{"id":27938,"date":"2010-08-18T18:10:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T23:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=27938"},"modified":"2010-08-19T10:20:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T15:20:42","slug":"obama-pulls-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/obama-pulls-ut\/","title":{"rendered":"Combat Troops Withdraw from Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Onion has a version of this story as well<\/a><\/em>. The comment thread, below, is evolving into a conversation of Saturn aspects and the forthcoming Uranus square Pluto aspect.<\/p>\n

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Not The Yes Men's version of the New York Times but rather the cover of MSNBC tonight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s probably true — depending on how you look at it — U.S. combat troops are pulling out of Iraq tonight. I had no idea this was imminent. My phone rang and it was Fe, saying turn on MSNBC. Scheduled programming was preempted; Olbermann is sitting in at the anchor desk, and Rachel Maddow is reporting live from the International Zone: reassuring presence. Richard Engel, an NBC reported embedded with a convoy on retreat — said it was like being in a convoy of taxicabs. <\/p>\n

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News breaking that combat troops are leaving Iraq. This is the chart of a news event happening in New York, not an event on the ground in Iraq. MSNBC broke the story and Keith Olbermann, based in Manhattan, said that this happened at about 6:30 pm. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s actually moving, an emotional moment, a hint of vindication, in an era when the news seems to get only worse. Maddow is saying right now that the timing was decided politically, not based on some definition of success. Nothing in Iraq can be called success. There is not a standing government in Iraq. But the last combat troops are about to leave. The U.S. government is leaving 50,000 troops who will stay behind as office workers and “advisers,” a term that has a chilling echo of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

Olbermann said that the news broke at 6:30 pm EDT. That chart is to the left. We know about most of the important elements of that chart: the T-square on the Aries Point; the Sun opposing Chiron and Neptune; Saturn about to make its last square to Pluto. The Sept. 11 attacks that led to the war, albeit fraudulently, happened just after the first Saturn-Pluto opposition; that was August 2001, which lead to an event in September 2001, which led to two wars. So this chain of historical events is following the Saturn-Pluto cycle to within weeks or days. That is the part that makes sense.<\/p>\n

For those who remember the astrology of this particular war, it was started instigated for well over a year, in then in mid-March 2003 there was an invasion launched with the Sun in the next-to-last degree of Pisces. This was the hint that there was a weird agenda: when you want a real war, you wait some hours till the Sun is in Aries, the sign of the god of war. You don’t start the thing with the Sun in a mellow, flower-loving sign like Pisces. The Sun was void of course; the war was void of course, the whole time. The chart for the bombing of Dora Farms — the actual opening salvo, before “shock and awe,” is the chart of a non-war<\/strong><\/a>, though one in which many lives were sacrificed.<\/p>\n

The end of combat — that is, what we’re being told is the end of combat — comes at an equally ambiguous moment. The Sun is opposite Chiron and Neptune. That’s not a good arrangement for a president, who is symbolized by the Sun.<\/p>\n

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MSNBC-NBC News reports that the last full combat brigade has crossed the Iraq-Kuwait border. At this time there are still about 6,000 combat troops still in Iraq, but no full brigades; and 50,000 who will remain as advisers until the 2011 deadline to withdraw all US forces from Iraq. I am using Baghdad as a location because I don't have the coordinates of the border crossing. If anyone knows that fact, please send it along. The time was stated on the air by Maddow in Baghdad, who was listening to the live report from the border crossing, as the event happened.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sun opposing Chiron speaks to a leader who is injured, and what he’s injured by is symbolized by Neptune: that could be the deception of the war from the beginning (remember the nonexistent WMDs, and Saddam about to take over the world, and the Axis of Evil, binding together three countries, Iraq, Iran and North Korea, that have nothing to do with one another).<\/p>\n

The withdrawal also comes two days before Mercury stations retrograde; that’s troublesome, suggesting that it might not last; the troops might be called back in and from what I am hearing there is no publicly known plan for how to handle that. And a lot of this depends on the definition of “combat” — in Vietnam, the “advisers” were known to be directly involved in fighting.<\/p>\n

This day comes after the loss of innumerable Iraqis (the number is not known, and the official estimates are understated due to lack of documentation), nearly 5,000 U.S. troops dead and thousands of others having suffered casualties, and countless others having been exposed to depleted uranium. Many of the troops have been through five or 10 tours of duty; their minds and bodies are exhausted. The whole enterprise has cost us between $500 billion and $1 trillion before interest; it’s borrowed money.<\/p>\n

And what did we get for all our efforts? For all our sacrifice? For seven years violence and chaos and the stubborn, bald-faced lies of Dick Cheney and George Bush?<\/p>\n

For our troops, it’s not the end of the pain and the time away from home. Many of the soldiers and marines being withdrawn tonight will be sent home, retrained and sent to Afghanistan. Tonight, they’re being searched for drugs and pornography as they enter Kuwait, their guns unloaded, cannons symbolically pointed away from the border — I hope there’s some shred of truth to this.<\/p>\n

(Note, the last troops are expected to cross the Iraq-Kuwait border just before 9 pm EDT. Maddow reported the time as 3:53 am Baghdad time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Onion has a version of this story as well. The comment thread, below, is evolving into a conversation of Saturn aspects and the forthcoming Uranus square Pluto aspect. It’s probably true — depending on how you look at it — U.S. combat troops are pulling out of Iraq tonight. I had no idea this … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}