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Tuesday, November 09, 2021

Jonathan Turley (on Hillary), Ava and C.I. (on know-it-alls)

Starting with Jonathan Turley (here for website, here for his column at THE HILL):

Then there is Hillary Clinton herself. Steele also has testified that it was his understanding that Clinton was aware of his work and the development of the dossier. Yet during the campaign and long afterward, Clinton never admitted that her campaign funded the dossier, despite media and congressional inquiries about that fact. No less an official than campaign chairman John Podesta denied any connection in testimony before Congress.

More importantly, before the Steele dossier was given to the FBI and the press, then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Clinton’s alleged “plan” to tie candidate Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”

Now, with Danchenko’s indictment, Dolan’s name has been added to a seemingly growing array of Clinton associates whom Durham has referenced in the development of the Russia collusion scandal.

Again, it is not known whether Durham has suspicions or evidence of criminal conduct against anyone else beyond Danchenko. But many other figures are at least likely to feature greatly in the conclusions of the special counsel’s final investigative report if many of the details of the indictments to date are any indication.

One thing is clear, though: Too many “great Democrats” keep popping up in Durham’s investigation.

Hillary Clinton brought this on herself. If the trail leads to her, so be it. If it doesn't, fine. But regardless, she owes the American people an apology for all the garbage of Russia-gate and her incessant lies on this garbage. Hillary lost because Hillary's a loser. She could have run her 2008 primary campaign in the 2016 general election and probably would have gotten more voters. But she's too damn stupid and always feels the world owes her something.

That's on her.

"Media: Save us from the know-it-alls" (Ava and C.I., THE THIRD ESTATE SUNDAY REVIEW):

On the issue of Donald Trump and his scandals and his 'scandals' -- the latter being media nonsense and lies -- we had this little trick we used. We were there to talk about the wars and we were not speaking for people to hijack our discussion with the 'hot Trump topic' of the day. So what we would say is, "So they said this is happening any minute now? Then let's wait for that (arrest/removal from office/whatever). Let's give it 24 hours and if it doesn't happen and then you've been the victim of media malpractice yet again.

Preaching that practice to others saved us a lot of time and a lot of distraction. Following it ourselves did the same.

We're not know-it-alls. We don't pretend to know everything. There are many things we do not know. And we long ago followed Ellen Goodman's very wise advice regarding the Sunday Chat and Chews and how the same group of people showed up week after week to weigh in as experts when no one could be an expert on everything. As Ellen noted, it's just not possible. Of course that common sense would have to come from a woman -- far too many male blowhards think that they are an expert on every topic in the world.

Ava and C.I. have written a wonderful piece. Please read it in full.

"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Tuesday, November 9, 2021. A lot to cover, most of it not Iraq.

Starting in the US. I do believe in fate so when I turned on the TV yesterday afternoon and it started playing THE NEWSHOUR, I figured there was a reason. (I have YOUTUBE TV. It click on the YOUTUBE TV icon and it opens and it automatically starts playing something -- usually what I've streamed before that's now airing at that time. I do not watch PBS on YOUTUBE TV, I watch it on the PBS icon.

So it pops up with the menu of what's airing live while it's playing THE NEWSHOUR behind the menu and I see that dreadful face: Jennifer Granholm. It's amazing the cults that develop around certain politicians and it's always the most useless ones. Jennifer is Canadian (American! Canadian American!) and she first came on the radar of many when her cult was trying to insist that the Constitution needed to be changed so she could be the president of the United States.

The only thing that talk ever really produced was a question: Who's the bigger nutcase -- Jennifer or her supporters?

Last night, the country finally got the definitive answer as Jennifer showed up to whore on PBS' NEWSHOUR:

JUDY WOODRUFF:

And it took several months, but here we are.

I'm asking you about when Americans are going to see results from this, because we know many Americans increasingly worried about the price of gas, about the cost of goods that are being shipped, the so-called supply chain problems.

And it caught our eye that, over the weekend, the White House said this bill is going to ease inflationary pressures, strengthen supply chains by making these long — these long-overdue improvements.

How exactly is that going to happen? When are prices going to come down in connection with this legislation in a way that Americans can see that, touch it?

JENNIFER GRANHOLM:

Yes, I mean, first of all, we know that a lot of the mismatch between supply and demand is the world and the economy coming out of COVID. The quicker we can ensure that everybody's vaccinated, the quicker we get back to normal, right?

But there's also 17 Nobel economists who said that this bill will, in fact, address inflationary pressures, especially in addressing some of the physical bottlenecks that we have seen, so the investment in our ports and in our airports, in our railway systems. So that's important as well.

There is no doubt there will be some natural evening out of prices and inflation, as soon as we get through this COVID. But it is going to take a few months before that — before that settles out.

Judy Woodruff didn't ask the Secretary of Energy an abstract question.

But back seat Jenny (perfect for transportation) is jus another dirty whore in politics. Her cult was apparently sexually turned on by her -- it's not like she ever did anything to help people. She was another run of the mill politician who went running for the cameras unless there was a scandal that could be attached to her -- in that case she ran from the cameras.

Such as with the water crisis in Flint which she sidestepped and ignored while pretending that just because she was governor of the state in the lead up to the crisis didn't eman anyone could attach the filthy water to her. Filthy water? It was probably run off from her body.

At any rate, she's a lying piece of crap.

Judy wanted to know "when Americans are going to see results" because they are "increasingly worried about the price of gas, about the cost of goods that are being shipped, the so-called supply chain problems."

And Jennifer didn't answer about results, didn't answer about the price of gas (and why isn't the administration being asked when they're going to release from the reserves? -- that's a basic question that should face everyone in the administration when they go before the cameras) and didn't answer about the supply chain.

The government exists to serve us. That's news to Jenny who used state government to enrich herself and to raise her trashy profile. Now she's Secretary of Energy and, other than taking a lot of money from big energy over the years, she has no qualifications for the job.

Let's look at her 'answer.'

Yes, I mean, first of all, we know that a lot of the mismatch between supply and demand is the world and the economy coming out of COVID.

First off, lying trash, we're not coming out of COVID. You're not medical and you're not really educated. You're a blathering blond idiot. That's all you are. And a political whore, we'll give you that. You should come with a warning so others aren't exposed to you without knowing the risks.

Not only has the World Health Organization recently noted that the pandemic is not over, they're now insisting that the US government pay attention to the surge in COVID numbers currently taking place in Europe.

So we really don't need a worthless whore lying to the country and insisting we're coming out of COVID. Will she resign if the rates rise over the coming months?

Of course not, that would require integrity and whores like Jennifer have none.

Then the whore says:

The quicker we can ensure that everybody's vaccinated, the quicker we get back to normal, right?

Wrong.

Stop pushing the government's job off on the people.

The people didn't take weeks off from their job as Secretary of Transportation. That was Pete. And was he right to do so? He certainly had the right to do so, it's the law. But we're in a pandemic and if it's important to Pete that he abandon his job in the midst of pandemic to play papa 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, hands on, then the thing you do is turn in your resignation.

I get it. There is no honor in serving with Joe Biden. I get it.

But people who take appointments need to take them seriously. Taking weeks off and helping foster the current problem as a result (supply issues) requires some sort of comment grom the administration. Some would argue it requires Pete's resignation. He had an important job and he put it on hold in the midst of a pandemic. If a woman had done that, we'd have a flurry of op-eds claiming that this demonstrated that women shouldn't be in the Cabinet.

All this demonstrates is that Pete is not up to the job. And unless he can apologize publicly to the public for what he did, he better grasp this is now his issue. If he had any dreams of a future in politics, he needs to grasp that opponents will ask him what the press won't. He needs to grasp that this is a major deal.

You don't walk away for weeks in the midst of a pandemic.

It's an ongoing pandemic.

And Jennifer's answer to what the government is going to do for the people is? That the people need to get vaccinated.

Because vaccines are the answer?

I'm vaccinated. I'll be getting the booster shortly.

If others are, that's their business.

What's the government doing?

We're in an ongoing pandemic. What is the federal government doing?

Jenny Boo was asked that question and she couldn't answer. All she could do was toss something back at We The People.

I know it's confusing for her since she didn't really grow up in the country but we're not part of a monarchy and we don't answer to royalty. We're an independent nation and in the United States, the government serves the people and is answerable to the people. It's not supposed to be the other way around.

Note that Jenny's not even preaching, 'we're all in this together.' No, she's just pushing the failures of the administration off on the people, blaming the American people. If they'd just get their vaccinations, she insists, the whole thing would be over.

I think she honestly needs to be fired. Joe doesn't have the backbone to do it. He's not running anything. He's barely holding on and his Cabinet is out of control and everyone in the press it seems wants to call me and whisper that to me. And when I ask, "Why aren't you covering this?" Instead of covering up for it? The answer I get is the media can't. They're only now, it's explained, at a point where they can note that Joe's got some problems. And they can only note that because the American people are no longer believing lies from Cher that "Happiness is a thing called JOe."

Cher, I love you. But grasp reality. James Brown and Elvis were both severely harmed by whoring for a politician (Tricky Dick Nixon). You really need to stop using your name and your legacy to prop up a politician.

Joe came into office with a pandemic raging. And he's done nothing to help the people.

He's done nothing to help the people and they realize that. They realize that there were checks when Donald Trump was in the White House, stimulus checks, and that renters couldn't be evicted and that whores in Congress kept promising some extra money for 'heroes' but it never came about because Nancy Pelosi is a whore who never worked a day in her life and never had to worry about expanses. "We feed them," lied the out of touch, elderly buffon.

Donald Trump? I think he was a disaster as president. And I think there are many things he did that should be examined -- and should have been examined in real time. But the media wasn't interested in real issue. They lied instead to drive up their viewers and their clicks and their audience so they whored and lied each and every day, "Tomorrow, Donald Trump will be" -- what? Arrested? Removed from office/ What lie it was depended upon what day of the week it was.

I think he was a disaster as a president. In fairness, I will gladly agree that the media worked against him. I will also note that, no, he was not the worst president the country has had or even the worst president of the last few decades.

But to a lot of people right now, life in the US was better under Donald Trump's presidency. And that Joe Biden has provided them reason to think that goes to just what a disaster Joe is as a president.

Back to Jenny Whore:

STFU. Seriously. Is that how they tell you to respond because if you were told that you are even more stupid than whomever is advising you.

That answer does not play to Americans in need. They don't give a f**k about what some egg head economist says -- some unnamed egghead. Are you really that stupid, Jenny?

Then she says:

here is no doubt there will be some natural evening out of prices and inflation, as soon as we get through this COVID. But it is going to take a few months before that — before that settles out.

Dr. Jenny, you're findings are so different from those of the World Health Organization. Where is your science?

She has none. She's a whore telling people to go on, in the midst of a pandemic, acting as they normally would and that it's okay because they got vaccinated.

White House spokesperson Jen Psaki got vaccinated and then she got COVID.

So let's all stop lying.

A vaccination is hopefully a measure that will help prevent you from getting COVID as badly as you would otherwise. It does not mean you will not get COVID. QUit lying to people.

And start doing your damn job. That's what your paid for and if that embarrassing performance on THE NEWSHOUR is indicative of Jenny's work, she need to be let go immediately.

Those answers were insulting and out of touch. And that's pretty much been the administration's response to the American people over and over.

Two things in the e-mails quickly. Alec Baldwin. I'm not speaking on that topic to 'protect him.' I love Alec but I've been silent because I wasn't there. What happened on that set, my belief, is not that uncommon. It's why we have had high profile deaths like Brandon Lee and Jon-Erik Hexum. And unless we do what Dwayne Johnson's doing (not working with real guns anymore) it will happen again. But Alec did not do anything wrong. He trusted that others had ensured the safety measures were in place. The same way the rest of us do in our day to day lives unless we're a safety inspector or those duties fall on us. I am sorry Alec is in pain and I would say to him, "What happened was awful but it wasn't planned and it's not your fault."

Emilio.

I don't think I've ever noted him here. Maybe I have at THIRD? Martha counted 77 e-mails asking that i comment on what he's done.

Emilio has done what he always does -- stand up for freedoms. His decision not to be bullied into getting a vaccine is perfectly in keeping with everything he's ever done. I remember when he refused to register for the draft. He stood up then and he's standing up now.

Do I agree with his decision? It's not the one I made. But I am not the decider of the universe. I respect Emilio's decision and I have nothing but love and respect for him. I've known him for years. He's a wonderful person. He's a deep thinker and I have nothing but respect for him.

The easiest thing in the world would have been to take the shot and keep banking MIGHTY DUCKS money. Emilio's never been about doing the easy thing. Martin's words growing up meant a great deal to Emilio. He is the son that Martin raised and he will always stand up for what he believes whether it is popular with others or not.

I support Emilio and have nothing negative to say.

Let's move over to Iraq by noting this Tweet:

News Media is awfully Silent ~

Who Bombed Iraq’s Mustafa al-Kadhimi?
The attempted assassination of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi at his Baghdad home Sunday represents a grave escalation in strife ~

wsj.com

Opinion | Who Bombed Iraq’s Mustafa al-Kadhimi?

Much depends on how the prime minister responds to the Iran-backed Shiite militia groups that tried to kill him.

It's almost as though people thought it could just be a headline and that no one would question or follow up. I have no idea who targeted Mustafa -- if he was the target. But he has publicly stated he knows who it was. So why aren't the arrested?

There are a lot of dumb people in the world and maybe it's just expected that the dumb will carry the day?

Like this idiot:

Berners pilloried Hillary for her Iraq vote and never gave a damn about the reasons behind it. We owe them the exact same courtesy re this Infrastructure vote.

7:52 AM · Nov 7, 2021

Poor Nicole David. A stupid idiot. Bernie didn't go after Hillary on her vote. If you believe that Nicole, then you're not just a liar, you're an idiot. 2007 and 2008, Barack Obama destroyed Hillary for her vote.

So did his cult. And his cult smeared her and Bill as racists. That was in 2008. That was Barack's core supporters. You and Hillary are idiots for thinking that 8 years later the attacks could go unaddressed.

Hillary was never going to win and one of the main reasons is what Barack and his supporters did to her in 2008. Get honest or STFU. The world doesn't have time for your nonse.

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Monday, November 08, 2021

Isaiah notes The Fraud Squad godmother while Turley notes the FBI being misused by Biden

Kat's "Kat's Korner: No, Diana Ross, Thank You" reviews Diana Ross' new album THANK YOU and it went up over the weekend as did Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "That Moment Nancy Can't Live Down"

Nancy Pelosi is a fake and a fraud. She's the godmother of The Fraud Squad.

Now this is from Jonathan Turley:

There is a curious story out this weekend on reported FBI raids of writers or associates of Project Veritas, the conservative investigative journalism outfit. Project Veritas has been described variously as “Gonzo” or “guerilla” journalism and some insist it is more of a political than a press organization. However, it fits the definition of journalism, in my view, and that makes the raids troubling. All the more troubling is the cause: the missing diary of President Biden’s daughter Ashley. [Update: The FBI reportedly also raided O’Keefe’s home]

The New York Times reported that the FBI searched two locations in New York in search of the “stolen” diary that went missing days before the 2020 presidential election. Project founder James O’Keefe questioned how the Times received the story within an hour of the first raid.

O’Keefe says that the organization actually received a tip that the diary was abandoned in a room, an allegation that harkened back to the abandoned laptop of Hunter Biden. However, Ashley reportedly insisted it was stolen.

The use of the FBI is also reminiscent of the still unexplained use of the FBI when Joe Biden was Vice President to search for a gun owned by Hunter Biden that was discarded behind a restaurant.

Project Veritas decided not to run the story because it could not verify that the diary belonged to Biden. (The FBI may have just offered that confirmation). Instead, it alerted the police, according to O’Keefe: “Project Veritas gave the diary to law enforcement to ensure it could be returned to its rightful owner. We never published it.”

So why the raids? Since when does the FBI conducted raids over missing diaries?

Joe is misusing the FBI. It doesn't exist to protect his family. If they're stupid enough to lose their laptops and their diaries, that's on them. I want to know as a taxpayer: Who ordered this raid? I also want to know when Joe Biden's going to pay the bill for the FBI raid because We The Taxpayers shouldn't have to foot the bil.

"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Monday, November 8, 2021. What took place in Baghdad? Logic is missing from the bulk of the storyline.

So much nonsense passing for coverage out of Iraq. Reality, Mustafa al-Kadhimi is an outgoing prime minister. He's enjoy his moment of high drama and the whores in the press love it because it allows them to pretend they're doing their job.

The western press is not doing its job, it never does its job and, after all, that is why Iraq suffers.

Reality?

Diana Ross' THANK YOU came out last Friday.

"That's "All Is Well," her first video in years. It was released November 5th and already has over 1 million views.

As I worried/warned over two weeks ago, the world would see the release of Diana's new album before it saw an official, final tally of the votes in the Iraqi election.

This isn't minor but it's not a flashy new toy that press can play with so they ignore reality and act like the attack that might have been an assassination attempt on Mustafa al-Kadhimi is something major.

If the attack was aimed at him, surely one of the reasons for it is because there is no final count.

For those not paying attention and easily misled, that election took place October 10th. We are two days shy of a full month. And we still await the final count. That would be bad in any post-2002 invasion election in Iraq. It's made worse. First off, none of the previous votes took this long to arrive at the final count. Second, The electoral commission, ahead of the election, told the Iraqi people they would have the final tally within 24 hours of the election.

Are things 'tense' in Iraq because of the possible assassination attempt on Mustafa last Saturday?

Well, sorry to be the one to inform you, but things were tense before it. Which is why Friday's snapshot noted the protests in Baghdad by people who felt their voting rights had been stripped away and who had a violent clash with elements of the security forces.

See, the way the western whores tell the story, once upon a time everything was groovy in Iraq but then came a Saturday when, for no reason, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kahdimi was almost assassinated.

That's not reality.

Alistair Jameson (INDEPENDENT) reported:

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi survived an assassination attempt with armed drones that targeted his residence early on Sunday.

Seven of his security guards were injured in the attack, which occurred in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone area.

AP noted, "Two Iraqi officials told The Associated Press that seven of al-Kadhimi's security guards were injured in the attack with two armed drones which occurred in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone area. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give official statements." THE GUARDIAN reminded:

Protests turned deadly on Friday when the demonstrators marched towards the Green Zone and there was an exchange of fire in which one protester was killed and dozens of security forces were injured.

Al-Khadimi ordered an investigation to determine what sparked the clashes and who violated orders not to open fire. Some militia leaders have openly blamed al-Kadhimi for Friday’s clashes and the protester’s death.

Al-Kadhimi, 54, was Iraq’s former intelligence chief before becoming prime minister in May last year. He is considered by the militias to be close to the US, and has tried to find a balance between Iraq’s alliances with the US and Iran.

That would be the only real reason to attack Mustafa.

He's an outgoing prime minister. He's not liked by the people. He's not like by the political blocs. He's been propped up by news outlets that he used to work for who've raved over him while failing to disclose that he's their buddy that they used to work with. He's been inept. He's been cowardly. He's failed to deliver.

This overdue vote tally?

A prime example of Mustafa's 'leadership.' The most basic things? He can't even deliver them. He was going to take on corruption, remember? It's only more entrenched than before he became prime minister.

He was supposed to be a one term prime minister presiding over a brief term. He then tried to lengthen his own term by postponing early elections (they were supposed to take place last year) and he then tried to pursue a second term.

He's as corrupt as anything he was supposed to take on. He's been revealed as a fraud to everyone. His support is so small it's insignificant. And along comes an assassination attempt?

On Arabic social media, they note he's issuing statements like a braggard, basically challenging the culprits. They note that it all seems a little stage managed, a little bit of created drama and they point to the United States government who, ahead of the election, back him and whored for him.

The US government's never given a damn about the Iraqi people which is why they continue to suffer. They don't care that Mustafa is just another failure destroying the lives of the Iraqi people.

And a significant number of Iraqis on social media feel that the US carried out a stunt -- one never intended to kill Mustafa -- in an attempt to force the Iraqi people to rally around poor Mustafa.

If that is what happened and that was the goal, it's not working. No one's rally around the idiot.

If that isn't what happened?

The most likely to have carried out a serious attack would be elements of the militias linked to Iran.

They were disenfranchised in the October election.

Huh?

This isn't what the western press tells you. It tells you that they are poor sports. They're poor sports unhappy because they did so poorly in the elections. The reality is that they were not allowed to vote. They are part of the Iraqi security forces. It's a move I didn't favor before it happened, didn't favor when it happened and don't favor now. But it's a moved the Iraqi government made.

Security forces were allowed to vote the Friday before the election. Why? Because they always vote before the election. They do that because they have to provide protection during the actual election. Right before the election, it was announced that some parts of the militias wouldn't be allowed to -- this or that paperwork snafu, supposedly.

That disenfranchised them.

That prevented them from voting.

And somehow, whether you're AP or NYT, it's beyond your ability to note that basic fact.

Instead, you make absurd claims that there's been no proof of irregularities and . . .

Denying the militias the right to vote is the proof. It is a basic fact.

And you better believe that if this was a group Mustafa thought would support him, he would have been demanding that the security forces -- all of them -- be allowed to early vote.

He refused to do it.

Which goes to just what trash he is. He's made no move to remove the militias from Iraq's security forces. So they're part of that body and, as such, they have every right to vote early for the same reason others do -- they will be out of their own voting districts on election day because they will have to protect polling places.

It's not that hard to grasp their outrage.

But if you're a western 'reporter,' you pretend to be confused by everything and you falsely insist that there are no signs of irregularities. Disenfranchisement -- done publicly -- is your sign of an irregularity.

ALJAZEERA offers:

“These cowardly drones do not help in building nations.”

Iraqi PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi addressed the nation and called for calm after surviving an assassination attempt from a drone attack 

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6:25 AM · Nov 7, 2021

These cowardly drones? Like the one Turkey's used in northern Iraq to terrorize villages while Mustafa's said not one damn word? Despite the fact that he took an oath to defend Iraq?

Turkey's got military bases inside Iraq and ground soldiers and the people of northern Iraq are being terrorized. One little attack that might or might have been aimed at him really pales in comparison to that reality.

Remarks on Mustafa's 'brave' statements are to the point. Commentators point out that he's trying to play "the victim." They wonder if the whole thing was staged.

He's apparently not intent on playing to his own country. Who's he playing to? Looks like the west which is why the western press keeps whoring for him.

It the western press was truly concerned about Iraq, it would be editorializing that it is past time to issue the final, official count of the ballots. It would be calling out this long delay -- longer than any delay in any previous Iraq election since the 2003 invasion.

Instead, they ignore the huge delay and act like something normal is happening, like something that has always happened is not taking place.

When that many people work so hard to distort reality, people have good reason to be suspicious.

Earlier this morning, RT Tweeted:

Iraqi PM Mustafa Al-Kadhimi claims that the government knows who was responsible for the reported drone attack against his residence, and will expose them

MORE: https://on.rt.com/bkdi

6:00 AM · Nov 8, 2021

Oh, he's going to expose them, is he?

Strange. Shouldn't he ust have them arrested?

That's what is supposed to happen if someone tries to kill you, they get arrested.

Maybe Mustafa's planning to accuse someone he doesn't have the proof to arrest?

I have no idea. But it's strange that he heads the government, a legal body, but he's not talking about arrest, just exposure.

I guess that's another thing we're not supposed to notice, question or comment on.

Liz Sly (WASHINGTON POST) grabs a cup of coffee and sits down at the kitchen table with Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz to offer:

Iran-backed militias carried out the drone attack on Iraqi PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi, security officials tell Reuters. One says it was Kataeb Hezbollah & AAH, another says it was just KH. Iran has blamed “foreign think tanks” without specifying which one.

Is that the official whisper, Liz? Strange because if you know a body carried out an assassination attempt the smart thing to do would be to arrest them. Standing around doing nothing? That would allow them to make a second or third attempt, wouldn't it?

I have no idea what happened. I know that Iraqis aren't buying the pimped story. And I know that Mustafa's supposed response to an assassination attempt really isn't the way someone responds. It was still Saturday night in the US when that took place -- we covered it Saturday night. It's now Monday morning. You know who was responsible? Then why haven't they been arrested? That's a basic question everyone should be asking.

And the militias may very well have tried to carry out an assassination. If so, it was most likely over Mustafa disenfranchising them. It wasn't to kill him before his second term because no one thinks he's getting a second term. Whomever carried it out might have been trying to destabilize Iraq.

Which is all the more reason that a functioning western press would be demanding that the final vote count be issued. But they aren't, are they?

And we're not supposed to see that as strange?

The only way what's gone down makes any sense is if you suspend all rational thought capability. That's apparently never been a difficult for the western press to do.

ARAB WEEKLY types up:

With the failed assassination attempt against Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, have lost all chances of being accepted as part of the next government, Iraqi analysts said.

The analysts add that Kadhimi is now likely to realise that, if he remains at the head of the government, the chances of striking a deal with these militias is no longer an option, nor is the track of leniency that he had followed with these militias, which have almost killed him.

Sources close to Kadhimi rebuff Iran’s condemnation of the assassination attempt, saying that Tehran condemned the failed attempt only because it failed. They point out the drones were Iranian, the militias which launched them were Iranian or working for Iran and the orders to carry out the attack came from Iran; as for the condemnation of the attempt, it was in line with the Iranian practice of “taqiya” (dissimulation).

Is that the story Mustafa wants to get out? Then it makes complete sense to run it over to ARAB WEEKLY, where Mustafa once worked and where the staff has been so eager to lie for him and look the other way throughout his brief and highly problematic tenure as prime minister.

I have no idea what happened but the narratives that keep getting imposed are not being embraced by most Iraqis.

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