FROM THE ONION: Iraq Now Longer Than WWII

Helen Wright, Meat Packer

BUSH FLIES TO JORDAN, AL-MALIKI FLIES COOP
THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
THE PERSONAL DEBT CRUNCH

Who can make this stuff up? The American President, our president and supreme commander, flies half way around the world to Jordan for a meeting with the Iraqi leader. On the day of the meeting, a memo from the President’s national security advisor appears in the NY Times trashing that very same Prime Minister.

The article also insists that the US supports Mr. Al-Maliki. Mr Maliki is not pleased. He cancels the meeting before Air Force One even lands. Could you imagine the scene on that plane. Oh, the humiliation, oh the heads that will roll. The press is all over it. The meet-up was rescheduled for today. What the Emperor wants, the Emperor gets.

CNN Reported:

”The abrupt change was an almost unheard-of development in the high-level diplomatic circles of a U.S. president, a king and a prime minister. There were conflicting explanations about what happened.

But then they meet this AM and what does our fearless leader say? BBC reports: “US President George W Bush has pledged to keep American troops in Iraq until “the job is complete.” He didn’t say how many. Let the games begin, or did they ever end?

BUSHEVIKS WANTED TO SHOW W IS “IN CONTROL”
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/bush-team-wanted-massive-press.html

AL SADR PROTESTS, STUDY GROUP TO REPORT

In Iraq, AP reports: Six Cabinet ministers and 30 legislators loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr decided Wednesday to boycott Parliament and the government to protest the Iraqi prime minister’s summit with President Bush. (Note that this is a Shite group opposing a Shia PM)

In Washington, the so-called Iraq Study Group has reportedly reached a consensus which they will announce next week. Don’t hold your breath. The Times reports today they are recommending a limited withdrawal, “a gradual pullback of 15 brigades but stops short of setting a firm timetable for their withdrawal.” CNN says: “The Iraq Study Group will recommend that a “gradual but meaningful” reduction of U.S. troops begin “relatively early in the New Year.”

CHENEY IN SAUDI

While the press focuses on Bush in Jordan, W’s Vice, Mr. Cheney is sidling up to the Saudis, largely out of media view, allegedly to get them to lower the price of oil to undermine Iran. Oh, the games they play.

WILL SAUDIS PROTECT SUNNIS?

As the economic powerhouse of the Middle East, the birthplace of Islam and the defacto leader of the world’s Sunni community (which comprises 85 percent of all Muslims), Saudi Arabia has both the means and the religious responsibility to intervene.

CAN WAR ON IRAN BE STOPPED?
http://www.stopwaroniran.org/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15768.htm

And Colin Powell in Dubai said he believes there is a civil war underway in Iraq.

IRAN APPEALS TO AMERICAN PEOPLE

Al Jazeera reports:

”The Iranian president has in an open letter urged the American people to demand the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and reject what he called the US government’s “blind support” for Israel.

For full text:
http://freddevan.com/wordpress/

CNN: MORE TRACES FOUND

British Airways says small traces of radiation have been found on two of its aircraft by investigators looking into the death of a former Russian spy, wire services report.

Russian media downplays problem:
http://www.freemediaonline.org/

COUP IN MEXICO HAPPENING WARNS AL GIORDANO
http://www.narconews.com

“MAYBE, ITS OBAMA” Sings Neil Young. Maybe not, argues Cyrano’s Journal.
http://www.cjonline.org/glenFordBarackObama.htm