Key now says SAS will be needed to protect ‘trainers’ behind the wire

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Well, well, well. What do we have here?

Government could send SAS to Iraq
New Zealand’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) could be deployed to Iraq to protect Kiwi troops sent to train local forces.

Prime Minister John Key confirmed that was one option under consideration as the government continues to weigh up its response to the rise of Islamic State (IS) n Iraq and Syria.

…so before the election Key states NZ won’t be involved in the re-invasion of Iraq, then immediately after he wins he states  we will be  involved, but not in combat, as trainers ‘behind the wire’. Turns out ‘behind the wire’ is just some spin line for the sleepy hobbits and now Key says we will need SAS to protect the trainers. What’s most evil about all of this is that Key and his corrupt Government have whipped up Muslim fear mongering to justify this military action and suddenly increase the SIS to have 48 hour warrantless searches so the State can break into our homes, plant spy cameras and secretly film us for 48 hours without any judicial oversight.

With Chris Finlayson’s admission on The Nation last weekend that these expanded powers won’t just be used against religious groups but anyone within society who has a chip on their shoulder, that gives the Government a bewilderingly large loophole they could drive a Police State through.

The manipulations and lies NZers will put up with from Key are a thing to behold, Key could personally lead an attack against an Iraqi kindergarden and machine gun every last child in it, and a vast chunk of Muddle Nu Zilind would probably petition that he win a Victoria Cross for bravery.

This is what full spectrum dominance of the political system looks like and we have 3 more horrific years of it.

 

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  1. This is a classic example of the incrementalism that Key undertakes. First, prior to the election – we aren’t going. Second, after the election – we’re going but only in a highly limited capacity ‘behind the wire’ for training purposes only. Now, we’re also going to need to send some SAS troops to protect those trainers. I trust Martyn didn’t miss the final line of the article either, “Highly trained regular forces could also be an option.”

    So, we’ve gone from sending nobody to sending highly trained regular forces being an option in less than a few months. Anybody who has studied Key will also know that he puts out as options things which he has already decided on. This is so his mate David Farrar can poll the public to gauge their support or otherwise. This isn’t so that they’ll know whether to proceed, they will proceed, in their minds they couldn’t possibly be wrong. It’s so they know how to spin the message. In other words so they know how to lie to the public of New Zealand in a manner they’ll accept.

    What are we doing on the economic and diplomatic fronts to try and limit support for IS from nation-states which are friendly with them like Saudi Arabia? The answer is very little.

  2. On NZ’s participation in Iraq –

    First it’s “no”.

    Then “I can’t say for sure”.

    To be followed post election by “yes”.

    And now despite, assurances the SAS wouldn’t be involved, all of a sudden it’s likely they will be!

    I’d say Key’s buddy and mentor Mr Pres has had a brief confidential word in his grubby little ear hole, sometime during the APEC and G20 (G21?) meetings!

    Mr Pres – “Come on John, if you know what’s good for you, give us your cannon fodder.”

    JK (dribbling and drooling and tugging his forelock) – “Absolutely Mr Pres. How many Kiwis would you like?”

    Cringing, creepy toerag!

    • Most of ISIL are Iraqis. They are attacking other Iraqis. Iraq is devouring itself, and part of it is under attack by the West. Foreign soldiers going back are re-invading. Simple.

  3. Yes…a classic case of what one security advisor stated on Radio Live as ‘MISSION CREEP’…no ..not John Key ,…but the progression from advisors, to trainers to mentors to leaders of foriegn troops into combat.

    Key is a liar. Plain and simple. Like the guy who has a policy of only telling what he deems others need to know, ..he says one thing, whilst leaving the door wide open to implement what he really means to do.

    We will be involved . Its as plain and simple as that. And the smokescreen of our people just being there to build bullshit bridges and schools is a worn out old cover up that no one believes anymore and accepts that the govt is lieing again.

    As for Finlayson – the man is a fool…hot on the heels of the case of the guy who escaped to Brazil…with him saying departments and systems are now under review to ensure ‘it wont happen again’…was the case of the guy who escaped to Brisbane…within the same week , basically.

    And this is the man in charge of our new fascist surveillance state?

    Pitiful.

  4. This is what full spectrum dominance of the political system looks like and we have 3 more horrific years of it.

    I have the dreadful feeling it will be more than three years considering ongoing developments.

  5. In a revealing interview with Truthout about his new book Pay Any Price, journalist James Risen provides evidence of how the United States has become enmeshed in an endless war. He also discusses how the post-9/11, military-surveillance state has enriched – with little oversight or accountability – many opportunists. Risen tells Truthout: “Four trillion dollars is the best estimate for the total price tag of the war on terror, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and much of it has gone to shadowy contractors. It is one of the largest transfers of wealth in American history, and yet it has gone largely unnoticed.”

    Mark Karlin: In your third chapter, you state that the “corporate leaders at its vanguard can rightly be considered the true winners of the war on terror.” You refer to these people as post-9/11, corporate entrepreneurs and opportunists. Can you provide a couple of brief examples?

    James Risen: In chapter three, I focus on corporate leaders who have largely tried to avoid the limelight, but have nonetheless been among those who have profited the most from the war on terror. People like the Blue brothers, whose company, General Atomics, has produced the Predator and Reaper drones, the signature weapons of the global war on terror.

    I also write about J. Philip London, executive chairman of CACI, the huge defense and intelligence contractor that was caught up in the Abu Ghraib scandal but then managed to continue to thrive in the war on terror, and Robert McKeon, a clever Wall Street maven who acquired Dyncorp as it profited from rival Blackwater’s problems. McKeon eventually committed suicide, and the sale of assets by his estate after his death provided a glimpse at the massive wealth accumulated by the corporate leaders who benefit from being on the top rung of the war on terror.
    http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/27425-james-risen-the-post-9-11-homeland-security-industrial-complex-profiteers-and-endless-war

    Should we blindly trust? How easy would it be to dip one’s beak if one was in a certain position?

  6. It looks as though every Iraqi soldier will get to have a personal trainer at this rate! My, how very well trained they will be – they have been getting trained for donkeys years now! Now trainers (from NZ) look as though they might need their own trainers (in how to look after themselves!)

  7. At least after 6 years Nationals pattern of implementing things they know are wrong is now quick to identify. Key fronts it, lies about the true intention and then dresses it up in fractional truths as he slowly reveals incomplete bits of what is going on. If it gets uncomfortable call on a diversion or a smear campaign.

    And the use of catch phrases is just another way of coating the big arse lie in a film of truth. “Behind the wire” is a meaningless phrase. It’s there to conjure up an image, of being protected behind something not going beyond it, say behind barbed wire of a walled city, or behind the wire of the front line trenches of the Somme. Just like “Strong wages”, a Key favourite prior to the election to make you think strong wage growth which of course was an utter lie but then Key never said strong wage growth or in this matter not ending up in combat. I mean what can you do if these crazies end up behind the wire too! Its words arranged in a meaningless sentence designed to deceive.

    Of course our political media commentators John Armstrong et al don’t pick up on Keys doublespeak ever and National know Kiwi’s are trusting simple souls so on it will go!

  8. I wonder if they’ll bring TSA like security at airports if the national voters would defend that with molestation and body screenings etc.

  9. So first the SAS are regulated to conducting Intelligence as if they’re int geeks, they’d also fill in the role of Logistics corp, driving trucks manning POL stations, shifting kit to units ect. Now they’re being deployed because their special skill set is perfect for maintaining a fixed defensive position.

    For the next genius thinking outside the box S1 move I expect Key’s government to deploy the Infantry regt as helo pilots and shifted to man HMNZS Te Kaha. Or maybe he’ll just use the Super Army Soldiers in every role.

  10. The SAS is not well suited to guard training grounds. This is not the mission they train for. They generally operate behind enemy lines, in small groups. I doubt if the generals would want them sent over as heavily armed security guards. I am forced to conclude that FJK is lying.

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