WAPO Obtains Shocking Memo From US Embassy in Baghdad

'Wash Post' Obtains Shocking Memo from U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Details Increasing Danger and Hardship

By Greg Mitchell

Published: June 18, 2006 6:20 PM ET

NEW YORK The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked "sensitive," that it says show that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, "the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship faced by its Iraqi employees."

This cable outlines, the Post reported Sunday, "the daily-worsening conditions for those who live outside the heavily guarded international zone: harassment, threats and the employees' constant fears that their neighbors will discover they work for the U.S. government."

It's actually far worse than that, as the details publish below indicate, which include references to abductions, threats to women's rights, and "ethnic cleansing."

A PDF copy of the cable shows that it was sent to the SecState in Washington, D.C. from "AMEmbassy Baghdad" on June 6. The typed name at the very bottom is Khalilzad -- the name of the U.S. Ambassador, though it is not known if this means he wrote the memo or merely approved it.

more at:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002690071
PDF:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/graphics/iraqdocs_061606.pdf

to trip up the reporters and arrest them under the BFEE official secrets act.

Nonetheless, it paints a very bleak picture of Iraq, no smiley faces there.

he looked a guy in the eye and that clarifies everthing for him....he could see into his soul....yet he couldn't look outside the Green Zone where hundreds of Iraqi's are dying every week....

I think we will start to see more leaks....tiny puncture wounds to this cabal ship.......now that the Repug Congress has committed the soldiers to an indefinite war...this is looking more and more like Vietnam everyday....

By 1959 some of the 90,000 Viet Minh troops that had returned to the North following the Geneva Agreements had begun filtering back into the South to take up leadership positions in the insurgency apparatus. Mass demonstrations, punctuated by an occasional raid on an isolated post, were the major activities in the initial stage of this insurgency. Communist-led uprisings launched in 1959 in the lower Mekong Delta and Central Highlands resulted in the establishment of liberated zones, including an area of nearly fifty villages in Quang Ngai Province. In areas under Communist control in 1959, the guerrillas established their own government, levied taxes, trained troops, built defense works, and provided education and medical care. In order to direct and coordinate the new policies in the South, it was necessary to revamp the party leadership apparatus and form a new united front group. Accordingly, COSVN, which had been abolished in 1954, was reestablished with General Nguyen Chi Thanh, a northerner, as chairman and Pham Hung, a southerner, as deputy chairman. On December 20, 1960, the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, informally called the National Liberation Front (NLF, Mat Tran Dan Toc Giai Phong Mien Nam), was founded, with representatives on its Central Committee from all social classes, political parties, women's organizations, and religious groups, including Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, the Buddhists, and the Catholics. In order to keep the NLF from being obviously linked with the VWP and the DRV, its executive leadership consisted of individuals not publicly identified with the Communists, and the number of party members in leadership positions at all levels was strictly limited. Furthermore, in order not to alienate patriotic non communist elements, the new front was oriented more toward the defeat of the United States-backed Saigon government than toward social revolution.
http://countrystudies.us/vietnam/26.htm

If Ford had not sold his soul to the Military-industrial complex, we could have departed there with honor. But, as we are today. the quagmire and saving face are more important than the treasure and children of our country.

I hope we try them for treason....

The bushies can bearers of bad news. (though a ticket out of town may look pretty good to some of the Americans in the Baghdad embassy)

-Or more interest about it on DU. I transcribed some of the pdf here, yesterday-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=217640&mesg_id=217640

*While* bush was strutting around for photos, this memo was being dispatched, saying that the staff at the Baghdady embassy finds that the central govt "is not relevant" and they wonder if provisions have been made for them if the embassy is EVACUATED.

If this thing is real, It really is damning info coming out. It basically says that all of the progress they talk of is a complete lie and that the country is falling rapidly apart.

Restoring chaos for the benefit of the oil companies and war profiteers.

contradicted the official story?

K&R.

Maybe I'm thinking of the Gulf of Tonkin.

for the Monday readers

:kick:

about the time Bush was in Bagdad reiterated the level of violence was increasing dramatically. He looked frightened. Bush's trip was probably to keep the Iraqi Government from caving.

Iraq will be a living nightmare for anyone there.