6-17-10

General Petraeus Tells Senate Hearing 2011 Troop Drawdown on Track - Keels Over

According to the following reprinted article Senator John McCain and General Petraeus at a Senate hearing were discussing the withdraw of US troops from Iraq and General Petraeus said the removal of troops was on schedule. As McCain was asking General Petraeus another question, the General keeled over. A few moments later the General got up and left the room.

Although it is not mentioned in General Petraeus' Wikipedia, as I recall something else strange happened to General Petraeus which put his military career in question, like 10 years or so ago.

Irregardless of what caused General Petraeus to fall out June 15, 2010, the true answer as to whether or not the US troops withdrawal from Iraq is on schedule is "No." The United States military is not even thinking of getting out of Iraq anytime soon. There is zero, zip, no way our troop level will be 50,000 by the end of August. Actually Obama originally said out troop level would be down to 50,000 by the end of May, 2010. Obama lies to the American people continually and Obama is lying to us when he says the USA is leaving Iraq. Actually the United States military, in my opinion, is making plans to attack Russia and doing the preliminary work now. Anyone who even remotely thinks the USA is getting out of Iraq anytime soon is being severely deceived.

The problems in Kyrgyzstan and in the Caspian Sea area is due to the United States preparation to engage in military action in the Caspian Sea region which will lead to the United States nuking Russia. The ground work will come in stages and is going on now. The nuking is going to be unbelievable and the start of WWIII. General Petraeus knows all this of course. It is going to be wild because India and China will have to come to the aid of Russia and Iran. India is a member of BRIC and India knows if they don't support Iran and Russia after the USA nukes them the USA will nuke India. More than likely the Banksters are manipulating a BRIC currency. The Banksters are creating large currency blocks so the currencies can be forced into a one world currency. It is my guess the Rothschilds will see to it the US dollar will be the surviving currency. Goldma Sachs is responsible for Greece's currency problems. The US dollar will eventually take over the EURO. The bad guys plan 20 years in advance or so. Banksters are manipulating the creation of the BRIC currency, which, logic dictates, when created will be taken over by the US dollar. The bad guys are working the plan. Auditing the FED totally screws up the bad guy one world currency plan. That's why the stock market fell 1000 points in 17 minutes when Congress passed the Audit the FED bill.

David Petraeus COLLAPSES During Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing (VIDEO)

06-15-10

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/15/david-petraeus-collapses_n_612623.htm

WASHINGTON - Gen. David Petraeus slumped over Tuesday morning during a Senate hearing, but revived after a few seconds and left the room under his own power. After about 20 minutes he returned to the hearing room.
Petraeus, 57, had finished telling Sen. John McCain that he believes the planned 2011 drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan remains on track, and McCain was responding when the room fell silent and aides began crowding around the four-star general.
Petraeus, who oversees the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as head of U.S. Central Command, briefly put his head on the table, then rose, appearing dazed. He stood under his own power and was escorted from the room.
Sen. Carl Levin, the chairman, suspended the hearing until Wednesday out of concern for Petraeus' health.
Petraeus himself returned to the room briefly and told the senators he "was feeling a little bit light-headed there."
"It wasn't Sen. McCain's question," the general added.
In his lengthy appearances before the Senate and House armed services committees in September 2007 to testify on Iraq, he was reported to have endured great back pain and got through it with the help of Motrin.

Petraeus is the commander of U.S. Central Command. He was testifying on the war in Afghanistan.

As the most popular and widely known general of his generation, Petraeus is approaching a new juncture in a career that catapulted him to fame when President George W. Bush sent him to Baghdad in early 2007 to carry out a long-shot "surge" strategy that arguably rescued Iraq from collapse.
The general has had a high-profile career, and many believe he is the leading candidate to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He commanded all forces in Iraq under President George W. Bush.

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After Riots, Uzbeks Say They’ll Defend What Is Left

Bryan Denton for The New York Times

A few Uzbeks remained in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Tuesday to defend their homes amid violence with the Kyrgyz majority. More Photos »
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
Published: June 15, 2010

OSH, Kyrgyzstan — As gunfire cracked and popped nearby, the few remaining men in a large Uzbek enclave here on Tuesday grabbed wooden poles and metal pipes, crouched behind makeshift barricades of rocks and readied for a possible onslaught.
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Violence in Kyrgyzstan Eases
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Evidence of Plans for Kyrgyz Violence (June 16, 2010)

The New York Times

For days the men have been holed up behind barricades cobbled together from trees, sheet metal and old cars, watching black smoke billow up from burned Uzbek neighborhoods nearby and wondering if their homes would be next.

With bullets whizzing overhead, a resident named Alisher, who refused to give his last name, said he and about a dozen other men had vowed to stay in the enclave, called Zheleznodorozhny, to the end.

“We have no back doors,” he said. “We have already said goodbye. Whether we return or not, we know that we died for our people.”

Though perhaps tens of thousands of Uzbeks have fled in the wake of the deadly rioting that broke out here last week, a small number have stayed behind to protect their homes, or whatever is left of them. While they may identify themselves as Uzbek, many here trace their ancestry in this multiethnic region, now part of Kyrgyzstan, back generations.

For the most part armed only with clubs, iron bars and knives, they fear to set foot outside their shattered neighborhoods, but refuse to give them up.

“We sent our women to the border of Uzbekistan. They are safe there,” Alisher said. “All the men have remained to protect their homes.”

From behind the walls of Zheleznodorozhny, ringed by burned-out Uzbek houses, it was unclear who was doing the shooting: Kyrgyz youths, soldiers or the rumored mercenary snipers from abroad whom many here believe to be lurking about. The gunfire died down after about 30 minutes with no apparent casualties, though one resident received a phone call saying that a young man had been shot dead.

Even as the bloodshed here appeared to abate somewhat on Tuesday, shots in the vicinity of Uzbek neighborhoods continued to erupt in sporadic bursts. Meanwhile, food, water and medical supplies have been dwindling in the region, and the Uzbeks living here still feel besieged.

“We are surrounded,” said Manzara Khasonova, a resident of the Cheryomushki enclave, where many residents, having lost their homes, have been living in a barn at a local mosque compound. “They have blockaded us to starve us.”

Kyrgyz officials counter that the Uzbeks have blockaded themselves, refusing to allow government officials to enter their enclaves to help. There are reports that a local Kyrgyz police chief had his throat slashed when he went to an Uzbek neighborhood to talk to the residents, and officials say they have been stymied in trying to deliver assistance.

“When our people bring aid there, they shoot from behind the barricades and won’t allow the aid through,” said Altyn Kambarov, an assistant to the Osh mayor. “Nevertheless, we are trying to help our citizens.”

Though many Uzbeks interviewed said they had no weapons, their enclaves are not without fortifications.

At a major entrance to the Cheryomushki neighborhood, young men armed with clubs and iron bars warily opened a gate made of large slabs of scrap metal. Apple trees laden with fruit have been cut down to serve as roadblocks. Two large dump trucks have been fitted with metal plating to serve as armored personnel carriers in the case of a Kyrgyz invasion, residents said.

It is not entirely clear what caused the fighting between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek neighbors here. In a region where tensions are ever present, each side blames the other for provoking the bloodshed. But the Uzbeks, who make up a large minority here, appear to have suffered the brunt of the hostilities.

The Cheryomushki enclave was one of the worst hit by the violence. Marauding gangs of Kyrgyz youths attacked the enclave three times from Friday to Sunday, witnesses said.

Nadyrbek Alimov began to sob when he returned to the remains of his burned-out home in the enclave. He said that a mob of close to 1,000 Kyrgyz youths, some wearing black face masks and many carrying Kalashnikov rifles and other firearms, rampaged through the neighborhood, raiding homes for valuables before setting them on fire.

“We all just ran,” Mr. Alimov said, all but his neighbor, Ikhtiar, a dentist, who hurt his leg when he was trying to escape.

“He couldn’t run away, and look what happened,” Mr. Alimov said, motioning to the charred skeleton of his neighbor, which had been crushed under the fallen roof of his burned house.

With many Uzbeks refusing to come out or let others into their enclaves, it is unclear how the government, which is deeply distrusted in the wake of the violence, can break the impasse.

Also uncertain is the fate of tens of thousands of Uzbek refugees, amassed on Kyrgyzstan’s border with Uzbekistan, now that Uzbek officials have barred them from entering the country. With gangs of armed youths still patrolling the streets of Osh, and Uzbek villages coming under continued fire, many may fear returning to their enclaves.

“We don’t sleep at night,” said Mohammad Yusuf, one of the residents in Cheryomushki. “There is shooting, and we have nothing, no automatic weapons, nothing.”