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The gullibility of the American public is beyond comprehension. They actually believe the dog and pony show put on by Obama and the MSM last week. The war in Iraq is over don’t you know. We are down to “only” 50,000 troops on the ground, but they are just advisors. Michael Corcoran reports on a few facts left out by the MSM:

“In their reporting, however, the US corporate media – in near monolithic fashion – has failed to mention the drawdown would not include the more than 100,000 private military contractors that are already serving in Iraq, in addition to the 144,000 troops. This collective blackout is even more disturbing when you consider that the US State Department has plans to dramatically increase the number of private contractors that will serve in Iraq to coincide with the drawdown of US forces. The State Department is asking Congress to approve funds to more than double the number of private security contractors in Iraq with a State Department official testifying in June at a hearing of the Wartime Contracting Commission that the Department wants ‘between 6,000 and 7,000 security contractors,’” reported Jeremy Scahill, author of “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.” “What is unfolding is the face of President Obama’s scaled-down, rebranded mini-occupation of Iraq. Under the terms of the Status of Forces agreement, all US forces are supposed to be out of Iraq by the end of 2011. Using private forces is a back-door way of continuing a substantial US presence under the cover of “‘diplomatic security.’”

We have outsourced the war to the mercenaries at Blackwater for three times the cost of a US Soldier. This amounts to Obama’s proclamation of the war ending in Iraq. The parallels to ancient Rome are striking:

Edward Gibbon famously placed the blame on a loss of civic virtue among the Roman citizens. They gradually entrusted the role of defending the Empire to barbarian mercenaries who eventually turned on them.

Obama is employing the Big Lie theory. The bigger the lie, the more likely the masses will believe it. The war in Iraq is not over. We didn’t win. The country is leaderless. They have no electricity. Civil war is imminent. They produce less oil than they did in 2002. Ron Paul calls them out again. He is a lone voice of reason in the wilderness.

Iraq: An End or an Escalation?

By Ron Paul
Published 08/31/10 

Amid much fanfare last week, the last supposed “combat” troops left Iraq as the administration touted the beginning of the end of the Iraq War and a change in the role of the United States in that country. Considering the continued public frustration with the war effort, and with the growing laundry list of broken promises, this was merely another one of the administration’s operations in political maneuvering and semantics in order to convince an increasingly war-weary public that the Iraq War is at last ending. However, military officials confirm that we are committed to intervention in that country for years to come, and our operations have in fact, changed minimally, if really at all.

After eight long draining years, I have to wonder if our government even understands what it is to end a war anymore. The end of a war, to most people, means all the troops come home, out of harm’s way. It means we stop killing people and getting killed. It means we stop sending troops and armed personnel over and draining our treasury for military operations in that foreign land. But much like the infamous “mission accomplished” moment of the last administration, this “end” of the war also means none of those things.

50,000 US troops remain