U.S.-Installed Dictator Urges U.S. to Bomb His Country

U.S.-installed Iraqi dictator Nuri al-Maliki (Bush picked him) is once again urging the U.S. to bomb his country since he is so despised even by his fellow majority Shiites that he can't even prevent a few thousand Sunni Islamofascist fanatics of "the Islamic State In Syria and Iraq" from taking over larger swaths of Iraq.

Now the terrorists have seized the country's largest oil refinery. In response, one of Maliki's helicopter gunships fired a missile into an oil storage tank, sparking a conflagration. Way to go! Now Iraqis can breathe more polluted air, in addition to their other numerous health woes- like the skyhigh rate of grotesque birth defects in places like Fallujah, caused by U.S. depleted uranium munitions (radiation damages DNA, creating hereditary damage to the human genome, a crime against our species), maimed bodies from the U.S. invasion and internecine warfare and sectarian terrorism, and the effects of malnutrition and disease from years of cruel U.S. sanctions imposed by Bush the Elder and Clinton.

Obama is once again doing some serious mulling over what to do. Meanwhile, the usual chorus of reactionaries and militaristic imperialist fanatics are yelling at him to Attack Attack Attack! And blaming him for the mess Bush created because he didn't ram a permanent occupation force down Iraq's throat and somehow force Maliki to grant the U.S. troops immunity to commit crimes freely, which is why Obama pulled the troops out. (As usual, the Democrats are too lame to push back forcefully against the Republicans.)

Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner, an ignorant hack GOP politician from Ohio who is known for playing golf and not much else, has weighed in to warn Obama against cooperating with Iran in any way, shape or form to beat back the Sunni terrorists in Iraq, despite Iranian feelers. Boehner says Iran is beyond the pale because it "supports terrorism" in Syria, Lebanon, "and in Israel." Funny how other nations stubbornly keep trying to help the U.S., even though the U.S. never reciprocates and is always ungrateful. You'd have thought Iran would have learned that lesson right after 9/11/01, when they helped the U.S. against the Taliban and were repaid for their aid by being branded by Bush the Younger as part of a mythical "Axis of Evil" along with the Iranians' arch-enemy, the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, and North Korea (sic!).

Obama's War Secretary Chuck "Wagon" Hagel repeated the Obama regime's line that the solution was political, not military. Somehow Maliki, who has persecuted the Sunni leadership of the country relentlessly, is supposed to be more "inclusive" now. As I've written before, this is idiotically far behind the curve. Rather like "restarting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process." You can't breathe life into long-dead political corpses. Perhaps Obama's nickname should be Dr. Frankenstein. Only Frankenstein was effective.