What Planet Does Patrick Cockburn Live On?

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If you happen to live on Planet Earth, where a single country, Iraq, has been the main focus of "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today" - to use Martin Luther King Jr.'s words - for the past two decades, you may be interested to know what's happening in one of the most fascinating celestial bodies of the parallel universe of the mass-media.

Planet P. Cockburn is particularly interesting to the curious observer, because of its elliptical orbit around both state-corporate media and the alternative ones and because of its influence on people and events.

Appeared in the Counterpunch Galaxy, Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq - It's All Spelled Out in Unpublicized Agreement, dazzles as a star: "America's bid to act as the world's only super-power and to establish quasi-colonial control of Iraq, an attempt which began with the invasion of 2003, has ended in failure."

As on its twin planet J. Steele of the Gardian Galaxy, on Planet Cockburn the U.S.'s "moment in Iraq is coming to an end"; a suicidal Corporate America, after investing billions of dollars in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, building all those permanent military bases and the biggest embassy in the world, has now signed a goodbye agreement and pushed the Quisling Iraqi government for its approval.

As an astral coincidence, the same day on Planet Earth "Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman for the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said some U.S. forces could be needed for 10 years":

"We do understand that the Iraqi military is not going to get built out in the three years. We do need many more years. It might be 10 years," Dabbagh said at a Pentagon press briefing.

Inviting the readers to see the results of another observation of this planetarium just a few days ago - particularly for the connections between Iraq and the escalation of the war against Afghanistan and the possible agreement between the US and Iran, not only on Iraq but on the Afghan front as well - here I'd like to call for your attention on two particular cosmic phenomena.

On Planet Cockburn, the Iraqi cholera outbreak finds its origin in "the purchase of out of date chemicals for water purification from Iran by corrupt officials". An observation of the same planet - this time in the Independent Galaxy - on October 10, 2008, found that "Cholera is endemic in Iraq". The universes are parallel but obviously facts develop in a different manner. On Planet Earth the New Scientist informed us in September 2007:

"A cholera epidemic has been on the cards since Iraqi water treatment plants were destroyed in the 1991 Gulf war. In 2003 the WHO [World Health Organization] reported that the UN trade embargo had prevented repairs and as a result. Now one of these outbreaks seems to be spreading out of control."

Possibly on Planet Cockburn there is no New Scientist, no WHO and the UN embargo and the First Gulf War either never happened or have been drawn into some black holes.