SOLEIMANI AND THE WEST. A CASE STUDY IN “LET’S HOPE THE PUBLIC DOESN’T REMEMBER”!
Over the past few years, I have addressed this person on several
occasions. If you don’t know who he is, I suggest you ready up or my comments
are not going to make much sense to you. If you don’t care about what he has
done, then you’ve not lost someone in Iraq since 2003. If you know who he is
and still supports what the US administration is doing with Iran, then you need
to stop reading this because you are not capable of rational thought!
Refresher:
Who is Soleimani? He is an Iranian General who is directly responsible
for hundreds of US service member’s deaths in Iraq! I’m not going to try to
impress you like some of the “experts” by giving you his background. Frankly,
if you don’t know his background, that’s ok. All you need to know is many US
lives were lost because of this man.
Side Note: I know more about this man than just about any
talking head / expert / out there, with the exception of intelligence members
who have been assigned to become SME’s on his daily life.
Why is this story so upsetting to me? Simple. The West / US
/ has dirtied its hands with Iran to the point that living with the actions of
this man seems to be more important than losing a worthless nuclear weapons
program. How could the US even hope to allow this man to be involved with any
actions the Us may be supporting in Iraq? Again, simple. The US has turned its
back on this man’s actions for several years now. Again, the weapon’s program hallucination
in DC is more important than risking someone finding out the US is dealing / tolerating
/ the actions of Soleimani.
This man should
have died in a drone strike years ago! Several attempts have been made on him,
but not with the involvement of the West; at least I would bet they were not involved.
When I first started reading some of the conceptual plans
that were slow leaked on how the operation to retake Mosul might take place, it
was obvious the glaring questions were going to be ignored by the Western
media. “ How can Tukey support an event the Kurds were going to support? How
was the West / US / going to support an operation that was going to have a blatant
Shia vs Sunni nexus to it? How would the West / US / sell their actions to
Saudi”? The score card of who is on whose
team was a comedy all by itself. Military leadership in the US has been shaking
its head as DC and the US Department of State hold hands with the Iranians and
the Persian puppet government in Iraq.
The most difficult part of preparing a “plan” to retake
Mosul was based on two highly complicated issues.
1.
Finding out how to get the players to get along
long enough to have an actual coordinated game plan.
2.
Training an inept fighting force to be able to
take on dedicated killers who have had over two years to fortify their positions
in Mosul.
Both of these issues have almost doomed this so called
Campaign from the beginning!
In the middle of all of this, the Iranians, who have had control
in Syria taken away from them by the Russians , are desperate to keep control of
Iraq. Deals made with the Kurds, the only real fighters taking part in the Mosul
event, can only infuriated the Turks.
What outcome in Mosul does Egodan envision for Turkey? No
Kurdish enclaves can be any slice of the outcome, regardless of what deals the
Iranians have struck.
So the picture is this. The coalition of forces for the
Mosul attack is anything but “united”.
In the middle of that statement is the issue of General Soleimani. Did
the Iraqi government ask for his help? Given how important Iraq is to Iran, does
anyone really think the Iranians would care if they were asked or not?
Why? Why is Soleimani being called for? The Iranians know
all too well the feelings the West / US / military has for him. They know the
Obama administration is more concerned with the legacy of a nuclear arms deal
than having to work with a killer of US forces.
Iraq is more than important to Iran. Iraq is nearly
everything to Iran. All of their regional plans go up in smoke if they are not
seen as the controllers of Iraq.
Soleimani is probably the only person who could take over
the Iranian government in a coup and not have the Iranian people revolt. By the
way, that rumor was out there a few years ago. What the coup planners
underestimated was Soleimani’ s loyalty to Iranian senior leader!
In the end, here is the part that makes me angrier than
words can describe. How is it the Obama administration can hope to work around
this man without public outcry? The sad truth is, most of the US public has no
idea who he is and what he has done to their Sons and Daughters! As is always
the case, ignorance is counted on.
I can tell you one group that is not ignorant to Soleimani.
The United States Military.
They will not work
with him or his people and if ordered to do so, that relationship will be designed
to fail.
Soleimani may be called upon to take pictures standing next
to Iraqi fighters. He may be positioned to point at a map and look “Commanding”,
but, if he was to die a “martyr” in the battle for Mosul, the fog of way may be
a great excuse.
There is a special corner in Hell for this man and I hope someone
sends him there soon!
In Shala!
