New Zealand (late Sep. 2004); Tonga (mid-Dec. 2004) Portugal (mid-Feb. 2005); The Netherlands (Mar. 2005); Hungary (Mar. 2005); Singapore (Mar. 2005); Norway (Oct. 2005); Ukraine (Dec. 2005); Japan (July 17, 2006); Italy (Nov. 2006)"
So, what's that lying, social-climbing, cold fish of a golddigger for Big Oil, Condie Rice gonna tell us now? That the State Department, the DAY OF THE President's major policy speech on Iraq, accidentally included an OLD slide? Yup, sure. I believe that. Hmmmm... Somehow, it seems more likely they purposely pulled this hoping no-one would notice, and the local press outlets across the US would refer to this document, which makes it look like we have much more International support than we have.
OK, now, just for the record. The State Department's report lists a bit over 14,000 troops Non-American troops in Iraq supporting the operations. Once you subtract the troops from countries that aren't there, and the UK troops slated to leave, we'll soon have less than 6,000 Non-US/Non-Iraqi troops
in Iraq. It sure makes that 21,500 troop surge seem even smaller and more unlikely to accomplish a damn thing, except making targets of more Americans, once you realize that.
..and for anyone who thinks this latest piece of disinformation was just an honest oversight... Do you really think we should be handing over care for ANOTHER 21,500 American lives in a war zone, to management that can't even get straight who the current members of its own team are?
Friends, you can't make this stuff up. But I am proud to say, that I am PERSONALLY breaking the news on this one, since I seem to be the first person to notice.
The State Department is actually blatantly lying in its most recent Weekly Iraq Status Report. Did they actually think no-one would notice?
Just follow this link to the January 10 Iraq Status Report. (In case they change the link or page #25, I've placed the ORIGINAL file on my website.)
Then head to page 25 of that report for a list of troops they say are serving there.
They list:
"25 Countries with forces in Iraq (in addition to US)
TOTAL ~ 14,138 Forces
Data as of December 22, 2006
Albania
Armenia
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Slovakia
South Korea
Ukraine
UK
Denmark
El Salvador
Estonia
Georgia
Japan
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Moldova
Mongolia
Poland
Romania
Singapore"
Um.... Small problem... as far as I know Singapore and the Ukraine withdrew in 2005! Japan was out in July of last year!
According to GlobalSecurity.org (a leading military monitoring organization):
"Countries which had troops in or supported operations in Iraq at one point but have pulled out since: Nicaragua (Feb. 2004); Spain (late-Apr. 2004); Dominican Republic (early-May 2004); Honduras (late-May 2004); Philippines (~Jul. 19, 2004); Thailand (late-Aug. 2004); New Zealand (late Sep. 2004); Tonga (mid-Dec. 2004) Portugal (mid-Feb. 2005); The Netherlands (Mar. 2005); Hungary (Mar. 2005); Singapore (Mar. 2005); Norway (Oct. 2005); Ukraine (Dec. 2005); Japan (July 17, 2006); Italy (Nov. 2006)"
So, what's that lying, social-climbing, cold fish of a golddigger for Big Oil, Condie Rice gonna tell us now? That the State Department, the DAY OF THE President's major policy speech on Iraq, accidentally included an OLD slide? Yup, sure. I believe that. Hmmmm... Somehow, it seems more likely they purposely pulled this hoping no-one would notice, and the local press outlets across the US would refer to this document, which makes it look like we have much more International support than we have.
OK, now, just for the record. The State Department's report lists a bit over 14,000 troops Non-American troops in Iraq supporting the operations. Once you subtract the troops from countries that aren't there, and the UK troops slated to leave, we'll soon have less than 6,000 Non-US/Non-Iraqi troops
in Iraq. It sure makes that 21,500 troop surge seem even smaller and more unlikely to accomplish a damn thing, except making targets of more Americans, once you realize that.
..and for anyone who thinks this latest piece of disinformation was just an honest oversight... Do you really think we should be handing over care for ANOTHER 21,500 American lives in a war zone, to management that can't even get straight who the current members of its own team are?
posted by Keith | 1/12/2007 08:06:00 AM
2 Comments:
Notice that Italy, which left after all three, is not on the list.
Not very convincing to say that was an oversight. It's three we arent likely going to notice and so allows them to state 25 countries, which looks a lot better than 22.
"Nice catch" on that!
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