The Truth About US Troops Sent to IraqTony Cartalucci The Guardians article, Barack Obama sends troops back to Iraq as Isis insurgency worsens, in title alone leads the general population to believe the third Iraq War has begun. The article claims: Upon carefully reading the article, however, it is revealed that these troops are only to aid in the security of the US embassy in Baghdad. Buried 11 paragraphs down, amid suggestions, speculation, and conjecture, is the true nature of the latest deployment: It has been previously reported that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a creation of the United States and its regional allies, with the CIA itself monitoring, arming, and funding the terrorist organization along the Turkish-Syrian border for the past 3 years. The ISIS incursion into northern Iraq was portended by their very public redeployment to eastern Syria in March 2014 where they then prepared for the invasion of Iraq. Since invading, they have committed themselves to overt, sectarian bloodshed in an attempt to trigger reprisals across Iraq along sectarian lines and create a wider sectarian conflict. The relatively small ISIS force can and will be overwhelmed by Iraqi security forces if the psychological and strategic impact of its blitzkrieg-style tactics can be exposed and blunted. In the meantime, during this closing window of opportunity, the US in particular is struggling to undermine both the sociopolitical stability of Iraq itself, and the credibility of the government in Baghdad. Ironically, to do this, the US is posing as Baghdads ally. Americas Political Touch of Death Readers should recall during the opening phases of the very much US-engineered, so-called Arab Spring, that both the US and Israel intentionally and very publicly offered support for the embattled government of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, despite training and funding the very mobs that were set to overthrow his government. The alleged support was a psychological operation (psyop) designed not to help the embattled government, but to undermine it further. Egyptians on all sides of the political divide viewed the United States and Israel with everything from suspicion to outright scorn. By posing as allies of the Mubarak government, the US and Israel were able to politically poison the leadership in Cairo and deny it any support that could counter the Western-sponsored mobs in the streets. In retrospect, the orchestrated Western-backed nature of the Tunisian, Egyptian, and Libyan unrest is clear. However, as the events played out, especially in the early stages, the corporate-owned Western media committed itself to breathtaking propagandizing. In Egypt, crowds of 50,000 were translated into crowds of 2 million through baldfaced lies, tight camera angles and disingenuous propagandists like BBCs Jon Leyne. In Libya, the initial armed nature of the rebellion was omitted and the unrest was portrayed as peaceful unarmed protests. Perhaps most diabolical of all is the manner in which the mainstream media portrayed Egypts opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei. Indeed, ElBaradei was at the very center of the protests, having returned to Egypt a year earlier in February 2010 to assemble his National Front for Change with the help of Egypts youth movements led by the US State Department trained April 6 Movement and Googles Wael Ghonim. But we were all told he just flew in, and that he was viewed with suspicion by the West. We were also told that Hosni Mubarak was still our chosen man and reports even went as far as claiming (unsubstantiated claims) that Mubarak was preparing to flee to Tel Aviv, Israel of all places, and that Israel was airlifting in weapons to bolster his faltering regime. Obviously those attempts to save Mubaraks regime failed, precisely because they were never designed to succeed in the first place. And on the eve of Mubaraks fall, the US eventually turned a full 180 degrees around from defending him, to demanding he step down. With amazing foresight, the Council on Foreign Relations magazine Foreign Affairs reported in March 2010, a year before the so-called Arab Spring, the following (emphasis added): Fully realizing US or Israeli support for ElBaradei would destroy any chance for the revolutions success, it appears that the cartoonish act of overtly, even oafishly supporting Mubarak in the early stages of the unrest was a deliberate attempt to shift the ire of the Egyptian people toward him, and their suspicions away from the Wests proxy ElBaradei. Similar attempts have since been made to bolster the legitimacy of the Muslim Brotherhood while undermining the military-led government now ruling in Cairo. Beyond Egypt, such a campaign unfolded in Libya against Muammar Qaddafi, with rumors circulated that Israel was trying to save the embattled regime by hiring mercenaries, and even claims being made that Qaddafi was Jewish. Mirroring the cartoonish propaganda aimed at galvanizing Mubaraks opposition, attempts to tarnish Qaddafis image in the eyes of Americas and Israels enemies by feigning support for him was attempted, but ultimately failed. Against Syria, a similar campaign by the US and Israel met with even less success. Still, the political touch of death the US and its regional allies wield is extended out toward any and all in the hopes that it will help undermine and destabilize targeted nations. This most recent attempt to portray Baghdad as a benefactor of possible US assistance seeks to both grant the US plausible deniability in its role of raising ISIS legions in the first place, and undermine the Iran-leaning government of Iraqs Nouri al-Maliki in the eyes of enemies and allies alike. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. 