venceremos

News today that the Bush Administration is to intensify operations in
Iraq, rather than concede to withdrawal, and that domestically they are
desperately attempting to pass last minute warrantless surveillance
legislation, indicates that the Neocon leadership is more desperate,
more determined and more dangerous than ever.

The London Guardian today reported that internal strategy documents
being prepared by long term Bush ally James Baker, under the guise of
the "Independent" Iraq Study Group, will advocate "a last big push" to
win the war involving an increase of US forces by up to 20,000
soldiers.

An anonymous US official added: "Bush has said 'no' to withdrawal, so
what else do you have? The Baker report will be a set of ideas, more
realistic than in the past, that can be used as political tools. What
they're going to say is: lower the goals, forget about the democracy
crap, put more resources in, do it."

According to the, official Baker has been preparing a four point
strategy in closed sessions with Dick Cheney. The Four points are as
follows:

· Increase US troop levels by up to 20,000 to secure Baghdad and
allow redeployments elsewhere in Iraq
· Focus on regional cooperation with international conference
and/or direct diplomatic involvement of countries such as Kuwait and
Saudi Arabia
· Revive reconciliation process between Sunni, Shia and others
· Increased resources from Congress to fund training and equipment
of Iraqi security forces

So the order out of chaos begins. The fomenting of civil war, as we
have previously documented, and former officials and Ambassadors have
testified, was part of a deliberate strategy to descend Iraq into chaos
in order that the solution of a US controlled sectarian Iraq could
finally be offered up. This is what we shall see unfold under James
Baker.