Thus it was necessary to do some serious damage control as the situation was getting completely out-of-hand; the real intentions, Iraq’s oil and its strategic location were being revealed even by those ‘insiders’ such as Alan Greenspan, former chair of the Federal Reserve,

“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil” — Alan Greenspan, September 16, 2007. www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece

Let’s see what the BBC was saying back in 2004 in those heady, good ol’ days. Under the headline “Fixing the Problem in Fallujah”, the BBC Radio 4’s Website (7 December 2004) told us

“They [the US] swept into Iraq in a short, victorious campaign, and quickly settled down to nation-building and peacekeeping.”

How blasé can the BBC get? Obviously the statement above reveals the BBC’s lies about the ‘lack of a post-invasion plan’ unless of course the BBC invented the entire story? But how could they when the BBC were aware of the first two ‘laws’ passed by the ‘Administrator’ of the newly conquered Iraq, Ober-Gruppen Fuehrer Bremer that disbanded the Iraqi Army and the Ba’ath Party? It’s a quote moreover, that doesn’t appear in Part One (and don’t hold your breath for it to pop up in Part Two).

But back for a mo’ to these two infamous ‘laws’ that ‘Bremer’ passed, the implications of which were well-known at the time. Are we to believe (as the BBC asserted in Part One) that the ‘Plan’ consisted of ‘No Plan’? Of course! Out of chaos was meant to come the oil (remember the ‘No Plan, Plan’ exempted the Oil Ministry from destruction, and predictably, it was the only part of the Iraqi state’s infrastructure that was actually protected from day one).

How can it be that the world’s most powerful nation can spend a dozen years bombing Iraq into submission and in the process exterminate perhaps 1 million people, the majority of them under twenty-five and at the end of it all, not have a Plan when Der Tag arrived?

The US Army has an entire division devoted to carrying out Plans for any country it invades, it’s called the 4th Psychological Operations Group headquartered at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Below is an excerpt from it’s ‘mission statement’:

“US Army Civil Affairs (CA) Organization “CA units are designed to provide support to both GP and SO forces at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. The vast majority of army CA forces are in the reserve component (RC). The army’s active component CA unit (96th CA BN, Ft. Bragg, NC) is capable of rapidly deploying one of its five regionally aligned CA companies to meet the initial CA support requirement, with transition to RC units beginning as soon as mobilization permits. The RC civil affairs units have functional specialties, with the unit’s soldiers being assigned to functional teams.

“The functional specialties are:

• Government Section
• Legal
• Public administration
• Public Education
• Public Health
• Public Safety
• Economic/Commerce Section
• Economic Development
• Civilian Suppl
• Food and Agriculture
• Public Facilities Section
• Public Communications
• Transportation
• Public Works and Utilities
• Special Functions Section
• Cultural Relations
• Civil Information
• Dislocated Civilians
• Emergency Services
• Environmental Management

It’s critical mission runs as follows:

It supports planning and coordination of CA and foreign nation support operations. The unit provides Civil Affairs functional area specialists in the following areas:

• Public Administration
• Dislocated Civilians
• Civilian Supply
• Public Communications
• Public Health
• Public Work and Utilities” [1]

Duh? Wha’ happened to the fucking Plan man?! There are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of documents detailing every aspect of occupying a foreign country, each aspect handled by specialised sections of the 59th Civil Affairs Battalion, headquartered in Fort Bragg but it has five divisions nationwide. Here’s what it says in part, on the official website of the Civil Affairs Association under the heading of U. S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command we read that,

‘Civil Affairs soldiers are the commander’s link to the civilian population and authorities in an area of operations. In addition to their military training, Civil Affairs soldiers possess skills and experience based on their civilian education and employment in fields such as finance, public safety, public health, and public utilities. With their unique skills they support the commander during combat operations by eliminating burdens or liabilities caused by a local civilian population. Immediately following hostilities Civil Affairs soldiers reconstitute civil authority, and in the longer term help rebuild a viable civilian infrastructure and economy. Civil Affairs supports U. S. national objectives by assisting the government of a host or occupied area to meet its peoples’ needs and maintain a stable and democratic civil administration.’ http://www.civilaffairsassoc.org/USACAPOC.htm

But clearly the invasion of Iraq was no ordinary type of invasion, for example like in WWII, thus there was no need to call in the 59th (except for their Psywar operations, not exactly conducive to nation-building). The invasion of Iraq resembles the Vietnamese Invasion insofar as there was no intention of ‘nation-building’, in fact the exact opposite, for in order to defeat the ‘enemy’ it was necessary to destroy Vietnam (but not to bother rebuilding it afterwards. Remember the concept of ‘nation-building’ hadn’t yet been invented as a rationale for destroying a nation, such pretences were not deemed necessary).

Likewise, there never was any intention of rebuilding Iraq, the contracts for reconstruction worth billions were only for the thieves to divide up between them (courtesy the US and UK taxpayers) with the crumbs that fell off the table distributed between their quislings and cronies in the Iraqi ‘government’.

So why all of a sudden the backpeddling by the media and the rest of the rats deserting what appears to be a sinking ship? I think part of the reason is all the war talk concerning Iran has some of the USUK’s allies and fellow travellers scared shitless that the Armani-suited psychopaths might actually do it! Thus all kinds of ploys are being used to put some distance between themselves and the psychos running things, just in case it all goes completely pear-shaped.

The second reason has to do with the simple fact that the reality that is the war crime called Iraq is blatantly out of sync with all the propaganda that’s been dished out for the past sixteen years, as to the alleged reasons, objectives and results, or lack of in the case of Iraq. So, just as with the dirty ‘dodgy dossier’ deed, the crime had to be massaged into a more acceptable form of fuckup, after all mistakes we can live with but deliberately wiping a country off the face of the map, with or without a ‘Plan’?

Thirdly the allure of the so-called neo-cons seems to be wearing thin, it's all well and good making a big show invading a country already bombed into submission for a dozen years but quite another to take on one that it's in reasonable working order and without having first softened up our domestic populations, and herein lies the rub, for using the same pretext to invade Iran, namely WMDs, is a total PR disaster, even after they threw in all the rubbish about Iranian involvement in bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So it’s ‘Photoshop’ time folks, time to airbrush out all those inconvenient stories about ‘nation-building’ and to recognise all the ‘mistakes’ (like the ‘mistakes’ that were Saddam’s WMDs) that have been made and while we’re at it, conveniently cough up a couple of scapegoats eg, the aforementioned former OGF Bremer. And who better than the BBC to do the airbrushing, they’ve been at it for decades.

Notes

1. ‘The Plot Thickens’ William Bowles 30/04/03 www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-011.html

For more on the PsyOps/PsyWar posse see the following:

U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations www.psywarrior.com/psyop.html

U. S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command www.globalspecialoperations.com/capoc.html

If you want to sign up, visit this site: USACAPOC (A) Retention www.usacapoc.army.mil/retention.aspx or take a look around, it’s all there, how to successfully occupy a foreign country and it includes a handy ‘Terror Threat Alert’ button, currently stuck on “Elevated”.
 

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