By សតិវ អតុ
What is bound to be an election year stunt, the Barack Obama
Regime has launched an all-out attack on Mosul, a large city in Iraq, in what
is probably a major stunt to help Hillary Clinton win the presidential election
in just a little more than 20 days. That is not to say this is really that
surprising. The US government has wanted to take back its spoils of war, in
Norther Iraq, ever since ISIS (Islamic State) more than 2 years ago.
According to The
Guardian: “The start of the offensive, which has been
months in the planning, was announced in an address on state television by
Iraq’s prime minister in the early hours of Monday morning.”
It’s not that the invasion is completely being used to sure
up support for Obama’s intended Democratic successor, but it certainly will
help her. People usually really behind the president anytime there is a war.
Even if the war is completely un-necessary they feel obligated to support the
military action. There is a likelihood people will support her to support the
president.
Clinton is ahead in the polls and probably will win the
election anyway. But she is only about 8
percentage points ahead. But the polls have gone up and down and lot and
Clinton has at times in the past been as close as two points behind Trump. The invasion may help her. If this were not
the case, Obama could have waited until after the election.
On the other hand it is believable that the US wants its
property back from ISIS. Even though Obama and other US major politicians
opposed the invasion of Iraq, none of them wants to see ISIS keep its spoils-of-war
property.
Obama seems to be planning a major on-the-ground use of US
troops. They will be assisting troops from the Iraqi puppet government along
with some Kurd troops. These troops will probably just be used to give the
impression that this is a mostly Iraqi operation, but that is an
illusion. The Iraqi troops could never muster the enthusiasm for this war that
comes from troops that are defending their homeland. These are lackeys of US
imperialism and such lackeys rarely make good troops.[1]
The US government has made us of the so called “War on Terrorism” to get badly
needed support from the US people. Recent but sporadic attacks by those who
claim to support ISIS have helped the US government to miss-lead the public
into support for this imperialist action.
[1]
This does not include the Kurd troops who still hope for their own homeland.
They are the only local group that has actually put up a fight with ISIS. The
rest of the fighting is by US troops using new high-tech weapons and training
only they have.
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