Occupation Iraq: Women's Lib
"Marines trying dairy diplomacy around war-torn Fallujah; Cow purchases may help rebuild industry in Iraq" by Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times | January 18, 2009
ANBAR PROVINCE, Iraq - As US forces work to revive Iraq's tattered farming economy, they seem to have found an effective new weapon: cows.
Nice that they revive Iraq's economy while ours shits out, huh?
At the suggestion of an Iraqi women's group, the Marine Corps recently bought 50 cows for 50 Iraqi widows in the farm belt around Fallujah, once the insurgent capital of war-torn Anbar province.
Hey, look, I LOVE IRAQI WOMEN but WHERE'S MY GOVERNMENT-GRANTED COW?
Oh, yeah, and about Fallujah: Memory Hole: Willie Pete
The cow purchase is seen as a small step toward reestablishing Iraq's once-thriving dairy industry, as well as a way to help women and children hurt by the frequent failure of the Iraqi government to provide the pensions that Iraqi law promises to widows.
Please REMEMBER THAT for LATER!!
The early sign is that the program is working. Widows, many with no other income, have a marketable item to sell, as well as milk for their children. Although Iraqis, particularly women, are often reluctant to participate in an American effort, the cows were immediately popular.
The propaganda and spin never stops about Iraq, does it? Began before the occupation for chrissakes!
"It was an easy sell," said Major Meredith Brown, assigned to the Marines' outreach program for Iraqi women.
Does that include the ones we've killed with our air bombs?
Speaking of which, what about the ACTUAL WAR, anyway? When was the last time I saw an article on that?
The idea, proposed by members of the Women's Cultural Center in Fallujah, at first met with resistance from US military officers and civilian officials involved in aid programs for Anbar. Nothing in their training provided guidance in haggling for livestock.
But those objections evaporated when Major General John Kelly, the top Marine in Iraq, signaled his support, Brown said. The Iraqis now refer to their animals as Kelly's Cows. Although Kelly's support might have been based on gut instinct, the need to build up Iraq's dairy industry was argued in a Nov. 25 report by Land O'Lakes Inc.
Oh, so we are in Iraq for Land O' Lakes, too!??? And would we have to BUILD UP Iraq's dairy industry if we had not DESTROYED IT?
The Minnesota cheese-and-butter company was hired by the Marine Corps to examine the Iraqi dairy industry. Its 38-page report, based on field research in the fall by two Land O'Lakes dairy specialists, concluded that there was enormous growth potential for the industry in a milk-drinking, cheese-eating nation that can locally produce enough milk to satisfy only 5 percent of the demand.
Yeah, let's make the Iraqis UNHEALTHY and FAT like US! All about the $$$, huh?
The study also pointed out that, even in Iraqi farm families with able-bodied adult males, much of the work is left to women: "Women milk the cows, bring feed and fodder to the animals and are supported by their children."
Seems like that is true everywhere!
Americans know Land O'Lakes best from its products in the dairy case, but the company has been involved in 150 development projects in 70 countries in recent decades. Among them was a dairy project in Afghanistan after the Taliban was toppled in the US-led invasion in 2001.
Un-frikking-believable!
Its report cited a litany of woes besetting the Iraqi dairy industry: facilities damaged by war, looting or neglect; a lack of good feed; a dearth of veterinarians and the initiative-numbing effect of three decades of centralized planning under Saddam Hussein....
Yeah, right, BLAME the DEAD GUY for the "once-thriving dairy industry!"
See what I mean about the duplicity and lies?
The report suggested several construction projects for US military and civilian officials to consider funding, possibly with the Iraqi government.
How about funding some construction projects in AMERICA instead, huh?
One idea was for a new dairy owned and operated by the Women's Cultural Center, which would be a bold move in a male-dominated society. As a first phase, Marines and Land O'Lakes specialists are discussing a milk collection facility run by the women to help them learn accounting, marketing and other skills.
ALWAYS PUSHING THAT AGENDA!!!!
The Feminist Movement was a CIA project of social engineering
The cows-for-widows program is the latest of several initiatives by the United States to help Iraq's dairy and beef industries. Some efforts have been individual, such as buying a replacement cow in 2004 for a farmer near Ramadi who complained that his animal was killed in the crossfire between Marines and insurgents. Other initiatives have been larger in scale, such as inspections of herds by Army veterinarians.
Also, the United States is taking the lead in the rehabilitation of a milk-collection center in Fallujah. And Army personnel and advisers from the US Department of Agriculture met last year with farmers at a dairy in the Wehida region south of Baghdad that once had 8,000 cows but now can barely handle a fraction.
When is the U.S. government going to START CARING FOR US?! I'm sure if we LEFT the IRAQIS ALONE, they would do JUST FINE with their COWS!
In Anbar, two factors drew the Marines to the cow purchase: It was a small scale and was suggested by the Iraqis. The Marines have learned that big-ticket projects, or those imposed by the United States on the Iraqis without local support, start with two strikes.
Why would people not like our "liberation?"
The Marines began buying cows in November at a livestock market at Saqlawiyah. Of the 50 cows, 35 were pregnant and 10 already had calves, which went along with their mothers. The five others were taken to a laboratory for artificial insemination. Brown put the program cost so far at $58,000.
Of course, you never needed that $$$ for anything, America; not like you have deficits or anything.
To qualify for a free cow, each widow had to sign an agreement not to slaughter or sell the animal and instead to use the milk as a marketable item or for the family. The project is not entirely altruistic.
Yeah, what AmeriKa does NEVER IS!!!!
The Marines believe that widows with at least some economic resources are less likely to join Al Qaeda to carry out suicide attacks in exchange for a promise that their children will be cared for after the women are gone.
Oh they just COULDN'T HELP THEMSELVES from throwing ion some bullshit propaganda, huh?
Please see Occupation Iraq: Israel's IEDs and related links, readers, for WHO is RESPONSIBLE for the violence!!
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Oh, and while we are on the topic:
"Christian merchant killed in the north of Iraq
BAGHDAD - The Christian owner of a car repair shop was killed execution-style in Mosul, police said yesterday, raising concern about attacks against the religious minority in the northern Iraqi city. The body of the 36-year-old man, shot in the head, was found Thursday. The slaying followed a pattern of violence that sent thousands of Christians fleeing from their homes in Mosul in the fall (AP)."
And CUI BONO?
Who would like to see Muslims and Christians at each others throats for no reason?
WHO would like CHRISTIAN AmeriKa to do its fighting for them, huh?
